Chapter 50 deaf-mute

Lowen The doctor told us: There are many dumb people who are not unable to speak through the mouthpiece, but because they have been deaf since childhood and cannot hear the words of adults, there is nothing to learn from them. It's hoarse.Therefore, when Brandes[2] lamented the decline of Danish literature, he once said: the creation of literature has almost completely died out.No human or social problem of any kind should be of interest, or at all, except in the news and magazines, never arouse the slightest controversy.We do not see strong original creations.Add to this the almost absolute disregard for acquiring a foreign spiritual life.So mentally "deaf", as a result, it also leads to "dumbness". (Preface to the first volume of "The Main Trend of Nineteenth Century Literature")

These few words can also be used to criticize China's literary and art circles. This phenomenon cannot be entirely attributed to the oppression of the oppressors. The enlightenment movement during the May 4th Movement and later opponents should all be responsible.The former was so eager to succeed that he failed to translate any valuable books, while the latter deliberately vented his anger and even called the translator a matchmaker. For the sake of readers' reference, it is also slandered as "show off learning". How is it now?There are not a few bookstores with three bays on Fourth Avenue, but the shelves are full of thin and small books. If you want to find a huge volume, it is really difficult to pick and choose.Of course, being tall and fat is not a great man, and doing a lot and complicated is definitely not a masterpiece, let alone "paste-and-paste".However, the small "What ABC [4]" absolutely cannot include all academic literature and art.A turbid stream is certainly not as clean and clear as a cup of clear water, but after part of the turbid stream evaporates, there are still many cups of clean water.

As a result of years of short-selling and short-selling, the literary world has become desolate. Although the form of articles is relatively neat, the spirit of fighting has not retreated from before.Although literati quickly became famous because of donations or mutual praise, but for the sake of exerting themselves, the shell became bigger, and the inside seemed even more hollow.So he mistook this emptiness as loneliness, and told the readers as if he was serious; what's more, he even showed the rot in his heart, which was regarded as a kind of inner treasure.Prose is considered a success in the Wenyuan, but if you look at this year's anthology, it is in the top three, which also makes people feel like "the lack of mink, the end of the dog" [5].Raising young people with grains of grain will never make them big, and their future achievements will be even smaller. That kind of appearance can be seen in the "last man" described by Nietzsche [6].

But introducing foreign trends of thought, translating world masterpieces, and all shipping routes for transporting spiritual food are now almost blocked by deaf-mute producers.They want to cover the ears of young people, make them become deaf and dumb, dry and insignificant, and become "the last man", until everyone can only see the erotic palaces sold by rich families and scumbags, and refuse to stop.The struggle of the writers and translators who are willing to be muddy has come to an unstoppable time. This is to try to transport some practical spiritual food and put it around the young people, while sending those deaf and dumb makers back to the black hole Go inside with Zhumen.

August 29th. [1] This article was originally published in "Shenbao Free Talk" on September 8, 1933. [2] Brandes (G. Brandes, 1842-1927) Danish literary critic.His main work, The Main Current of Nineteenth Century Literature, was published in six volumes from 1872 to 1890. [3] In February 1921, Guo Moruo published a letter to Li Shicen in the fifth volume of the second volume of the "Min Duo" magazine, in which he said: "I think people in China only pay attention to matchmakers, not virgins; they only pay attention to translation. , rather than focusing on production.”

〔4〕ABC entry, preliminary meaning.At that time, Shanghai World Book Company published a set of "ABC Series", which contained various introductory books. 〔5〕The phrase "sables are not enough, the dog's tail continues" see "Book of Jin · Zhao Wanglun Biography", the original intention is to satirize Sima Yi's ninth son, Sima Lun, who was conferred too much, and even the servants in the family were conferred. At that time, people used to say: 'If the sable is not enough, the dog will continue'." [6] Nietzsche (F. Nietzsche, 1844-1900) German philosopher, advocate of voluntarism and superhuman philosophy. "Last Man" (Der Letzte Mensch), see the "Preface" of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", it means a kind of hopeless, uncreative, mediocre and timid, shallow and insignificant people.Lu Xun once translated this "Preface" into Chinese, and published it in the fifth volume of the second volume of "Xin Chao" magazine in June 1920.