Brief introduction and analysis of the main characters of these books

These three novels, known as the "earthly trilogy", are the masterpieces of Ba Jin's late novels, long masterpieces of modern Chinese literature. This set of books can be said to be the peak of Ba Jin's creative art, the overall creative style of a steep change, from the early passionate lyrical aria, to a calm and profound revelation of the world of life, its artistic standard far above the masterpiece "home".

Fourth Ward

Ba Jin can be said to be an expert in trilogies, he wrote "Love Trilogy," "Riptide Trilogy," "Revolutionary Trilogy"; and the masterpiece "Fire," because the book is divided into three volumes, and is also known as the "War Against the War Trilogy". Now his The Resting Garden, The Fourth Ward, and The Cold Night are collectively known as The Earthly Trilogy. The Fourth Ward" is slightly longer than "Rest Garden", about 150,000 words, the subject matter is very chic, Xiao Hong's "Hulan River Biography", write a small city; Lao She's "Four Together", write a hutong; Bajin's novel is written in wartime, a hospital; a patient's diary of eighteen days, reflecting the life of the wartime rear area. When it comes to the darkness and misery, the common saying is: "eighteen layers of hell", and The Fourth Ward can be said to be the nineteenth layer of hell. Hospitalized patients have to buy their own special drugs, adhesive tape, handkerchiefs; many patients can not afford to buy special drugs, wailing and dying in bed; some patients can not pay the tip, the workers do not clean the commode, so that the urine and feces are suffocated to cry out ...... However, in the darkness of suffering, there is a warmth and love fireflies sparkling light; the thick hair, big eyes, tenderness like the sea of the Dr. Yang Muhua, the restaurant fellow Lao Xu, who cleaned the commode for the patients voluntarily, became the spring news in the dry winter, the angel in hell. Resting Garden

Resting Garden--Trilogy on Earth

Author: Bakin Author

Executive Summary:

Bakin can be said to be an expert in trilogies, having written "Love Trilogy, Riptide Trilogy, and Revolutionary Trilogy; and that masterpiece, The Fire, is divided into three parts. Fire, because the book is divided into three volumes, also known as the "war trilogy". Now his The Resting Garden, The Fourth Ward, and The Cold Night are collectively called The Earthly Trilogy. Rest Garden" is written during the war to return to his hometown Zao Chengdu, a writer, living in a friend's new residence Zao "Rest Garden" writing. There he found that the master and wife of the Rest Garden have internal problems, the newly married hostess, by his ex-wife left his only son Xiaohu troubled, his ex-wife's mother's family is rich, they intentionally or unintentionally use Xiaohu to torment the renewed stepmother. He then discovers the tragedy of the old owner of the Resting Garden, who was driven away from his family by his eldest son and his beloved wife because of an extramarital love affair, but his youngest son, who loves him, maintains a mysterious correspondence with him and often comes to the Resting Garden to comfort his father by folding flowers. The plot of the novel written by the writer (the love between the blind piano player and the singing woman), the internal worries of the master of the Rest Garden, the tragedy of the old master, and the writer's care for the hostess, these four interesting threads, intertwined and progressing, and each gets a moving conclusion. The whole book is only 120,000 words long, but it is handled in a seamless manner. Literary critic Li Guangtian said after reading "Rest Garden", "Bajin's "Rest Garden" is a good book, in the Bajin works I have read, I think this is the best one." In fact, not only is it the best of Bajin's works, but it is also an exemplary work of modern Chinese fiction. On the rigor can compete with Lu Xun, on the beautiful can compete with Shen Congwen, on the vivid not let Lao She, on the inseparable not Yu Dafu, but on the art of moderation and purity, plot and role, the purpose and skill of the balance of the harmony, and the whole work of the crystalline garden, from all angles of the viewer is just right, far more than others, can be said to be outstandingly independent, out of the ordinary.

"Cold Night"

"Cold Night" is Bajin's last long novel, which is Bajin following the "Riptide Trilogy - Home" after another masterpiece, but also marks the writer in the art of entering a new stage of development. The work was written on a cold winter night in 1944 and completed on December 31, 1946 . The book depicts the tragedy of a small civil servant's life and death, and the tragedy of his family's destruction, and through him, it reveals the fate of the upright and kind intellectuals in old China, and exposes the dark reality of the "Nationalist Region" in the late stage of the war.

The realism of the work is mainly manifested in the following:

The writer is good at revealing the major themes through the trivialities of the ordinary lives of the minor characters, thus demonstrating his extraordinary artistic skills. Chekhov once said, "It's easier to write about Socrates than about a lady or a cook," because the more ordinary things are, the sharper the writer's eye is required to be, and the more he is able to draw out the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Ba Jin depicted the life of Wang Wenxuan, a small civil servant, in Cold Night. Its greatest achievement lies in the detailed and delicate depiction of a person's humiliating psychology, the profound expression of a sick soul that is humiliated and damaged, and the analysis of the social reasons for the ultimate "destruction" of the family in an unusually cold tone.