Particularly when it concerns ancient history, all historians must be storytellers to a certain degree. Connecting the dots of surviving evidence from the time period or event being examined requires a certain amount of personal intuition and supposition. Historians that write about events from the more recent periods will probably be less inclined to be storytellers as the sheer mass of evidence that is presented will likely lead to better documentation of historic events as they happen.
当我们关注历史研究时,我们便成为故事讲述者。由于我们永远也不可能直接知道过去。而只能通过对证据的解释来构建历史,因此,探究历史更多地成为一项创造性的事业,而不是一种客观的求索。所有历史学家都是故事讲述者。
上述陈述中似乎存在两个不同的视角。开头两个句子所涉及到的是探究历史,所探讨的似乎是审视业已被著述的那种历史。专注于历史研究的人不是故事讲述者,而是故事解释者。毫无疑问,在某种程度上,史学家必须是故事讲述者,因为他们有故事要讲。但故事讲述者这一术语似乎暗示着一种更大程度上的创造性,要超过实际解释历史上所发生过的一切这一过程中所涉及的程度。为了本文的目的,我将集中在史学家这一视角,因为这似乎是论题中所包含的核心主题。
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