传记文学之我见

My View of the Biographical Literature

所谓传记文学是怎样的作品?一般说,传记文学必须是写人物的,写人物的生平事迹和精神风貌的。写人物、塑造人物形象,传记文学与其他文学样式,特别是与小说等虚构文学样式,既有相同或相近的一面,又有不同程度的差异。传记文学虽允许合理想象,但绝不允许凭空虚构和"戏说"。传记文学既是"历史",又是"文学",二者水乳交融弥合无间而成为历史真实性与文学审美性完美结合的"传记文学"。在传记文学的写作过程中,会时时感到"真实"与"想象"之间的矛盾,必须拿捏好"真实"与"想象"之间的张力。写人物传记时取材有抉择,持论能中肯。抱有"偶像"情结是写不好传记文学的。人物偶像化会让作者看不清传主真实面貌,所以写人物传记,哪怕再伟大的人物的传记,也应该去掉偶像情结。不然,可能会失真。

What is the so-called biographical literature？ Generally speaking, biographical literature must be the description of certain figures, especially their lives and spirits. In that way, biographical literature and other literary genres, especially fictions and novels, have both the same or similar as-pects and some differences. Biography is both u history^ and “ literature” , these two characteristics are in harmony and close to each other, so the perfect biography is a combination of historical au-thenticity and literary merits. In the process of creating, we often experience the contradiction be-tween ＂truthy＂ and imaginationAt this time,we must pay more attention to the tension between “ truth” and “imagination”. Writing biographies,we must make our choice when we draw materials, at the same time we must hold impartial views. The ＂idolizing＂ complex is not good for writing biog-raphy ,because the idolization of figures make the author hard to see the protagonist＇ true face. Ac-cordingly ,when we write biographies, even biographies of the great figures, the idol complex should be removed. Otherwise, they may be distorted.