列夫·托尔斯泰在《艺术论》中主要从情感的真挚性、感染性和宗教性等方面探讨情感作为艺术的本质,其中他又特别重视情感的感染性的重要作用,认为情感的感染性是情感传达的前提。本文重点解读了托尔斯泰的情感的感染性的观点,并指出其中某些看法对于中国现代文艺理论研究具有一定借鉴意义。 In his The Art Theory, Leo Tolstoy explored the essence of emotion as the essence of art in terms of its sincerity, contagiousness and religiousness. In particular, he paid particular attention to the important role of emotional contagion, Infectivity is the premise of emotional communication. This article focuses on the analysis of Tolstoy’s sentimentality and points out that some of these views have some reference to the study of modern Chinese literary theory.