The protagonists of the novel, Wang Wenxuan and Zeng Shusheng, are a couple who graduated from the University Education Department. When I was young, I wove many beautiful ideals, hoping to use my knowledge and strength to run a "rural and family" school and do something useful for the country and the people. However, after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, they fled to Chungking. Wang Wenxuan works as a proofreader in a semi-official and semi-commercial book and stationery company, and Zeng Shusheng works as a "vase" in Dachuan Bank. His mother came to do housework to reduce the burden of his son's life, but the relationship between Wang's mother and Zeng Shusheng's mother-in-law was not harmonious. Wang Wenxuan was caught in the middle, suffering from lung disease, and his family was very poor. Finally, Zeng Shusheng flew to Lanzhou with the young manager of the bank. Wang Wenxuan died of firecrackers in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and Wang Mu returned to his hometown in Kunming with his grandson Xiao Xuan. Two months later, Zeng Shusheng returned to Chongqing from Lanzhou, but things changed and he was very sad.
2. Catalogue of works
cold night
postscript
Appendix "Talking about Cold Nights"
About the cold night
3. Profile of people
Wang Wenxuan is an intellectual squeezed by an unreasonable society. At that time, he was also a high-spirited young man. When he was in college, he was ambitious to transform society through education and set up the ideal of saving the country through education. Later, I fell in love with my classmate Zeng Shusheng and lived together. We can imagine his enthusiasm and courage to pursue individual liberation and despise traditional manners and customs. However, real life completely changed him, making him a timid and mediocre person who only followed Nuo Nuo's lead. His personality and psychology have become morbid. He is full of fear and sensitivity to the world around him, and always thinks and guesses without foundation. For example, when he saw the eyes of his superiors, he suspected that his superiors were dissatisfied with him. When he heard his superior speak, he had to think for a long time. Even when his boss coughs gently, he doesn't know whether he intends to blame himself. Similarly, he is full of worries about his feelings with his wife, often troubled by speculation, but has no courage to communicate with his wife. When he found his wife and a young man walking into a coffee shop, he wanted to ask the truth, but he was "afraid to meet them". He wanted to wait for them to come out, but he was afraid that his wife would embarrass him. Finally, he hesitated again and again. "He had to bow his head and go back to his office."
4. Character image
Wang Wenxuan's image-kindness, cowardice and cowardice, the image of an unnecessary person.
Zeng Shusheng's multi-dimensional image-young and beautiful, open-minded, full of vitality, lonely and depressed inside; Contradictions and conflicts between consciousness and subconscious.
The disappearance of youth, the disillusionment of ideals, the distortion of life and the sadness behind the maturity of middle age make the characters have a strong tragic tone; Their mental pain comes not only from the society, but also from the "war" of their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the family.
5. Introduction to the work
Ba Jin's last novel, Cold Night, was selected as one of the top 100 novels in China in the 20th century (No.1 1). 1944 started writing in Chongqing in autumn and winter, and was finished in Shanghai at the end of 1946. In his novels, the writer successfully created three characters, Wang Wenxuan, Zeng Shusheng and Wang Mu, and profoundly wrote the tragic fate of hardworking, simple and kind little intellectuals in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period.
6. Introduction to the author
Ba Jin, 1927 completed the first novella Death, and 1929 aroused strong repercussions after the publication of Novel Monthly. His major works include The Dead Sun, New Life, Sardinia, The Story of the Cable Bridge, Germination and the famous torrent trilogy (Home, Spring and Autumn). 193 1 year was serialized in the Times. 1982 won the "International Dante Literature Award". Random thoughts of essays (including random thoughts, exploration sets, truth sets, disease sets and untitled sets). Among them, Home is the author's masterpiece and one of the most outstanding works in the history of modern literature in China. China's literary world has the reputation of "Lu and Ba Lao Cao", that is to say, the leading figures in China's literary world are mainly Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She and Cao Yu.