从王国维《红楼梦评论》看高鹗续书的成败

Evaluation on the Success and Failure of Gao E's Sequel-Based on Wang Guowei's Commentary on The Red Chamber Dream

沿着王国维《红楼梦评论》的思路,以宝玉形质归一和黛玉泪尽夭亡为中心,对高鹗续作成败作再检讨是一个可行的视角。高鹗对宝玉结局的安排和寻求形质归一的创作理路是深得曹雪芹原著堂奥的,而且结构精巧,基本契合曹氏本意。但对黛玉泪尽夭亡的过程写得过于戏剧化,使悲剧的境界降低了,使原著“彻头彻尾之悲剧”变成了简单的因善恶力量悬殊甚至误会而产生的悲剧。因而,高鹗续书可谓瑕瑜互见。

It is possible to reevaluate Gao E's sequel of The Red Chamber Dream, along with the construction of Wang Guowei's Commentary on the Red Chamber Dream and based on Bao Yu's temperament and Dai Yu's fate. Gao E's arrangement on Bao Yu's end and his creation idea of pursuing the consolidation of form and essence are in line with Gao E's origin in tenlion. But the process of Dai Yu's death was so exaggerated that it decreased the artistic conception of the tragedy while it turned the original work form a complete tragedy to a tragedy about the contrast of the good and the evil. Therefore, there are disadvantages and advantages simultaneously in Gao E's sequel.