Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao. This is a novel with a panoramic view of China's contemporary urban and rural social life, consisting of three books. First published in February, 1986.
This novel shows the difficult living situation of ordinary little people, and at the same time tries to write their beautiful hearts and indomitable struggle spirit to overcome many difficulties. The protagonists of the novel, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, are both young people struggling on the poverty line. However, they constantly strive for self-improvement, struggle against fate with tenacious perseverance and pursue their own moral perfection.
The spiritual connotation conveyed by this novel is the conscious inheritance of the Chinese nation's spiritual tradition of "striving for self-improvement, being virtuous and carrying things" for thousands of years. This kind of novel undoubtedly has a "lighthouse effect" on the bottom strugglers. In this way, it is not difficult for us to understand why Lu Yao's Ordinary World can have such a wide and profound social impact.
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Ordinary World was written in 1975. However, the cultural background in the middle and late 1980s was that various new literary thoughts were surging, modernism, stream of consciousness and other literary concepts were all the rage, and the innovation of literary creation forms and techniques was dizzying. On the contrary, the traditional realistic creation has been "ignored".
Some critics even think that the realistic writing technique of another novel "Life" by Lu Yao is out of date, but Lu Yao still insists on finishing the novel.
Lu Yao has been preparing and writing for three years. In order to broaden his horizons and master information, he read a lot, including nearly 100 novels, newspapers and other related books in the past decade, and lived a life of "morning begins at noon". At the same time, he also traveled all walks of life and experienced life. 1On May 25th, 988, Lu Yao finally finished all the creations of Ordinary World.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Ordinary World