摹仿与试验――论姚?g雏的短篇小说创作
Imitation and experiment: Yao Yuanchu’s short story creation

摘 要： 作为报人小说家，为了适应报刊这种现代化载体，为了满足民初读者越来越现代、多元的“兴味”阅读需要，姚?g雏在短篇小说创作上进行了多路向探索。其撰著的短篇小说既继承唐人小说追求“奇味”的一脉，兼具史笔与诗意；又借鉴外国小说的某些叙事技巧，结合读者的阅读兴味，自觉进行变革和试验，使有些小说呈现出显著的现代性特征，可谓现代短篇小说之前奏。姚?g雏的创作实践有力地推动了短篇小说的现代转型。
Abstract: As a journalist novelist, in order to adapt to the modern carrier of newspapers and periodicals and in order to satisfy the “Xing Wei” reading requirements in Early Republic of China which were more and more modern and diverse, Yao Yuanchu made multi-approach exploration in short story creation. His short stories not only inherited the “Qi Wei” style of Tang novels with both history and poetry, but learned from certain foreign narrative techniques. He combined with the reader’s reading interest, and consciously undertook reform and experiment so that some novels could bring out the remarkable characteristics of modernity, which can be considered as the prelude to modern short story. Yao Yuanchu’s creative practice vigorously promotes the modern transformation of short story