Chapter 35 "Premonition of the New Era" Translator's Notes [1]

"Premonition of the New Era" Translator's Notes [1] This article was written in January 1924, and was later included in the "Literary Review".It was only a very simple article, but I translated it to mean that only the three writers mentioned in the article—Balimond[2], Thoreau Guber, and Goriki—were relatively well known in China. , now let’s take a look at the background of their times, and their differences—according to the author, they are also common— Spirit.It can also be used to understand that surreal aestheticism [3] has such deep roots in Russian literary circles that revolutionary critics such as Lunakarsky really had to do their best to fight against it. .It can also be used to understand how the Chinese Creation Society previously advocated "art for art's sake" and now talks about revolutionary literature. It is always an empty rant that cannot see reality and has no ideals in itself.

In fact, although surreal writers and artists avoid reality, or hate reality, and even rebel against reality, I think they are quite different from revolutionary writers.Of course, the author also knows that, but those who say they have a common spirit may have ulterior motives. Maybe they think that in their country at that time, even if they are dissatisfied with reality, they can still go the same way. On April 25, 1929, the translation was completed and recorded. ※ ※ ※ 〔1〕 This article, together with the translation of the Japanese Kasakanobu's "Premonition of the New Era", was originally published in the sixth issue of the first volume of the monthly "Spring Tide" in May 1929.

〔2〕Palimond (g. .aNUEmTFY, 1867-1942) Russian decadent poet, one of the representatives of symbolism, exiled abroad after the October Revolution.Author of "The Tower of Ivory", "We Will Be Like the Sun" and so on. [3] Aestheticism is a bourgeois literary trend popular in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century.Advocating "art for art's sake", advocating that literature and art be divorced from reality and pursue artistic techniques one-sidedly.