1936年共产党中央委员会号召我国戏剧和电影艺术创造列宁的形象。在这以前,我也经常想过怎样写一部关于列宁的话剧,但是我和我这一代的作家很难想象列宁在日常的环境中将会是什么样子。根本不可能设想,居然就把列宁列入话剧剧本或电影剧本的剧中人物之一,哪怕是第一个人物,但毕竟还是剧中的一个角色。不过我还是决定,我要写一部话剧,其中要有列宁出现。当我把这个想法和我的同志们一起商量的时候,他们非常严肃地问我:“难道你要给列宁写这样一个角色,让他说一些完全普通的、日常所说的话:‘请给我一杯茶’或是问别人‘事情怎么样’吗?”可是我仍然决定要这样做。我立刻理解到,要写一部关于列宁的话剧,描写他的一生,这是我能力所不及的。所以我决定选择列宁一生中一个小片段,一个瞬间,以便能就在这个片段的范围里勾画出列宁的肖象,甚至很 The Communist Party Central Committee in 1936 called for the creation of Lenin’s image in China’s theater and cinema art. Before that, I often wondered how to write a drama about Lenin, but it was hard for me and my generation of writers to imagine what Lenin would look like in everyday situations. It is virtually impossible to imagine that Lenin actually included one of the characters in the drama or screenplay, even the first, but after all a role in the play. But I still decided, I want to write a drama, including the emergence of Lenin. When I discussed this idea with my comrades, they asked me very seriously: “Do you want to write a character for Lenin to let him say something completely ordinary and everyday:” Please give me A cup of tea ’or ask someone’ how’s it going ’? "But I still decided to do so. I immediately understood that it was beyond my power to write a drama about Lenin and describe his life. So I decided to choose a small fragment of Lenin’s life for an instant, so as to be able to draw a portrait of Lenin in the context of this fragment, and even