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Author's brief introduction Lu Wenfu was born on March 23rd, 1928 in a small village named Siwei near the Yangtze River in Taixing County, Jiangsu Province. At the age of 6, he moved to Jiagang, Jingjiang County with his family. Jiagang, a land and water terminal connected with Shanghai, brought together people from different religions and streams in the society, which had a profound influence on Lu Wenfu as a child and was reflected in his later novel creation. In 1944, at the age of six, he went to Suzhou to visit relatives and recuperate, and since then he has formed an indissoluble bond with Suzhou. After recovering from illness, I went back to Taixing to study in Yang Lou Xue Shu for junior high school. Graduated from junior high school in 2117 and returned to Suzhou after passing the prestigious Suzhou Middle School. When I was in high school, I read a lot of foreign literary works and had a deep understanding of social reality, so I decided to join the revolution. In the winter of 1948, he ventured through the Kuomintang blockade to the liberated areas in northern Jiangsu, ready to fight guerrilla warfare, but was assigned to the training class for cadres of Huazhong University. Soon after the total collapse of the Kuomintang, he went south with the army and worked as an interviewer in Suzhou Branch of Xinhua News Agency. He began his eight-year life as a journalist, had extensive contact with social life and had a creative impulse. At the beginning of 1955, he published his first short story "Honor" in Literature and Art Monthly. In 1956, The Deep Alley was published, which caused great repercussions. The following year, he was transferred to the newly established Jiangsu Federation of Literary and Art Circles Professional Creation Group. Soon, he was wrongly criticized for founding The Explorer with Gao Xiaosheng and Fang Zhi, and was banished to Suzhou to work as a worker in a machine tool factory. In 1961, he went back to Nanjing to create, and soon became the object of criticism, and returned to Suzhou to work as a mechanic in a cotton mill. During the "Cultural Revolution", the whole family was sent to rural labor in Sheyang County, northern Jiangsu Province at the end of 1969. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, he returned to the literary world in 1978 and created excellent works such as Dedication, Vendor Family, Fence and Gourmet. At the fourth congress of the Chinese Writers Association, he was elected as the vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association.

content summary In the autumn night in Suzhou City, dim street lights cast shadows of poplar trees on the gravel road. In a deep alley paved with slate in the northeast corner of the city, a window reveals lights. Under the lamp, a handsome girl sat at her desk with her chin in her hands. The eyes are dark, like the marks left by pain and suffering. Few people in the alley know her, only to see her go out to work during the day and study at night. The postman knows that her name is Xu Wenxia and she is a cotton mill worker. Send her letters. When she receives them, she often looks sad and sometimes even tears them up. Now she is sitting under the lamp gloomily, and I can't help recalling the humiliating past-the dusk of autumn rain, the cold winter night, and the enchanting * * * wandering like a ghost next to the hotel outside Changmen, Suzhou City, soliciting customers, laughing and shouting. Among this group of * * * is Xu Wenxia, who was 17 years old and was called "Ah Si Mei" by the procuress. ..... These things have passed for a long time, but she still shivers at the thought. In 1952, the people * * * put * * together and sent them to the women's labor and education center to treat diseases, complain and learn production techniques. Xu Wenxia spent an unforgettable year there. Even her parents didn't know that she enjoyed the dignity of being a human being for the first time. After leaving the reformatory, she entered the factory as a female worker, and after several transfers, no one knew her past. She is diligent, clever and beautiful, and the boys cast hot eyes. But she was scared. She is afraid that her eyes will see the demons of the past through her present, thus turning into contempt and indifference. So the messenger of the boys embarrassed her: "Who can have real love with people who have done * * *?" Don't taste this cup of bitter wine! " She is lonely, often crying under the quilt at night, or studying hard. But tonight, when she opened the book, she couldn't read it. The shadow of Zhang Jun, a technician who graduated from college, always shook in front of her: the young face was shining, and she often came to her side, as if something was wrong, but she turned red and walked away silently. Today, he wanted to help her learn culture, but she readily promised, and the defense line set for young men collapsed. Zhang Jun's innocent eyes filled her heart with happy fantasies, but the tragic past made her shudder. She bent down on the desk and sobbed. From autumn to winter, Xu Wenxia's life is full of sunshine. Every day after work, Zhang Jun comes to her room and gives her a class face to face. Then she does her homework, and he sits at another table and reads his own book. She was worried that he would be bored with reading for a long time. Sometimes she scratched the back of his head and sometimes handed him an apple. Tired, they walked hand in hand in the dark street, stepping on the plane leaves on the road and looking at the tall shadow of the North Temple Tower. But sometimes at night, she dreamed that Zhang Jun pointed at her nose and cursed: "I treated you like a white jade, so you did it!"! Shameless thing! Make a clean break from now on! " She woke up with a cold sweat and tears wet the pillow. One morning in early winter, Xu Wenxia dressed up beautifully, took Zhang Jun's arm and came to Lingering Garden, strolling on a quiet path. Under the wisteria frame, Zhang Jun revealed her hidden desire: "Wenxia, let's get married! On the road of life, two people hold hands, there is no mountain that can't be climbed, and there is no river that can't be crossed! " Xu Wenxia was so immersed in happiness that she almost shed tears. But when he came to the bottom of a dirt mountain, a man with a flat face saw Xu Wenxia and said respectfully, "Hello, Sisei, are you still in Suzhou?" Xu Wenxia said hello to him, and then she frantically pulled Zhang Jun to the top of the mountain, shaking all over. Zhang Jun asked what was going on, and Xu Wenxia replied that it was an acquaintance, and "Simei" was her nickname. Then, on the pretext of cold weather, Zhang Jun left the garden. One day, Xu Wenxia heard someone knocking at the door. When she opened the door, she didn't expect the flat-faced man she met in the garden that day. This man named Zhu soul of china was a speculator before liberation, and he was the first to possess her, holding her body and brutally ravaging it. Seeing him now, Xu Wenxia was disgusted and scared, and felt that she had something in this man's hand. Zhu soul of china has inquired about her recent life, work and love, threatened by "the friendship before liberation", and cheated Xu Wenxia of a month's salary on the pretext that the stall lacked capital. Xu Wenxia threw herself on the bed and burst into tears. From then on, her face was thin and her eyes were glassy. Sometimes Zhang Jun comes a little late, and she thinks it's Zhu soul of china who tells the secret. She's afraid of voices, and she's worried that Zhu soul of china will pester her again. Zhang Jun's warmth calmed her down, and she began to prepare flowers and silks for her wedding, weaving beautiful dreams in a painful life. I didn't expect that one day Zhu soul of china would burst into the room and invite a wedding banquet with a crafty smile, saying that the money borrowed last time had been used up. Xu Wenxia ignited anger in her heart: Fight! With this beast! But when I saw the suitcase containing wedding supplies, my heart softened again, and my hands shook out 21 yuan. Zhu soul of china is pushing his luck to spend the night here. Pain, humiliation and anger broke out, Xu Wenxia rushed desperately, and Zhu soul of china slipped out the door. With disheveled hair and blue face, Xu Wenxia firmly came to Zhang Jun's dormitory and threw herself in Zhang Jun's arms, tears streaming down her face. She told all about the past, begged Zhang Jun to forget her and forgive her for hiding it for so long, then said "goodbye" in her heart and silently left the door. Late at night, Leng Yue hangs in the sky, and the roof tiles are frosted. Zhang Jun wandered in the stone-paved alley. He couldn't connect the beautiful and kind girl he was madly in love with * * *, and the pain bit his heart. He growled, "Who dyed a spot on the white silk? Who vomited a mouthful of phlegm in the clear stream? Can't blame her! In that dark age, how can a weak orphan dominate himself? " But he hesitated at the thought that the girl who would be with him all his life was once * * *. But thinking of Xu Wenxia's encouragement and Xu Wenxia's love for him with such a painful heart, he felt very small and became a defeated soldier in the face of secular idle talk and traditional ideas. He finally asked the night sky, "What will defile you with such a holy girl?" He turned and ran to the door of Xu Wenxia, raised his fist and knocked at the door desperately. In the dream of Suzhou, an ancient and beautiful city, the knock on the door in the depths of the alley was as tight as a burst.

Works appreciation novels were created shortly after the founding of New China. At that time, most writers mainly devoted themselves to describing the life and heroes in the war years, or praising the new socialist China. However, Lu Wenfu, who first entered the literary world, has his own unique vision of life. His Deep Alley depicts the spiritual life of Xu Wenxia, a little person who was ravaged by the old society and is now almost forgotten by people, so it strongly shocked people's hearts and sensationalized the literary world. The success of the novel lies in that it shows the beauty of the protagonist's spiritual world through vivid and tortuous stories-this can be called "the beauty of human nature". Xu Wenxia is an ordinary nobody, who once had a humiliating and disgraceful past. But she is full of love for people and life, longing for pure love and a happy life. Because of the shame of the past, she dared not accept the love of young people. After falling in love with Zhang Jun, she felt guilty from the bottom of her heart. This timidity and guilt essentially prove her kindness and purity from the opposite side. She pursues beautiful and pure things, so she doesn't want to let her shame defile others. Zhang Jun is also a pure and kind young man. After learning that the girl he was in love with had done * * *, although he had some hesitation and profound pain, he finally bravely knocked on Xu Wenxia's door. He lost the right to possess his lover's chastity, but he was proud of getting his lover's pure and kind heart. He appeared as a brave challenger to secular consciousness and traditional ideas, so he has lofty and tragic beauty. When showing the beauty of the hero's soul, the novel adopts the method of contrast-mainly with Zhu soul of china, who is greedy, * * *, as ugly as appearance and mind. On the one hand, the display of the hero's spiritual beauty makes the work have the significance of evaluating social life in a specific historical period, because Xu Wenxia's power and dignity as a human being and pure love are given to her by the new socialist China. At the same time, this exhibition goes beyond the evaluation of general social life and goes deep into the exploration of human nature and morality. Because the conflict between Zhang Jun's mind is essentially the conflict between modern consciousness and traditional ideas. Therefore, the works have richer ideological connotation and permanent vitality. The success of the novel also lies in the vivid display of the complexity and painful emotional process of the protagonist's spiritual world. Writing Xu Wenxia focuses on the severe trauma left by the humiliating past in her mind, which is embodied in various contradictions in her love life: she yearns for and fears love, always wants to bid farewell to the past but can't get out of the shadow of history, is deeply in love with Zhang Jun and deeply feels guilty about Zhang Jun, and is angry, humiliated and timid about the evil Zhu soul of china. Writing about Zhang Jun is not only about his pure love for Xu Wenxia's children, but also about his psychological and emotional contradictions and pains after learning that Xu Wenxia had done * * *, and his transcendence of secular consciousness and traditional ideas after contradictions and pains. The vivid display of the complexity and painful emotional process of the protagonist's inner world not only makes the characters full of flesh and blood, but also makes the readers feel the theme of the work deeply in the observation of their pain and contradiction. In addition, the poetic description of the environment and witty and implicit expression also enhance the charm of this novel. The novel begins with Suzhou City in autumn night: the ancient city lies quietly in the embrace of the Grand Canal, like a water lily in a silver riverbed, poplar trees in a dim street lamp, swaying trees in the autumn wind ... After describing this big background, it points out a lighted window in a deep alley paved with slate in the northeast corner of the city and a girl at the table. This writing not only makes readers feel a sad and beautiful mood, but also effectively sets off the loneliness and loneliness of the protagonist Xu Wenxia. At the end of the novel, it is written that Zhang Jun is determined to continue to love Xu Wenxia after overcoming the traditional concept in his mind. Instead of writing the scene of the two meeting, he writes that when Zhang Jun raised his hand and knocked on Xu Wenxia's door in the deep alley, it came to a screeching halt. This ending is implicit and rich in meaning, leaving readers with endless imagination and aftertaste.