补充、揭示、互证:钱锺书的“文史不分”观

Supplement,Reveal and Mutual Vertification: Qian Zhongshu's View on Literature and History

钱锺书先生认为"文史不分"的内涵在于:"文"对"史"的补充(即以文学的开放性想象来弥补有限史料的空缺之处)、"文"对"史"的揭示(即以文学作品中虚拟的真实来揭示史书的隐晦之处)、"史"对"文"的校正(即以严谨的史学来对过于文学化的历史想象作一定的纠正),而非传统意义上的"文"、"史"互释或者单纯"文"对"史"的润笔的作用。这样"文"的作用就得以空前彰显和提高,同时在这种背景下,"史"的精髓与内涵也得以充分挖掘,两者内涵皆获得了一种真实且充实的效果。

Mr Qian zhongshu argued that literature and history should not be apart, because the open imagination of literature can supplement the vacancies of history, the virtual truth in literature can reveal the obseeurity of history, and the rigorous history can vertify the litarary imagination. Traditioanal thinking that literature and history mutually interprete or literature polishes hisrory is not sufficient. Therefore, the effect of literature has been improved unprecedentedly, and in this case, the essence and connotation of history can be fully developed, beth of them obtain a real and substantial effect.