The famous writer Liu Zhenyun's long-form new work "One Day, Three Autumns" launched in 2021 has won a lot of money in the list of major good books at the end of the year, and has now won 6 awards such as Douban Annual Good Book and Blade Book Award. Recently, he chatted with three guests, the famous screenwriter and writer Song Fangjin, and the well-known psychological expert Qingyin, about the topics of "one day and three autumns" and "double-speed life".
Liu Zhenyun violated four years of surrealist masterpieces
"One Day, Three Autumns" is a surrealist masterpiece by the famous Contemporary Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun for four years, writing a multidimensional reflection on his hometown and life, constructing the whole book with jokes, dissolving the grim with cold humor, and writing the most essential fate of mankind with unique observations.
The novel is based on the paintings of Uncle Liu, and multiple spaces are built: there is the legend of the fairy "Hua Erniang" looking for jokes in the dreams of the Yanjin people; there are also the emotions and hearts of the three ordinary people who play Xu Xian, Fahai and the White Lady in the Yu opera "The Legend of the White Snake", and the life outside the play is entangled with the characters in the play, and it is inevitable that they will live as a joke; there are ordinary fathers and sons who leave their hometowns and taste the bitterness of life and still walk non-stop; there are also Yan Luo, fortune tellers and Dao po who hook up the unfinished grudges in the world; in addition to people's helplessness, cows, monkeys, dogs, Weasels and other animals have also earned a bunch of tears in the world...
The novel is full of black humor, the philosophies contained in secular life, and the imagination to break down the barriers of everyday life. Liu Zhenyun writes about human nature, land and destiny in reality and imagination. It's both magical and realistic, full of jokes and humor.
The famous screenwriter Song Fangjin compares this novel to a pot of good wine: a heart, eight parties, a past history, a long journey, a thousand years of thought, and a thousand miles. How many things in the world, two or three jokes.
Zhang Xudong, a professor at New York University, said: Being able to write "pure literature" so readable and "reason" so "emotionally" and completely embedded in the logic of the character's action and behavior psychology has never been seen since the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The humorous "One Day, Three Autumns" made the humorous Li Shi serious
Song Fangjin revealed that he embarked on the road of writing with Liu Zhenyun as his teacher, and then exposed a "fierce material" in the live broadcast room - "One Day and Three Autumns" printed several "preemptive trial books" before the official publication, Song Fangjin sent a circle of friends after receiving it, and the book attracted the attention of stand-up comedian and screenwriter Li Shi.
Li Yan said how can there be a joke telling? Am I not telling jokes best now? I was angry. Song Fangjin said with a smile, so he asked the editor to send a copy to Li Tian, who dried in the circle of friends every day, and the scenes he read every day were all scenes with some jokes in the book." That day I posted another message in the circle of friends, I said this is a structuralist structure, he left me a message to say what is structuralism? I looked at him and scared him, I thought he was throwing a stalk at me, shaking the baggage, and I also gave him back in the way of shaking the baggage. I say that the term 'Li Birthday' is realism, and from 'Li Birthday' to 'Birthday Total' is called structuralism. As a result, Li Shi sincerely replied: "Teacher Song, I am not joking with you, I really want to know why this "Three Autumns in One Day" is structuralist? What's going on? Song Fangjin saw that this joke teller became serious, and he also became serious, he said that this problem could be talked about by Teacher Liu Zhenyun.
Liu Zhenyun did not talk about structuralism, but instead told "jokes", he laughed: "Teacher Li Shi is indeed one of the best people who tell jokes. Of course, there will be no more than three such people, one of whom is you (Song Fangjin), and who should the other person be? There's another guy who is me. What is a joke? The joke itself is serious and one step further. If the joke is just a joke, the content of the joke must not be high; just as the background of comedy must be tragedy, and the background of tragedy must be comedy. ”
How to land smoothly in "Double Speed Life"?
At present, "One Day and Three Autumns" has won a lot of money in the list of major good books at the end of the year, and has won 6 awards, including the Year-end Selection of Books such as Douban Annual Good Book and Blade Book Award. Song Fangjin joked that Liu Zhenyun was "either at the award ceremony or on his way to the award ceremony." At this event, teacher Liu Zhenyun posted a video taken on his douyin, starting from Xinxiang in the morning, going to Beijing in the afternoon, doing activities in the evening, and then going to the next city the next day... It also opened the "double speed life".
The question raised by many young readers of the host Qingyin Generation: Life involuntarily opens the double speed mode with the times, how can it land smoothly? Song Fangjin said that on the plane one year, Lu Jinbo, a publisher who was in a critical period of his life, asked Liu Zhenyun, a fellow traveler, how would he go next? Liu Zhenyun put forward a nine-character proverb for him: "Take the right path, do not sit around, and are not in a hurry." Lu Jinbo obviously understood these nine words, so there was a later fruit and wheat market.
These nine words obviously speak to the hearts of many people, and they are constantly brushed up during the live broadcast process.
For many short video anchors to promote books with the rhythm of "one minute to take you to read a good book", Liu Zhenyun said, "I feel that it takes 90 seconds to read the 4 words of 'one day and three autumns', this time can not be considered too fast." Because there are actually two kinds of books in the world, one kind of book will indeed be read thinner and thinner, and if you read more and more thinly, I think the practice of double speed reading is appropriate. There is also a kind of book that may become thicker and thicker to read, and if you read thicker and thicker, you have to slow down. ”
In his view, reading a book sometimes does not mean literally, because there may be many meanings behind the literal, "the connection between the literal and the literal, the connection between the story and the story, the connection between the characters and the characters, including the quantum entanglement between them, need to be carefully pondered, and their own insights are added to the reading of the book, so that everyone can read their own unique thick book." Of course, I think "One Day, Three Autumns" is such a book. ”
Song Fangjin believes that "One Day and Three Autumns" is a book that we need to read repeatedly. Teacher Liu Zhenyun's creation along the way has "found a superposition between people, people and times, people and time." He metaphorically compares Liu Zhenyun's previous work "Hometown Noodles and Flowers", which is sprinkled with millions of words, "is an unrestrained book, a book of joy in that period of life." And "One Day, Three Autumns" is concise and rich, "I think this is a fitness book, it has a lot of abs, collarbone." "One Day, Three Autumns" has been exercised, which is the writing state of Teacher Liu. ”
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Sun Jun
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Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Huang An