把情节作为叙事结构核心,是中国几千年的传统叙事主流,而以人物为叙事结构核心则是“五四”新文学运动时实现的一项叙事主流的转变。此后,人物被认作是小说成败的决定性要件——可莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖时,却强调自己是个“讲故事的人”。这提醒我们,故事对于一个小说家而言,并不逊于人物。其实,在1928年,缪尔的《小说结构》中就将小说分为三类:情节小说、人物小说、戏剧小说。 Taking plot as the core of the narrative structure is the mainstream of traditional narratives in China for thousands of years, while character as the core of the narrative structure is a mainstream transformation of narration realized during the May Fourth Movement. Since then, the characters have been regarded as the decisive elements of the success or failure of the novel - but Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but stressed that he is “the storyteller ”. This reminds us that the story is no worse than a character for a novelist. In fact, in 1928, Muir “novel structure” will be divided into three types of novels: plot novels, novels, novels.