幼年多病的巴金,其实从来没有读过大学。14岁时,他好不容易得到祖父同意进入英语补习学校念书,刚念了一个月,就因病辍学。1925年,他到北京准备考北京大学,但是体检时发现患有肺病,无奈与北大失之交臂。在巴金的作品中,常常有主人公患肺病或其他疾病的描写,并且因患病而发生情绪、思想的变化,《灭亡》中的杜大心等都是如此。写《灭亡》时正是巴金治疗 Pugin, a sick child, has never actually read college. At the age of 14, he finally got his grandfather agreed to enter the English tutorial school, just read a month, because of illness dropped out of school. In 1925, he went to Beijing to prepare for the Peking University examination, but he found himself suffering from lung disease on physical examination. In Ba Jin’s work, there is often a description of the protagonist suffering from lung disease or other diseases, as well as changes in emotions and thoughts due to illness, and so on. It is Ba Jin’s treatment when writing “The Destruction.”