"The Floaters" In The Vortex Center

All the time, the researches about Du Heng were almost focused on "The argument of liberty of literature and art" period, his identity as a writer has not been given due attention. In fact, during the 1920s and 1930s Du Heng wrote three collections of short novels "Pomegranate Flowers", "Homesickness", "The Red and Black" and two novels "Traitors", "The Vortex inside and outside", and other non-collected novels. When the novel "Homesickness" was first published, it attracted the attention of the critics. Ling Bing’s evaluation is quite high, he recognized "Homesickness" as" The deep of art education, the Sophisticated style, and cordial observation of those things he dealt with ", which make him "can not help striking a chord with the excellent publication". This shows that Du Heng’s novels has drawed attention of some critics.Because of "The argument of liberty of literature and art", Du Heng has become the Left-wing theorists’target of criticism. But in fact there is a certain relationship between Du Heng and left-wing literary circles. Du Heng has created some works like left-wing literature. Some writers alienated "Left League" gradually because of the" left " route, including Du Heng. Du Heng’s conception of creation was clearer. Then he began to create his own unique image called "The Floaters". Characters in Du Heng’s novel came from different classes and had different cultural backgrounds. They were not happy to be complete obeyer, and they can not be complete resister. They maintained a certain distance with the times center consciously or unconsciously, who belongs to "The Floaters"Du Heng’s creation is inextricably linked to Left-wing, study the characters must compared with Left-wing literature. I believe that there are three kinds of Characters in Du Heng’s novels worthy of further exploration. The first category is the people at the bottom. These people from the women to the workers, peasants, the unemployed, prisoners and so forth, they are not a direct participant in the class movement, but a group of vulnerable groups struggling to survive edges.They struggled in the lives of suffering, poor and lonely.Du Heng showed sympathy and understanding for this group of people.The second category is intellectuals.Du Heng did not show the class nature of intellectuals,but those drifted away from the era.They indulged in old civilization; or stick to the traditional literati style repair relies instead on the concept that everyone should abide their own duty and do things in practical way, so as to be conscience.However some people fighted for personal fame and Lee, regardless of collective interests,Sliding in front of the wave of the times, does not have their own position and independent.They revealed their ugly face.The third category is a special group of revolutionaries. Du Heng’s revolutionary novels digested sublimity and sanctity of revolution.Revolutionaries in his novels have desires, doubt, there faith for revolutionary is not firm. The future is not always full of hope, when they faced with the revolutionary they become hesitated.Finally he has abandoned his faith, he completed changes that from revolutionaries to "traitors".