On China's Classical Works of Modern Literature
The Spiritual Home of Literati
20 19 02 04 taiji therapy editor
Modern and contemporary literature has attracted much attention because of its specific historical period and the fate of characters. The following 20 classics, after decades of historical tests, have written about the vicissitudes of China for more than half a century. If you have some great contemporary classics, please leave a comment below.
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1, alive
Author: Yu Hua
Content Abstract | This book tells the story that Xu Fugui's life and family experienced social changes such as the Civil War and the Cultural Revolution. Finally, all his relatives left him one after another, leaving only the old man and an old cow.
Recommended reason | "Living" tells the story of a person's life, which is the words of an old man who has experienced the vicissitudes of the world. This is a drama that interprets the sufferings of life and completes the philosophical exploration of the meaning of life with sharp expressions. In 2004, Yu Hua was awarded the title of knight of French literature and art for his novels.
2. Fortress Besieged
Author: Qian Zhongshu
Introduction | The novel shaped the group image of intellectuals in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and vividly reflected the behavior and confusion of special groups in China in a specific period. Described the scene and atmosphere at that time from another angle.
Recommended reason | Besieged city is a vivid world picture in the history of modern literature in China. This is a unique satirical novel, known as the "new scholar".
3. Border towns
Author: Shen Congwen
Description | Taking the tea cave in 1930s as the background, describe the unique customs of Xiangxi. Through the pure love story of the boatman girl Cui Cui, the beauty of human nature is shown.
Recommended reason | Border Town has written a dreamlike beauty, which embodies the author's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love". Shen Congwen established his important position in the history of literature with this book.
4. "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood"
Author: Yu Hua
Introduction | The novel tells the story of Xu Sanguan who lived through the difficulties of his life by selling blood and overcame the storms brought by fate. However, when he was old and knew that no one needed his blood anymore, he had a nervous breakdown.
Recommended reason | This book describes life in suffering with great enthusiasm and expresses people's desire to survive in adversity in the form of fierce stories. This book was rated as one of the 65,438+000 required books by Chosun Ilbo and one of the 65,438+00 most influential works in the 1990s by 65,438+000 Korean critics and literary editors.
5. "Four generations under one roof"
Author: Lao She
This novel is based on the Lugouqiao Incident and the fall of Beiping, and takes the life of four generations of Qi family as the main line, vividly depicting the rise and fall of all kinds of people.
Recommended reason | His works eulogize and carry forward the great patriotic spirit and firm and lofty national integrity of the people of China, and show the outstanding contribution made by the people of China to the world anti-fascist war during the Second World War in an epic way.
6. Biography of Hulan River
Author: Hong Xiao
Introduction | The novel * * * is divided into seven chapters, which describes the customs of Hulan River, a small town in the northeast border, and shows the unique artistic personality and characteristics of female writers.
Recommended reason | With simple and plain writing, the author profoundly recorded the misery and despair of the people in China at that time, and revealed the survival philosophy of the people in China at that time. Mao Dun once said her artistic achievements: this is a narrative poem, a colorful landscape painting and a string of sad songs.
7. "Big breasts and big hips"
Author: Mo Yan
Introduction | From War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to the reform and opening up in New China, the mother of this book gave birth to Jintong Shangguan and his eight sisters, and a large family with many children and daughters inevitably participated in the process of social unrest in China in the 20th century.
Recommended reason | The novel reflects the social changes in China through the description of family, and shows Mo Yan's sympathy and praise for women. At the same time, the novel describes the tragic fate caused by human insurmountable weakness and morbid personality.
8.frogs
Author: Mo Yan
Introduction | This novel tells the story of doctors and aunts who have been engaged in obstetrics and gynecology for more than 50 years, reflects the ups and downs of rural fertility in the past 60 years, and describes the historical process experienced by a difficult and complicated country to control the rapid population growth and realize the national family planning policy.
Recommended reason | Frog's fate that rural doctors have no choice reflects the difficulties and tests that China is facing in the great struggle for existence. The novel shows the complexity of history and reality from many angles, and expresses bioethics. Mo Yan's novel Frog won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize.
9. "The dust settles"
Author: Alai
Content Description | A famous Tibetan leader in Kangba gave birth to a fool son with his wife after drinking. This fool, who is regarded by all as incompatible with real life, has a premonition and behavior beyond the times and witnessed the rise and fall of the toast system.
Recommended reason | The novel is full of wonderful twists and turns. With warm brushstrokes and detached eyes, it shows a strong ethnic customs and the romance and mystery of the toast system. Alai won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Prize.
10, golden age
Author: Wang Xiaobo
Content Introduction | During the Cultural Revolution in the "golden age" in the 1960s and 1970s, Wang Er was in a horrible and absurd environment, but after all kinds of unfair treatment, he got rid of the cynical mentality of traditional intellectuals and produced a kind of resistance and transcendence: since he could not prove his innocence, he tended to prove his innocence.
Recommended reason | The Golden Age is Wang Xiaobo's masterpiece. With its unique poetry, it composed an elegy of ideal and love. This book won the 13 National Taiwan Province Literature Association Award and the novella award, and was selected as "Top 100 China Novels in the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly.
1 1, Bailuyuan
Author: Chen
Introduction | Bailuyuan is a magnificent epic of fifty years' vicissitudes in Weihe Plain. A family of two generations, in order to compete for the rule of Bailuyuan, staged a thrilling scene from generation to generation; Clever use of geomantic omen, evil use of honey trap, filial son as a bandit, pro-Weng killing daughter-in-law, brothers speculating with each other, lovers turning against each other …
Recommended reason | Bailuyuan is an epic work representing a new height of reflective literature. 1997 won the 4th Mao Dun Literature Prize.
12, impetuous
Author: Jia Pingwa
Content Introduction | Based on the emotional experience of rural youth Jin Suo and Xiao Shui, this book describes the problems exposed in the early days of reform and opening up, as well as the impetuous state of the whole society and the emptiness under the impetuous surface.
Recommended reason | Impetuousness is the first part of the author's Shang and Zhou series, which laid the position of the author Jia Pingwa in the literary world. After the book was published, it caused a sensation and won the American Mobil Pegasus Literature Award.
13, My Imperial Life
Author: Su Tong
Content Abstract | This book tells the story of an ignorant prince named Bai Duan in a first-person narrative way. This book became the puppet king of the country under the control of the old lady's desire for power. Although he has the ability to kill people, he always lives in fear and anxiety.
Recommended reason | This is a good historical novel. Through literary imagination, history has truly achieved a successful transformation. This novel is a pure literary masterpiece. It is read imperceptibly, and there is no doubt that it reproduces history.
14, Shaanxi Opera
Author: Jia Pingwa
Content Introduction | This novel centers on a village in the south of Shaanxi, tells the relationship between farmers and land, and the living conditions of farmers. Through the eyes of a "madman" named Li Sheng, it expresses deep sympathy for the loss of farmers and rural culture.
Recommended reason | Shaanxi Opera is an "anti-epic local epic", and it is the most award-winning one of Jia Pingwa's works. He won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award in 2008, the China Dream of Red Mansions Award in 2006 and the 4th China Literature and Media Award in 2005.
15, fierce animals
Author: Wang Shuo
Abstract | The story is based on the Cultural Revolution and tells the story of a group of young people growing up in a military camp in Beijing.
Recommended reason | This book is Wang Shuo's masterpiece at the peak of his creation, and it is also the only work in Wang Shuo's works that shows his youthful self-cherished memories with his personal experience.
16, Alive
Author: Yan Lianke
Introduction | The background of this novel is a place called Shouhuozhuang. All the villagers in this village are born with disabilities, and they think that healthy people are the exception. In the whimsical idea that the protagonist Liu County paid a huge sum of money to buy Lenin's body to develop the tourism economy, the mayor was pleasantly surprised to find him. As a result, this village composed of disabled people began to go outside.
Recommended reason | Being alive is Yan Lianke's most famous masterpiece, which can be said to be the basis of "crazy realism" in China's contemporary literature. Won the third Laoshe Literature Award and the second Dingjun Biennale Literature Award.
17, "Sunlight flies"
Author: Yan Lianke
Abstract | This book has changed the course of the story, that is, the death process of the protagonist Sima Lan, the struggle experience after serving as the village head, how to become the leader of the village head and peers, childhood life and birth, dotted with the stories of several former village heads and other related people.
Recommended reason | This novel tells an unheard-of tragic story. It makes the suffering more transparent, turns the deep and innocence into the purity and bitterness of the soul, and writes the history of China farmers' spiritual religion and life redemption.
18, sheep gate
Author: Li
Introduction | Yangmen takes the intersection of history and reality as the basic structural framework, and presents it to readers through the ups and downs and struggles of county officials in officialdom, the warmth and cruelty of reality, emotions and interests.
Recommended reason | The work has a strong realistic influence through the officialdom struggle and love of the characters, the ruthlessness of realism and the emptiness of China's ancient spirit. Its profound criticism is enough to shock the world.
19, ordinary world
Author: Lu Yao
Introduction | The background of this book is China's ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Through complicated conflicts and entanglements, centering on Sun Shaoping and Sun Shaoan, many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time were portrayed. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and happiness, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined.
Recommended reason | The ordinary world is a realistic novel and a fictional family history. The author highly concentrated the historical changes in the northwest countryside, and his works achieved a high degree of unity of thought and art. The book also won the third Mao Dun Literature Award.
20. Muslim funeral
Author: Huo Da
Introduction | The rise and fall of a Muslim family in 60 years, its rise and fall runs in the family. Two love tragedies happened in different times, with different contents, but they are intertwined.
Recommended reason | Huo Da showed us the unique customs and life course of Muslims, and described the Hui people with "life stage, tragedy, comedy, stage and endless days and nights", which reflected the strong national cohesion and centripetal force of their generation.