分散叙事:试论《资治通鉴》中的传记技法

The Intermittent Narrative:On the Biographical Art in Zi Zhi Tong Jian

《资治通鉴》有关人物的叙事都服从于编年的体例,人物活动被严格限制在明确的时间格栅之中,这与纪传体史书形成鲜明对照。分散叙事有助于更大范围地揭示人物的历史背景,将人物安置在复杂的历史经纬中进行塑造,还可以补足传主的一些边缘性活动,进而丰富传主的性格。

In Zi Zhi Tong Jian,the narratives of characters follow the chronological order.The characters’s activities are accordingly strictly confined to the definite time slots so as to form sharp contrasts with biography-oriented history works.The paper argues that the intermittent narrative of characters in this classic enables the author to reveal,to a greater extent,the historical context,to put the characters against the complex historical settings,and to provide supplementary information of the subject obscure to readers,for the purpose of presenting a rounded image of the subject’s character.