Sunrise or Sunrise (日出) is one of the most famous works of contemporary Chinese playwright Cao Yu . It was written in 1935. It was twice filmed.
| Sunrise | |
|---|---|
| 日出 | |
 Cover of the 1937 edition | |
| Genre | play , tragedy |
| Author | Cao Yuya |
| Original language | Chinese |
| Date of writing | 1935 |
Written in the 1930s, when the dramaturgy of China was born, it is a classic of Chinese dramatic art [1] , occupies a particularly important place in modern Chinese dramaturgy; translated into Russian (in 1960 [2] ) and other foreign languages and is widely popular outside of China [3] .
Included in the Cao Yu trilogy - “Thunderstorm”, “Sunrise” and “Field” [1] .
The tragedy is directed against the bourgeois way of life [2] , describes different sections of society and exposes the “masters of life” [4] .
As M.L. notes Titarenko [5] : Cao Yu reproduces the life of the coastal cities of China in the 1930s, the contrasts of society are amplified by the choice of location - from a fashionable hotel to a dirty brothel. Thanks to the brightness of characters and the richness of expressive means, the tragedy retains enormous cognitive and artistic value, is a fertile stage material.
In 2011, the daughter of Cao Yu, the playwright, presented four pages of the manuscript of the novel “Rising” as a gift to the Cao Yu Museum [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Theater , Chinese Information Internet Center, December 6, 2006
- ↑ 1 2 L.A. Nikolskaya - article "Cao Yu" // Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ↑ The small homeland of playwright Cao Yu will become the "Theater Capital of China" , Research Center of Russian Philology and Culture of Heilongjiang University, October 7, 2014
- ↑ L.E. Pomerantseva, I.I. Semenenko, D.N. Voskresensky and S.V. Nicholas Chinese Literature , p. 10
- ↑ Titarenko M.L. - “The Spiritual Culture of China: Encyclopedia”, Moscow: Oriental Literature, 2006, 855 pp. ( ISBN 978-5-02-036348-9 ) - p. 341
- ↑ Daughter of playwright Cao Yua donated the manuscript of the novel “Sunrise” , “China International Radio” to the Cao Yu Museum , September 26, 2011