“新文体”与“新小说”之思

The Thinking of the New Article Styles and the New Novel

梁启超风靡天下的“新文体”不仅是其基于时代新民之思的“觉世之文” ,而且充分显示了自古代“言文分离”至现代言文合一的历史趋向 ,其“新小说”的理论构想则为其新民确立了文学表达的本体论根基 ,从而预示着新文学的诞生。

Liang Qichao′s fashionable “new article styles” is not only “the articles to wake up the people” on the basis of his reflection of the people in era who have the new thought, but also fully reveal the historical tide from the ancient “separation of the speech and the article” to the modern “the accordance of the speech and the article”. His academic idea of “the new novel” established the ontological foundation of the literary expression for the people with new thought. Hence, it foretold the birth of the new-vernacular literature.