《西游记》艺术瑕疵贬点

Artistic Deficiency of 'A Pilgrimage to the West'

《西游记》这部神魔小说义旨之深奥,结构之精巧,在《红楼梦》未出之前,可以说是前所未有的。全书共由六十四个小故事组成,每个故事的背后都有寓意;它塑造了上三界下三界神仙鬼怪人物各类形象,每个形象的身上都寓有佛理,无论其思想性还是艺术性,都代表着当时长篇小说创作的最高水平。《西游记》内容之神奇,结构之完整,文笔之美妙,一直被读者所称赞,但是在这样一个针脚细腻的鸿篇巨制里,也给我们留下了不少的难解之谜,在艺术上常理上也留下了很多不能说服人的地方,里面也出现了数不清的写作笑话。

With profound content and magic forces and refining structure, the Cauldron Fiction of ＇A Pilgrimage to the West＇ proved unprecedented prior to the publication of ＇A Dream of Red Mansions＇. The book contains 64 episodes and each of these contains implications, images and characters of fairy and monsters shaped in the story implied Buddhist morality and consciousness, whatever it represents presented the summit levels of the current novel composition. Mystical content, intact structure and divine writing has been complimented by readers, but the grand works also left us numerous mystery, and unreasonable artistic deficiency in artistic sense, writing jokes frequently occurred in the creation.