Thunderstorm is a drama created by playwright Cao Yu, published in the July issue of Literature Quarterly, 1934. Based on the China society around 1925, the play depicts the tragedy of a bourgeois family with strong feudal color.
The plot is gripping, the language is refined and implicit, and the characters have their own characteristics. It is "the cornerstone of China's drama realism" and a milestone in the maturity of China's modern drama.
2. A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao Xueqin is the greatest and most complicated writer in the literary history of China, and A Dream of Red Mansions is also the greatest and most complicated work in the literary history of China.
A Dream of Red Mansions centers on the love and marriage tragedy between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and describes the rise and fall of a representative aristocratic family at that time, as well as the tragic fate of many characters centered on Jia Baoyu and a group of women in the Red Chamber. The youth, love, the beauty of life and all kinds of such beauty they represent have been destroyed.
It reflects the historical fate of young men and women with a certain awakening consciousness under the bondage of feudal system and feudal parents, writes the truth of life indulging in pain and the same yearning for liberation, and writes the contradictory emotional world and realistic life experience.
3. Selected short stories of Chekhov
Chekhov's remarkable feature is that he can reveal the essence of life from the most common phenomena. He highly downplayed the plot, only intercepted ordinary fragments in daily life, and described and portrayed life and characters with exquisite artistic details, thus showing important social phenomena.
4. metamorphosis
Die Verwandlung (German name: Die Verwandlung, English name: TheMetamorphosis) is a novella by Austrian writer Franz Kafka. It was completed in 19 12, and was first published in the monthly white books and periodicals in 19 15.
The novel tells the absurd story of the protagonist gregor's transformation from a human being to a beetle, which reflects the reality that the world is mercenary and disdains real human nature, and is finally squeezed and deformed by society, and reflects the real social life under the capitalist system.
5. Scream
Scream is a collection of short stories written by Lu Xun. The first edition was published by Beijing Xinchao Society in 1923, and later compiled into The Complete Works of Lu Xun (1 volume).
This collection of novels truly depicts the social life from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement, profoundly analyzes and completely denies the old China system and outdated traditional concepts, and shows a strong sense of national survival and a strong hope for social change.