Chronology Entry
Year
1920-1946
Text
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev and China general.
Ng, Mau-sang : Chinese writers did not seize upon the theme of sadness and despair in Artsybashev's work, nor did they stress the bloodshed, sexual license and sense of the insanity of human life that dominated it. Instead they found in his work a new type of hero in the protagonist Sanin. Sanin certainly does not possess the traditional heroic qualities ; but his forthright courage enables him to defy all human conventions, and stand firm against opposition. He is thus a source of strength, and appeared to them as an image of the totally emancipated man.
Artsybashev's popularity in a foreign country like China in the 1920s is not difficult to understand. His work presents the lives and thought of young revolutionaries. Punitive expeditions, mass executions, death-throes and bloodshed fill the pages of his revolutionary tales with gruesome power.
Ng, Mau-sang : Chinese writers did not seize upon the theme of sadness and despair in Artsybashev's work, nor did they stress the bloodshed, sexual license and sense of the insanity of human life that dominated it. Instead they found in his work a new type of hero in the protagonist Sanin. Sanin certainly does not possess the traditional heroic qualities ; but his forthright courage enables him to defy all human conventions, and stand firm against opposition. He is thus a source of strength, and appeared to them as an image of the totally emancipated man.
Artsybashev's popularity in a foreign country like China in the 1920s is not difficult to understand. His work presents the lives and thought of young revolutionaries. Punitive expeditions, mass executions, death-throes and bloodshed fill the pages of his revolutionary tales with gruesome power.
Mentioned People (1)
Artsybashev, Mikhail Petrovich
(Dobroslavova, Kharkov, Russland 1878-1927 Warschau, Polen) : Schriftsteller, Dramatiker
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Russia
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1988 | Ng, Mau-sang. The Russian hero in modern Chinese fiction. (Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, 1988). (SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture). S. 68-70. | Publication / Ng1 |
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