Selected Works of Yu Dafu

Author: Yu Dafu
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: Yu Dafu was an important novelist in the history of modern Chinese literature. He was a key pioneer of modern Chinese romantic lyrical fiction. His literary works opened up a new field of self-revelation and had a profound influence on young intellectuals. As a poet and idealist, Yu Dafu was one of the giants of the May Fourth Movement. Only those who lacked sensitivity would ever judge him based on the surface of his life. Those who knew him personally and read his works would understand how serious he was about life and how deeply he loved humanity! Dafu is gone! His life was a magnificent and tragic epic, a great loss to the Chinese literary world! Yu Dafu's novels were always in a state of flux. Starting from the moralistic torment of sexuality, his novels often extended the suffering of sexuality to the suffering of life, society, and the times. Thus, the humiliation of the nation, the desolate awareness of the country's peril, and the humble mentality of citizens in a weak nation would often subtly emerge. Most of Yu Dafu's poetry was in traditional Chinese verse forms, and it included many outstanding works. These traditional poems were grand and magnificent, with lines of exceptional beauty that shone with the charm of classical Chinese poetry while also flowing with the fresh and intense spirit of modern life. This earned him a renowned and enviable poetic reputation as a modern writer, a rare phenomenon in the history of 20th-century Chinese literature.