As the two main leaders in the field of new literature, Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren played a huge role in the process of advocating and developing new literature, which no one can deny.

Lu Xun is certainly the standard-bearer of new literature, and Zhou Zuoren is not far behind, he is the core figure of the Literary Research Association.

He waved his flag and shouted beside Lu Xun, and contributed a lot.

At least in the early stage of the development of new literature, his literary ideas played a positive role in cleaning up the old literature.

It would be an exaggeration to say that the break between the two men had a major impact on the development of new literature.

After all, the new literature is not the product of one family and one surname, but the result of the joint efforts of countless literati in the whole society, and the crystallization of collective wisdom.

To be precise, this break-up of the two brothers did have an impact on the new literature, but the impact was not great, the key is that it had a significant impact on the future development of the two of them.

Since then, the two brothers have taken different paths.

Whether it is on the road of life or on the road of literature, it is gradually drifting away.

Years later, this became more and more apparent.

Lu Xun began to get in touch with Soviet literature, pursued progress, and gradually became a revolutionary, while Zhou Zuoren successively wrote some essays on pure talk, only talking about life and philosophy, and staying away from politics.

What he pursued was the spiritual freedom of intellectuals, or the feelings of celebrities and scholars in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

In the literary world of the Republic of China, Lu Xun's essays and Zhou Zuoren's essays are a must.

Needless to say, Lu Xun's essays are like the old official's escape from prison, his writing is spicy, merciless, and he laughs and scolds all articles.

Zhou Zuoren's essays start from his own personality, draw literary nourishment from British essays, late Ming Dynasty essays, and Japanese haiwen, and form a unique and mature artistic style.

He pursues the unity of knowledge, philosophy, and interest: in the eloquent language, he acupunctures the disadvantages of the times, talks about literature and history, describes the scenery, and explores human feelings and physics, and has a kind and accessible style.

In terms of text expression, it is clumsy and lightweight, constituting a peaceful and tranquil realm, and at the same time paying attention to moderate subtlety, with an evocative "astringency".

It can be said that both of them have reached a certain height in terms of literary attainments.

No one knows the reason for the breakoff of the relationship, and the parties did not explain it in the future.

In later generations, many people analyzed the hidden inside story from the trivial matters of life and money, and even women, most of them were unreliable.

It's a bit boring to continue looking for the cause, and we'll make a hypothesis here.

Assuming that the two did not have a stalemate, under the influence of Lu Xun, would Zhou Zuoren go on the same path as Lu Xun, would it change the fate of the two in the future, and might even rewrite the history of new literature.

In this way, we may be able to guess what the Chinese literary scene has lost.

Of course, history does not assume, and they still fell out.

In August, Lu Xun moved out of No. 11 Badaowan Hutong and lived at No. 61 Zhuanta Hutong.

Lin Zixuan, who was far away in Lushan, knew about the breakoff of the two brothers Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren, but he didn't know the specific date, even if he knew it, he wouldn't get involved, after all, it was someone else's family matter.

The so-called clean official is difficult to decide family affairs, and he is not a nosy person.

He has a friendship with the Zhou brothers, but the friendship is not deep enough to meddle in other people's family affairs.

Lin Zixuan, who was on vacation, also had a small annoyance, that is, Pearl Race would discuss literary writing with him from time to time.

At this time, Pearl Sai was not very confident in his writing ability, especially in controlling novels, and he was relatively blind.

Lin Zixuan has written nearly one million words of "Gone with the Wind", and there are other literary works, in front of the current Pearl Race, that is the existence of masters.

Therefore, she talked about writing with Lin Zixuan with a mindset of seeking advice.

Lin Zixuan has a sense of accomplishment in being able to mentor future Nobel laureates in literature, but this is not a writing class for students at Shanghai University, just a casual flicker.

He and Pearl sometimes discuss in-depth issues, such as the various genres of fiction and various writing methods, as well as the creation of characters and the control of plots.

Lin Zixuan felt that the little knowledge he had stored was about to be squeezed out by Pearl Race.

So, he thought of a way to get out.

It is useless to just talk about theories, but to do real work.

He decided to write a novel and show Pearl how it was created.

They can explore how to create through this novel, and Lin Zixuan will explain it in the process of writing, which is more intuitive and convincing.

Pearl Race naturally welcomes this, and it would be inspiring for her to see firsthand the process of writing a novel.

She was very grateful to Lin Zixuan for letting her get involved, because this kind of thing is not common.

Generally speaking, creation is a solitary process, and writers need to be extremely quiet and work slowly, otherwise it is easy to interrupt the inspiration.

Lin Zixuan is doing this to teach her writing skills without reservation, according to her understanding of traditional Chinese culture, this is equivalent to a master teaching an apprentice.

Of course, in terms of literary creation, Lin Zixuan is indeed her mentor.

"There are different genres of fiction, such as symbolism, romanticism, expressionism, etc., each with its own characteristics, and each writer has his own creative style." "But your style is not static, and you can try new ways of writing, provided you can incorporate something new into your own style." ”

"I've been talking to some writers in the UK through letters, and Virginia Woolf and I have discussed stream-of-consciousness fiction, and I think it's very interesting, and I'm going to borrow some of the ways of writing stream-of-consciousness novels in this novel." Lin Zixuan explained.

This kind of casual news shocked Pearl Sai.

She loves literature, and naturally knows that the Bloomsbury Group, which is extremely influential in the UK, and Virginia Woolf is also one of the few female writers of this era.

She didn't expect Lin Zixuan to be so closely connected with the English literary world, and Woolf was a central figure in the English literary world.

In an instant, Lin Zixuan's status in her heart rose from the Chinese literary world to the world literary world.

This was not Lin Zixuan's original intention, he was just looking for a reason for the novel he was about to write.

Although this novel is not a stream-of-consciousness novel, it uses the writing techniques of a stream-of-consciousness novel.

"This is a story that happened in the United States, my English is not good, I can only write in Chinese, would you like to translate it, send it to the United States for publication, and we share the royalties." Lin Zixuan proposed.

Pearl Sai has no reason to refuse, and this is also a creative process for her, which can be regarded as a writing rehearsal.

The novel that Lin Zixuan wants to write is called "The Catcher in the Rye", which will be a classic that will cement his position in the Western literary world.