中国古代章回小说叙事模式的基本特征是“以全知视角连贯叙述一个以情节为结构中心的故事”① ,也就是说 ,在叙事时间上基本采用连贯叙述 ,在叙事角度上基本采用全知视角 ,叙事结构则基本上以情节为结构中心。而这一传统的小说叙事模式 ,迟至 2 0世纪初才受到西方小说的严峻挑 The basic characteristic of the narrative pattern of the ancient Chinese novels is that “narrative narration of a story with the episode as the center of structure from the perspective of the omniscient point of view”, that is to say, the narrative time basically adopts the coherent narration, basically adopts the omniscient point of view in narrative angle, Narrative structure is basically the plot as the structural center. However, this traditional narrative pattern of novels was severely challenged by western novels as early as the beginning of the 20th century