Evening Bells, Ups and Downs and Helpless Orphan are three newly-found short stories of Ye Shengtao. Interms of content, the three novels have a natural intertextual relationship with Ye’s other works. In terms of artistic skills, the novel Evening ...
Evening Bells, Ups and Downs and Helpless Orphan are three newly-found short stories of Ye Shengtao. Interms of content, the three novels have a natural intertextual relationship with Ye’s other works. In terms of artistic skills, the novel Evening Bells is good at psychological description, while the novel Helpless Orphan is characterized by suspense and dialogue, and Ups and Downs uses the technique of narrations killfully to draw out the main idea from the changes and sharp contrast of young people’s attitude towards shoemakers. Their ideological and artistic level is slightly discrepant, and Helpless Orphan is the best, which can be regarded as one of the representative works of Ye Shengtao Js early works, in the sense of “the aim is realism, notfiction”.