牛僧孺《玄怪录》中传奇作品臆探

An Analysis of Niu Sengru's "Metaphysical Monsters' Story

牛僧孺的《玄怪录》是一部兼有志怪和传奇两种类型的小说作品集。其中的传奇小说兼备诸多题材,并能深刻而广泛地反映当时的社会生活和人们的心理状态。同时,作者在创造这些作品时,又体现了高超的写作技巧和审美水平,从而使这些作品不仅在唐代传奇小说的发展进程中占有相当重要的地位,而且还对以后的戏曲、小说创作产生了很大的影响。

Niu Sengru's 'Metaphysical Monsters' Story' is a collection of monsters' stories and legendary novels. The latter contain many kinds of themes, which reflected the social lives and people's psychology at that time. What's more, when creating these works, the author used sorts of intricate writing skills at high aesthetic level, so that these works not only obtained a very important position in the development of Tang Dynasty legendary novels, but also greatly influenced the creations of dramas and novels later on.