中英雙語話中國歷史名人 第72期:巴金

Ba Jin (1904~2005), styled Feigan, whose real name was Li Yaotang and pen names were Wang Wenhui and Ouyang Jingrong, was born in a bureaucrat-landlord family increasingly on the wane in Chengdu of Sichuan Province.

巴金( 1904~2005) ,原名李堯堂，字莆甘，筆名有王文慧，歐陽鏡蓉等。四川成都人。

As a child he saw the corruption and intrigues of big feudal families and the suppression of young people by the feudal autocracy. These experiences aroused revulsion in him against the feudal system. On the other hand, he sympathized with the bitter lot of the working people in the lower strata of society.

他出生於一個沒落的封建官僚地主家庭，從小就產生了強烈憎惡封建勢力，深切同情下層人民的思想感情。

He was eager to learn foreign ideas.

巴金熱衷於接受西方理念。

Of the multitude of radical ideas that sprang up around the May Fourth Movement appealed most to Ba Jin, which played a large part in the formation of the young Ba Jin's philosophy and political outlook.

五四運動所出現的許多激進思想也深探地吸引着他，對年青時代巴金的人生觀和政治觀的形成起了很大作用。

The quintessence of Ba Jin's cultural personality was to pursue independence and perfection of human dignity, which, according him, was the foundation of being a man.

因此，巴金文化人格的精髓就是把追求人格的獨立和完善作爲立人之本。

Ba Jin was a prolific writer. He wrote full-length novels Lope Trilogy, Trilogy of the Torrent, war of Resistance Trilogy and Bitter Cold Nights.

他一生著作豐饒，有《愛情三部曲》、《激流三部曲》、《抗戰三部曲》、《寒夜》等長篇小說，

His novelle included Death, The New Life, Ward Four and The Garden of Leisure.

《滅亡》、《新生》、《第四病室》、《憩園》等中篇小說，

His short stories were incorporated into collections such as Vengeance, The General and Light.

《復仇集》、《將軍集》、《光明集》等短篇小說集，

Ba Jin wrote many essays in the form of travel notes, random notes, sketches, letters and reminiscences. The most successful were about his personal life, thinking and writing (in the collections Random Travel Notes, Dragon-Tiger-Dog, Recollections).

《旅途隨筆》、《龍·虎·狗》、《憶》等散文集。

The narration was interwoven with emotional expression, showing the plight of the maltreated. They indicated the fundamental tendencies in Ba Jin's work-the exposure of social oppression and class contradiction to arouse the poor to rise up in resistance and opposition to the unfair social system.

他以真摯的感情，傑出的才能，鮮明的色彩，從不同側面反映了舊中國辛酸苦難的現實與人民的掙扎呼號。

Trilogy of the Torrent--The Family, Spring and Autumn was woven around the decline and disintegration of a big feudal family. It revealed the inner workings and collapse of the feudal patriarchal system and the rebellion of young people against the family.

《激流三部曲》是以描寫封建家庭腐敗與衰落爲題材的家族小說，強烈控訴了封建大家庭的罪惡，展示了青年一代的痛苦和呻吟，追求和反抗。

Ba Jin regarded his works as a paean to youth; he praised the beauty and growth of youth and cursed the life-destroying forces that opposed youth.

巴金視他的作品爲青年人的讚歌，讚美青年人的美麗和成長，詛罵反對青年人的社會邪息勢力。

The sad story of the novel Bitter Cold Nights, tinged with deep feeling of grief and desolateness, told of the suffering people underwent in the bitter years of the war. This novel represented the zenith of Ba Jin's realistic literary creation and tragic art.

《寒夜》以沉痛悲涼的筆調，描寫了一個普通知識分子家庭的悲劇，揭露了國民黨統治區的黑暗社會現實，是巴金現實主義文學的高峯，是他悲劇藝術的最高成就。

Moreover, he was an excellent translator, introducing to China many works of the world-famous writers.

巴金還是一位出色的翻譯家，曾將很多世界著名作家的作品介紹到中國。

As the chief editor of several literary publications, he edited many series and collections. Ba Jin has made outstanding contributions to modern Chinese literature.

他還做過文學刊物的主編，編輯出版過許多叢書、叢刊，爲中國的文化事業作出了貢獻。