Ba Jin loves books and is famous in the cultural circle. 1949 On the eve of liberation in Shanghai, Ba Jin's family was already living in poverty, but they still had to scrimp and save on books.

One day, Xiao Shan, who has been relying on him, couldn't help but say to him, "There is no money at home." Ba Jin, who doesn't know if he has any money at home, said, "Money is used to buy books. How can you live without buying books? " The next day, he took the children to the bookstore again.

Introduction:

Ba Jin 1904 1 1 was born in a feudal bureaucratic family in Chengdu, Sichuan. After the May 4th Movement, Ba Jin was deeply influenced by the new wave thought, and under the influence of this thought, he started his personal anti-feudal struggle. From 65438 to 0923, Ba Jin left home to study in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, and began his literary creation career for half a century.

Extended data

Ba Jin's short stories are rich in themes, but they can also be classified into six categories:

First, write works about foreigners' life, such works are concentrated in Revenge and Electric Chair, and there are also some works of Light. Such works describe many stories of foreigners and create many vivid images of foreigners.

Secondly, it reflects the sufferings and resistance of farmers, workers, intellectuals, small civil servants, revolutionaries and other people at all levels.

Thirdly, the authors of four novels, The Tower of Immortality, The Secret of the Tower, The Invisible Beads and The Tree of Words, expressed their views on social reality with the help of fairy tales.

Fourthly, Silence II has three historical novels, namely, The Death of Mara, The Sorrow of Dandong and The Secret of Robsdale. These three works reflect the social life during the French Revolution and summarize the lessons of that period.

Fifthly, it describes the daily life of the little people in the 1940s, shows their unfortunate experiences, and is included in the collection of Stories of Destiny and Stories of Little People, which partly reflects the change of Ba Jin's creative style.

Sixth, the works that reflect the life of the volunteers, that is, the works that show the theme of war, are included in the collection of novels such as Hero's Tale, Pearl and Jade Princess, and Li Dahai. These works are the last achievements of Ba Jin's novel creation, and they are the important contributions of the old writers to the literary cause of New China.