Author: Zhang Enjie
The plan of the year is spring. In the new year, what new works will the winners of the Mao Dun Literature Prize make? What are some of the appeals of these works? The answer comes: Jia Pingwo wrote a novel that is different from the previous one, "The Record of Qinling"; Liang Xiaosheng's new novel focuses on the values and friendship of contemporary college students; Wang Xufeng launched a new novel of nearly 400,000 words, "Wangjiangnan"; Zhou Daxin launched the 10th anniversary commemorative edition of "Requiem"... Definitely can solve your "book famine" this spring.
Jia Pingwa's "Record of Qinling" tends to be strange and strange
Following "Temporary Sitting" in 2020, Jia Pingwa, winner of the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award, will launch a new work "Qinling Chronicle" in 2022. At present, the excerpts of "The Record of Qinling" have been published in the second issue of People's Literature in 2022.
According to reports, the whole book of "Qinling Records" has three parts: "Qinling Records", "Qinling Records External Compilation I", and "Qinling Records External Compilation II". The "Record of Qinling" is the main body; the seventeen separate chapters of the "Outer Compilation I of the Qinling Mountains" belong to one, and write about the events of the Taibai Mountain, the highest peak of the Qinling Mountains; and the "Outer Edition of the Records of Qinling II" contains seven independent old works. Jia Pingwa confessed in the "Afterword": "I once thought that I could write 'Outer Editor One' again, and change the narrative angle of 'Outer Editor Two', but later this idea was dispelled." Let's keep the original look, when I was young, I had acne on my face, maybe it was ugly, but I could see how my youth and I got old step by step. ”
Different from previous novels, "The Record of Qinling" tends to be a more bizarre note-taking novel, with fifty-five chapters with different stories, but in the mountains, stones, trees, and world troubles, the infinite possibilities of Qinling are revealed. As the preface of the "People's Literature" commented: "In the reading room, the traces of the changing circumstances of existence, the filtering and clarification of customs, and the details of life and the taste of life in the depths of the mountains can be faintly seen." ”
Jia Pingwa's "Records of Qinling" will be launched by the People's Literature Publishing House this year. In addition to the novel "Qinling Chronicles", Jia Pingwa's prose collection "Blossoms in the Mirror" will be released in April.
The protagonist of Liang Xiaosheng's "Persistence" is after the 80s
The TV series "Human World", adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's original book of the same name, is currently airing, and from the perspective of three generations of a family surnamed Zhou in a provincial capital city in the northeast, it shows the earth-shaking social changes that China has experienced since the reform and opening up, which has aroused a lot of attention. Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that Liang Xiaosheng's latest realistic novel "Persistence" (tentative name) will be launched by writers publishing house in April. The novel focuses on the values, friendship, love and professional ideals and spiritual growth of contemporary college students, and is a solid new work that faces reality and is full of humanistic feelings, and the writing is meticulous and simple.
According to reports, Liang Xiaosheng rarely mixed himself into the works, and the only thing he insisted on was to write his own concept of being a human being. In his works, the protagonists are mostly young people, such as Zhao Tianliang in "Zhiqing", the protagonist of the novel "My Life and Me" is the post-80s, and the new work "Persistence" (tentative name) that will be published by the Writers Publishing House is also written after the 80s. These protagonists all have some common characteristics, such as integrity, decency, fearlessness, taking the initiative to take responsibility, and consciously coming forward to solve the friction in the group.
Wang Menghu wrote "Monkey" in the Year of the Tiger
The 88-year-old "People's Artist" Wang Meng still maintains his enthusiasm for creation, and his new work "Monkeys and Teenagers" was launched by Huacheng Publishing House in January this year. Through Wang Meng's perspective, the novel tells the life of the ninety-year-old foreign literature expert Shi Bingyan. In 1958, the young Shi Bingyan came to Da walnut Shuyu Village, Luoying Township, Beiqingshan District, and began different life experiences, experiences and reverie. He met the young Hou Changyou, who had a wonderful fate with the monkey "Three Young Masters", and in his decades-long interaction with the elder friends, he could glimpse the changes in the fate of the times and characters. In Wang Meng's theme of old age, the past is always alive, youth is still long live, and old age is boundlessly beautiful.
Wang Xufeng's "Wangjiangnan" continues to write the story of the tea people
Wang Xufeng's "Tea Man Trilogy" consists of three novels, "There is Jiamu in the South", "The Prince of The Night", and "Building Grass for the City", which outlines the fate of Chinese tea people with 1.3 million words. The first and second of them won the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Award. In the spring of 2022, as a professor at Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University and the leader of the tea culture discipline, she will launch a new novel of nearly 400,000 words this spring, "Wangjiangnan".
Set against the historical backdrop of 1945 to 1964, WangjiangNan depicts a long scroll of the fate of Chinese tea people. Among them, dozens of people all appeared, inside and outside the home, and the relationship was intertwined. There are no pure good people, there are no outright bad people, there are just people who float in the times. The separation, reunion and death of the world, sorrow, trouble and joy, converge into various tastes, immersed in the cup of tea of life, the more you drink, the more delicious, cold and warm self-knowledge.
Chi Zijian and Liu Zhenyun came out of the collection
The winners of the 7th and 8th Mao Dun Literature Awards, Chi Zijian and Liu Zhenyun, will launch a collection of works (selected).
According to reports, the "Works of Chi Zijian" book series is a five-volume short story collection, divided into "Passing River", "Clear Water Washing Dust", "A Pot of Lard", "The Shortest Day", "Stewed Riding Boots", a complete collection of Chi Zijian's more than thirty years of creative career from debut works to the latest short story classics, selected and edited by Chi Zijian himself, newly arranged according to the theme, and published by the exclusive authorized writers publishing house.
Liu Zhenyun's "Selected Works of Liu Zhenyun" will be produced by the "Yangtze River New Century". The book selects the representative works of Liu Zhenyun, including three novels with the word "one" and two novels with the word "I", which can be seen from liu Zhenyun's creative vein from the initial cry of the literary world of "A Place of Chicken Feathers" to the rushing of the river in the style of "One Sentence and Ten Thousand Sentences", and then to the autumn of life like "One Day and Three Autumns".
In addition, the new work of Bi Feiyu, the winner of the 8th Mao Dun Literature Award, will also be launched by the People's Literature Publishing House.
Zhou Daxin launched the commemorative edition of "Requiem"
Writer Zhou Daxin won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award for "Lake Light and Mountain Color". In February 2022, Writers Press launched the 10th anniversary edition of his Requiem.
In 2008, the writer Zhou Daxin lost his beloved son; in 2012, "Requiem" was first published by the Writers Publishing House, and the title page reads: "Dedicated to my son Zhou Ning, who died young", and the second line was followed: "Dedicated to all parents in the world who have lost their children due to illness and unexpected disasters." ”
Zhou Daxin said, "I originally wrote the book 'Requiem' to comfort myself and the souls of my children, and I also wanted to explore how we face the problem of death. Through this book, I want to write out the understanding of a problem that everyone will have to face in the end, as much as I can. Through the reappearance of his son's birth, growth, illness, treatment, and departure, Zhou Daxin has walked the road of time again, and it is these cruel and unbearable details that allow the writer to be relieved and liberated, and the soul to be at peace. After the novel was published, it won the third People's Literature Novel Biennial Award. (Zhang Enjie)
Source: Beijing Youth Daily