中国现代文学史上,巴金是家庭小说创作成就最高的作家。巴金的家庭小说,一类是描写封建大家庭的,另一类是摹绘普通人家的。巴金的《激流三部曲》《憩园》《寒夜》《火》《还魂草》等中长篇小说都是对“五四”时期到抗战时期通过不同家庭不同生活的描写,从不同视角如政治、文化、经济、伦理道德等多侧面揭露封建礼教、封建迷信以及封建家族制度的吃人罪恶,体现出了两代人之间的矛盾冲突,探索了爱情、婚姻、家庭以及妇女解放等重大人生问题和社会问题,表现出了作者强烈的反帝反封建的民主意识。一定意义上讲,巴金是真正的中国家庭小说开拓者,为发展和繁荣我国的家庭小说做出了重大的贡献。 In the history of Chinese modern literature, Ba Jin is the writer with the highest achievement in family novel creation. Ba Jin’s family novels, one is to describe the feudal family, and the other is to copy ordinary people. Ba Jin’s “Thriller Trilogy”, “Resting Garden”, “Cold Night”, “Fire”, “Saints Grass” and other novels are different from the “May Fourth” period to the Anti-Japanese War through different family life description, from different From the perspectives of politics, culture, economy and ethics, exposing the feudal ethics, feudal superstitions and the feudal family system from the other side revealed the contradictions and conflicts between the two generations and explored the relationship between love, marriage, family and women’s liberation And other major life issues and social issues, showing the author’s strong anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic consciousness. In a certain sense, Ba Jin is a true pioneer of Chinese family novels and made a significant contribution to the development and prosperity of the family novels in our country.