Library

"Leave the World to Darkness and Me" is divided into four volumes: "Rereading Classics", "How We Read Today", "Ghosts of Intellectuals", and "Literature and Revolution". In the book, Mr. Ding Fan selects classics of world literature, discusses the concepts, opinions and life experiences of intellectuals, and examines their cultural practices and interactions with society. His reading process of "Gadfly", "How Steel Was Tempered" and "Walden Pond" is not only a personal growth history, but also a generation of intellectuals' profound reflections on the times and culture; through interpretations of Belinsky, Herzen, Gorky, and Berlin, he also showed their spiritual trajectories in search and perseverance, frustration and struggle, loss and reflection, and pursued historical causes and realistic influences. Those who are ambitious will establish their own spiritual coordinates in the intertwining of dark night and light: insisting on independence, fulfilling the responsibility of cultural criticism, and speaking out for the weak. This is the conscience and conscience of intellectuals.

This book is a collection of literary criticism essays by Mr. Ding Fan. The articles in the first series are mainly analysis and discussion of Soviet literature and literary criticism, while the second series are discussions of modern and contemporary Chinese writers, works and literary criticism. The author advocates using the method of Marxist critical philosophy to conduct literary criticism, using this as a criterion, and points out and analyzes the existing problems and deficiencies of literary criticism in our country.

The essence of the famous scholar Ding Fan's essays over thirty years. The author retells the past with his unruly writing style, and touches the mountains, rivers and vegetation with the viewer's eyes, from Jichang Garden to Walden Pond, from Chen Bulei to Qian Gurong. In the resurrected historical details, the human scenery and various forms of the world are freely reflected.