梁启超在其前期(1920年之前。依据郭延礼在《中国近代文学发展史》中的分期)的生活中,主要是作为一个政治宣传家出现在历史舞台上的,他的小说理论即是这种个人背景和普遍失范时代的产物。由于处在现代小说理论的发轫期,缺乏理论自身的依傍和挑战,因而梁氏小说理论有许多地方失之粗糙;但作为中国小说理论演进中的一个环 Liang Qichao mainly appeared as a political propagandist on the stage of history in the life of his predecessor (prior to 1920, based on the stage of Guo Yanli’s “The History of the Development of Modern Chinese Literature”). His theory of novels is such an individual Background and the product of the general anomie era. Due to the lack of theoretical study and challenge, Liang’s theory of novel has many places lost in the beginning of modern novel theory. However, as a part of the evolution of Chinese novel theory