1, the content of "alive":
Living tells the story of Xu Fugui's life and family suffering with the civil war, the three evils against five evils, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and other social changes. Finally, all his relatives left him one after another, leaving only the old man and an old cow.
2. The creative background of life:
From the late period of Kuomintang rule to the liberation war, the land reform movement, and then to the big steel-making movement and the period of natural disasters, the author experienced great changes in material life from rich to poor, experienced the embarrassment and misfortune brought by many movements, and witnessed his wife and children die in front of him again and again.
Later, the author heard an American folk song "Old Slave", in which the old slave experienced a lifetime of suffering and his family left him first, but he still treated the world kindly without a complaint. This song touched the author deeply, and the author decided to write a novel like this, so there was 1992 "Living".
Write about people's tolerance for suffering and optimism about the world. People live for living itself, not for anything other than living.
Extended data:
Yu Hua, the author of Alive, has rich creative experience and many works:
1984 began to publish novels. In the 1980s, Su Tong, Ge Fei and Sun Ganlu created a literary trend, which was called "avant-garde literature" by critics.
His works have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Korean and Japanese, and published abroad. The novels Alive and Xu Sanguan Selling Blood were selected by hundreds of critics and literary editors as "the ten most influential works in the 1990s".
1998 won the Italian Greenzana Carver Literature Prize. In 2002, he won the Australian suspense sentence literature prize. In 2004, he was awarded the Knight of French Literature and Art. The novel "To Be Alive" was directed by Zhang Yimou and made into a film of the same name. In 2005, he won the China Book Special Contribution Award. In 2008, he won the first French International Courier Foreign Novel Award for his work Brothers.
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