《一件小事》:现代文学史上最早的"自我小说

在"五四"文坛上,出现了一种深受日本"私小说"影响的小说新样式———"自我小说"。鲁迅是最早创作"自我小说"的作家。他的《一件小事》,不仅符合小说的基本要求,是小说而不是散文,而且与日本"自我小说"的理论和创作实际相符,是一篇典型的"自我小说"。同时,《一件小事》发表的时间又最早,是中国现代文学史上最早的"自我小说"。

A Trivial Matter: the Earliest "Self Novel" in Modern Literature History

In the "May Fourth" literary world, there appeared a new kind of novel influenced by the Japanese "private novel"-"self novel". Lu Xun was the first writer who wrote "self novel". His A Trivial Matter was a novel not a prose and met all the theories and creating practice of "self novel", and was therefore a typical "s elf novel" itself. Moreover, A Trivial Matter was the earliest novel publis hed in the modern literature history, so it was the earliest "self novel" in China.