七治华兄:接到元旦来信,十分欣慰。《长夜》的代序不是为外国读者写的,请你考虑,可以完全不用,由你另外写一篇译者序。我对于我国几十年来“左”的教条主义对学术、文学艺术的干扰和破坏,感触极深,而今天尚有“左”的思潮如魔影徘徊,所以遇机会便予以抨击。《长夜》的代序主要为此而写。很早想给你写信,总因忙得要命,拖了下来。去年十一月下旬参加全国政协五届五次会议,开了将近二十天,随即 Seven governance Chinese brother: received a letter from New Year’s Day, very pleased. “Night” is not written for foreign readers, please consider it, you can completely use, you write a separate translator sequence. I am deeply touched by the interference and destruction of academic, literary and art creations in the dogma of “Left ” in our country over the past decades. Today, there is still a trend of “leftist” . “Night” is mainly written for this purpose. Very early want to write to you, because of the total fatal, dragged down. Last year in late November to participate in the Fifth CPPCC National Committee meeting, opened for nearly twenty days, then