The full text of The Adventures of Yefusheka | Appreciation | Reflections on Reading

The contents and expression methods of Yefusheka reflect Gorky's aesthetic view and creative principles of children's literature. When expressing his opinions and demands on children's literature, he pointed out: "The mission of our literature is not only to reflect what is happening around us. Its task is much more important. It should teach young readers to imagine, foresee and create. Therefore, we think that those literary forms that help develop imagination-fairy tales, fantasy novellas, science fiction works, books describing tomorrow-are of great significance (Report on Children's Literature). " This fairy tale is whimsical and ingenious. It describes Yefusheka's dream that he fell to the bottom of the sea. The whole fairy tale consists of his dialogue with the fish. Europeans often use "like a fish" to describe people who are silent or tell people not to talk. But all the fish the boy sees under the water can talk, and it sounds effortless. As for the communication between the two worlds of "man" and "fish", it is Gorky's ingenious pen. In the eyes of fish, "man" is a monster: "with two tails", "without scales" and only two front fins, "belonging to the ugly octopus"; People have to explain to the fish what "dad" looks like. Fairy tales also depict the boy's psychology very well. For example, when the fish asked the boy's father if he ate fish, the boy was "startled" and immediately became wary. Never tell him "Dad eats fish", but lied and said, "He doesn't eat fish and has too many thorns". When the big fish said to the boy, "Maybe you have drowned", and he really couldn't stand up, he thought that he "had to cry", but found that "tears could not be seen when they flowed into the water, so he decided it was not worth crying" ... The above examples also showed that it was not unreasonable for the Soviet Union to repeatedly recommend this Gorky's early romantic work to children.

Wei Wei

The Adventure of Yefu Sheka

Yefu Sheka is a very good boy. One day, he sat by the sea fishing.

it's boring for a fish to trick or treat without taking the bait. It was very hot, and Yefusheka was bored. He dozed off and fell into the water with a splash.

it's nothing that he fell into the water, and he didn't panic. He swam slowly for a while, then plunged into the bottom of the sea with a dive.

He sat on a stone, which was covered with a layer of reddish brown seaweed, and looked around-it was so beautiful!

A red starfish is crawling slowly, some long-bearded lobsters are walking majestically up and down the stone, and a crab is crawling sideways. On the stone, anemones are everywhere, just like some big cherries. There are all kinds of interesting things everywhere: here is the sea lily swaying; The swift shrimp flashed by like a fly; A turtle hobbled past; Two small green fish are playing on the heavy turtle shell, like butterflies dancing in the air; This is a parasitic shrimp carrying its own shell and moving on a white stone. When Yefusheka saw it, he even remembered such a poem:

This is a house-not Uncle Yakov's car ...

Suddenly he heard a voice overhead, like a squeak from a clarinet:

"Who are you?"

when he looked up, he saw a huge fish with gray scales shining silver. It bulged its eyes, bared its teeth and smiled pleasantly, as if it were cooked and lying on a big plate on the dining table.

"is that you?" Yefusheka asked.

"It's me ..."

Yefusheka felt quite strange and asked angrily:

"How could it be you? Fish can't talk! "

As he said this, he thought to himself:

"What a surprise! German, I don't understand it at all; The language of fish, but I understood it at once! Wow! How capable I am! "

So he swaggered around-a colorful naughty little fish was swimming around him, smiling and saying,

"Look! Here comes a monster with two tails! "

"hey! No scales! "

"There are only two fins!"

A few nimble fish just swam in front of Yefusheka's nose and kept teasing him:

"Great, great!"

Yefusheka was very unhappy and thought,

"These unreasonable guys! It seems that I don't understand that there is a real person in front of them ... "

He tried to catch them, but they all swam away from their hands, alive and kicking, pushing each other's waist with their mouths and singing a song in unison, mocking a prawn:

There is a prawn under the stone,

eating a fish tail.

the fish tail is too dry!

do you know the taste of mosquitoes and flies?

The prawn shook its beard viciously, held out two pliers and mumbled,

"If you fall into my hands, I'll break your tongues!"

"That's awesome!" Ye Fu Xie card thought.

The big fish pestered Yefusheka and asked,

"You said that all fish are dumb. Where did you hear that?"

"My father said."

"What's Dad like?"

"Nothing special ... like me, just a little bigger than me and a beard. When he is not angry, he is very kind ... "

" Does he eat fish? "

after hearing this sentence, Yefusheka couldn't help but get a fright: it would be terrible if he told his father to eat fish!

Yefusheka raised his eyes and looked up. Through the water layer, he saw a vague green sky and the sun in Huang Cancan like a big copper plate. After thinking about it, the child lied and said,

"No, he doesn't eat fish, there are too many thorns ..."

"How ignorant!" The big fish shouted in a strange way. "We don't all have a lot of thorns! Let's say I'm a fish ... "

" We have to change the subject. " Yefusheka thought of this and asked politely,

"Have you been to our place?"

"What's the need to go!" The big fish said angrily, "I can't breathe there ..."

"But there are many flies there ..."

The big fish swam around him, then stopped in front of his nose and suddenly said,

"Cang-flies? Then why did you swim here? "

"Oops, here comes trouble!" Ye Fu Xie card thought. "It's a fool will eat me! ..... "

He pretended not to mind, and replied,

" Nothing, just visiting ... "

" Huh? " The big fish laughed again. "Maybe you have drowned?"

what a joke! "Cried the child injustice. "Not at all, I'll stand up right now ..."

He tried to stand up, but he couldn't stand up, as if he were wrapped in a heavy quilt, and he couldn't turn around or move!

"I have to cry now," he thought, but immediately realized that even if I cry, I can't see the tears flowing into the water, so I decided it's not worth crying. Maybe I can find another way to get rid of this unpleasant dilemma.

at this time, around-boy! All kinds of marine animals have gathered, countless!

A sea cucumber has been crawling up to his feet. It is like a pig with poor painting. It says in a shrill voice,

"I want to make friends with you ..."

A big bubble is shaking in front of Yefusheka's nose, and it is puffing and accusing him:

"Great! Great! Not shrimp, not fish, not mollusk, alas! "

"Wait and see, maybe I will become a pilot!" " Yefusheka said to it. At this moment, a lobster climbed onto his knee, rolled his eyes like hanging on a thin thread and asked politely,

"Excuse me, please tell me what time it is?"

A squid swam by, completely like a wet handkerchief; There are jellyfish flickering everywhere, like a big glass ball. Shrimp tickled Yefusheka's ear, and I don't know which curious animal was pulling his other ear. There are many shrimps hovering around his head, and when they are entangled in his hair, they pull his hair.

"alas, alas, alas!" Yefu Sheka shouted in his heart. He tried his best to look at everything around him with a carefree and gentle expression, just like the expression on his father's face when his mother was angry with him when he did something wrong.

There are many fishes around, which are multipolar and suspended in the water. They are all swinging their fins slowly, bulging round eyes like algebra at Yefusheka and muttering:

How can he live without a beard and scales?

how can we fish split our tail in two!

he is not like a shrimp, nor like us, not at all!

Is this monster and the ugly octopus the same family?

"idiot!" Ye Fuxieka thought sadly. "Last year, I got two' 4' marks in Russian ..."

He pretended not to hear anything, and even tried to whistle casually for a while, but he couldn't, because the water poured straight into his mouth and blocked it like a plug.

The rambling fish kept asking him:

"Do you like our place?"

"No ... I mean-like it! ..... my home ..... is also very good, "Yefu Xieka said, and was shocked again, thinking:

" Oh, my father! What am I talking about? ! If I make it angry, they will eat me ... "

But he said loudly,

" Let's try to play for a while, otherwise, it's boring ... "

The talkative fish liked the idea. It opened its round mouth and laughed, and its pink gills were exposed. It put its tail, and its fangs flashed. Play for a while-great! "

"Let's swim to the top!" Yefusheka suggested.

"What are you doing swimming up there?" Asked the fish.

"We can't go further downstream! There are flies on it. "

"Cang-fly! Do you like flies? ..... "

Yefusheka only likes father, mother and ice cream, but he replied:

" Yes ... "

" Then let's swim to it! How about it? " The fish turned his head up and said. Yefusheka immediately grabbed its gills and shouted,

"I'm ready!"

"wait! You monster, you put your paw in my gills ... "

" Never mind! "

"why-it doesn't matter? A normal fish can't live without breathing. "

"my god!" Yefusheka cried. "Come on, why do you always wrangle? Play, just have fun ... "

But he thought to himself:

" As long as it takes me to the top, it will do; When I get there, I can surface myself. "

The fish swam like a dance, singing loudly:

Swing the fins,

Grind the teeth,

Find a good meal,

The barracuda chased the bream!

A group of small fish whirled around, tearing their throats and singing in chorus:

Fish want to eat bream,

So that's the thing!

it's all in vain!

ah, that's what it is!

They swim and swim. The higher they go, the faster they swim and the easier they swim. Suddenly, Yefusheka felt his head floating in the air.

"ouch!"

He saw the sunny weather, the sun shining on the water, and the green water rushing against the shore, clattering, clamoring and singing. Yefusheka's fishing rod tip is floating in the sea far from the shore, and he is still sitting on that stone (from which he fell), and he is completely dry!

"hey!" He looked at the sun with a smile and said, "I emerged from the water."

(translated by Wang Wen)