This is a novel that shines with lofty idealism; Successfully shaped Pavel Colta King's proletarian hero image; The characters in the novel are mainly narrative and description, interspersed with inner monologues, letters and diaries, aphorisms and so on. Let the characters be flesh and blood. The scenery description, psychological description and environmental description of the novel are also quite excellent, and the language is concise and beautiful and expressive.

Character image-typical plot-personality characteristics: Pavel Colta King worked as a child laborer and was tortured and insulted at the lowest level of society since he was a child. Later, under the influence of Zhu, he gradually embarked on the revolutionary road.

After that, he experienced a series of life challenges and made himself stronger and stronger. Even when the injury mercilessly took away his health and forced him to lie in the hospital bed, he still did not give in to fate, but wrote with tenacious perseverance and practiced his life oath in another way. It has the spirit of dedication to the ideal, firm belief, iron will and noble quality of tenacious struggle.

This book has a great influence on my growth. The strong heroism, idealism and dedication in the book have become the most important pillars of my spiritual life for a long time.

—— Jason: Excerpted from a comprehensive report book, Two Countries, Three Generations, Beijing Youth Daily, February 2000 16.

At present, there is no such pure, touching and vivid image in the whole Soviet literature. Sholokhov said that this is a life textbook. But in the eyes of some western scholars, this is just a myth concocted by Stalin's propaganda agency. Mark Slonim said it was "simple in writing and loose in structure", while Le Fei Ershov said it was "concise and lively, with almost only verbs".

-Soviet writer fadeev.

Extended data

About the author: Nikolai Ayik Seyevich ostrovsky (1904-1936), a revolutionary proletarian writer of the Soviet Union, was born in an ordinary worker's family in Ukraine. He started his career at the age of 12, and joined the Youth League at the age of 15 to participate in the civil war to defend the Soviet regime.

1920 jumped ship due to serious injury and joined the trend of economic construction. He is responsible for the leadership of the Communist Youth League and the party's middle and lower levels, and is an "excellent proletarian fighter" in the Soviet Union.

After his paralysis and blindness caused by the recurrence of injury, he embarked on the road of literary creation and won the highest honor of the country-Lenin Medal with 1935; 1936 is dead. There are not many works in his life, the most famous of which is How Steel was Tempered.

Baidu Encyclopedia-How steel is tempered