Humanity Souls, Spiritual Nature

Viktor Petrovich Astafiyev (1924-2001) was a famous Soviet contemporary lyric fiction writer. With the soul of feeling the beauty of nature, he was the so-called"son of nature"and hailed by Russian as "the classic alive". His novel Czar Fish(1976) was the Russian ecological literature classics. Czar Fish was honoured of Soviet Union national awards in 1978. The Soviet Union well-known critic Makarov once said,"On his nature, he was a moral writer, poet of humanity. He was an artist who was good at writing such things that were hype, almost unspeakable, but everyone could understand them."Astafiyev was one of well-known Russian ecological literature writers in the 20th century. His novel Czar Fish completely reflected his ecological thinking: Human was severely criticized of the disharmony of human and the natural world. He advocated to promote human ecological responsibility and posed the ecological ideal that man and nature should live in harmony.With the Siberian forest as the background, Astafiyev described the moving scenery of the forest and rivers in Czar Fish. But more were focused on a series of stories of the poachers, who lost their humanity, destroyed the nature, and ultimately came to the sad conclusion. To the height of the humanity and morality, Czar Fish observed the relationship between man and nature, banished evil and advocated virtue. It told people, "Irrational people made destruction of nature, they also caused the moral destruction of their own in the same time." In Czar Fish, Astafiyev proposed a code of ethics that protecting and caring for the nature was the reflection of humanity and morality, while destructing and wasting the nature displayed the lack of humanity and morality. In his opinion, who loved the nature was also friendly to other people. However, who destructed the nature was cruel to others. To realize the harmony between human and the nature, Astafiyev believed that people should care for the ecology rationally, be in awe of all lives of the nature, and assume the responsibility and obligation of protecting the nature.This paper is divided into three parts to describe Czar Fish by Astafiyev and his ecological thinking:PART 1 :The ecological criticism connotation of Czar Fish The author severely criticized ideology against human-centered thinking, human civilization and desire. Astafiyev accused the irrational decision-making on the social life of people in the injustice and distress.PART 2: The view of ecological responsibility of Czar Fish The author believed that as a rational species man must take up ecological responsibility. While people have to take the obligation of keeping the harmony and balance of the whole human ecosystem.PART 3: The ideal of"heaven-human harmony"of Czar FishAlthough the author sort of confused on the road of exploring the harmonious development of man and nature, he was optimistic about this problem. He criticized humanity crimes while also encouraged human to establish a correct concept. He called for human to regress into the nature, reunify with the nature, and feel the sentiment of the nature. Efforts should be made to achieve the ecological ideal that man and nature live in harmony.