论清初通俗小说“四大奇书”评点本刊刻的意义

On the Significance of the Publication of Annotated Four Miraculous Fictions,Popular Novels in Early Qing Dynasty

清初南京周氏醉畊堂与李渔芥子园合作并先后刊刻通俗小说"四大奇书"评点本,首次以出版物形式将明末散在性提出的"四大奇书"以系列丛书付诸刊刻,真正推动"四大奇书"小说文本的定型和各自所代表的小说流派形成,最终促进中国古典通俗小说评点"金圣叹一派"的形成。在中国古代小说史上,"四大奇书"系列评点和刊刻是明清易代之际文人"发愤立言"的工具,其评点已超出以往文学评点与阅读的范畴,而具有政治与社会批判的现实意义。

During early Qing dynasty, in Nanjing, Zhou＇ s Zuigengtang publishing house and Li Yu＇ s Jieziyuan publishing house cooperated and for the first time published the popular novel series, annotated Four Miraculous Fictions, Which appeared seatteredly at the end of Ming dynasty. The publication truly finalized the text format of the Four Miraculous Fictions, impelled the forming of genres represented by each fiction, and ultimately promoted the appearance and maturation of JIN Sheng-tan faction, a Chinese popular classical novels criticism genre. In the history of Chinese ancient novels, the serial annotation of the Four Miraculous Fictions and their publication, which went far beyond their previous annotating and reading category, were the literati ＇ s tool during the changing period between Ming and Qing dynasties to blow off their grievances and express their expectation, thus were attached with practical political and social critical significance.