玄虚怪谲 史辞兼重——从《玄怪录》看牛僧孺传奇创作的审美追求

Being Mysterious and Weird,Valuing the Historical Rhetoric Simultaneously——On the Aesthetic Pursuit of Niu Sengru's "Collection of Mysteries"

牛僧孺的《玄怪录》被公认为是唐传奇专集的代表作品。与六朝志怪小说、唐初盛期传奇单篇及专集相比,作者在艺术上刻意探索、自成风格,取得了较高的成就。主要表现在:作者创作意识的更为自觉;在叙事方式上有意摹拟人物对话或分层叙述;在怪异的故事情节里加强人物性格的塑造;善于营造诗意美的意境。反映出作者兼重史辞的审美追求。

Collection of Mysteries;written by Niu Sengru,is well -known as the represent- ative of the legendary work collections in Tang Dynasty. Compared with former works, either mysterious novels in the Six Dynasties, or the individual and collective works of legend in early Tang Dynasty, the author made a meticulous exploration in art, shaped his own literary style and thus achieved a high accomplishment which was mainly indicated as following： the writer was more aware of being creative and reinforced the portrayal of the character＇ s personality in the plot; he was good at constructing the mood of a poetic sense of beauty ;the stories were narrated in the way of stimulating dialogues between roles and dividing the arrangement of ideas;the work had also reflected his aesthetic pursuit of focusing on the history.