| As a famous romantic writer in Chinese contemporary history of literature, Yu Dafu was awarded. The two peaks of novel creation in Chinese contemporary history of literature with Lu Xun. He also made a profound effect on Chinese contemporary and present history of literature by his works with specific character and utterly different style.As a writer, his tragic elements and specific sychologic temperament came from his tragic birth and the difficult life in Japan when he studied abroad. There were many reasons made him engage in literature. Loveless and helpless childhood, traditional culture, Chinese classical sentimental literature, the effect of the multiply ideological trends of literature and art, the conflict and mediation of new-old cultural pattern and complicate social time elements.Make a comprehensive surrey of Yu Dafu's novels, they can fall into three stages: early, midterm and later stage, and two artistic style; romanticism and realism. Well, the early works, especially the sinking series novels, was the most important ones, which affected the most profoundly.Under the mutual relationships and reaction of the physiological, psychological and social cultural dements, Yu Dafu forms a kinds of abnormal artistic personality, which made his early works have a sentimental and depressed style. When you observe the depressed and sentimental element in his early works, you'll know that they are not only from the outside dark real society, but more from his inner world. Furthermore, they are concentratively presented in the superfluous man under the pen of Yu Dafu, the superfluous man in contemporary China.Yu Dafu created the series character of superfluous man in hissinking novels, which left us lifelike records of some in tellectual persons spirit thorough change in the permutable time, and to some extent showed some real sides of the social essence. Superfluous man as the writer's self-spokesperson, revealed the abnormal tragic fate by its sense of depression and uselessness.With the whole life works and the characters of superfluous man, Yu Dafu produced us a model which are the first in tellectual persons in contemporary China, abnormal and antiabnormal. The superfluous men play a important role in the gallery of world characters, and are significant to anti-abnormalization, push the human development in full scale, realize the human being's liberation. |