"Home" wrote the tragedy of Gao Fu's generation of young people, the tragedy of an era. At the same time, it also writes whether people wake up first or later at the bottom of Gough. The fire is burning slowly but continuously. If Gao Juexin, the eldest brother, has not achieved rebirth, then Gao Juemin, the second brother, has achieved people's independence by resisting marriage. The third brother Gao Juehui is like fire, bringing light to the backyard of Gaofu. Chueh-hui was the first person to wake up in the building. Because of early awakening, people call it "wisdom". He has no illusions about the old order of the gaos thought. He dared to propagate new ideas and attack the old Daoism and the old order.
On the eve of liberation, Ba Jin has been in a high-yield period, completing the last two books of the torrent trilogy, Spring and Autumn, as well as the novels, Resting Garden and Cold Night. In addition, he also wrote a lot of short stories, poems and essays.
When Home began to be serialized in The Times in 193 1, its title was Torrent. In the process of writing, Ba Jin's eldest brother, Li Yaomei, committed suicide because of the failure of speculative business. In Ba Jin's memory, Big Brother was a victim of the old system. When he heard the bad news that night, Mr. Insomnia decided to adjust the structure of Home and write it with Big Brother as the prototype of the main character. He wants a dying system victim to appear in front of people. Because it is all about familiar people, things and life, the creation of Home is very smooth, and many parts and plots are in one go.
Home is not only Ba Jin's masterpiece, but also a milestone in the history of new literature.
Ming Kai Bookstore published a single edition of Home in May 1933, and then published 33 editions in the following ten years, with sales reaching hundreds of thousands. The book was published by People's Literature Publishing House on 1949, and it was printed 15 times in Beijing alone. It has also been adapted and filmed three times, and has been adapted into drama, drama, TV drama and dance drama for many times, which has been popular for more than half a century.
Until the eve of liberation, Ba Jin was in a high-yield period, completing the last two novels of the torrent trilogy, Spring and Autumn, as well as the novels "Resting Garden" and "Cold Night". In addition, he also wrote a large number of short stories, poems, essays and other works, and translated Turgenev's Father and Son, Virgin Land and so on.
1944, 40-year-old Ba Jin married Xiao Shan, and the couple fell in love from then on until 1972, when Xiao Shan, 55, died.
After liberation, Ba Jin participated in social and political activities, and successively served as a member of the Education Committee of East China Military and Political Commission and deputy director of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He has to attend various meetings, activities and entertainments. For a long time, he has written many articles that meet the needs of the situation. Many years later, he reflected on his writing in this period and said, "... I used to be from the Goethe Institute".
After the "Cultural Revolution" began, Ba Jin was regarded as "ghostly" and was criticized and reformed. During this period, Ba Jin and his family suffered great disasters. All kinds of criticism, torture, beatings and humiliation made Ba Jin and his wife suffer a lot, and Ba Jin had to "be a slave with all his heart".
At the end of 1973, I began to translate herzen's Past and Random Thoughts.
In the process of translation, because of his own situation and experience, he seems to be in it, and has a deep * * * sound with the author. 1976 The Gang of Four was overthrown, and Ba Jin concentrated on criticizing the crimes of the Gang of Four for a long time.
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Family is a sharp weapon used by Ba Jin to criticize the feudal patriarchal autocratic system, so he chose Chueh-hui, the most dynamic in his works, as an agent to criticize (occasionally the theme changes, but most of the time he looks at the family that is about to collapse from the perspective of the "third generation"), to describe and evaluate the characters in the book from his perspective, and to express his views on social life through his monologues, so this character became a book. The author hopes to point out a new way of life for readers through Chueh-hui's thinking. However, because the author himself was in the confusion of life when he was creating, Chueh-hui in his works, although passionate and radical, lacked realism and real vitality, and seemed somewhat vain and pale.
Juexin, another representative of the third generation in Home, is not a figure worthy of the author's praise, but his tragic fate is a powerful evidence to criticize feudal patriarchal autocracy, so the author's pen and ink on this figure is second only to Juehui's. From an artistic point of view, this character is the most successful character in the book-because Chueh-hsin is a character whose life is based on Ba Jin's eldest brother who just died. His body embodies the author's deep regret for the dearest person, and his description reveals the author's feelings for this character in a trickle. The truest is often the most touching-the eldest son's Chueh-hsin, though painful, has attracted the attention of most readers and critics and become the most important figure in this work.
As for Grandpa Gao, the third important figure in Home, it is the concretization of "feudal patriarchal clan system" in his works. So this character is in an indisputable negative position from the beginning-that is, he is a transcendental criticized object. Therefore, the author tries his best to portray it as an abominable autocratic family tyrant, a typical evil representative of the whole feudal class. In order to highlight the "evil" of this image and achieve the purpose of criticizing feudal patriarchal autocracy, the author intentionally or unintentionally avoided revealing the complexity of this character image and made it a quasi-existence.
In his works, Mr. Gao doesn't appear many times. Most of them introduce his simple actions or judge him from the perspective of Chueh-hui (the author), just sketching out a few generalizations. For example, "the old man" was mentioned several times in the festival of worshipping God on New Year's Eve, but there were only these words: "When the old man appeared, the whole room was immediately silent." "Or the old man began to kowtow to ancestors. The old man knocked his head and entered the room. " Ke Ming went in again and invited the old man out ... He accepted the gift with a big smile on his face, and then went into his room. For example, when the old man was furious about Chueh-min's escape from marriage, he said, "He only knows to obey his orders and take care of his face." As for other people's happiness, he won't care. All he knows is that he wants to be a new important person. He often loses his temper and scolds Chueh-hsin and Keming. Even Zhou was scolded by him. Obviously, this review takes Mr. Gao as the object of criticism. In the sentence, we can see Chueh-hui's indignation, but it should be regarded as the author's attack on the ruler of the feudal system he hated. So in this description, "Gao Laoye" became a symbol of "class"; Moreover, in most novels, he is in such a position.
After such depiction, Homer really achieved the goal of political criticism. However, while achieving this key goal, Mr. Gao's image is inevitably a little single and dull. Although it is difficult for the author to get rid of his grandfather's affection completely, he shows complex feelings for this character in some places, which makes it contradictory and three-dimensional to some extent, but it does not reach the depth of excavating the character-as far as a masterpiece is concerned, this is a pity.
The novel is about the collapse of a large family in Chengdu, Sichuan in the early 1920s. Based on the conflict between the younger generation and the feudal parents, it describes the tragic fate of young women such as Mei Mingfeng and Rui Yu who were swallowed up by feudal ethics, accuses the feudal ethics of destroying and persecuting the younger generation, exposes the evil and decay of the feudal family, and enthusiastically praises the rebellious spirit of the younger generation against the feudal system, feudal ethics and feudal forces and the awakening of its democratic consciousness. The author Ba Jin grew up in such a family, so he can truthfully describe his grandfather and eldest brother: one is the autocratic parent of "my boss" and the other is a obedient child. At the same time, it also describes some men and women's intrigue, fighting with each other, harming others and benefiting themselves, and duplicity.
(??& lt； ) Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19.
Just after the Lantern Festival, the old and new warlords launched a fierce melee. The gaos thought in the urban area was also inevitably disturbed by the war. Mrs. Zhang, who fled to the city from the East Gate, took Qin and Mei, who were playing in the Zhang family, to take refuge in Gaofu. Mei was particularly sad to see that the flowers and trees in the Gaos Garden were still there, but the staff were gone. At this moment, Jui-chueh came with Haichen. Talking and talking, Jui-chueh suddenly felt that she liked Mei very much.
Chapter 20, 2 1, 22
The next day, Chueh-hsin met Mei again in the garden. May turned and left silently. Chueh-hsin ran after her and asked Mei for forgiveness. May could not help crying in a low voice. When Chueh-hsin saw Mei so sad, a feeling of regret, sympathy and love suddenly came to him. He couldn't help wiping her tears with a handkerchief. Two people shed tears and told each other about their lovesickness for several years.
Content abstract: Chengdu Gaogongguan is a big family with five children and grandchildren. Grandpa Gao is the master of this big family. There are three brothers, Chueh-hsin, Chueh-min and Chueh-hui, and their stepmother and their stepmother's daughter Shuhua. Because his parents died early, Chueh-hsin is now the eldest brother.
The eldest son, Sun Juexin, is precocious and weak. He was influenced by new ideas, but he dared not contradict his elders. When I was young, I fell in love with my cousin Mei, but I accepted my parents' arrangement and married another knight. He lived happily after marriage, had children and loved his beautiful wife, but he couldn't forget Mei, especially after Mei's marriage, when she became a widow and returned to Chengdu. The meeting between them brought him endless pain. Soon, Main died of depression.
Chueh-min and Chueh-hui participated in the new culture movement and student movement outside, and were reprimanded by their grandfather and placed under house arrest. Chueh-min and his cousin Qin fell in love, but grandpa got engaged for him, so Chueh-min ran away from home and Chueh-xin was caught between his younger brother and grandpa. Chueh-hui is the most rebellious of the three brothers, and he has a vague feeling for Ming-feng, the maid at home. Mr. Gao wants to marry Ming-feng to his friend Feng Leshan, the president of Confucianism, as a concubine. Ming-feng threw herself into the lake in despair, and Chueh-hui decided to leave her family.
Grandpa Gao found that his beloved son cheated his wife out of money to run a small mansion and owed a lot of money outside. Old Skean also went whoring with the actor, beat him and killed him. There was a big funeral at home, and Jue, who wanted to have a baby, was driven to the suburbs to have a baby on the grounds of avoiding the disaster of bloodshed. Chueh-hsin dared not object. Chueh-hsin died of dystocia due to poor care. Chueh-hsin repented that the family should be a traitor, and he supported Chueh-hui to leave home for Shanghai.
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