Chapter 91 writer stamp

In European and American countries, it is not uncommon to see those who issue commemorative stamps with the images of outstanding literary and artistic writers, including musicians, novelists, playwrights, painters, poets, etc. The significance goes without saying.Recently, another writer's picture stamp appeared on American letters, all purple, with a face value of one dollar, and the title printed along the upper and lower edges is; Eugene.O'Neill, playwright, is very eye-catching and spread all over the world, giving people the impression that the United States is a cultured country.

Eugene.O'Neill, who is respected as the most talented playwright in the United States, was born on October 16, 1888 and died in 1953. He is only ninety years old now. A modern figure, the United States issued stamps for him.His life experience was bumpy, and he lived a wandering life in his youth, but he began to emerge in the 1920s. His first famous work was the stage play "Outside the Sky", which was published in 1920 , each play since then has become more and more famous, and has been praised by the American theater circle as being as famous as Bernard Shaw in the United Kingdom (of course, he dare not compare with Shakespeare), but since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, in the Europe also began to enjoy the fame.

Strictly speaking, Eugene.O'Neill is not yet a top figure among American literary writers. Among his more than a dozen well-known plays, critics' arguments have mixed reviews, but generally Americans and the American literary world still love him. , this is not entirely because the United States is a young country, but because they all share a sense of honor in promoting national culture. Looking back, we have such a long history and culture, but in the performance of modern literature, there are still not a few outstanding figures who can be represented. Is there really no one?The fact is otherwise.Maybe it's because our cultural foundation is too deep and too high. There is no one who can surpass the ancients, but today's people are even worse.Probably for this reason, even if the postal administration intends to issue stamps for writers, it is really hard to do so (I hope my guess is wrong).

But if you look for it from the ancients, there will be more. For example, if you can research the image of Cao Xueqin and issue stamps, you will be able to settle all novelists; another example is the poet Li Bai. , Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo, etc., as well as so many great painters, poets, and essayists. Combining them, even if a hundred sets of stamps are issued, they still cannot be exhausted.As for the textual research and design of the images of various schools, the older Confucius stamps have not stumped today's people, and the images of the literary masters under them can also be depicted.

Besides, in the field of modern literature, although it is difficult to select outstanding figures, the overall literary and artistic movement is quite vigorous and constantly advancing. Have these ever existed and are they worth issuing commemorative stamps? (Numbers 67, 5, 14)