Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing
Recently, the People's Literature Publishing House published "The Road of Tang Poetry" co-authored by Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio and Peking University professor Dong Qiang.
In the book, Le Clézio, with the help of Dong Qiang, read Tang poems in depth, expressed his views, and expressed the influence of Tang poems on his life and creation. As a modern person, his ideological spark collides with the ancient Tang poems, and from the perspective of foreign writers, he reads the Tang poems with a different taste.
In Le Clézio's view, Tang poetry is the pinnacle of the history of human literary creation; at the end of his writing, the artistic conception of Tang poetry is profound and long, just like the French title "The River of Running Poetry".
On December 22, 2021, the People's Literature Publishing House held a special "French Nobel Prize winner invites you to take the "Tang Poetry Road" - "Tang Poetry Road" New Book Sharing Meeting".
Dong Qiang, director of the French Department of Peking University and chairman of the Fu Lei Translation and Publication Award, poet, writer and translator Xichuan, writer, and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, Qiu Huadong, writer, scholar and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, and Ouyang Jianghe, poet and professor of Beijing Normal University, talked about the "Road to Tang Poetry" together with Le Clézio.
At the beginning of the sharing session, Dong Qiang, the co-author of the book, told the origin of the creation of "The Road of Tang Poems", saying: "I have a long-term friendship with Le Clézio, and he has a special meaning to me. To put it simply, the reason why Dong Qiang is still engaged in French literature today is that I became a professor at Peking University is closely related to two people, one is Milan Kundera, and I am his student. The other is Le Clézio. As well as some of the stories in the creation, I did not expect that the book would become a French bestseller after it was published in France.
Immediately afterwards, the guests shared their feelings about the feelings they felt after reading "The Road of Tang Poetry".
Nishikawa said: "Li Bai also did not expect that his poetry could be transmitted so far, and began to participate in a person's life, began to participate in a person's feelings about the world, in fact, in a sense, he began to shape a person, he began to shape a Frenchman, and this Frenchman ended up becoming a great writer." This road of Tang poetry —there are really many roads in Tang poetry—this road is wonderful, very interesting. ”
Ouyang Jianghe said: "Le Clézio transmitted a particularly simple, natural and simple situation to them through the books that Dong Qiang told the French. The greatest part of Chinese literature is to suddenly give them a violent impact without us being prepared in any way. This is the real meaning of this little book by Mr. Dong Qiang and Mr. Le Clézio. The highest model of Chinese civilization is Tang poetry, and in this case we give world civilization a truly profound, truly enlightening kind of touch, a kind of literary enlightenment, a kind of change given when man and life, man and nature meet eternally. ”
in Le Clézio
(Dong Qiang)
Qiu Huadong said: "This book "The Road of Tang Poetry" has done a simple job of simplifying the complex, it is a minimalist way of writing, but it has collected all the essence of the "All Tang Poems". Just now teacher Ouyang Jianghe spoke very passionately about Li Bai and Du Fu, this book is indeed a string of the most outstanding poets of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin, Wang Wei, mainly involving these five poets, simplifying the way of writing to take it out, just like a big net, a handful down, several big fish are all in it, this structure is very interesting, this is very difficult. ”
This was followed by a video of the Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, who reviewed his friendship with Le Clézio and expressed his love for the book "The Road of Tang Poems".
Next, a video recorded by Le Clézio is played, in which he talks about his perception of women and love in Tang poetry through comparative literature. He said: "Tang poetry, especially Li Bai's poetry, is full of the power of love, which is a kind of cosmic kinetic energy force, which is the reason why Tang poetry is incomparably powerful, bringing a kind of eternity to Tang poetry. I thank you all for sharing these moments of beauty and emotion with me, which Tang poetry brought to us. ”