“写不长”“写不完”——晚清海归派小说写作的一种奇观

Endless novels——an unco sight in overseas returnees' novel writing in Late Qing Dynasty

晚清最后十几年,留洋之风盛行,由此形成了中国第一批较大规模的"海归"群体。此群体对中国小说的发展史影响颇大,在对小说功用的阐发、小说地位的提升、小说文体的重塑等方面均有不小贡献,但在其小说写作实践中,却存在着一个普通现象——"写不长"和"写不完"。导致这种现象产生的原因大约有四:一是态度的随意;二是精力和时间所限;三是才力不够;四是写作构想不切实际导致难以操作。

During the last decade of Qing Dynasty, quite a lot of overseas returnees participated in novel writing or translation, which contributed greatly to the Chinese novel development. However, there was a serious drawback in the novel writing, they used to find that they could not develop or complete a whole work, or even, they were not able to end a novel dispite of a grand blueprint. This paper takes the phenomena as the research object, while laying emphasis on describing it in attempt to seak and analyse the reasons behind.