Ba Jin’s story:
Ba Jin is famous in the cultural circle for his love of books. On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Ba Jin's family was already living in poverty, but he still had to buy books despite being frugal.
One day, Xiao Shan, who had always been relying on him, couldn't help but said to him: "There is no money at home anymore." Ba Jin, who didn't know whether the family had money or whether he could survive, said: "Money is used to buy books. If you don't buy books, how can a book writer live?" The next day, he took his children to the bookstore again.
Introduction:
Ba Jin was born in a feudal bureaucratic family in Chengdu, Sichuan in November 1904. After the May 4th Movement, Ba Jin was deeply influenced by the new trend of thought, and under the influence of this thought Under the influence, he began his personal anti-feudal struggle. In 1923, Ba Jin left home to study in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, whereupon he began his half-century-long literary creation career.
Extended information
The themes of Ba Jin’s short stories are rich and diverse, but they can generally be summarized into six categories:
First, works about the lives of foreigners, Such works are concentrated in "Revenge Collection" and "Electric Chair Collection", and there are also some works in "Brightness Collection". Such works describe many stories of foreigners and create many vivid images of foreigners.
Secondly, it reflects the suffering lives of farmers, workers, intellectuals, civil servants, revolutionaries and other classes of people and their resistance struggles.
The third one is the four fairy tales included in "The Tower of Eternal Life", namely "The Tower of Eternal Life", "The Secret of the Tower", "The Invisible Bead" and "The Talking Tree". art form to express one's views on social reality.
The fourth is the three historical novels collected in "Silence Collection (2)", namely "The Death of Marat", "The Sorrow of Danton", and "Robestier's secret". These three works reflect the social life during the French Revolution and summarize the lessons of that period of history.
Fifth, it describes the daily life of little people in the 1940s and shows their misfortunes. It is included in collections such as "Fa's Story" and "Little People and Little Things". Some of the works reflect the The transformation of Ba Jin’s creative style.
Sixth, works that reflect the life of volunteers, that is, war themes, are collected in novel collections such as "The Story of Heroes", "Pearl and Jade Girl", and "Li Dahai". These works are the last achievements of Ba Jin's novel creation and are an important contribution of the old writer to the literary cause of New China.