A great writer

伟大的作家

Before entering into discussion of the third school of thought， it will do well to give a brief mention of Lu Sin， the greatest of the new writers. In his works， we find an apt representation of future of pei hua both in literary style and in thought. He， though being also influenced much by western literature， writes in a style that is easy， elegant， natural， and forceful—a style which is accepted by the majority to be the model. He has written numerous stories that have to do with the rural life in the interior， including the famous “True Story of Ah Q，” and many volumes of collected essays which lead the thought of the younger generation. His sympathy is with the proletarian. His piercing satire and stinging irony， his attack on the corruption and degeneration of the “feudal” society are much dreaded. He is now the most influential writer of the “Leftist School.”

在讨论第三个思想流派之前，我们不妨先简要介绍最伟大的新派作家——鲁迅。鲁迅的作品无论在文体上还是在思想上都恰如其分地展现了白话文的未来。鲁迅虽然也深受西方文学的影响，但其写作风格轻松、优雅、自然、有力，被大多数人奉为典范。鲁迅写下了许多有关内地农村生活的故事，其中包括著名的《阿Q正传》，以及多卷引导年轻一代思想的杂文集。鲁迅同情无产阶级。他尖锐辛辣的讽刺笔触以及对“封建”社会腐败堕落的抨击，令人心生畏惧。可以说，鲁迅现在是“左派”中最具影响力的作家。

The Leftist School is the third and， in recent years， the most influential one. The swing to the Left was not much in force until 1928 when the Nationalist Revolution stirred up a revolutionary zeal in the literary world. Since that year， the cry of “proletarian literature” and “revolutionary literature” has nearly drowned the voice of other schools. It is true， as some critics observe， that the works produced by that school of writers are not quite as proletarian as they claim to be， and that those of a special group who styled themselves “Revolutionary Literati” have merely ornamented their rather commonplace writings with certain slogans. Nevertheless， the influence of the Left Wing writers， in spite of the severe censorship of the government and bitter criticism of the so-called “bourgeois authors，” continues to grow. The self-styled “Revolutionary Literati，” we know， fell not long after their rise. But this by no means implies that the Left Wing is weakened. In fact， the two have little to do with each other though they are often mistaken as one.

左派是第三个思想流派，也是近年来最有影响力的。