A chronicler of the cocktail era

Author: None
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book explores and studies various aspects of the literary journal Modern from multiple perspectives, including the editorial philosophy and creative orientation of its magazine editors, representative columns such as poetry, the characteristics and representative writers of foreign fiction translation, the works of representative critics, and the formation of the Modern literary group. It attempts to offer new interpretations and understandings of Modern and the writers associated with it. Of course, whether the goal is achieved remains to be seen. The articles in this book are largely centered around the Modern magazine. As a literary journal that enjoyed prominence in the early 1930s, it not only published works by, , , , , , but more importantly, it featured a large number of works and translations with Western modernist characteristics by , , , , , , and others. This formed a notable "modernist" group of writers. Although this group was quite loose—neither issuing announcements or manifestos nor founding a separate periodical, with some editors like the chief editor even actively avoiding such trends—the works they published in Modern demonstrated their shared literary tastes and artistic pursuits. Furthermore, the journal Modern in some ways integrated and reinforced their literary preferences and artistic ambitions, further expanding their influence. Therefore, using the Modern magazine as a backdrop for studying these "modernist" writers, or examining the journal itself as an object of study, remains meaningful.