Selected Works of Ba Jin

Author: Kong Huihui
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The works of Ba Jin are an important part of the classics of modern Chinese literature. The core of his artistic world is "emotion," an alternation of the undercurrents of "love" and "hatred." This "emotion" differs from the loneliness, confusion, and suffering experienced by individuals awakening from numbness in the works of Yu Dafu. Its characteristic is "injustice." This "cry of injustice" targets the very things he had deeply experienced and the "system" that binds people. This selected works aims to choose representative pieces from different periods of Ba Jin's writing, focusing on the overall picture of his literary creation: the changes in his writing style from passionate and exuberant to melancholic and somber, the shift from heroic to ordinary characters, and the shift in focus from fiction to prose. Thus, readers can see a complete Ba Jin: from the pure and fervent Ba Jin who believed in anarchism in his early years, to the somber and refined Ba Jin forged in the flames of war in his middle years, to the passionate and idealistic Ba Jin in the early days of the founding of the nation, and to the Ba Jin who reflected deeply in sorrow after the catastrophe. This book presents Ba Jin and his works in the forms of fiction and prose. The main content includes Ba Jin and his works, "Moonlit Night," "The General," "The Ghost," "The Invisibility Pearl," "The Reviving Grass," "Pigs and Chickens," "The Pearl and Yu Ji," "Autumn in Spring," "Electricity," "Rest Park," "Paradise of Birds," "My Heart," "Reminiscence," "The Man Who Became an Elder Brother," "Starry Sky," "Dream," "The Silent Garden," "Ai'erke's Lantern," "On the Road to Chongqing," "Moonlit Night Ghost's Lament," "Missing Xiao Shan," "Shado-Gili," "Puppy Baodi and the Godless," and more.