Chapter 71 comment

Wen Yuanning commented on Wu Mi in this way: "A tragic figure who fights alone. However, what is even more tragic is that Mr. Wu does not understand his own personality at all. He considers himself a passionate humanist and classicist, but his His temperament is a complete romantic. His innocence and sincerity can be clearly seen by anyone, but he himself cannot see it." Qian Zhongshu wrote in the book review: "Wu Mi has always been an autobiographical writer who likes to spare no pen and ink and vomit his heart and soul. He constantly whips himself, washes dirty clothes in public, and confides his heart to readers, showing his bloody heart. However, the audience did not necessarily appreciate his affection, and most of them responded with ridicule. Therefore, he is actually a "playing with fire" person... In the end, he is just a contradictory self, a tragedy of "spiritual dislocation" A hero. In his inner world, the two selves are like rivals in the night, colliding and tearing apart. …

No sane man has two minds as he does, and though a sane man may have a conscience for practical purposes, there is no mental conflict.His mind seemed to be in a state of primordial chaos, too incapable of forming any moral difference--so soggy and sticky as a cake of mud, which is not dried by an unintelligent lamp, it was not so much an uncivilized mind. no personality.But Mr. Wu Mi's mind seems to be in a chaotic state without order - every difference becomes an opposition in his mind.He cannot enjoy the moral and vegetal calm pleasures which nature bestows on fools, fools and children.He is always desperate to make love because he has lost Paradise and has no Eve to share his pain and lighten his burden.Hidden behind his psychological conflict is a cultural conflict between the old and the new.He was not a great poet, but he was certainly one of the most complex figures of our time, who found relief by writing poetry..."

Ji Xianlin once commented on Wu Mi: "He has an old-fashioned appearance and an ancient heart, which is different from other professors, so he is peculiar; Old poems are so strange. He opposes vernacular writing, but he admires vernacular writing very much, so it is contradictory. He looks serious and old-fashioned, but he has some romantic history of love, so he is contradictory. He can communicate with young students, but It’s awe-inspiring and dignified, so it’s contradictory.” Zhao Ruihong said in the article "I am Professor Wu Mi, turn on the light for me": "There are five teachers in the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of Southwest Associated University who impressed me the most. ... They are Wu Mi, Ye Gongchao, Liu Wuji, Wu Dayuan and Yan Among these five gentlemen, Mr. Wu Mi can be said to be the most interesting, the cutest, the most respectable, the most vivid, the most contagious and the most subtle, and also the one who is full of contradictions and the most painful in his heart. Wu Mi Monsieur is classical in appearance, but romantic in heart; sometimes he is Apollonian, sometimes Dionysian; sometimes he is Hamlet, sometimes Don Quixote; or It is an organic combination of two types and two styles."

Yi Sheqiang commented on Wu Mi: "In all the fields he studies, Wu Mi is worthy of being a erudite geek, and profound knowledge and eccentric temperament are the salient features of a professor of liberal arts. He combines the diversity of thoughts and human sensibility. , showing the biggest feature of the General Assembly.” Ye Zhaoyan said: "Wu Mi is not a bold person and has no sense of humor, but he is a generous and sincere gentleman." Professor Su Guangwen of Southwest Normal University believes that Wu Mi has made three outstanding achievements. First, as the founder of Chinese comparative literature in the 20th century, he brought a new research method into the new field of Chinese literature research in the 20th century; During his presidency of the Academy of Chinese Studies of Tsinghua University, he trained a large number of master-level scholars such as Qian Zhongshu, Ji Xianlin, Xu Zhongshu, Gao Xiang, Xu Guozhang, etc. who are also well-versed in both Chinese and Western cultures; An important ideological and cultural school "Xueheng School" in modern cultural history.