立波同志去世了!中国失掉一个十分优秀的老一辈的作家!但一直到他发现得了那个致命的病以前,他给人的印象还是那样年轻,那样生气勃勃,完全不象一个已经过了七十岁的人,完全不象两年以后便会逝去的。他是我学文学的一个老师。我见到他,是一九三九年或一九四○年,是在延安桥儿沟的鲁迅艺术学院。那时我是这个学院的文学系的学生。那时经常给我们上课的教师总共是三个,他们都各有特点:周扬同志是理论家,他讲《艺术论》,讲《新文学运动史》。每星期从城里骑马来学校给我们讲一两次,有时是光着脚穿草鞋的。他总是雄辩,有一 LEGO has died! China has lost a very good older writer! But until he discovered that fatal disease, he still gave the impression that he was so young, so energetic, not like a person who had already passed seven The 10-year-old person is completely not like two years later will be gone. He is a teacher in my studies literature. I met him, in 1939 or 1940, at the Lu Xun Art Institute in Qiaoergou, Yan’an. At that time I was a student at this college’s department of literature. There were a total of three teachers in our class at that time, all of whom had their own characteristics: Comrade Zhou Yang was a theorist who spoke of “art theory” and “the history of the new literature movement.” We rode the school once or twice a week from the city to tell us once or twice, sometimes wearing straw sandals. He always eloquently, one