《西游记》非吴承恩作别解

A New Explanation of “Journey to the West is not Written by Wu Chengen”

吴承恩为追悼父亲吴锐而撰写《先府君墓志铭》,由此文可发现,父亲的招女婿经历与自己为庶出是吴承恩无法排遣的隐痛。解析此文并与《西游记》中有关招女婿等描写相对照,可帮助判断《西游记》并非吴承恩所作。

Wu Chengen wrote ＂xianfujun muzhiming＂,an epitaph in memorial of his father,from which it can be detected that his father’s experience of marrying daughter and his birth as the son of concubine were engraved in his heart as painful memories. A close reading of this epitaph and putting it in comparative reading with the related text of Journey to the West help to make conclusion that the masterpiece was not authored by Wu.