中国小说的历史空白

The Gap in History of Chinese Fiction

中国神话作为中国小说的历史源头，其艺术化或小说化的过程，在中国文学史上有一个相当长的历史断裂。这一历史空白的形成，与中国传统文化的主体精神和一定时期的学术主流有着必然的联系：在艺术演变上，具体表现为神话的历史化、“神话”的附庸地位和旷日持久的理论偏离；在时间距离上，自商迄汉，神话的故事结构和文体形式一直未获独立并处于逐渐消歇状态。中国神话小说化的历史断裂即中国小说的历史空白，应至魏晋六朝志怪故事的旁逸而出才宣告结束。承认这一新的认识和观点，分析造成中国小说历史空白的历史的、文化的和学理的因由，对于研究小说观念和小说文体的发展、演变。

AbstractThe Chinese mythology,as the historical source of Chinese fiction,has a historical gap in its development,the formation of which is of necessity related to the primary spirit of traditional culture and the mainstream of learning in certain times.It was characterized with a historiographical tendency,a subservient role and deviation from the right theory.From the Shang Times on,the structure and literary form of mythological stories did not go in its own way until the stories recording the weird appeared in the times of Han and Wei and the Six Dynasties.