这里说的“故事”和“情节”,是借用英国文艺评论家爱·福斯特《小说面面观》中的解释。他说:“故事”虽是小说的基本面,没有“故事”就不成为小说,但它是一种很低级的形式,不过是从时问绦虫上切下的一个片断,“早餐后是午餐,星期一后是星期二,死亡以后便腐烂等等”;“故事”是古已有之的,“当时的听众是一群围着篝火在听得入神、连打呵欠的原始人”。而“情节”却 The “story” and “plot” here are borrowed from the interpretation of Alfred Forster’s “novels”. He said: Although the story is a novel’s basic principle, no “story” is not a novel, but it is a very low-level form, but it is a piece of tape cut off from time to time. “After breakfast is lunch , Tuesday after Monday, decay after death, etc. ”“ The story ”is old-fashioned.“ At that time, the audience was a group of primitive people who heard and were yawning around a campfire. ” The “plot” is