真实的界限——论现代中国作家的自传观

The Boundaries of Truth:On the Autobiographical Concepts of Modern Chinese Writers

自传是一种求真的文体。自传虽然不可能做到完全的真实,但是它仍然要追求一种相对的真实性。而自传能否达到相对的真实性则取决于作者是否愿意讲出真相,这就牵涉到作者不同的自传观。本文以王蒙、夏衍和周作人的自传为例探讨了作家三种不同的自传观:一是认为真实高于一切;二是认为隐私高于真实;三是认为传者有选择说与不说的权利。

Autobiography is a truth-based genre.Although autobiography can not be totally true,it still endeavors to pursue the relative truth,which depends on whether the autobiographer is willing to tell the truth,thus involving the author’s different concepts of autobiography.By analyzing autobiographies by three Chinese writers Wang Meng,Xia Yan and Zhou Zuoren,this paper explores three disparate concepts of autobiography:truth priority,privacy priority,and the autobiographers’rights priority.