因情捉笔：脂砚斋小说批评“情本论”研究

Writing for Love:Study of Zhiyanzhai’s Reviews on the Essence of A Dream of the Red Mansions

《红楼梦》是一本“情”书,脂砚斋深刻地认识到小说写情的本质,认为小说是“因情捉笔”,情是文之根,因情而缮此一书。小说抒情的方法是融情于事,借事说情。小说以写“情事”为主,情即是事,事即是景,达到心灵的自由是小说抒情的本质。小说所写世态人情具有生活情理的真实,脂批分析小说的人情重在挖掘人物的行为动机与外部环境的关系。

A Dream of the Red Mansions is a novel about love.Zhiyanzhai precisely catched the essential reason for the creation of A Dream of the Red Mansions:writing for love.The novel integrates affection of the characters into descriptions of things,through which affection is embedded in things,things become the background that affection is shaped,and the freedom of soul is reached in this process.The depiction of characters’affection in A Dream of the Red Mansions comes from real life.The reviews of Zhiyanzhai on characters’affection focus on the relationship between characters’behavioral motive and external environment.