The novel Is he Living or Dead? tells us a story that four young artists living and working together ran hard aground and was on brink of starvation;Their situation didn’t change much until one of them made a suggestion that someone must “die” while the others went out to broadcast his works;It was through this way that all of them became rich;The one who pretended to be dead had to change his name and be isolated from those who had known him before forever. The novel Is he Living or Dead? J us us a story that four young artists living and working together ran hard aground and was on brink of starvation; Their situation did not change much until one of them made a suggestion that someone must “die ”while the others went out to broadcast his works; It was through this way that all of them became rich; The one who pretended to be dead had to change his name and be isolated from those who had known him before forever.