早在20世纪“新小说”代表之一萨洛特提出“怀疑之时代”之前,福楼拜就已经开始质疑传统模式,他曾梦想写出一本不谈任何问题的书。他认为一部作品谈论什么主题并不重要,素材和题材也不重要,重要的是要产生美感,这就是艺术的宗旨。福楼拜不但从理论上对小说创作进行反思和探索,而且还通过《情感教育》来表达他的美学理想。他从故事结构、人物塑造和叙述技巧几个方面打破了传统小说的规约,用精彩的语言和独具匠心的叙述技巧写出了平淡,写出了平庸,写出了美,并以此预示了现代小说的诞生。 As long ago as Salot, one of the representatives of the “new novels” in the 20th century, put forward the question of “the era of doubts,” Flaubert had begun to question the traditional model, and he had dreamed of writing a book without any problem. In his opinion, it is not important for a work to talk about any topic, nor does material and subject matter matter. What is important is to create a sense of beauty. This is the purpose of art. Flaubert not only reflects and explores the creation of novels in theory, but also expresses his aesthetic ideal through “emotional education”. He broke the conventions of traditional novels in terms of story structure, characterization and narrative skills, wrote plain, wrote mediocrity and written beauty with wonderful language and original narrative techniques, thus heralding the development of modern The birth of the novel.