Fadeyev in The Debacle only told the story of a small guerrilla unit and had no intention of pandering to the palate of readers in the old world; yet the book has exerted world-wide influence. At any rate in China its influence is very great, as you know.

• 法捷耶夫的《毁灭》，只写了一支很小的游击队，它并没有想去投合旧世界读者的口味，但是却产生了全世界的影响，至少在中国，像大家所知道的，产生了很大的影响。