传统与现代并行不悖——《续修四库全书提要》小说观探析

Tradition and Modernity Coexist:An Analysis of the View of Novels in the Synopsis of Xu Siku Quanshu

《续修四库全书提要》一方面保留了传统的重视文言小说补史性的观念,另一方面又认可通俗小说可以虚构不实的观念,呈现出传统目录学意义上的小说观与现代文学意义上的小说观并行不悖的状态,体现出20世纪初处于新旧小说观转折点的时代特点。从《续提要》对小说的收录、分类、功用等方面的评价,可知它对新旧小说观的融合所做出的努力。这是真正意义上的小说观念的更新,是小说价值观的进步,为以后的小说研究奠定了坚实的基础。

On the one hand,the Synopsis of Xu Siku Quanshu retains the traditional idea of classical Chinese novels(xiaoshuo)which emphasizes on its function as supplementary to history,on the other hand,it recognizes the idea that popular novels can be fictional,showing a coexisting of the old view of novels in the sense of traditional bibliography and the new novel view in the sense of modern literature,reflecting the characteristics of the era at the turning point of the new novel view in the early 20th century.From its evaluation of the collection,classification,function and other aspects of the novel,we can know that the Synopsis has made efforts to integrate the old and new novel concepts,which is a real renewal of the novel concept and a progress of the novel values,and has laid a solid foundation for the future study of the novels.