Selected Classics of Ba Jin: Family The Dream of the Sea

Author: Ba Jin
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: The Family primarily revolves around the development of love stories, depicting the different experiences of several young couples in love and the diverse life paths they choose. However, The Family goes far deeper than many works of a similar theme that followed the May Fourth Movement. It no longer tells the familiar stories of free love and rebellion against old feudal rituals. Instead, its focus is squarely on authoritarianism, the core of feudal rule. The Family still inherits the passionate and bright style of Ba Jin's previous novels, but it is deeply rooted in real-life experiences, indicating that Ba Jin to a greater extent embraced the techniques of realism. This somber, poetic epic solidified his unshakable position in the history of modern literature.