冯梦龙的历史小说理论与创作

本文提出冯梦龙的《新列国志》不是根据余邵鱼的《列国志传》增补而成,而是冯梦龙的独立创作。冯梦龙创作《新列国志》带有总结历史经验的动机,小说结构有其独到之处。在创作中形成了他对历史小说的基本认识,要求历史小说创作要严守史实,对历史小说和故事小说应该区别对待。

Feng Menglong's Theory and Creation of Historical Novel

According to this paper, New Documents of Nations is not just a supplement of Documents of Nations by Yu Shaoyu, but an original creation by Feng Menglong. During the course of the creation, Feng's theory of historical novels came into being, the main principle of which was that the historical novels should be consistent strictly with the history and be treated differently from fictional novels and so on. In fact, one of the motifs of Feng's New Documents of Nations is analyzing and appraising the history, and the structure of this novel also has distinctive qualities. However, the shortcomings, such as adhering extremely to historical facts, lengthening the span of the whole story, and describing too many persons and events, should be attributed to the lower historical appraisal of the New Documents of Nations than that of the famous Three Kingdoms.