由注重情节之奇到追求人物之真——《聊斋志异》对唐传奇叙事重心的切换

From Pursuing Strange Plots to Attaching Importance to Personality——From Tang Dynasty's Legend to Liao Zhai Zhi Yi: The Fantastic Story Chatting from the Studio

唐传奇与《聊斋志异》是中国文言小说发展史上的两座高峰。后者在借鉴前者的基础上,有意识地把塑造人物形象放在小说的核心地位。蒲松龄在诸多“异史氏曰”中向我们传递了有意为之的信息。在具体创作中,作者又让人物性格推动情节发展,采用直缀与横切交融的叙事策略,从而使得小说人物面貌出现了明显的新变。通过对二者有关人物关注度的比较,我们可以发现文言小说进步的轨迹、发展趋势,及给后人留下的宝贵创作经验。

Liao Zhai Zhi Yi and Tang Dynasty's Legend are two high peaks in the history of Chinese classical story. The former draws lessons from the latter and it has the consciousness to put molding persons to the core position in story. It not only shows inside letting the personality push the plot development, adoption beeline narrating with landscape orientation narrating, etc, but also clearly and definitely incarnates on the persons' feature. Contrast with them, can we discover Chinese classical stories' development trend and also leave the precious experience to posterity.