评苏轼“言必中当世之过”的创作目的论

On Su Shi's "Focusing on Seamy Sides of Contemporary Society" as Objective of Literature

以文学反映现实,提倡有为而作,这是我国文学的优良传统。苏轼在此基础上进一步提出“言必中当世之过”的口号,要求文学要能揭出社会之弊端,以引起疗救。苏轼之所以能够提出这样的创作理论,与宋代开明的政治有关;而作者要能写出这样的作品,则必须具有政治预见性和勇于坚持真理的不屈精神。

It is a valuable literary heritage of China that literature serves for reflecting the real world and is created for social purposes. Su Shi goes further by putting forward the idea of ＂focusing on seamy sides of contemporary society＂, claiming that literature should be used to reveal social malpractices, so that measures could be taken to correct them. While such a bold literary theory raised by Su Shi is attributed to the openminded political environment during the Song dynasty, an author certainly needs the political foresight and the truth-seeking spirit so as to write such a kind of literary works.