日本汉文小说管窥——以《谭海》为中心

《谭海》是日本明治时代作家依田百川的代表作,是一部汉语文言笔记小说,与菊池三溪的《本朝虞初新志》并称日本汉文小说的双璧。《谭海》在创作上明显受到中国史传文学的影响,风格与魏晋南北朝时期的志人小说相似。其文笔简约精粹,延袭了魏晋小说的质朴风格,并从《阅微草堂笔记》、《子不语》等书中直接汲取了艺术养料。《谭海》是一部志人小说,虽然是遗闻轶事,但是作者特别强调实录的精神,我们也借此可以了解日本近古以来的风俗习惯和价值取向。

Chinese Fiction Written by the Japanese

Tan Hai,a collection of literary sketches in classical Chinese,is the masterpiece of Yoda Momokawa(1833-1909) of Japan and one of the two representative works of the Chinese fiction written by the Japanese.Influenced by the historical and biographical writings of China,Tan Hai resembles the documentary fiction of the Wei and Jin dynasties,following its simple and unaffected style and sticking to its tradition of the record of actual events,a feature by which we can acquaint ourselves with the customs and va...