“无类之类”:中国现代散文特征问题——兼与汪卫东教授商榷

The Category Without Category:The Issue of Stylistic Characteristics in Modern Chinese Prose--Also in Discussion with professer Wang Weidong

汪卫东教授《文章传统与中国现代散文理论的重构》一文部分内容对中国现代散文特性作了论述,突出“人文一体”的散文评价标准,其中部分观点和论述值得再思考。中国现代散文的特性应该在由人主导的“人—文”关系里判定,它是“无类之类”。这种粗略的划分留下了自有、自由、自在的散文天地,令人的写作活动匹配人所有的言语需求,最终呈现“文”的整体精确和全局清晰。而“人文一体的直接呈现”则无法鲜明地体现散文的特性。

Parts of Professor Wang Weidong's article“The Essay Tradition and the Reconstruction of Modern Chinese Prose Theory”discuss the characteristics of modern Chinese prose,emphasizing the prose evaluation criteria of“the integration of human and writing”,and some of the viewpoints and discussions are worth reconsidering.The characteristics of modern Chinese prose should be judged within the human-writing relationship dominated by human;it is a category without category.This rough classification bestow the prose-writing with independence,freedom,and comfort,allowing the writing activities to match writer's all linguistic needs,ultimately presenting the overall precision and global clarity of text.However,the direct presentation of“the integration of human and writing”cannot vividly reflect the characteristics of prose.