《鹿鼎记》的历史意趣

Historical Flavor in the Deer and the Cauldron

金庸武侠小说封笔之作《鹿鼎记》,既充满游戏笔墨,又富含历史意趣。金庸对两者的不同处理方式,揭示了隐含在游戏笔墨深处的历史意趣,一部优秀武侠小说不仅有娱众之功,亦可以有深刻的历史蕴涵,从而达到可观的思想高度——关键在于作者是否拥有历史感和历史见识。小说与历史这两种叙事文体,纠结着复杂而难分的关系,为小说审美提供了一个崇高标的。

The Deer and the Cauldron. Jin Yong＇s last Kungfu novel, is peppered with playful words and permeated with a strong historical flavor. The paper analyzes how the author deals with these two aspects, reveals the historical flavor hidden deep between those playful lines and expounds that a profound historical knowledge should be added to a Kungfu novel＇s function of providing pleasure so that a wonderful Kungfu novel can achieve a real depth of thoughts, the key of which lies in whether the author possesses both a sense and ideas of history. Then the paper elucidates the complex and tangled relations between novels and history, two different narrative types of writing, and provides a high criterion for the aesthetic evaluation of novels.