Abstract:
During the period of exile in Japan, Guo Moruo contributed abundant literature and literary works, particularly autobiographical writing, in addition to his his many works on history and old graphics. Between 1935 and 1936, Guo wrote his collection of historical stories entitled as The Pig’s Paws, a representative literary work of his own in this period. With the writing of The Pig’s Paws, he also shaped his theory of literary writing, namely, a theory concerning the typical. Guo’s literary theory in the period, which broke away from the theory of mechanical copying in Japanese proletarian movement, embodies his unique consideration on literature, and became the preparatory attempt to his later theory of historical drama writing and aesthetic theory about tragedy.
