《红楼梦》后四十回“因袭模仿前人”辩说

The Statement that the Last Forty Chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions Copy and Imitate Predecessors:An Argument

《红楼梦》后四十回的某些情节和文字可从前人的小说、诗文中找到来历,有些还在前八十回中出现过,这应该是长篇小说创作中的一种正常现象,不能作为后四十回与前八十回不是同一作者的"理由"。相反,后四十回中出现前人写过的情节却胜过前人、超越前人;有些情节看似同前八十回重复,却是前半部作品的发展,体现了作者高超的创作水平,说明整部《红楼梦》只能出于同一作者。

Some plots and words in the last forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions can be traced to novels, poems and articles of predecessors, and some of them appear in the first eighty chapters. This is an normal phenomena in the writing of saga novels and can not accordingly conclude that the writer of the last forty chapters is not the same person of the first eighty chapters. On the contrary, the writing of the same plots in the last forty chapters as those had written by the predecessors is skillfully better. Though some plots look like repeat the first eighty chapters, they develop the first half part of the novel, and reflect the writer＇ s excellent skill.