Chapter 10 "Late Osmanthus" by Yu Dafu

"Late Osmanthus" by Yu Dafu Recently, the editor of a newly founded purely literary journal asked me to recommend a new literary work to them. The best short story writing in the novel.I think, if I am asked to cite a new literary short story that I like It's much easier to write, because at least I don't have to think about all the stuff in "how to do short stories" books. The structure, description, theme and other conditions that a good short story must possess can be set at will. People's hobbies to choose. If so, Mr. Duff's "Late Osmanthus" is one of the works that can be selected.I do not

Knowing that this novel is now collected in his kind of collection, I believe that there are not many people who like it, because I didn't like it before, but the author attached great importance to his novel at that time. This is one of Duff's later works.At that time, he was meeting Wang Yingxia, and the relationship between the two had gradually developed. At the mature stage, they traveled together from Hangzhou and returned to Shanghai, and wrote this novel.Osmanthus in autumn in Hangzhou The flower is famous at first, and in a place named Manjuelong on the West Lake, there is a forest of osmanthus trees, and the fragrance is very fragrant.

inside.Among them, there is one that blooms the latest, but also has a stronger fragrance. This is what Duff chose as the title of this novel. The famous Chi osmanthus.Around that time, because he was no longer a young man and Wang Yingxia was no longer a girl, Dafu went to Chi osmanthus is used to symbolize the "belated love" of the two of them.Because the story of "Chi Osmanthus fragrans" is very simple, it describes It is about a man and a woman traveling to the woman’s hometown, and the man discovers a Chi-Osmanthus fragrans in the mountains while visiting the mountains.

Just joy and excitement. Duff attached great importance to his novel at the time and considered it one of his mature works.when he will When this novel was submitted to "Creation Monthly" for publication, this opinion was solemnly expressed.but I Too young then to take his opinion seriously.More than half of it is because of our group at that time Young people don't like Wang Yingxia at all.It seems that Mr. Duff, whom we admire, is in love with a A woman with a horizontal S bun and flat soft satin shoes is so unlike the "lover" we imagined.this kind of no Man later expressed it in words and deeds, so that I was in his later collection of "Broom Collection" and "Cold Night Collection"

Arrow was scolded several times in the article. But then we finally reconciled, and I also understood the benefits of "Chi Osmanthus", and I still recognize it today. For is one of my favorite short stories.