When Lin Zixuan came to the UK, Xu Zhimo had already arrived in China. His trip to Europe was very unfortunate.

On March 1, 1925, in order to avoid the limelight, Xu Zhimo left Peiping.

Then he passed by Chita, Siberia, Moscow and other places in the Soviet Union, and stayed in Moscow for three days.

In addition to observing, chatting, and watching operas, Xu Zhimo also visited Tolstoy's daughter, contacted some intellectuals, and visited Lenin's tomb and Chekhov's cemetery.

During this period, he wrote an article about the travel and European comics for domestic newspapers, recording what he saw and thought in the Soviet Union.

Although his observations are glimpses, they are real records, without fanatical worship, but only objective narratives.

"The deeper the entry, the more obvious the suffering of the local people." Chita Station was full of children who were three to four to five or six years old, as well as adult men and women who were dressed in ragged and indifferent expressions.

The Soviet intellectuals "look like prisoners in prisons or hungry ghosts in hell."

As for the important Soviet writer, Tolstoy's daughter said: All ran away, the rest are all irrelevant.

It was this trip to the Soviet Union that made him question the Soviet utopia. What he saw was completely different from the Soviet Union that was promoted domestically in China. He even believed that such a society would inevitably go bankrupt.

On March 29, Xu Zhimo came to Berlin, Germany and met his ex-wife Zhang Youyi. He learned that his son had died unfortunately. Want?

Xu Zhimo, who was hit and guilty, wrote an article about missing his son, Peter.

His main purpose of coming to Europe this time was to meet Tagore. Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Italy, Tagore left Europe due to illness and returned to India.

He stayed in Italy for a few weeks, then went to Britain and France to visit literary celebrities from all over the country.

Xu Zhimo visited the British novelist Hardy, the author of Tess, who wrote the Deborah family.

Hardy is also a poet, and I believe he will have a common language.

This is a hobby of Xu Zhimo. Whenever he goes to a place, he will visit local celebrities and write them in his articles as a souvenir. It is like collecting stamps, but he collects stories of celebrities.

When Lin Zixuan was in the United States, Xu Zhimo had already returned to China.

There is no global connection in this era, so it is inconvenient to contact.

Once you go abroad, you can only rely on telegram communication, and there is no fixed address to receive messages, and you also have to rely on other people's notifications. By the time you receive the message, you may have missed it.

Lin Zixuan only received news from Xu Zhimo after coming to the UK, and his arrival was welcomed by the London literary community.

This has something to do with his sending the New Literature Collection to Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf printed these novels and dramas from China, circulated in the literary circle and gave a very high evaluation.

In this era, Britain was called the Empire of Sun Never Setting, and had vast colonies in Asia. Unlike the conservatism in the United States, Britain has always adopted a policy of external expansion.

This may be the island nation consciousness, which has a tendency to expand and colonize externally in its bones.

Therefore, the British are particularly concerned about the matter of birth in the Far East, especially the ancient India and China, which is the focus of the British cultural circle.

Lin Zixuan's new literary collection is considered a symbol of exchanges between the Chinese and British literary circles.

Especially Lin Zixuan's drama thunderstorm and sunrise have attracted much attention.

British drama was very prosperous. This originated from the great British dramatist Shakespeare, who cultivated the British's love for drama, and the British were proud of it.

Compared with the brutal rule of the British government in the Far East, the elites of the British literary circles view the resistance actions of countries in the Far East with a humanitarian spirit.

This is easy to understand. Just like the Chinese literati attacked the Beiyang government, British literati were also extremely dissatisfied with the government.

To put it another way, as a cultural person, you must have independent ideas and cannot succumb to the rule of the government.

Literati must have their own ethics, reflect the true side of society and criticize social injustice.

This is the function of observing society and supervising society.

People who can only praise meritorious people are not literati. Because there are too many people who can praise merit. Only by exposing the darkness of society and criticizing the incompetence of the government can the value of literati be displayed.

Criticizing the government's brutal rule over other countries is a trend in the British cultural circle.

For example, after his death in the May 30th Massacre in Shanghai, British dramatist Bernard Shaw joined hands with famous people from various countries to express a declaration, severely condemning the brutal actions of the British authorities and supporting the patriotic movement of the Chinese people.

Virginia Woolf once encouraged his nephew to go to China to participate in the great revolution that was in its birth there.

But after this guy arrived in China, he did not participate in the vigorous revolution, but had a sensational relationship with a married woman.

Lin Zixuan's drama Sunrise is considered to be comparable to the novel "Sociality of the Rise and Fall of the French writer Balzaco", describing the cruel society's destruction of women and has been widely praised by the British literary world.

Virginia Woolf even had the idea of ​​bringing this sunrise to the British drama stage.

Bingxin's novels have attracted much attention for describing the emotional and life problems of Chinese women. Luxun and Yu Dafu's revelation of the dark society can resonate with these British scholars.

They believe that through this set of books, we can have a more comprehensive understanding of what we have in China, which is of great value.

As a result, this new Chinese literature collection, which was neglected in the United States, was sought after in the United Kingdom.

This is related to the cultural atmosphere of the two countries. American readers are more keen on best-selling novels, while British readers prefer serious literature.

This is exactly why the British believe that Americans are impetuous, and the foundation of American literature is not deep enough.

This time, Lin Zixuan brought his latest masterpiece, Lord of Flies.

This kind of novel with deep philosophical philosophical nature is the favorite of the British, and it is also a deserted island literature. For British people who advocate freedom and adventure, deserted island is a symbol of free life.

But the Lord of the Flies subverted the previous desert island literature and presented the ugly side of human nature.

The elites in the British cultural circle not only did not feel uncomfortable, but were attracted by the philosophical thinking, believing that this novel describes a microcosm of the entire world.

After World War I, the British cultural community began to reflect on the war.

If the countries in the world are regarded as children, Britain is undoubtedly one of the most powerful children, while other colonized countries are weak children.

So, how should a powerful Britain manage this deserted island and let it flourish, rather than destroy it.

This raised a problem for British colonial policy.

They think that Lin Zixuan expressed a global issue with ordinary significance in the novel. King of Flies alone is already a classic novel.

With the Lord of the Flies, Lin Zixuan's debut in the British cultural circle was very amazing and shocked the British literary world. (To be continued.)
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