谈《红楼梦》前八十回与后四十回的矛盾现象

The Contradictory Phenomena Between the Previous Eighty Chapters and the Latter Forty Chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions

《红楼梦》研究中关于前八十回与后四十回矛盾的一些说法,虽不乏有真知灼见的颗粒,但大都淹没在个人的主观情感之中,即使对文本同样一个情节、同样一个事件、同样一个人,都会有各自不同的理解和认识。可见,问题的要害不仅在于重视文本,更要重视文本的研究方法,即应把握《红楼梦》整体叙事结构的原则,也就是审美感受的把握和文本细读的客观分析。

There exist a lot of hypotheses about the contradiction between the previous eighty chapters and the latter forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions.Although there are incisive and penetrating judgments,most of them are submerged into individual subjective emotions.People have different understandings of even the same plot,the same event,and the same person in terms of a text.Therefore,the quintessence of the issue lies not only in the stress on the text,but also in the research methods of the text.That is...