从金批“俗本”看贯华堂本《水浒传》的艺术成就

From the Jin Edition to Evaluate the Artistic Achievement of Guanhuatang Annotation: Water Margin

关于金圣叹评点《水浒传》的研究,现今多集中于其批语的理论性,而对于金圣叹所修改的贯华堂本《水浒传》的文本却少有人问津。相较于金本所用底本袁无涯本《水浒传》而言,贯华堂本(即金本)《水浒传》文本的艺术成就得到了很大的提升。在金批中有"俗本"一词,其所相对的便是金圣叹所作的修改文字。通过对这些金本所修改的文字进行分析,可以发现金本《水浒传》在字词句的精炼、人物的改造、情节的修改、修辞技法的运用方面都做出了完善,而这些完善也使得金本《水浒传》的艺术成就更加的突出。

Criticism on Jin Shengtan＇ s version on Water Margin focused on its theoretical feature while little attention went to his Guanhuatang revised version. Compared with the Yuan Edition Water Margin, Jin Edition Water Margin text enjoyed more artistic a- chievement. In Jin＇ s annotation, common comment is comparatively to his revised comment. Through the analysis of the modification in this text, it can be found that in the Jin＇ s Edition Water Margin there is improvement in the use of words and phrases, characters modification, plot modification, rhetoric techniques which makes the Jin Edition Water Margin more artistic.