That was his introduction to the literary world. Many faces of literature In the 1950s, books were scarce, and many were banned. A collection of works by Russian writers Gogol, Chekhov, and Gorky was one book that inspired Cheng.
舊俄文學 1950 年代的台灣，是個缺乏書籍、也忌諱讀書的時代，很多書都是禁書，一本日本新潮社的《俄羅斯三人集》──果戈里、契訶夫、高爾基，可算是影響鄭清文日後寫作生涯的啟蒙著作。