Yu Dafu's literary insight - "Literary works are all autobiographies of writers"
He regards the novel as a writer's "autobiography", the protagonist is often the embodiment of the author, the "zero surplus" of life; he likes to use first-person narratives, express more bitter emotions, and express the demand for the liberation of young people's personalities during the "May Fourth" period.
Chen Ermei has no relatives and no friends, a lonely state of mind, hard work but low wages, she hates the factory, showing the difficult survival situation of industrial workers and the hazy class consciousness of rebelling against capitalists.
"Spring Breeze Drunken Night" adopts a first-person narrative, using the novel as an autocryphal to portray the characters, with a strong lyrical color.
Written in 1923, Spring Breeze Drunken Night is the first novel to show the common destiny of intellectuals and industrial workers. In the novel, "I" and the female worker Chen Ermei live in the slum together, and the two go from acquaintance and suspicion to mutual understanding and mutual sympathy.
Yu Dafu, a native of Fuyang, Zhejiang, formerly known as Yu Wen, is a modern Chinese novelist and essayist, and one of the founders of the New Literary Society "Creation Society". His 1921 collection of novels, Sinking, was the first collection of modern vernacular novels in the history of modern Chinese literature.
The novel "Spring Breeze Drunken Night" adopts a first-person narrative, and the portrayal of characters in the novel as a self-narration is the basic feature of Yu Dafu's novel, which focuses on the process of "I" and Chen Ermei from acquaintance to understanding, with a strong lyrical color.
In the novel "Spring Breeze Drunken Night", "I" am a young intellectual who has returned from staying in the west, and Chen Ermei is a female worker who packs paper cigarettes.
The description of the sky at the end of the novel "Spring Breeze Drunken Night" is very consistent with the dim state of mind of the characters.
In the novel "Spring Breeze Drunken Night", "I" live in the slum with the female worker Chen Ermei, and Chen Ermei lives next door to "I", so the two are neighbors.
In the novel "Spring Breeze Drunken Night", there is a huge contrast between the hero's and heroine's life experience and educational and cultural background, but it has the feeling of "the same fallen people at the end of the world", because both of them are poor people at the bottom who are embarrassed and lonely.
In "Spring Breeze Drunken Night", the novel uses contrasting techniques, the hero and heroine are living in slums because of economic constraints, different identities, different tastes, different lifestyles, but they understand and sympathize with each other, giving people a life sigh of "the same is the end of the world".
Yu Dafu, Short Novels: "Bo Dian", "Chi Guihua", "Spring Breeze Drunken Night"
Characters and corresponding works:
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Wang Amao
《Taoyuan》
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Zeng Shusheng
"Cold Night"
Ba jin
Aunt Cui
"Small Town March"
Xiao Hong
Chen Ermei
"Spring Breeze Drunken Night"
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The novel "Spring Breeze Drunken Night" pays great attention to the portrayal of social environment and natural scenery. Several of the houses where "I" lived were short, narrow, and dim.
Written in 1923, Spring Breeze Drunken Night is the first novel to show the common destiny of intellectuals and industrial workers. In the novel, "I" and the female worker Chen Ermei live in the slum together, and the two go from acquaintance and suspicion to mutual understanding and mutual sympathy. It includes the following stages of communication: doubt and vigilance; trust and sympathy; rebuke and exhortation; elimination of misunderstandings and friendship.
Artistic features of "Spring Breeze Drunken Night":
1) Adopt a first-person narrative, and portray the characters as a self-narration, which has a strong lyrical color.
2) The use of contrast techniques. The heroes and heroines are living in slums due to economic constraints, with different identities, different tastes, and different lifestyles, but they do not prevent them from understanding and sympathizing with each other, giving people the sigh of life of "the same fallen people at the end of the world".
3) Pay attention to the portrayal of social environment and natural scenery.
A brief analysis of the stages of the interaction between "I" and Chen Ermei in Yu Dafu's novel "The Drunken Night of spring breeze" and the ideas they express.
1) The interaction stage between "I" and Chen Ermei: from acquaintance and suspicion to mutual understanding and mutual sympathy
2) Chen Ermei's kindness, sincerity and enthusiasm infected "me" and purified "my" feelings.
3) "I" and Chen Ermei span different identities, tastes and lifestyles to achieve mutual understanding and sympathy, and express the sense of life of "the same fallen person at the end of the world".