Sinking is an early short story written by Yu Dafu in the 1920s, and it is also his masterpiece. Yu Dafu is a famous novelist and occupies an important position in the development history of China's new literature. His novels are true and bold, full of romanticism and unique artistic charm, and they are treasures in the treasure house of modern literature in China.

The artistic technique of his early novel "Sinking" has the writer's outstanding personality characteristics, which can better reflect his artistic achievements and make readers have a special liking.

Yu Dafu's literary ideas

Yu Dafu advocated that "literary works are autobiographical biographies of writers" in literary creation. Therefore, he often takes his personal life experience as the material of his novels and essays, and makes an undisguised outline of his thoughts, feelings, personality and life experiences in his works. The representative work of Yu Dafu's autobiographical novel "Sinking".

Yu Dafu boldly describes the sex and psychology of men and women in Sinking, and at the same time sends out "Motherland, Motherland, my death is all your fault" and "Get rich quickly! Be strong "and" You still have many children suffering there ".

In his autobiographical novels, Yu Dafu not only reflects the frustration and depression of the lower intellectuals, but also reflects the sufferings of the people at the bottom of the society from the perspective of intellectuals, showing sympathy and concern for the working people, such as "A Night of Spring Breeze and Burden Intoxication".