<史通>的散文观与小说观述评

《史通》是一部史学评论著作,其内容总括万殊,包吞千有。关于散文,刘知几主张内容要“实录”、风格要简约,模拟古人以“貌异心同”为上;关于小说,刘知几就文言小说的分类、小说与史诗的关系、小说创作中的虚实关系、小说的社会功能等万面提出了较为全面的看法。

On the Prosaic and Novelistic Features of A General Critical Work of Historiography

As a critical work about historiography, A General Critical Work of Historiography contains an encyclopaedical range of literary features. Liu Zhiji maintains that the content of any prose should be "faithfully recorded" and the style should be concise imitation of the antique following the maxin of "different in the appearance and similar in the core" is the favorite application. Liu Zhiji expounded a comprehensive view about novel concerning the classification of novels written in classical Chinese, the relationship between the novel and the epic, the actual situation in the fabrication and the social fanction of a novel.