Ba Jin (1904~2005), styled Feigan, whose real name was Li Yaotang and pen names were Wang Wenhui and Ouyang Jingrong, was born in a bureaucrat-landlord family increasingly on the wane¹ in Chengdu of Sichuan Province.

巴金( 1904~2005) ,原名李尧堂，字莆甘，笔名有王文慧，欧阳镜蓉等。四川成都人。

双语阅读之中国历史名人:巴金

As a child he saw the corruption² and intrigues³ of big feudal⁴ families and the suppression of young people by the feudal autocracy⁵. These experiences aroused revulsion in him against the feudal system. On the other hand, he sympathized with the bitter lot of the working people in the lower strata⁶ of society.

他出生于一个没落的封建官僚地主家庭，从小就产生了强烈憎恶封建势力，深切同情下层人民的思想感情。

He was eager to learn foreign ideas.

巴金热衷于接受西方理念。

Of the multitude of radical⁷ ideas that sprang up around the May Fourth Movement appealed most to Ba Jin, which played a large part in the formation of the young Ba Jin's philosophy and political outlook.

五四运动所出现的许多激进思想也深探地吸引着他，对年青时代巴金的人生观和政治观的形成起了很大作用。

The quintessence of Ba Jin's cultural personality was to pursue independence and perfection of human dignity, which, according him, was the foundation of being a man.

因此，巴金文化人格的精髓就是把追求人格的独立和完善作为立人之本。

Ba Jin was a prolific⁸ writer. He wrote full-length novels Lope Trilogy, Trilogy of the Torrent⁹, War of Resistance Trilogy and Bitter Cold Nights.

他一生著作丰饶，有《爱情三部曲》、《激流三部曲》、《抗战三部曲》、《寒夜》等长篇小说，

His novelle included Death, The New Life, Ward¹⁰ Four and The Garden of Leisure.

灭亡》、《新生》、《第四病室》、《憩园》等中篇小说，

His short stories were incorporated into collections such as Vengeance¹¹, The General and Light.

复仇集》、《将军集》、《光明集》等短篇小说集，

Ba Jin wrote many essays in the form of travel notes, random¹² notes, sketches¹³, letters and reminiscences. The most successful were about his personal life, thinking and writing (in the collections Random Travel Notes, Dragon-Tiger-Dog, Recollections).

旅途随笔》、《龙·虎·狗》、《忆》等散文集。

The narration¹⁴ was interwoven with emotional expression, showing the plight¹⁵ of the maltreated. They indicated the fundamental tendencies in Ba Jin's work-the exposure of social oppression and class contradiction to arouse the poor to rise up in resistance and opposition¹⁶ to the unfair social system.

他以真挚的感情，杰出的才能，鲜明的色彩，从不同侧面反映了旧中国辛酸苦难的现实与人民的挣扎呼号。

Trilogy of the Torrent--The Family, Spring and Autumn was woven around the decline and disintegration¹⁷ of a big feudal family. It revealed the inner workings and collapse¹⁸ of the feudal patriarchal system and the rebellion of young people against the family.

激流三部曲》是以描写封建家庭腐败与衰落为题材的家族小说，强烈控诉了封建大家庭的罪恶，展示了青年一代的痛苦和呻吟，追求和反抗。

Ba Jin regarded his works as a paean¹⁹ to youth; he praised the beauty and growth of youth and cursed the life-destroying forces that opposed youth.

巴金视他的作品为青年人的赞歌，赞美青年人的美丽和成长，诅骂反对青年人的社会邪息势力。

The sad story of the novel Bitter Cold Nights, tinged²⁰ with deep feeling of grief and desolateness²¹, told of the suffering people underwent in the bitter years of the war. This novel represented the zenith of Ba Jin's realistic literary creation and tragic²² art.

寒夜》以沉痛悲凉的笔调，描写了一个普通知识分子家庭的悲剧，揭露了国民党统治区的黑暗社会现实，是巴金现实主义文学的高峰，是他悲剧艺术的最高成就。

Moreover, he was an excellent translator, introducing to China many works of the world-famous writers.

巴金还是一位出色的翻译家，曾将很多世界著名作家的作品介绍到中国。

As the chief editor of several literary publications, he edited many series and collections. Ba Jin has made outstanding contributions to modern Chinese literature.

他还做过文学刊物的主编，编辑出版过许多丛书、丛刊，为中国的文化事业作出了贡献。