Early period:1920 ——1933. Yu Dafu has written 26 lyric essays and 60-70 essays in recent ten years, such as "Sinking" and "Dying in Silver Grey", which shows his hopeful mood when he returned from Japan and his infinite disappointment after seeing his devastated motherland. He has both sentimental and pessimistic ideas about the future of the revolution and radical theories full of enthusiasm for the revolution.
Mid-term: 1933— 1938. This period is the low tide of Yu Dafu's thought. Because of the white terror of the Kuomintang, he embarked on the road of passive seclusion, pursuing a backward "celebrity" style and going in and out of mountains and rivers. This fully exposed his weakness as a petty-bourgeois intellectual who came out of the old feudal camp-weakness and compromise. However, we should also see that he hated reality and didn't want to go with the flow before he fled.
Later period:1938 ——1945. /kloc-0 In the spring of 938, Yu Dafu participated in the anti-Japanese propaganda work in the Third Hall of the Political Department. He fought with a pen, wrote many political articles, and inspired people to fight with his enthusiastic voice.
"Autobiography" Color in Literary Creation
Yu Dafu's essays are all "self-expression" and "autobiographical" self-expression, which is the most frank and explicit self-expression in Yu Dafu's view, and the novel is autobiographical. "Modern prose is even more autobiographical." His works The Return of the Native, Postscript of the Return of the Native and the novel Chi Guihua all use a lot of inner monologue lyricism, description and narration, which are patchwork, sincere and sincere, with a deep personal imprint. His own prose is based on this principle. He openly revealed his life experiences, thoughts, feelings and hobbies, and exposed his beliefs, habits, personality and even diseases to the world. With his own life experience and feelings, he showed the spiritual depression of the younger generation under the oppression and suffocation of the old society, thus forming his own unique literary characteristics. This feature is the sentimental sentiment of the weak, the ideal of romantic youth awakening, and the tendency of anti-oppressing Democrats.
First of all, Yu Dafu strongly expresses the writer's personality, which is the theoretical understanding of Yu Dafu's prose creation and his "prose heart". In his article, he described his thoughts and life details in detail without scruple, and showed his unique "autobiographical biography" style very effectively. Second, the melancholy and sentimentality subsided. Yu Dafu's prose, like novels, is different, and his melancholy and sentimental sentiment is deeply imprinted in his creation. Third, the self-dissected words are wanton, frank and enthusiastic. Fourth, the tone of this poem is thrilling. Besides, Yu Dafu's prose is an informal lyrical way to indulge himself. Yu Dafu's prose is full of his own voice with strong personality, full of emotional appeal of thrilling poetry, warm and frank, showing the depressed mood of a talented intellectual in a turbulent society without cover, showing a sad, melancholy, beautiful and meaningful scene.
The manifestation and significance of sadness in literary creation
In Yu Dafu's works, his strong sadness is manifested in two forms: decadence and hatred. Since life is boring, natural and rigid, and I am also a waste-I can neither succeed in my career nor get rid of depression, Yu Dafu simply indulges himself. In his works "Sentimental Journey" and "Sailing Home", we can see him desperately venting a person's instinct and trying to satisfy himself in his illness. This kind of emotion and behavior is obviously negative, which is unhealthy in Yu Dafu's literary works, but it is by no means reactionary, nor is it an emotional appeal incompatible with the trend of the times. Yu Dafu mainly vented the anguish of a young man who woke up from the shackles of feudal ethics and couldn't find a way out with this morbid state. Under this unhealthy color, the May 4th "Discovery of Man" still contains positive significance.
Yu Dafu naturally lamented his untimely birth. He turned all his misfortunes, all his troubles and all his sorrows into this dark age of warlord melee, and made a complaint from a whining youth to an inhuman system, showing an obvious anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic tendency. Although this tendency can't be said to be profound, his bright attitude and strong emotions also paint this tendency with the color of active fighting.
The Era Significance of Sentimental Sentiment in Literary Creation
Although Yu Dafu was extremely sad in his literary works, he did not give up his pursuit of ideals. No matter when he is crushed by sadness or when he is almost in a decadent situation, there is always an ideal in his heart that tempts him. This ideal is not lofty and has no profound connotation, but for Yu Dafu, it has great charm of life and is the driving force of his struggle and creation. This is a woman's love. 1927 Yu Dafu once wrote in his diary: "If I can get the love of Ms. Wang, I will be more creative in the future. Ah! Life is still worthwhile, and you can still get a little meaning. " Yu Dafu's sacred and wishful feelings for women, on the one hand, are of course the expression of "self" ideals, on the other hand, they have a bright light reflecting the discovery of the May 4th Movement. Zhou Zuoren once said in Human Literature that the discovery of women and children is the product of modern European civilization. For China during the May 4th Movement, the admiration and infatuation for women is not only the expression of modern consciousness, but also the most direct criticism of feudal ethics. Therefore, Yu Dafu regards pursuing women as his ideal. Although this kind of behavior and artistic tendency do not have the attribute of "sublime" in strength and depth, the anti-feudal democratic consciousness is clearly visible.
Yu Dafu advocated that "literary works are autobiographical biographies of writers" in literary creation. Therefore, he often takes his personal life experience as the material of his novels and essays, and makes an undisguised outline of his thoughts, feelings, personality and life experiences in his works. The masterpiece of Yu Dafu's autobiographical novels is Sinking, in which Yu Dafu boldly describes the sex and psychology of men and women, and at the same time sends out "Motherland, Motherland! My death is all because of you! " "You're getting rich! Be strong! " You still have many children suffering there.
Yu Dafu's novel creation challenged the traditional moral concept, created the lyrical and romantic form of autobiographical novel, and had a far-reaching influence on a group of young writers at that time, forming a spectacular romantic trend of thought in China literature in the 1920s and 1930s. Yu Dafu was also the first writer who published a diary during his lifetime in the history of China's new literature.
From his novels, I found something that collided with the soul. Those literati who dare not break with feudal morality also point the finger at Yu Dafu. In his autobiographical novels, Yu Dafu not only reflects the depression and depression of the lower intellectuals, but also reflects the sufferings of the people at the bottom of society from the perspective of intellectuals, showing sympathy and concern for the working people, such as A Night Intoxicated by Spring Breeze and Wave Point.