In the past hundred years, the face of China has changed several times.
A hundred years ago, it was the feudal peasants, the bourgeoisie and the emerging revolutionary classes; it was the agrarian revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan and the people's communes. Although history has passed over time, stories have been left by writers forever.
01
thunderstorm
Cao Yu | People's Literature Publishing House | 1999
"Thunderstorm" shows a great tragedy of life, a cruel trick of fate on people.
Authoritarian, hypocritical parents, warm, simple youths, seductive women whose hearts are burned mad by love, brothers who repent of their sins but do not know that they have committed greater sins, and the secrets of the family, the secrets of life, all of this erupts on a thunderstorm night. Guilty, innocent people march together toward destruction. Cao Yu vented his suppressed resentment and slandered China's family and society in an extreme thunderstorm-like way.
02
Red sorghum family
Mo Yan | Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House | 2017
Through the narration of "I", the novel describes the vigorous, heroic and tragic stories staged by the ancestors of "I" in the northeast township of Gaomi during the War of Resistance Against Japan. On the one hand, the ancestors of "I" rose up against the brutal Japanese invaders, on the other hand, they burst out a legendary love that can be sung and wept, and at the same time, they also showed the conflict that human beings fell into when they felt the oppression of secular rules.
"The process of the oral circulation of historical figures and events in the folk is actually a process of legend. History is written by man, and heroes are man-made. When people are dissatisfied with reality, they miss the past; when they are dissatisfied with themselves, they worship their ancestors. "Red Sorghum Family" is probably such a thing. ”
03
Transparent carrots
Mo Yan | Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House | 2020
"Transparent Carrot" writes the story of a small black child with super sense of touch, hearing and other strange functions and a Kikuko girl, a small stonemason, a small blacksmith and other people who work at the flood gate construction site, their fates are entangled, and under the strange light of transparent carrots, the novel has a sad and tragic atmosphere.
04
Three thousand miles of rivers and mountains
Yang Shuo | People's Literature Publishing House | 1953
It is the earliest novella reflecting the participation of Chinese railway workers in the struggle to resist US aggression and aid Korea. The work "Three Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" expresses the spirit of internationalism and patriotism of the Chinese people and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army; The language is vivid and easy, with strong national characteristics, and is considered to be an important harvest of novel creation in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
05
Wine country
Mo Yan | Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House | 2017
The book has three layers of narrative structure, the first layer is the novella in which Ding Hooker, a special investigator of the procuratorate written by the middle-aged writer "Mo Yan", enters the wine country to investigate the case of local officials cooking baby boys, but cannot escape the wine trap and eventually falls into the pit and drowns; the second layer is the nine short stories created by Dr. Li Yidou of the wine country who exchanged letters with "Mo Yan", telling a series of absurd stories in the wine country from Li Yidou's point of view; the last layer is the letters exchanged between "Mo Yan" and Li Yidou, and finally "Mo Yan" He personally visited the wine country to meet With Li Yidou and others, and like his own "Ding Hooker", he irrepressibly came into contact with the wine color and began to degenerate.
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