Shen Congwen's collection of novels

The earliest understanding of Shen Congwen should begin with his work Border Town.

Visiting the library last week, I suddenly saw a book called Eight Horses written by Shen Congwen. I glanced at the back cover of the book, and there was a quatrain on it that pursued the redemption of human nature:

I thought it was meaningful, so I borrowed it.

Shen Congwen's short stories 13 are included in this book, namely:

The main content of the first article has already been expounded in the post-reading feeling of Eight Horses, and then I will briefly summarize the general content of the rest of the works.

"Husband" mainly tells what a rural man saw and heard and his psychological struggle when he went to the city to find a wife who earned money by selling S, and shows us all kinds of stereotypes that violate human relations and the loss of dignity when the people are uncivilized and unconscious.

City Woman tells the story of an ill-fated woman. After a series of changes, her psychology has changed. From a simple, beautiful and generous woman, she has become numb and distorted through experiences at different times and places.

The characterization in Bai Zi is very simple. Sailor Bai Zi earns money by working. He will have a tryst with JN in the diaojiao building later. After a night of fighting for love, the danger, depression and embarrassment of reality have been forgotten by Bai Zi, and a new goal has been formed: earn more money and come back later. The author shows the natural, comfortable and beautiful life style of Xiangxi people with the love of men and women living at the bottom of society, and presents a pure, frank, healthy and natural human nature.

"Your Life" is about a short-term worker of Wu Yejia who secretly loves Jin Feng, a Pu's daughter of selling groceries 16 years old on the bridge. Jinfeng's father once went to her mother's house for a wedding banquet and killed a snake. The fortune teller said that Jin Feng was a person with a strong personality. She suppressed her parents and her husband.

Although Guisheng secretly loves Jinfeng, he is a little nervous about fortune telling and has never acted. Finally, one day, fearing that Jinfeng would be robbed by others, Guisheng took action and went to the market to buy some things needed for marriage proposal.

However, when he crossed the bridge again, he found that he had been beaten by Wu Ye (because he often lost money in gambling, he thought others needed to bring a woman who had not yet sprouted). The recent two fires and the disappearance of your life are thought-provoking.

Guisheng is simple, practical and kind, but superstitious and cowardly, with profound bone marrow servility. His weakness can be said to be a major cause of his love tragedy.

To tell the truth, I can't understand the article "The day before I fled". It seems that I live alone in the army. The day before he fled, he met different people, and his mental state was a deep thought about life? Or the boredom of military life? Or inner loneliness? ...

slave ..........

The story of the storyteller is similar to the intimate contact of the mahjong model. A person who often tells stories to others will eventually become the protagonist of another story, so as to satirize the fallen who have fallen into it but don't know it.

In another country, the narrative method is unique. Through a letter from a woman and Shandawang, I tell you that as a mother, she has been living in a dilemma. She wants her daughter to be happy and is afraid that her ancestral grave will be planed. The prospective son-in-law (Shandawang) is very fierce. However, imagination always comes to imagination, but the fact is that the mountain king has made a positive result, and his daughter is also very happy: the son-in-law is the mountain king in the outside world, but he is a sheep in front of his daughter, and he takes care of her in everything.

Three men and one woman: three men, I (monitor) am in the army, a trumpet player comrade-in-arms, and a small boss of a tofu shop. Three people fall in love with a woman at the same time-in fact, it's just the daughter of the official next door to the tofu shop, a beautiful woman in her thirties (15 years old, just married). Just a glimpse from a distance, looming, the monitor and the sentry just want to take a look, using this as an excuse to always go to the tofu shop to make friends with the small boss, and often please the two dogs raised by women, so as to feel some impossible connections.

Later, it was said that the woman swallowed gold and killed herself, and then the grave was stolen. Only events from the perspective of the parties, only speculation, no reason. It can be guessed from the article that the young boss of the tofu shop did it, because he really disappeared that night. Maybe he believes that people who swallow gold can be resurrected in seven days, maybe he just wants a person to have the woman he loves, or maybe they have privately decided for life (but the woman's family should have promised her to give it to others for the benefit, so she swallowed gold, which is not mentioned in these articles, but you can guess), who knows.

This is a satirical novel, especially the sentence at the end of the article: There are wolves everywhere in X city, because a large number of children die and people are killed every day in the yamen, and the food of wolves is not as poor and scarce as that of the poor.

Xiao Jing of Guizhou: The author uses metaphors to express people's numbness and even whitewash peace; Some people are not numb, but it is more painful to see clearly. Because of helplessness, that deep sense of powerlessness lets you know that complaining is useless, but your heart is unwilling, so it also expresses the author's deep sense of powerlessness.

A Mother: It mainly tells the story of a mother who is full of guilt, self-blame and confusion in the face of her husband's love. Because their only child turned out to be her own flesh and blood with another man, who used to be a guest of their family. Her husband is always busy outside, let his wife and guests stay at home for a long time, and let her try her best to let the guests be free. He is very relieved. It can be said that in this tragedy, the husband also has an unshirkable responsibility, but these pains can only be borne silently by the wife alone.

Some of these novels are easy to understand, others are not clear, probably because I don't know much about the background of the times at that time. .