四百年《西游记》作者问题论争综述

The Overview on the Contestation about Who is the Author of the Novel Journey to the West in the past 400 Years

《西游记》问世时是一部未署名的作品,当时即有多种猜测,明清间“邱长春作”说曾流行一时,至今仍有信从者;近世“吴承恩作”说几定于一尊,却是因证据薄弱,不断受到质疑和否定,不时有新说包括新的猜测与主张提出,使这一问题在《西游记》研究中日益突出。本文综述古今有关《西游记》作者各种主张与猜测为十一题十说。诸家根本分歧只在“出今天潢何侯之国”、“邱长春”、“吴承恩”、“李春芳”、“陈元之”等五说之间。

The novel Journey to the West had no author when it was a signature work. At that time, there were many kinds of guesses. During Ming and Qing Dynasties ,“the Qiu Changchun did it” once populared for a while, until now there are still believing and following; In modem times , “Wu Cheng-en does it” almost governs the acdamic aera. Actually, because the evidence is very weak, it receives the question and the denial unceasingly, and often some newideas are proposed,including the new guess and new position, making this question prominent in the study of Journey to the West day by day. This article summarizes the ancient and modem related positions and the guesses about Journey to the West as “11 topics and 10 sayings” .The basic difference between the various views lies in lies in the five sayings of “out of the state of today＇s Huang He Marquis Qiu Chang-chun”, “Wu Cheng-en” ,“Li Chun - fang”, “Chen Yuan - zhi” and so on.