Ye Zhaoyan's new work
A literary journey that explores the relationship between father and son
Return to the original intention of writing
With more than 60 years of life experience
Face to face, salute for the first time,
A book of life that reflects on the lives of my fathers
What exactly happened to us on the road to our father? Ye Zhaoyan's new work "The Road to Father" was published, which directly confronted his fathers for the first time with more than 60 years of life experience.
At the end of the year, the famous writer Ye Zhaoyan shared his decades of reading and writing with many netizens online. As the debut of the whole network live broadcast, Ye Zhaoyan also brought readers his new work "The Road to Father".
As the new book for the beginning of 2022, "The Road to Father" has repeatedly been listed in the preview of various annual new books, which is highly anticipated by readers. The work tells the story of a father and son, composes the memory of a family's times, and reflects the social changes of a family for more than half a century.
The road to the father is the inheritance of the spiritual bloodline
In the history of Chinese and foreign literature, the relationship between father and son has long become an eternal literary motif. "The Road to Fatherhood" also explores this proposition on this basis, which can be seen from the relationship between several special groups of characters in this book.
Ye Zhaoyan's attention to the inheritance of the spiritual bloodline actually has a long history. Ye Zhaoyan, who came from a cultural family, is a dazzling star in the history of modern literature and is a frequent visitor to his family, and the special experiences of his grandparents and fathers have had a profound impact on his life. Ye Zhaoyan discovered their origins and places from the cracks of history, and cast a lasting observation and reflection on the spiritual fate of generations of Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century.
Lifting heavy weights, it deals with 400,000 words of subject matter in more than 40,000 words
"The Road to Father" is a novella of more than 40,000 words, but it is full of lingering sounds and long memories. This is not only because the subject matter of the work is grand — writing the memories of the times of three generations of intellectuals in a family, but also related to the author's techniques and skills in dealing with the subject matter. This book continues Ye Zhaoyan's consistent narrative style, not pretentious, not pretentious, not mixed with too many subjective emotions, but plain and objective, such as gossip, not hurried, slowly.
According to the author Ye Zhaoyan, the plot of Zhang Xiyi's cattle raising in the work is transplanted from the experience of his uncle Ye Zhishan raising cattle, "This paragraph is actually a story between my uncle and our grandfather (referring to Mr. Ye Shengtao). My uncle, like the father I wrote in my novels, triumphantly got up every night to pee for the cows, and my grandfather went around the bookstore to find him books on raising cattle. They mentioned this in their correspondence a lot, how good the cattle were, and how they were doing in the cattle pen. ”
"In real life, my uncle and my grandfather wrote a very thick book just by correspondence, all about how to raise cattle." This steaming experience from life lengthens the internal space of the work and gives the novel a more realistic and perceptible texture.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that the book invites the translator Zhao Ruihong and Ms. Zhao Yun, the daughter of Mr. Yang Yuan, to draw illustrations and create high value-added hardcover illustrations. Zhao Yun has created illustrations for literary classics such as "The Legend of Hulan River". The bookish origin that is close to the author, the similar growth era, and the spirit of excellence make Zhao Yu naturally grasp the emotional atmosphere of the book and accurately restore the scene of the times.
Zhang Xiyi and his wife took Zhang Zuo and Su Su to climb the Zhongshan Mausoleum
For example: the illustration of "Climbing the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum", the stone steps of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum are all real and verifiable; the illustration of "Postman Sending Letters", what kind of clothes the postman wore in the 1960s and 1970s, how many buttons were on the clothes, and the era mark of "Serving the People" on the envelope, are all properly presented. The text and illustrations complement each other perfectly, making this book a pleasant opening and suitable for hiding and reading.
Ye Zhaoyan
◎Born in 1957, from Nanjing. He was admitted to Nanjing University in 1978 and received his master's degree in 1986. He began writing in the early 1980s.
◎ Ye Zhaoyan, who comes from a cultural family, is a dazzling star in the history of literature, a frequent visitor to his family, and the special experience of his grandparents and fathers, which also makes him have a lasting view of the fate of several generations of Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century. This idea is fully reflected in its classic prose series "Old Characters", "Old Things", "Miscellaneous Peanut Trees", "Warblers Flying Wildly", "Sincerely Know This Hate Everyone Has", "Afternoon Years", and "The Road to Father" is also a continuous cultivation of this idea.
◎ The main works include "Nanjing Biography", classic prose series "Old Characters", "Old Things", etc., and there are eight volumes of "Ye Zhaoyan Novella Series", five volumes of "Ye Zhaoyan Short Story Chronicle", long novels "Love in 1937", "Unforgettable Heart" and so on.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
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Correspondent: Luo Yingjie
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Xie Yufen