中国古代叙事文学贡献之我见——兼论中西叙事文学比较

The Comparison Between Chinese and Western Narrative Literature

中国古代抒情文学的极度繁荣,遮蔽了人们对中国古代叙事文学的关注,同时,漫长的封建社会,中国古代叙事文学向来被正统文人鄙弃而对其理论总结相对单薄,由此给人造成错觉,似乎中国古代叙事文学极不发达,难以与西方叙事文学相媲美。任何一个民族文学都是由官方文学与民间文学两部分构成,叙事文学的繁荣也与叙事理论的滞后不成正比。从总体看,中国古代叙事文学并不弱于西方古代任何一个国家的叙事文学。

In ancient China,the great prosperity of lyrical literature made people neglect narrative literature. In the meantime,during the long feudal society,orthodox scholars were apt to despise narrative literature of ancient China,resulting in the weakness of its theoretical research in China,which led to a misconception that lyrical literature of ancient China seemed not to be prosperous and wasn’t on a par with western narrative literature. It’s known to all that all national literature is composed of official literature and folk literature,and narrative literature doesn’t prosper in proportion to the lag of the narrative theory. In general, narrative literature in China is no worse than that of any western country in ancient times.