宋志怪小说生成因缘论略

On Cause of Formation for Song Zhiguai's Novels

文章探讨宋志怪小说的生成因缘,认为其一方面得力于对前代小说精华部分的不著痕迹的化用,但更离不开作家对时代文化精神的借助和融会,及其在艺术形式上的努力创新。

The writer explores the cause of formation for Song Zhiguai's novel, which is believed to have resulted partly from traceless digest of cream in preceding generation of novels and even more from the aid and fusion of epochal cultural spirit by writers as well as painstaking innovation in artistic forms.