words from the publisher This is a book and a play, but I think it is the most memorable and thought-provoking dialogue from the last century to this century.A conversation between the children and the teacher, and a story at the teacher's home after a math test.You can say it’s ordinary, because this story that happened in far away Russia seems to happen around you and me——students visit teachers after exams, things about exam results and graduation, students bribe teachers, etc... You could call it brilliant, a conversation that allows your emotions and thoughts to unfold and unwind.In the rhythm of language, in the ups and downs of choices and judgments, in the joy and cruelty of aesthetics, you experience storms and streams, fashion and tradition, defense and price, games and principles, packaging and truth... Finally, goodness recovers up.You can also call it cruel, because it makes you cry, it makes you angry, your patience, your sympathy, your reasoning, your principles, even your habits and attitudes to life are constantly tested and impacted.What's the matter with the kids?What's the matter, teachers?What happened to the score?What's wrong with ideal?What's wrong with morality?How could this be?How could this be? ?How could this be? ? ?It is like this, you even want to abandon the book, but you can't extricate yourself, you will watch, experience, and be intoxicated, and listen to this unforgettable story in these shining and magical words Dialogue, savor this story that makes your heart skip a beat.Today, with the rapid development of technology and rapid changes, many things are short-lived after a while.And this dialogue can spread from Russia in the 1980s to the whole of Europe and North America, resonate in the hearts of millions of people, and cause an uproar. Why?It is because it is human nature that leads to this dialogue, it is human nature that has never changed through the ages, it is a true story of human nature staged on this stage where human beings and the civilization created by human beings face each other, good and evil, inheritance and destruction, rules and games, development And the price... These will always be tested, forged, and sublimated by the elements that accompany us, let us not forget the truth and the original, although the price paid is deep and painful, especially for us to bear children A tragedy between us and the teacher.Really enjoyable!It’s been a long time since I’ve had such a feeling. It’s been a long time since I’ve had such an experience. The streets are full of European, American, Japanese, and Korean fashion and short messages, and there are rich packaging and petty bourgeois sentiments everywhere. What about the real thing?What about something with power?This is a real dialogue, a real dialogue on human nature in a period of change, which can let us know that to awaken people's original kindness needs to be forged by fire, not just touching, warmth, pretense, and evasion, but also It is pain, it is more face, it is more real, and it is more passion.We admit that we are flawed, sometimes we are weak, sometimes greedy, sometimes mischievous, sometimes evil, sometimes self-righteous, sometimes extreme, sometimes absurd and irrational, sometimes just want to play, sometimes miss sadness and loneliness, sometimes Chaos... But because of our defects, we live a real life, because of our defects, we have ideals, and because of our defects, we struggle, innovate, and have more vitality.However, we cannot be limited by our flaws and indulge our flaws.In any case, the baptism of severe winter can arouse people's original conscience and faith.For this reason, readers and I should kowtow and thank this Russian woman who is thin on the outside but extremely strong on the inside for bringing this great dialogue on education to China.Tonight, it's snowing heavily outside the window, and I won't be able to sleep.

Written between performance and publication This is a powerful and powerful script.The translator Tong Ning decided to translate it because he was attracted by it; the director Zha Mingzhe decided to rehearse it because he was attracted by it.It was later learned that the people attracted by it spread all over the world. "In the past ten years, it has been performed on the stages of almost all European countries. It has also been staged in the United States and Canada."Now, the Russian website that provided this information can add new information: the first to perform this play in Asia is the 99th grade undergraduate class of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama in China; Scholars Culture and Art Co., Ltd.It is probably true to say that it is one of the most influential modern plays to have come out in the last two decades of the twentieth century.Why does this script have such a big world influence?I think that at the end of the twentieth century when commercial dramas were surging, theater workers all over the world have the same hunger for serious scripts that are beneficial to the world.And scripts like this that appeal to people's conscience and are extremely shocking are really rare.I also think of a literary event that happened in 2002: a group of representative writers gathered in a European city to vote for one hundred outstanding literary works in history.The selection is announced: Cervantes' "Don Quixote" tops the list.This is logical.At the dawn of the new century, when modern people feel more and more material pressure on the spirit, people are more and more aware of the value of Don Quixote's idealism.The hero of the play, Yelena Sergeyevna, is a Don Quixote idealist.Her lines of ordering the evil to stop are as mournful as a cry in the wilderness, as tragic as Don Quixote wrestling with a windmill.Drama needs conflict.Dramatists characterize and sharpen the typical conflict between idealism and pragmatism in contemporary society, so that it is transformed into an eternal conflict between good and evil in the world, and finally leads to a sad and tragic ending.But the playwright's compassion is hidden in the sharp and tragic conflicts, as the so-called "seeing the evil, so needing the good" is also true.The miracle of drama appears like this: when the evil expands to the limit, the seeds of goodness buried in people's hearts begin to wake up, and the "Cathasis" mechanism in Aristotle's tragedy theory starts to activate, and people feel their love through pity. Get cultivated emotionally and redeemed conscience with fear.And the readers and audience also experienced the purification process of the tragedy to the soul.The shock we endured spiritually also turns into aesthetic pleasure, and inspires us to do good deeds.Tong Daoming 2003.3 Tong Daoming: Researcher of Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, doctoral supervisor.