The most famous family novels of the 1930s

Seven generations of the Buendia family have been gripped by the invisible hangover of loneliness.

Lust, fear, vanity, greed, malice, the primitive human desire and naked humanity are embodied in the people of the Buendía family, and the original human desire drives them to lose themselves in loneliness day by day.

Seven generations, all interpreting loneliness with their lives - the Colonel's empty loneliness, Rebecca's passionate greed, Amaranda's shyness and twistedness, Jose's lack of understanding, Aureliano. Jose's incestuous love, Alcántio's second deep-rooted inner fear, Orellano's second extravagance without restraint, Fernanda's vanity and fantasy, Mame's naive malice, Alcántio's lies and love ......

Everyone struggles with tormenting ordeals and suffers unbearable pain, which, not from the flesh but from the heart.

2. White Deer Plain

This is a novel that combines family history and national history.

The writer's White Deer Plains is located in Guanzhong, and the stage of history from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the new China was set up on the land where the Qin opera was sung.

In the Revolution, the Japanese invasion, three years of civil war and other broad historical background, the White Deer Plains fluctuating, the king's flag changes, family feuds and national hatred, intertwined and entangled, the wrongs of the generations, the ancient land in the new birth pains in the trembling.

The White Deer Plains, this small piece of land, in fact, is a mirror of the society at that time, it is small, but it is silent and calmly reflect the world. Generations of the changing times, to people brought about radical changes, some people try to adapt to, like Heiwa; some people abide by their duty, like Bai Jiaxuan, he is unchanged to cope with all changes. Although the ultimate fate of each person is very different, but they chose their own life, are their own heroes.

3. "The Dust Settles"

A Lai's "The Dust Settles" is full of spiritual poetry between the words, but behind it, there is more despair.

A reputable Tibetan tusshi in Kham, after a drunken stupor, gives birth to a fool of a son with a Han Chinese wife. This fool, whom everyone recognizes as being out of touch with real life, has a premonition and demeanor that is ahead of its time. Is the fool, who is the main character, really watching everything from God's perspective?

"Who am I and where am I going?" Keep pursuing the question until the end without getting an answer, maybe it doesn't matter who it is and where it's going. One day to stop asking questions, you will be able to live for yourself.

After all, one day, whether it is a thoughtful clerk, or not good at talking to the executioner, the beauty of the unparalleled Tana or smart brother and and fool, you, and I, and ultimately will be in the world of dust.

4. The Four Together

This is a classic masterpiece of modern Chinese novels, including the three parts of Panic, Stealing Life, and Famine, which was written from 1944 to 1948, and is a typical anti-Japanese war as the subject matter of a million-word monumental work.

In the Lugouqiao Incident, the fall of Beiping, in the context of the times, in a dangerous city under fire, an ancient people who have suffered a lot, showing a hundred kinds of world, some people seek peace, some people tend to the trend, some people betrayed their souls, some people adhere to the heart, some people are concerned about the world ...... Beijing city of the three cults and nine streams. Staging the sadness and happiness under the national crisis, showing the conscience and national righteousness under the fire. This is Lao She's "The Fourth Generation".

The novel also condenses Mr. Lao She's unique Beijing style of writing, vividly depicting our ancient nation in the foreign invasion of the iron bones and fire under the test of the national character, reflecting Mr. Lao She's inner anti-Japanese bones, national righteousness.

5. The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing

This novel describes the sadness and joy of the three great families of Zeng, Yao and Niu in Beiping, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 to the War of Resistance against the Japanese for more than thirty years. The whole book has a grand structure, intertwined clues, and a panoramic view of the rapid and profound changes that have taken place in modern Chinese society, and has been hailed as a modern version of Dream of the Red Chamber.

Inside the description of the most colorful is the woman, each personality vivid, flesh and blood. For example, Yao Mulan.

Mulan's character, y influenced by his father's Taoist ideology, the biggest highlight is to take things as they come, so her calm and calm is not the same as the average woman, in their own encounters with some of the things do not like not to their own sadness, the idyllic landscapes have more fondness, but this desire is remote, thin, and is not a kind of inside and outside the need for life, until the war in the turn, see the real life, only to realize the true life, and the real life, the real life. The first time I saw this is in the middle of the war, I saw the real life, and only then I was able to recognize.

6. The Thorn Birds

This is a heavy Australian family novel, with three generations of the same family, and against the backdrop of two world wars and the Great Depression, the protagonists take turns to appear in a gripping and extraordinary love story that takes place between 1915 and 1969.

At the heart of the book are Faye and Paddy? At the heart of the book is the unlikely love between Meggie, the only daughter of the Clearys, and Ralph, the handsome parish priest: Ralph, who aspires to ecclesiastical power, falls in love with Meggie, the Cleary's beautiful maiden. For the sake of the "God" he seeks, he abandons his worldly love, yet is y conflicted and bitter.

At the end of the story, he and his son Dane are buried in Drogheda, leaving Meggie by his side. By this time, the time belonging to Meggie is also over, for which she does not have a moment of remorse or resentment.

When she plunged the thorns into her chest, she understood the pain and the end of it, but still had no choice, she was willing to sing the most beautiful song, and then sobbed blood until the end of her life.

The thorn bird that cries for love and weeps blood, y understands that the most beautiful things can only be exchanged for deep pain and huge wounds.

7. "Gold Dust Family"

8. "Struggle"

9. "Riptide Trilogy"

10. "Red Sorghum"