Slaves Have No Love - Xiao Jun, "The Countryside in August"

Knowing that Xiao Jun still originated from Xiao Hong, it is also related to Lu Xun's frequent mentions in the text, so he found Xiao Jun's representative work "The Countryside in August" to read, both disappointed and surprised, and his talent was worse than Xiao Hong.com.

This novel can almost be called a wartime literature of the anti-Japanese period, but because the storyline has a certain degree of fiction, it has been put into the category of literature, but it still has no literary color, it can be said that it is a left-wing novel inclined to the literature of the Liberated Areas, and it is a story about the bloody struggle between the military and the people of the northeast and the Japanese devils in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan will definitely be victorious.

This kind of novel has a fixed structure and ending, and the greatest function is to boost morale in wartime, enhance the confidence of the People's Liberation Army in victory, and play a certain encouraging role in the victory of the great War of Resistance Against Japan, but after the passage of time, this kind of literature has only the value of historical materials.

This kind of literature often has a fixed plot and characters, the protagonist is often an intellectual who joins the army, and a girl experiences love that shakes the determination to fight, falls into personal emotions, and finally relies on the reminders of leaders and colleagues to wake up, bid farewell to individual emotions and vulnerabilities, and throw themselves into the collective and great War of Resistance Against Japan.

The characters who often appear include intellectuals who have obvious personal ideals and convictions in the army, a beautiful girl who also has ideals and beliefs, a leader who is empowered, a comrade-in-arms who helps the protagonist get out of trouble, a simple and strong rural woman who resolutely and resolutely threw herself into the work of resisting the war and saving the dead after being bullied by Japanese devils, and various tool characters who promote the development of the storyline.

Through the novel, the content and theme of military-civilian cooperation to unify the War of Resistance, to get rid of individualism to collectivism, and to win the War of Resistance are expressed.

Judging from this novel, Xiao Jun is indeed not suitable for Xiao Hong, a hot-blooded man who is enthusiastic about politics and resisting the war and a weak woman like Xiao Hong who is rich in feelings and does not understand the world will always have differences, a woman who wants jia Tanchun, a man who wants Jia Baoyu's style, how can he go to the end? Elder Moon was leading the wrong red line.

Returning to this book, there are three main problems:

The first point is that some scenes in the plot are rigid. Jumping to another without one associated transition, jumping roughly, comparing the drama. This point is more prominent in the front, and some of the undertakings in the later stage are still good.

Another point is that the description of language is relatively blunt, and there is no Xiao Hong's aura. There are some irrelevant depictions of the described environment, dragging on a bit long. When using some rhetorical techniques, it is not outstanding enough.

Some sentences are of similar type, with aesthetic fatigue, like resentment drifting in the wind. The sense of picture itself will increase this disadvantage. Exclamation and lyrical sentences are used in large quantities, and when the use of language is not very mature, the emotional component will be reduced and there will be a childish feeling.

Another point is in terms of character building, because he uses a positive depiction of the war, several scenes switch back and forth, and it is not a single protagonist type, some characters do not have a very personalized description, and the character image is somewhat light.

But on the other hand, he did create different image characteristics of the same type of characters, such as the stupidity of Sun Da and the progress of Sun Er in the countryside, the reluctance and desire of the eighth old and the choice and choice of Tang Knot, and the young people Xiao Ming, Anna and Tie Ying and Li Laosan in the revolutionary army also had their own characteristics.

One of the things that I appreciated more was that his depiction of the anti-Japanese resistance did not focus on the battlefield, but on daily affairs, and wrote about this contingent, about the state of the revolutionaries and the people at that time.

Some peasant revolutionaries are immature, they sometimes have difficulty getting rid of the habits brought about by past experience, and some intellectuals are also weak on the problems of life, and the characters have imperfect sides. But together, they are a normal team, very real.

The final ending is also good, still exploring, still walking on the road. Reading slowly, you can still feel his charm.

To say a little more, I read a few prefaces in the book and felt that Xiao Jun gave me a good impression. Between the lines, I feel that he has a lot of feelings for the past, and he is full of nostalgia for the deceased, and it is also very cute to make notes for himself.

Another place is that he does not change his previous works, accepts it calmly, and admires him.