吕思勉《小说丛话》对太田善男《文学概论》的吸入──兼论西方小说艺术论在晚清的移植

The Adaptation of ta Yoshio’s Outline of Literature by Lü Simian’s "Discourses on Novel"

1914年发表在《中华小说界》的《小说丛话》,是一篇展现中国近现代小说观念转变过程的重要理论文章。本文首先指出,这篇被认为是由历史学家吕思勉所撰的文章,大量参考了日本明治时期太田善男的《文学概论》。吕思勉的目的,是以此矫正晚清流行的小说实用论,以及建立中国小说是为美术的观念。论文最末指出,《小说丛话》是中国小说史上,第一篇以西方novel、romance概念带出现代中国小说观念中"长篇小说"及"短篇小说"的出处。

＂Discourses on Novel＂ （Xiao shuo cong h ua, 1914）, published in The World of Chinese Fiction （ Zhong hua xiao shuo fie ）, is a very important piece of theory on Chinese fiction in the early Republic China. This paper attempts to show that ＂Discourses on Novel＂ which was presumed to be written by the historian Lü Simian, as made heavy reference to Outline of Literature （1906）, which was written by the Meiji Japanese scholar Ota Yoshio. The purpose of borrowing the main argument on fine arts of Outline of Literature is to relute the practical views on Chinese fiction in the late Qing period. It concludes that ＂Discourses on Novel＂ is the first explicit piece of Chinese fiction where scholars can find the source of using the idea of ＂novel＂ and ＂romance＂ in Chinese historical material.