What was the setback in Paul's literary creation in How was Steel Tempered?
"How Steel Was Tempered" was a Russian story about the protagonist, Pavel Kochagin, who grew up from a teenager to a young man during the industrial period of the Soviet Union and his struggle in the revolutionary war. Paul had also experienced many setbacks in his literary creation. He started writing How Steel Was Tempered in the early 1920s but encountered many difficulties in the process. First of all, he found that his language skills were not solid enough to write vivid and real characters. Secondly, he had experienced setbacks in life and felt that he did not have enough motivation to write. In the end, he had no choice but to give up on literary creation and turn to other fields so as not to affect his own development. Despite this, Paul still persisted in writing and showed outstanding talent in his later novels. His novel How Steel Was Tempered became a classic revolutionary novel that had a profound impact on the Soviet society at that time.