卢卡奇早期理论是以形式为核心的理论。《小说理论》最初反应的是康德主义,到后期逐渐转变为黑格尔主义。对卢卡奇而言,文学内部是一个世界,里面至少有三个层次:生活、作家、对象。人类思维主体性的发展也就是“先天家园”在文学文本中的丧失,艺术形式逐渐成为一个独立的、占统治地位的过程。卢卡奇认为,最开始的史诗,本质并不是作为一个先在的理念悬浮于生活之上,然后按照某种超验的东西塑造一个文学的内部世界,作品里的世界就是生 Lukacs early theory is the form of the core theory. The theory of fiction initially reflected Kantianism and later into Hegelianism. For Lukacs, literary interior is a world with at least three levels: life, writer, object. The development of subjectivity of human thinking is also the loss of “innate homeland” in literary texts, and the art form has gradually become an independent and dominant process. Lukacs believes that the beginning of the epic, the essence is not suspended as a prior concept of life on top, and then some kind of transcendental things to create an internal world of literature, works in the world is born