李伯元与“谴责小说”的兴起

Li Boyuan and Condemnation Novel Arising

晚清“谴责小说”的兴起,并非如鲁迅所论兴起于庚子事变后的1901年和受庚子事变的刺激,而是兴起于1903年,原因是以李伯元为代表的报人作家对梁启超发起的“小说界革命”的响应。《官场现形记》开创了晚清旨在揭露官场腐败及其原因的“写实派”社会小说的典范。

Late Qing dynasty condemnation novel arising, was not in 1901 and stimulated by the 1900 Incident as Lu Xun discussed, but in 1903. The reason was that Li Boyuan, as the representative newspaper writers, responded to the novel revolution sparkpluged by Liang Qichao. His novel Officialdom True Features started the model of social novel to set aim to disclose the officialdom rottenness and its reason .