Youjian Bunko: Divorce
by Lao She
About This Novel
The story is simple and ingenious, and revolves around several staff members of the Beijing Finance Office and their families. It describes the daily life of petty bureaucrats and citizens during the Republic of China, and gently satirizes their perfunctory attitude towards life. The vulgarity of the common people, the stubbornness of traditional concepts, the superficiality of modern youth, and the resistance of noble people to the evil of mediocrity are all vividly depicted by Lao She in a few strokes. But Lao She is not mean. His humor is honest, gentle and calm. He sympathizes and understands everyone. But what is even more rare is that this kind of sympathy and understanding is transparent and clear. It does not confuse good and evil, is not cynical and nihilistic, and does not play with the world. This is the real Chinese literature, the real spiritual aristocracy.
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