文学历史上闪耀的“落选者”——论任华的文学思想及文章特色

A Less Established Writer in Literary History——Ren Hua's Literary Thoughts and Features

唐代任华是文学史的"落选者",但诗文创作都极具特色。从其文学创作倾向看,他的文学思想以尚奇和尚自由为主,或许还受到佛教的影响。文章创作迥异时流,书与送序最为突出。书的写作虽是有求于人,但词气凌厉,咄咄逼人,毫无乞怜之态,善用问句把文章连接成一个整体,使文章不平铺直叙,波澜起伏。送序的写作,情感真挚,平和亲切,景色描写十分突出,达到了情景交融的意境,多用山水云月四种意象,既使文章有了时空动静的对比,同时又是对自我人生的象征。任华送序的创作在赠序文体发展成熟过程中起到了重要作用。

Ren Hua is not generally regarded as a well-established writer in the history of Tang literature, but his creation was distinct on its own. His works convey his pursuit for freedom and novelty, in addition to a fl avor of Buddhism. And he was better at prose and foreword than poetry, which was most prevalent at his time. He was so skillful in exploring questions for the textual coherence and his wording was so powerful that his prose writing was very impressive. And his prefaces were emotional and expressive. The landscape depiction was unique in that he employed such images as mountain, water, cloud and moon to contrast the movement with motionlessness of the time and space while symbolizing his personality. Thus Ren contributed a lot to the development of the foreword as a literary genre.