Tragic Journey: A History of the Realist Literary Trend in Chinese Revolution

Author: Wang Fujiang
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: "Journey" is titled "Tragic," showcasing the aesthetic characteristics of the history of Chinese revolutionary realism literary trends. When "realism" is preceded by restrictive terms like "revolutionary," it no longer represents a general literary trend, nor is it what is pure literary trend—it is the fusion of literature and politics. This is precisely the fundamental nature of Chinese literary movements for most of the last half-century. "Journey" closely examines the relationship between literature and politics, systematically describing the inherent, long-standing, and relentless divisions, contradictions, and conflicts between this literary trend and others, especially within the revolutionary realism literary trend itself. With the internal contradictions and struggles as its main thread, it is a life-and-death struggle, moving in a tragic and moving cycle of rise and fall, where one falls as another rises, evoking a sense of historical tragedy. The author tests the truth or falsehood of theories through actual actions, using life stories to peer into the inner world of literary figures, erecting a collective monument for the countless trendsetters, martyrs, guardians, and victims who perished in the internal and external struggles of revolutionary realism. At the same time, it is also a monument for the literary era that has passed and is passing. Its value, as Wei Junyi said in "Record of Remorse," is truly that "history cannot be forgotten."