Chapter 5 Preface to "Electricity"

"Electricity" is the continuation of "Electricity", after writing it, my "Trilogy of Love" is completed. It may be considered inappropriate to say that "Electricity" is a romance novel.Because the atmosphere of love in "Electricity" is much weaker. The distance between "Electricity" and the middle is equal to the distance between "Fog". But I still reluctantly take love as the theme of the novel.In fact, what is written in the "Trilogy" is mainly about people and characters.I want to use love to express the character of some people. The protagonist of "Fog" is Zhou Rushui, a weak and indecisive person; the protagonist of "Fog" is Wu Renmin, a passionate, somewhat rough and impetuous person; there are several protagonists in "Electricity", let me take Li Peizhu as a representative, She is much better than the previous two.I would venture to say that she is an almost able woman, but only "almost able".

However, "Electricity" is different from "Fog". "Electricity" has a lot of clues, and it fits the title. It is indeed like several bolts of lightning flashing in the air one after another. The short story "Ray" is just a small episode.The time of the story is between "Electricity" and "Electricity".Because several characters in "Dian" such as Hui, Min, Ming, Bi, and Ying have appeared in "Thunder", I now put "Thunder" in front of "Dian". This novel was written in a very comfortable environment.A friend let me live in his dormitory (a garden in the western suburbs of Beiping, a faculty dormitory of a certain university), and I lived a leisurely life for three weeks, which enabled me to finish the last part of the "Trilogy" calmly , I should thank him for his kindness.

Ba Jin September 1934