塞万提斯的《堂吉诃德》虽然写于文艺复兴这个欧洲长篇小说刚刚兴起的时候,但其对小说理论的认知探究却是理性自觉的。本文试从小说的创作、阅读、批评三方面探讨作者的文艺理论观。 Cervantes’s Don Quixote, though written in the early days of the Renaissance European novel, has its own rational and conscious inquiry into the theory of novels. This article attempts to explore the writer’s theory of literature and art from three aspects: creation, reading and criticism.