Ba Jin's Self-Narration: Extracting the Burning Heart

Author: Yan Huandong
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: Ba Jin is one of the most outstanding writers of China in the 20th century. His creative activities began in the 1920s of this century and remain active in China's literary scene to this day. Ba Jin's works are vast and profound, holding an extremely important position in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. The author of this book presents a concise introduction to Ba Jin's life, thoughts, and creative works in a unique form of "self-narration." The main experiences, ideological turning points, and representative works of Ba Jin are all appropriately introduced and reviewed. Based on the previously published "Guo Moruo Self-Narration," the compiler has made new attempts in writing style: on one hand, the self-narratives of the writer remain the basic framework and main content, and on the other hand, the weight and leading role of the compiler's reviews are appropriately strengthened, integrating the two into a complete and harmonious whole. The entire book uses the compiler's third-person reviews as the "thread," running through the entire narrative, while Ba Jin's first-person self-narratives serve as the "weft," presented as the author's personal testimony, interwoven and alternated. Upon finishing the book, a fresh, intimate, and immediate sense arises, leaving a vivid and profound impression of the great writer Ba Jin's life. The appendix of this book includes a concise chronology of Ba Jin's works.