What is the approximate content of Yu Dafu's "The Sinking"?

1. Introduction to "Sink":

The novel is about a Chinese student studying in Japan who fell in love with a Japanese girl, but he suffered from low self-esteem caused by a weak nation. But he didn't dare to express his love, and in the end he had no choice but to commit suicide.

The protagonist of the story is so passionate and passionate, so fragile and sensitive. Compared with those young people studying in Japan who have their braids tied up high in Mount Fuji, the "he" in "The Sinking" is so Resolutely refuse to be insensitive, and so resolutely seek the ultimate soul.

Yu Dafu's novella "The Sinking" describes the story of a depressed international student in Japan who goes to hell. The full text consists of eight chapters.

2. Story background:

In the late Qing Dynasty, the Chinese were called the “sick men of East Asia.” At that time, many patriotic young people traveled eastward to study. However, although the protagonist of this article However, he was not looking for a way to save the country. The closed and lonely life coupled with the impact of long-term suppressed youth made him unavoidably melancholy, which led to the development of a distorted personality. In the end, he reached a wretched sinking that he did not believe, so that he was only 21 years old. At the age of 10, he will commit suicide.

Before committing suicide, he choked with blood and tears: "This dry life... Motherland, motherland, you are the cause of my death, please hurry up Get rich, get strong, you still have many children suffering there..."

3. Influence of the novel:

In 1921, Yu Dafu published his first novel In the collection "The Sinking", the short story "The Sinking" is the most noteworthy work in this collection of novels. This collection of novels immediately came under the fiercest attack from the Shanghai literary and art circles.

In a society where morality is paramount, Yu Dafu completely ignored the existence of social moral concepts and resolutely wrote about the hearts of young people tortured by pathological passions. What's more, the novel also boldly describes voyeurism and masturbation. How can those sanctimonious hypocrites not be offended?

Among the great stars of new literature, Yu Dafu is a writer who is more talked about but less understood. He was once the most famous novelist during the May Fourth Movement, and was once considered the last celebrity in Chinese history. Seventy or eighty years ago, Yu Dafu's name was very popular among trendy female students.

But today, young literary people are generally willing to get close to Shen Congwen and Zhang Ailing. Yu Dafu's novels and essays have been ignored. In contrast, his old-style poetry is still discussed from time to time. In some academic journals, you can occasionally see comments about Yu Dafu. However, even these researchers have never tried to understand Yu Dafu's soul. Whether during his lifetime or after his death, Yu Dafu was destined to be surrounded by loneliness.