郑振铎真是才华横溢,既是作家,又是学者,还是社会活动家。学者这一面,具体说,是文学评论家、文学史家、文献学家、艺术史家、考古学家。年轻时,他读的只是北京铁路管理学校,可以想见,他的学识、才华都是自己学来的。《猫》写于1925年11月7日,当时作者在上海,文中说到的“编译所”,就是商务印书馆编译所。1923年,郑振铎才26岁,就开始主编《小说月报》,与此同时,学术著作写了一本又一本,1924年出版《俄国文学史略》,1925年出版《泰戈尔传》,1927年出版80万字的《文学大纲》。工作量之大,可想而知,可是看这篇《猫》,他又不失生活情趣,有一种轻松自在的心境。 Zhenzhen Zheng is truly talented. He is a writer, a scholar, and a social activist. The academic side, specifically, is a literary critic, literary historian, philologist, art historian, archeologist. When he was young, he read only the Beijing Railway Management School. As you can imagine, his knowledge and talents were learned by himself. “Cat” was written on November 7, 1925, when the author was in Shanghai. The “Compilation Office” mentioned in the article was the Compilation Office of the Commercial Press. In 1923, Zheng Zhenyuan was only 26 years old and began editing the “Novel Monthly”. At the same time, his academic writings have been published one after another. In 1924, “A Brief History of Russian Literature” was published. In 1925, “Tageral Biography” was published, 1927. Years of publishing 800,000-word “literary outline.” The workload is as large as it can be imagined, but after reading this cat, he never loses his interest in life and has a relaxed and comfortable mood.