《灯》是巴金的散文集《废园外》的一篇,它写于1942年2月。那正是抗日战争最艰苦的时候,日本帝国主义发动了太平洋战争,国民党军队节节败退,“亡国论”在“国统区”内甚嚣尘上。巴金客居的桂林,更时时受到敌机炮火的袭击。这使作者极其悲愤。他说:“这些天来,笼罩在太平洋上的暗云紧紧地压住我的心,一定是它做了火种。我听够了叹息和疑问的询问,我看够了报纸上那些可怕的标题。我的心反抗着.我的信念坚执着。我怀疑过‘将来’么?我相信恶势力的胜利么?我愿意在侵略者下面低头么?不,这不可能。我的心始终反抗。因此它燃烧起来了。”于是在“一个寒冷的夜里”,编成了《废国外》这本集子,它贯穿着一个信念:正义最后一定会胜 “Lamps” is an article by Ba Jin's essay collection “Abandoned Park”, which was written in February 1942. That was exactly the most difficult time of the Anti-Japanese War. The Japanese imperialists launched the Pacific War and the KMT troops retreated steadily. The theory of “demise of the nation” was rampant in the “National Unification Area.” Guinness, who dwelt in Ba Jin, was hit even more by enemy gunfire. This makes the author extremely indignant. He said: “These days, the dark clouds that cling to the Pacific cling tightly to my heart, and it must have been the type of fire I've had enough of a sigh and questions asked, and I've seen enough of the horrible My heart is against my heart, my faith is clinging, I doubt 'future', I believe in the victorious triumph, I am willing to bow under the aggressor, no, I can not resist So it burns up. ”So in a“ cold night ”it was compiled as a collection of“ Abandoned Nations, ”which runs through the belief that justice will eventually win