Writers About Writers 1919—1948

Author: Qin Renlu Sun Yurong
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Among scholars, there are two types of people one can envy. One is like Gorky, who lived to be in their sixties or seventies and wrote many vivid and colorful memoirs. The other is like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a genius whose brilliance has not yet been fully revealed, who passed away young. The former can write about many literary ups and downs that are not recorded in literary history; personally, they are a vertical history of literature. The latter can demand that every contemporary writer compose an essay to mourn, criticize, or praise them, thus creating a horizontal, magnified literary biography.