Frontier papers of literary criticism
I divide Han Shishan's literary criticism into four categories: the first category is comments addressed to literati friends, which are actually divided into two categories. The first category should be his comments on several novels in his early letters with Cui Wei and others. This kind of comment is written in the form of letters, and it is precisely because of letters that the words are closest to the author's true thoughts and have the most literary value; The second kind of literary criticism, which Mr. Han wrote a lot, was addressed to some literati friends who had had contacts. If literary criticism is divided into narrow sense and broad sense, then most of this criticism belongs to narrow sense. Because of contact, it is also written to Shanxi literati, including preface, book review and literary criticism. This kind of article was written by Mr. Han in his early years, and was later included in Han Shishan Literary Criticism Collection. The article was also long, and later it was written more, because more people asked Mr. Han to write preface and other articles. It is precisely because Mr. Han is getting busier and busier that the article is naturally short. This kind of article is not easy to comment, let alone preface, because it comes from friendship. For the shortcomings of these works, we can apply Xiao Gan's famous saying: You can't tell lies. Occasionally, there are some literary criticisms of friends in a broad sense, which are people-oriented and not redundant. Secondly, it can be said that there are some articles in Who's Who, but generally speaking, Han Shishan recognizes and respects their literary achievements. There may be another reason for the connection mentioned in the article earlier, which is the tradition of new literature. To put it bluntly, it is a reflection of knowing people and discussing the world in literary criticism. From your article, you know a lot about new literature, so you don't need to say much. Third, such critics can be said to be quite wronged, such as Qian Zhongshu, Wang Zengqi, Ling Ke, Yu Jie, Han Shaogong and others. To some extent, the fault lies not with them, but with the media and critics. Without their encouragement and boasting, Mr. Han could not have written such an article. It should be said that they are used to criticize the shortcomings of current criticism. In addition, Tong Zhigang and others had to continue to fight for their friends to come out and fight back against Teacher Han. These articles are more temporary work and are not allowed to be done. Fourth, this kind of person is the most despised by Mr. Han, and also the most hated by him in his bones. I can make a list of "enemies" with you: Chen Shuyu naturally ranks among them, including Lv Guishan and Zhou Zhonghou who criticized Mr. Han's novels in their early years. Interestingly, these two people have great similarities. They are all from Renmin University and critics of pure Marxism-Leninism. The third word I want to say is "rooted in Hong Miao". And also belong to this category, but Xie's academic level is still higher than these two. The contradiction between Mr. Han and them is also related to Mr. Han's life experience. Mr. Han once talked about his grandfather's suicide in his article, which had a great influence on Mr. Han's life. In fact, I don't want to classify these people, because after all, everyone being commented is special, but I don't have time to make a more specific analysis of each comment, so I can only choose this strategy. In addition, there are a few people I also want to talk about, such as the criticism of Zhao Yuanren and Xu Yuanchong, which is a bit far, because some criticisms already belong to the category of literature. If Mr. Han recognizes and respects Jia Pingwa, Wang Meng and others, then he can only respect them. New literature stresses seniority, and people who admire new literature will also stress seniority; Criticism of highway ballads is not criticism, but criticism of Ren Fukang is satire, and there are many more, which will not be described here.