《虬髯客传》的叙事情节对《鬼谷子》游说艺术的运用

Application of Narrative Plot in “The Man with the Curly Beard” to Lobbying Art of Gui Gu Zi

相传为杜光庭所作的《虬髯客传》,其中的剧情对话、人物行为,对游说艺术的运用比比皆是。而产生在小说之前的《鬼谷子》是先秦纵横家经典思想的精要,《虬髯客传》与《鬼谷子》均有政治目的表现,将《虬髯客传》的叙事情节与《鬼谷子》进行比较,不难发现,这篇唐传奇小说的叙事情节有多处对《鬼谷子》的游说艺术进行了实践。

As a standard article of heroic literature in Tang Dynasty Stories, The Man with the Curly Beard is said to be written by Du Guang ting, the fiction revolving around three people as Li Jing, Hong Fu, and the curly-beard man .The fiction is famous for legendary narrative plot to the later literary world. The plot dialogue and character behavior has adopted a lot lobbying art from the fiction. However, Gui Gu Zi which was written before this fiction epitomized the thought of lobby art in hundreds of various schools (Pre-Qin). Besides, both of them express political purpose. If we compare the narrative plot in The Man with the Curly Beard with Gui Gu Zi , it is not hard for us to find that the narrative plot in this Tang Dynasty Story has adopted a lot the lobbying art of Gui Gu Zi in practice.