What is pure literature? What's the difference between popular literature?

Pure literature is highly abstract literature. Popular literature is a kind of literature with a low degree of abstraction.

It is difficult to distinguish the two. Literary works are pure literature for one person and popular literature for another. Generally speaking, before the 1980s in China and the First World War in Europe, most literary works were pure literature. For example, in young werther, how steel was tempered, A Dream of Red Mansions. Most of the later literary works are popular literature. For example, White Deer Plain, Alive and Paradise Lost.

Why do you say that? For example, how steel is tempered has a semi-rotating nature. But Paul's image highly summarizes the image of a generation of revolutionary youth in the early days of the founding of the Soviet Union, and tonya is a typical bourgeois lady. In China and the Soviet Union, many people can find their own image from these two characters. This is highly abstract. Another example is To Be Alive, from which people can see a story. Some people may empathize with certain plots, but the scope is not wide and the depth is not deep. This is low abstraction.

Of course, there were many popular literatures in ancient China. For example, scripts and operas in Song and Yuan Dynasties. "Saving the Wind and Dust" and "The West Chamber" are all like this. In addition, there are many popular literature in Ming and Qing novels. The most typical ones are Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. They are based on scripts and close to the public. Zhang Fei is Zhang Fei, and Li Kui jy is Li Kui jy. It is difficult to find the same prototype in real life.

In contemporary China, pure literature has gradually lost its market. Pure literature has been declining since the misty poetry school. There are fewer and fewer people reading pure literature. In contrast, popular literature such as film and television literature is in the ascendant. Literature needs readers to survive. With the large-scale urbanization of China, the reading of urban people is determining the future direction of literature. We have gradually transitioned from the era of reading characters to the era of reading pictures. The content and form of writing will definitely change. You can compare modern and contemporary Japanese literary circles. In 1970s and 1980s, Japanese pure literature experienced a decline, which triggered a discussion between pure literature and popular literature. As a result, pure literature gave way to today's stage, and nine times out of ten best-seller lists are popular literature. After the Cultural Revolution, China's economic development was on the right track, and its development situation and problems were strikingly similar to those of Japan. I believe that China's popular literature will shine brilliantly in the next 15 years.

It is worth mentioning that Haruki Murakami's works are popular literature in the eyes of bookstore owners, but they are studied as pure literature in Waseda College of Literature. I'm afraid it's a kind of unwillingness of pure literature. When China Murakami came out, he declared the complete end of the era of pure literature.