传记小说

• 作者： 陈丽 ¹
• 作者单位：
  1.   北京外国语大学英语学院、爱尔兰研究中心
• 发布时间：2025-02-22

摘要: “传记小说”近三十年来发展迅速，已成主要创作文类，其文类理论也在快速发展完善。传记小说理论家通过不断厘清传记小说与相近的“历史小说”和“传记”等文类的区别，逐渐确立起独立文类的地位，并要求以新的文类标准来评判此类作品。传记小说作家在对人物和读者承担必要的伦理责任的基础上，享有充分的美学自 由进行创作。在这个层面，指导作家创作的是其美学原则，而非传记或历史的真实性标准。作家自由地从历史中挖掘另类真实，同时通过小说与历史的互动形成隐喻性指涉，由历史个案辐射出传记作家对于更普遍生存状态的阐释和理解。传记小说因而具有重要的文化干预功能，用多面立体的文学肖像来抵御简单化的宏大历史叙事。

Abstract: Biofiction has grown rapidly into a dominant literary form in the past 30 years, alongside which its genre theories have also developed rapidly. By differentiating itself from related genres such as the historical novel and biography, Biofiction has established itself as a distinct genre, demanding new criteria to read and evaluate related works. Biofiction writers, while upholding essential ethical responsibilities towards their characters and readers, enjoy full autonomy of art to create their works, guided by aesthetic principles rather than bound by the truth obligations of biography or history. Writers freely draw upon historical facts to provide alternative truth, and transform individual cases, through the interplay of history and fiction, into metaphorical signifiers reflecting broader attitudes toward human existence. Biofiction therefore acquires important functions as cultural intervention, providing complex multi-faceted literary portraits that challenge reductive and totalizing master narratives of History.

• 分类： 外国语言文学 >> 外国文论 外国语言文学 >> 外国文学
• 稿件状态： 已在期刊出版
期刊名称： 《外国文学》 2025年 第1期 “西方文论关键词”专栏
• 引用： PSSXiv:202502.01243 (或此版本 PSSXiv:202502.01243V1)
  DOI:10.16430/j.cnki.fl.2025.01.011
  CSTR:32012.36.PSSXiv202502.01243
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