Nandu reporter learned that the ten-volume "Complete Works of Yan Jiayan" was recently published by Nova Publishing House. Yan Jiayan is a famous literary historian, literary critic, academic titan in the field of modern Chinese literature research, and the "leading figure" of the second generation of modern Chinese literature research, which can be regarded as a summary of Mr. Yan Jiayan's life's academic thought.
Yan Jiayan was born in Shanghai in 1933. Senior Professor, Department of Chinese, Peking University. He once served as the head of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, the second and third disciplinary reviewers of the Degree Committee of the State Council, the vice chairman of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the president of the Chinese Modern Literature Research Association for many terms. He is the author of more than 20 kinds of works, such as "History of Modern Chinese Novel Genres", "On Lu Xun's Polyphonic Novels", "Treatise on Jin Yong Novels", etc., and is the chief editor or co-editor of "History of Modern Chinese Literature", "History of Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century", "Selected Novels of the New Sensation School" and "The Complete Works of Mu Shiying".
The Complete Works of Yan Jiayan is a collection of ten volumes of essays selected from his representative articles or books, mostly related to the hot topics of literary history research and literary criticism, such as the nature of the "May Fourth" literary revolution; such as the many problems of putting chaos on the right track of literary research after the "Cultural Revolution"; excavating and sorting out the contributions of various genres in the history of modern literature; as well as the discovery and criticism of Lu Xun's polyphonic novels; the affirmation and study of martial arts novels represented by Jin Yong; and the thinking and discussion of the periodization of literary history.
According to the internal logic of these articles, the first volume of "Examination and Discernment Collection", the second volume of "Zhichun Collection", the third volume "Seeking Truth Collection", the fourth volume "History of Modern Chinese Novel Genres", the fifth volume "On Lu Xun's Polyphonic Novel", the sixth volume "Jin Yong Novel Manuscript", the seventh volume "Inquiry Collection", the eighth volume "Chaowen Collection", the ninth volume "Essay Collection" and the tenth volume "Dialogue Collection".
Chen Pingyuan, a professor at the Department of Chinese of Peking University and a well-known scholar, once said: "The most emblematic of Yan Jiayan's skill and insight as a literary historian is undoubtedly the History of Modern Chinese Novel Genres." Zhu Xiaojin, a professor at the College of Literature of Nanjing Normal University, believes that "some articles nowadays often like to show off, or use flashy words to cover up the author's poor thoughts, or deliberately go around it in a cloud, making the originally simple and clear questions plausible and inexplicable." I feel this, and I feel that Mr. Yan's simple and rigorous style of writing is precious. ”