After reading Mr. Mao Dun's "Midnight", I think he is a literati who stands on a certain hill, looks down on the world, and can quickly withdraw from his own rationality, he is not like the novelist who is considered by most people to be able to integrate into the story and let the characters take the initiative to go, he is like a bystander, patiently and calmly watching the direction of the characters' own destiny.
Wu Sunfu represents a national capitalist who wants to develop industry, but in the end he is trapped by financial capital and forced to leave, this fateful ending is Mao Dun's deduction of social development, and the story of the novel is slightly conceded to its political intentions.
However, if you think that this is Mao Dun's consistent style, you don't have to. After reading short stories such as "Lin Jia Puzi", "Spring Silkworm", "Autumn Harvest", "Cruel Winter" and so on, you will find that he has the compassion and compassion that a literati would have, but it is only less revealed.
The book "Lin Jia Puzi" of the 100 Red Classic Series integrates four parts: The Story of the World, The Inspiration, the Pursuit of the Past, and the Three Tastes of the Text, including short stories, scene essays, memories of growth and some literary feelings, which are rich in content and can more fully understand Mr. Li's works and thoughts, as well as creative views.
In the "Spring Silkworm" series of short stories, it depicts the bankruptcy of the self-cultivated farmers of the well-off level of the old Tongbao generation. The old Tongbao family, who have a few acres of thin fields and can also raise silkworms, is a typical family of cultivation and weaving in Chinese society, but a hard-working family, and a good year, a young and strong silkworm baby, actually owes a debt to buy mulberry leaves!
The cocoon factory is closed, there is no way to sell the cocoon, and it can still rely on thin fields to sustain three generations of livelihood. However, when there is a drought, it costs money to rent a foreign water wheel, the old Tongbao is old-fashioned but natural disasters, the farmland with water has a good harvest, the rice has not yet been laid, and the price of rice in the town has dropped. After a while of hard work, still owed money!
The tragic pain of the spring silkworm made Lao Tongbao suffer a serious illness, and the tragic pain of the autumn harvest directly killed him! This was the current situation of the bottom society at that time, as it was written in the essay "Rainbow": "The clear rainbow breaks through the blue evening sky, but the hope of the rainbow is also too sad." ”
What is the way for people who run out of food to survive? The people of the half village gathered to "rob the big households", the zodiac priest at the head of the village calculated that the sky was going to change, and the villagers waited for the "dawn" to turn over, but the "true destiny" who listened to the firewood and grass was arrested by the defense group. Old Tongbao's son Duoduotou killed the guards, snatched their guns, looked at the children who cried when they were awakened, and smiled at the wind and snow: "Are you a true son?" Get your out! ”
In this laughter, there is the awakening of not entrusting his fate to anyone, and the courage to face the wind and snow, which is the resistance of the oppressed people and the sincere expectation of Mr. Mao Dun. Any hope like a rainbow is invisible, people can't grasp it, and only what they have won is the hope of a truly reliable life.
"Midnight" is based on the silk factory as the main line, and Mr. Mao Dun in "Spring Silkworm" is also very familiar with silkworm cocoons, which must come from his grandmother. In many contents of "Midnight", in addition to financial and industrial, capitalist and working-class strikes, Mr. Mao Dun also wanted to write about the bandit wars in the countryside, but he could not write about them. On the one hand, because the structure is large, there will be some concerns, on the other hand, it is also related to his own experience, his mother grew up in the town, did not talk much about the situation in the countryside, had no connection with the countryside at an early age, left his hometown to enter the middle school after the age of 15, and lived in Shanghai for a long time after 20 years, since he was farther away from the countryside.
All the experiences and insights that form the background of the creation. In the article "Literature and Life", Mao Dun gave four points to study literature: race, environment, era and personality of writers, so that after reading it, he could also understand the projection of society and the author's life. This point is deeply felt when people interpret Fitzgerald's life and works.
In the prose, although it is a scene writing, you can also see the author's tendency, he pierces the illusory rainbow-like hope, facing the thunderstorm shouting: "Let the thunderstorm wash out a clean and cool world!" "I can also sincerely admire the "poplar" that is extremely common in the northwest, is not valued, and is similar to the peasants in the north.
Through this book "Lin Jia Puzi", we understand the Mao Dun, which is both emotional and rational, from literary creation to literary theory, from story to emotion, and rich and three-dimensional Mao Dun.
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