英国作家毛姆有一篇著名的文论——《三个日记体作家》,在文中,他对龚古尔兄弟、儒勒·勒纳尔和保罗·莱奥托的创作生平进行了详尽的阐述。其文笔生动而引人入胜,其论断透辟而令人叹服。其核心之论,归结到一点,就是:有什么样的童年,就有什么样的作家,作家的作品本质上是他的自叙传,是由他的成长经历衍发的情感、观察和思考。他还说,上述的几位作家,其天分庸常,属缺乏想象力和创作力的一类,却都在文 British writer Maugham has a well-known literary theory - “three diarists,” in which he elaborates on the creative life of the Gungur brothers, Jules Lenar and Paul Leo Toto . Its writing is vivid and fascinating, and its insightful and impressive. The core of his theory, boiled down to the point that: what kind of childhood, there is what kind of writer, writer’s work is essentially his self-narrative, is derived from his growing experience of emotion, observation and thinking. He also said that some of the writers mentioned above, whose trivialism is often lacking in imagination and creativity, are all in the text