There is a famous sinologist in Czechoslovakia, Jaroslav Prusek, who holds that stories told by Chinese storytellers have not been influenced by the texts of such classical novels as All Men Are Brothers and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Some of his students disagreed, but they lacked detailed research to support their views.
除了羅貫中的創作方法，捷克有個著名的漢學家普魯士格認為，中國的民間說書是一個系統；水滸、三國演義等章回小說是另一個系統，兩者無關，布拉格漢學家之間爭論的很熱鬧，但缺乏具體研究。