Wang Xiaobo once said: "Intellectuals are most afraid of living in an irrational era. The so-called irrational era is the era when Galileo bowed his head and confessed that the earth did not rotate, the era when Lavoisier went to the guillotine, the era when Zweig committed suicide by poisoning, and the era when Lao She jumped into Taiping Lake. ”
Such an irrational era is an absurd era. In such an era, there is no reason to talk about it, ordinary people have no dignity to speak of, and intellectuals often bear the brunt of it, and there is no dignity at all. We have lived through a time when countless people showed the worst side of human nature.
Let's take a simple example. Liang Sicheng, the "father of modern Chinese architecture", is a particularly respected master architect and a gentle intellectual. But in that absurd era, he had another side that was never shown to the world.
For a period of time, Liang Sicheng was criticized for being very embarrassed, but later, he also began to criticize others. At the meeting to criticize Qian Weichang, he viciously shouted the common phrase of the workers, peasants and soldiers: "Use our T-shaped ruler to beat you into meat sauce."
If such a past was not dug out of the archives by scholar Chen with his bare hands, ordinary people would probably never have been able to know. There are many more such examplesMany of them were written by Chen Tu into the two books "People Are Sick, God Knows" and "The People of the Old Country Have Thoughts".
In Chen's book, it can be seen that even if he is as loyal as Lao She, he will instinctively avoid danger. The rightist Wu Zuguang was criticized and fighting, and Lao She also frequently spoke at the meeting. But in private, he took great care of Wu Zuguang, Wu Zuguang later went to the Great Northern Wilderness**, Lao She bought some Wu Zuguang's paintings back, and gave them to Wu's wife Xin Fengxia, expressing his concern for them in this way. Later, Wu Zuguang wrote an article and sighed that Mr. Lao She was still a good person.
However, the loyal Lao She failed to avoid the iron fist of the times. In a certain year, catching up with the rectification of the cultural circles, a municipal party committee wanted to protect itself, so he pushed Lao She out, and later the movement became more intense, Lao She was overwhelmed and committed suicide by jumping into the lake.
In those days, if you want to live, you have toIt is necessary to give up dignity and conscience, whether it is real or pretended, otherwise it is a dead end. Chen often asks himself with his bare hands: What would happen if I were me?"Maybe I'm not as good as them, if we don't smash the 'Gang of Four' and don't reform and open up, we will all have this fate in the future. ”
"You have to protect yourself – it's mediumThe most embarrassing and distressing place for national intellectuals. Of course, in that kind of political environment, everyone has the possibility of being dirty, and if they are not dirty this time, they will be dirty next time, and no one will be clean. ”
The two books of "People Are Sick, God Knows If They Are Sick" and "The People of the Homeland Have Thoughts" by Chen Bare use a large number of well-documented archival materials, and every word has **, reproducing a few long sighs of intellectuals in the absurd era, and restoring a real history of "intellectual ideological transformation".
In fact, there are several books written by Mr. Chen based on the materials accumulated over the decades, but due to well-known reasons, only these two books can be published, and there are many twists and turns, and it is not easy to finally meet the readers。We are fortunate to invite Mr. Chen to sign the autograph for the book friend, the signed version was once sold out, click on the product card below, you can be the first to collect.