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Chapter 13 I admit it was a "failure"

Yu Dafu's Prose 郁达夫 1498Words 2018-03-18
Among the readers of the journal, there are always a few who have read my recently published article "Autumn Willow".Yesterday a friend protested to me, saying that this article of mine is simply advocating a wandering atmosphere, which is very dangerous for young people with unsettled blood.I think most of the young people in modern times are those who have the ability to make judgments, and it is impossible to fall into the trap of this bad article and indulge in sex and wine.What I worry about is not this, but the failure of this work. Wandering literature was very influential in the old Chinese novel world.However, in the new novels, there are very few descriptions of this kind of life in the fireworks world.We can describe laborers, male and female students, and the relationship between families, so why should we not describe this unique fireworks world?And spread vicious things. In this world, prostitutes are not the only ones, bureaucrats and warriors who are worse than prostitutes are strutting there. Why do we treat prostitutes alone and look down on them?I don’t want to say more about the justification of this meaning here, because of the French Li Shuxuan (J. Richepin).Max ORell, who wrote miscellaneous books in English, has already mentioned it in their miscellaneous treatises.

What I have to admit here is the failure of my article.Generally speaking, a true work of art, whether it promotes "goodness" or praises "evil", is only a successful work, and it can only make readers fall into the trance of its beauty, or feel happy or cherished. With melancholy, readers will never have time to think about serious issues such as morality and morality after reading it.And this long and stinky article of mine has aroused readers' moral criticism, which is enough to prove the failure of this article.Second, although I am not a novelist, although I do not understand "what is real literature and art?", I have always held the standard of criticizing the quality of works, which is the word "sentiment".Only teaching one piece of work can create a kind of "mood", so that readers are infected by this "mood", and when they can really feel the atmosphere of the reader's work, then no matter whether its text is beautiful or not, If the meanings of front and back are continuous or not, I can admit that this is a good work.However, this article of mine has nothing vivid, so that when people read it, they can only say "hehe, that's how it is." "Got it" three words.There is no big difference between this novel and the three-sided account on newsprint.All in all, this article of mine lacks the power to develop sentiment, so it cannot make readers feel an irresistible emotion, which is a big failure.

In the end, I felt that my article was a failure, and our Chinese prostitutes were especially a big failure.It turns out that prostitutes, like opera singers, are a kind of art, the more they can fake, the more they can deceive people, the more they can see their beauty.They should bring out their deceitful characteristics in the most skillful way, so as to live up to their reputation.But Chinese prostitutes are the complete opposite.Not only can they not bring out the qualities that these prostitutes should have, but what they try to imitate is an old-fashioned woman's shyness, reserve, panting, non-artistic lies, and ugly elegance. Vulgar bamboo shoots, blah, blah, blah.So when you are very bored, you go to the brothel, wanting to hear some words you like to hear, and want to taste something you like, but you can't do it no matter what.Therefore, I have a friend who made up a lot of words to suit his taste. When he was in a good mood, he personally taught a prostitute he loved to tell him what to say to him when he was so-and-so. If so, take such an attitude.But she always made mistakes, and when she was with A, she said the wrong words for B.Just in this tragicomedy, we can see how stupid our Chinese prostitutes are.So now nondescript people like us, even whoring prostitutes, can't find pleasure at all, let alone playing other things?I think prostitutes are in China, so if we despise and hate them, it should be because they can't perform their duties as prostitutes, and they can't play their talents as poisonous women. It should not be said that they are indecent, seducing young people, etc. A class of words.

In the end, I would also like to tell readers, don't be too honest and confuse fiction with fact.And let us not, with an honest heart, read books about prostitutes written by poor and poor people.What about Xue Tao, Yu Xuanji, Juju, Shishi, Li Xiangjun, Bian Yujing, etc. These things are all fake, real prostitutes are still prostitutes after all, please don’t be fooled. December 23, 13
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