Chapter 14 "Problems of Emerging Modern Literature" [1]

"Problems of Emerging Modern Literature" [1] small quotes [2] The author is a well-known person in Japan for studying Nordic literature, and among this group of scholars, his opinions are the most enthusiastic.This article was written in January 1926, and was later included in the "Literary Review" [3]. The main purpose, as mentioned at the end, is not to ask readers to explain the nature and direction of "problems" in emerging literature today. As well as negotiating with the times, etc., it is a little helpful.” However, the author's style of writing is very complicated and tortuous, and there are occasional omissions in translation, such as saving three songs into two songs, and changing the second song to one song [4], etc., but still because the translator is clumsy and unwilling The original tone is too changed, so it is still mostly dull and boring.I only hope that readers can learn from this end. If it is a bit annoying, it is good to only read one section a day, because I believe that the content of this article will probably not make readers feel that they have nothing to gain after reading it.

In addition, there is no change in this article; there are a few blank words, which are the original ones, and will not be filled in, so as to leave traces of neurasthenia in the government of the other country.But a few words have been changed in the title, that is, to leave traces of my or others' neurasthenia in this country. As for the meaning of this translation, it is extremely simple.When a new trend enters China, there are often only a few terms. The proponents think that the enemy can be cursed to death, and the opponents also think that they will be cursed to death.Such as Romanism, Naturalism [5], Expressionism, Futurism [6]... It seems that they have all passed away, but in fact they have not appeared.Now I am going to borrow this article to look at the theory and the facts. I know that it is inevitable, and it is commonplace. Efforts to prohibit both are useless. First, foreign emerging literature must be freed from the smell of "spell" in China, and the Chinese literature that follows will be able to do so. There is emerging hope -- that's all.

On February 14, 1929, the translator knew. ※ ※ ※ 〔1〕"Problems of Emerging Modern Literature", a paper written by Japanese literary critic Shin Kataue, the original title is "Problems of Proletarian Literature".The Chinese translation was published by Shanghai Dajiang Bookshop in April 1929, and it is one of the "Small Series of Literary Theory".In the advertisement at the end of the volume of "A Study of the Sociology of Literature" (published by Dajiang Shupu in 1928) in the same series, this book is also entitled "Problems of Recent New Literature"; The book contained in the bibliography of translation and translation is titled "Theory and Practice of Proletarian Literature".

〔2〕This article was originally printed in the front volume of the separate volume of "Problems of Emerging Modern Literature", and has not been published in newspapers. 〔3〕"Literary Review" is a collection of essays on literary criticism, published by Shinchosha in Tokyo, Japan in 1926. [4] "Literary Art and Criticism Translator's Notes" once mentioned the difficulty of translation: "After reading the translation, there are so many obscure, even difficult to understand; The original succinct tone." "Remove the 仂句" should be a specific explanation of the translation method of "three songs are saved as two songs, and the second song is changed to one song".Wu sentence, a grammatical term, is now commonly known as the "subject-predicate phrase group".

〔5〕Romanism is Romanticism, a literary trend of thought during the period of European bourgeois revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Naturalism, a literary trend of thought that prevailed in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, advocates that literary and artistic creation express human biological instincts, focusing on describing individual phenomena in real life. 〔6〕Expressionism is a literary genre reflecting bourgeois consciousness that was popular in Germany and Austria in the early 20th century.Advocates that literature and art express the author's self-feeling, believes that subjectivity is the only truth, and opposes the purpose of art.Futurism, an art genre formed in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, affected European countries around the First World War. It denied all national traditions and cultural heritage, emphasized the performance of modern mechanical civilization, pursued grotesque forms, and promoted The art of creating the "future".