从本体论角度看小说

Fiction Viewed from an Ontological Perspective

小说作为一种后起的文体,它首先应被理解为一种观察世界的角度和体式,即“世界感”,然后才是我们通常所说作为叙事的小说文体。前者之于后者是先在的,这是小说的本体论。在中国古代,“小说”一开始就是作为与正统文体之世界感相对立的文体而出现的,并受到正统文体意识的排斥或“拉拢”。而小说的幻想性叙事遵循自己的行动逻辑,它要表达的各种观念也在其自身的叙事框架中逻辑性地生成。

As a late literary style, fiction should be regarded first of all as a way of viewing the world, or a 'sense of the world',and then as a genre of narration. The former is prior to the latter. This is the ontology of fiction. In ancient China, fiction emerged as a literary style that contradicted the sense of the world of orthodox styles but was repelled or 'wooed' by them. Imaginative narrative in fiction follows its own course, and the ideas it wants to express take shape in conformity with reason within the narrative framework.