Chapter 54 Huiyin's novels

Lin Huiyin also wrote novels in the early 1930s.Although the number of her novels is small, they also show remarkable achievements and talents.Her first novel "Embarrassment" was published in "New Moon" in September 1931.This novel has a special charm in the use of psychological description and emotional expression. The protagonist of the novel is the middle-aged professor Wei Shan.During his association with his friend Shaolang, he met Shaolang's daughter Zhi.This is a girl on the "edge of adulthood", she is innocent and lively, but also has the shyness of a girl.Wei Shan thinks that she "reminds you of a ripe peach or apricot, a crimson, plump one that makes people want to pick it off and enjoy it, but dare not really eat it." Facing Zhi, he often falls into inexplicable In a trance.But at the same time, he realized that he was his father's generation and "old uncle" in front of Zhi.This situation of wanting to get close to Zhi and having scruples made him feel "extremely embarrassed".

Lin Huiyin delicately expresses human consciousness and subconsciousness in his novels. Wei Shan's subconscious sprouting expresses the unrestrained mind, and the various situations in which the consciousness that "comes out of emotion" is suppressed and "ends up in rituals" are all described vividly. Vivid and subtle. "Ninety-Nine Degrees" is an important novel by Lin Huiyin.With a length of about 15,000 words, the novel describes a day in the hot Beijing city.In the hot weather of 99 degrees Fahrenheit, the big family held a big banquet to celebrate the 69th birthday of the "long-lived and blessed" old lady in the family; Helplessness and sadness: "It seems that life is supported by tolerance and concessions"; the foreign coachman was arrested by the patrol and put into a hot and smelly detention center, and the coolie porter died of cholera due to heat stroke... The author's pen is like a All tracking and shooting cameras not only captured the chaotic daily life of different people from all walks of life in a "on-the-spot record" style, but also captured the inner world of different characters.The camera keeps shifting and switching, forming a portrait of all living beings in Beijing society in the 1930s.

The skillful expression of modernism in this novel has attracted the attention of the literary and critical circles.The critic Li Jianwu commented in an article in 1935: "Ninety-Nine Degrees" is just a cross-section of a life.In such a hot day in Beiping, the author reveals all the details of the day before our eyes. There is no organization, but there is organization; no order, but order; no stories, but there are stories, and there are so many stories; Reveal ingenuity.This is the ordinary life of a person who repeats the cloud, the original face of the book, in its full-scale activities, presents a complex organism... The author leads us, following the burden of the restaurant, into an ordinary but bustling world: Some are broken-hearted, some are having sex, some are celebrating birthdays, some are getting married, some are enjoying life, some are dying of heat, some are demanding debts, and some are bored...all are so kind, yet so calm——in this crowded In the clues of the book, the author hides a comparison; but this comparison shows her sympathy for human beings.A woman's delicate and reserved emotions, everything bounces and resonates gently here, but slides away gently like sparkling water lines...

…In our past short stories, there were all those with greater temperament and more factual materials, but this one is the most modern one... In addition, Lin Huiyin also wrote the short story series "Zero Chapters of Models and Shadows", including four novels "Zhong Lu", "Ji Gong", "Wen Zhen" and "Xiu Xiu". These works also show the characteristics of Lin Huiyin: attention to the fate of different people, implicit criticism of social injustice, exquisite structure, and clever language.But in comparison, "Ninety-Nine Degrees" expresses more rich and open life content, more modern artistic techniques, and more literary.So far, it is still a chewable work.