《四库全书总目》“小说家类”匡误

Error Correction in the Novelist Category of Total Contents of the Selections from the Four Branches of Literature

《四库全书总目》凡例、总序、小序以及每部书之下提要的文字多出于纪昀等名儒硕彦之手,价值一直为学界所公认,但也存在不少瑕疵。其中"小说家类"的理论表述与作品提要就存在扞格的情况,主要表现为:序文对小说虚妄性质的认知与提要对具体作品虚妄内容的指责,撰写提要时所持史家标准与序文阐述的小说标准的错位,以及收录、提要作品时概念含混及标准不一等等。

Most of the general statements,general prefaces,prefaces and summaries of each book from the Total Contents of the Selections from the Four Branches of Literature are written by the famous Confucians like Jiyun,whose value is recognized by the academia,but there are also many defects.Take the novelist category as an example,its theoretical analysis and work summary show the phenomenon of inconsistency,mainly as follows：the cognition of the unreality of the＂novel＂is inconsistent with the censure to the unrealistic content of the concrete works in the summary;the＂historian＂standard in writing the summary is inconsistent with the＂novel＂standard in the preface;the concept is ambiguous and the standard is inconsistent in collecting and summarizing works,etc.