"Shouting Mountain Ying", written by Wang Yuewen and published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.
Red Net Moment, October 22 (Reporter Cai Juan Correspondent Chen Manqing) How to integrate your life imprint into literary creation? How to cling to yourself in the harsh torrent of reality? How to break through the barrier of discourse again and again to reach the essence of truth? These questions may be answered from Wang Yuewen's latest work " Shouting Mountain Response " .
Recently, the famous writer Wang Yuewen's new collection of essays ,Shouting Mountain Ying was published and listed by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House. In "Shouting Mountain Response", Wang Yuewen combines his own life trajectory to comb through his 31-year literary creation process and explain his understanding of literature and human nature. Wang Yuewen said, "The publication of the essay collection 'Shouting Mountain Ying' may allow readers and friends who like me to have a better understanding of my works and about me. ”
Starting from the geographical origin of spiritual coordinates, he will integrate his life imprint into literary creation
Why is the new book called "Shouting Mountain Ying"? Wang Yuewen said: "The entrance to my old house is a flat mountain, which is still quite open; it is surrounded by towering peaks and deep mountains. The countrymen walk alone on mountain roads, or work in the mountains, lonely, shout a few times, and the echo rises and falls with the mountains, which is 'shouting the mountain response'. The countryman with an empty heart closed his eyes and shouted about the mountain, and he could hear the appearance of the mountain from the shouting mountain. My literary writing, why not shout shanying? Literature is lonely people, doing lonely things. The people and things I have written about, the time and space, the reality and the void, the truth and the illusion, are all echoes of the world. Through the echoes of my words, I may be able to see what the world looks like. ”
Wang Yuewen said: "Shouting Mountain Ying is not only my review and review of my own 31 years of literary road, but also an objective reflection of the historical changes in Chinese society in the past 31 years from a certain angle. ”
"Shouting Mountain Ying" is divided into three parts: "My Literary Hometown", "My Literary Creation" and "My Literary Review", with 5 appendice literary criticism articles. In "My Literary Hometown", Wang Yuewen wrote from the history and culture, customs and customs of his hometown of Pupu and the stories of family relatives, and strived to explore the relationship between his life experience and literary creation; "My Literary Creation" reviewed the creation process of many of His works in the past 31 years of Wang Yuewen's literary creation, and truly recorded his mental journey before and after the creation and publication of his works; in "My Literary Review", Wang Yuewen purposefully explained his understanding of novel creation and examined his gains and losses in the process of literary creation.
In "Shouting Mountain Response", Wang Yuewen overlaps his literary path with his life trajectory with his simple and smooth, humorous and wise artistic atmosphere, traces the spiritual umbilical cord of his literary creation, presents his keen observation of human nature in a pristine way, and records his spiritual journey of repeatedly confirming himself in witnessing history.
Wu Yiqin, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, believes that in the contemporary Chinese literary scene, Wang Yuewen is a writer with an extremely unique style, and he writes with rich experience and profound insight into life, compassion and social responsibility.
Li Jianjun, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a doctoral supervisor, once commented that Wang Yuewen's cultural character has a lot of "Chu madness"; his refusal to bow his eyebrows to the magnates, his hot hand and clever writing are corrupt, and his increasingly frustrated and sharp character have something to do with the tradition of "Xiangchu fanatics" in his cultural character.
Xie Youshun, professor of the Department of Chinese of Sun Yat-sen University and doctoral supervisor, said that Wang Yuewen's works are not satisfied with curiosity and peeping inside the curtain of power, he is eager to write a real life, to write about the darkness and inertia that lurks in the depths of life, and tries to resist its existence.
Shi Zhanjun, editor-in-chief of People's Literature, believes that Wang Yuewen's literary creation has fully demonstrated his outstanding achievements at many levels as an important writer of contemporary serious literature.
The inability to turn his face in the face of the truth is due to the instinct of a writer to pick up his conscience
After 31 years of unremitting pen cultivation, every work will explode, what is the source of inspiration for creation? Wang Yuewen said in "Shouting Mountain Ying" "My Literary Creation": "I just love literature and write about the life I am most familiar with. I have been soaked in red dust for a long time, heard and witnessed, and seen and experienced with my own eyes, and my chest often stirred with compassion and sorrow. If I were a painter, I might have sprinkled a lot of shocking colors on the canvas; if I were a singer, I might have sung long songs along the way; but I was a writer, and I would write novels. Regarding the writer's mission, Wang Yuewen frankly said: "I have not thought about any mission and responsibility, at most it is only out of the writer's instinct." ”
From "Chinese Painting" to "Great Qing Xiangguo", from "Flooding Water" to "The First Year of the Love Calendar", Wang Yuewen's novel works continue to meet the readers' multi-level aesthetic experience. Since its publication and listing, "Shouting Mountain Ying" has been at the forefront of the hot list of new books in the essay category. Speaking of the reasons, the publisher believes that Wang Yuewen has long become a phenomenon-level writer in the contemporary Chinese literary scene. And Wang Yuewen himself, how does he define a good novel?
In the section "My Literary Review" in "Shouting Mountain Ying", Wang Yuewen said: "The good novel in my mind, first of all, it is true, even more real than reality. The so-called 'more real than reality' seems to be logical, it refers to the writer's refinement and removal of reality, showing an essential truth. There is certainly a good side to this truth, but it cannot avoid the cruel and dark side. The conscience of the novelist is that he cannot turn his face in the face of the truth. ”
How do you see the ever-changing labels on yourself? Wang Yuewen gave an answer in "Shouting Mountain Ying": "Some people read "Chinese Paintings" and say that I am an official novelist; some people read "The Great Qing Xiangguo" and say that I have transformed into a historical novel; some people read "The First Year of the Love Calendar" and say that I have transformed into an urban novel; I have written many rural novels like "Man Shui". I never admit that I have a so-called transformation, which only shows that I have created a variety of subjects. However, the process of writing is also the process of growing up as a writer. ”
【Wonderful Trial Reading】
Books are like people, but they also have a destiny. From May to July 1999, the Chinese Painting was reprinted five times in three months after its publication. In the following ten years, there were only pirated copies of "Chinese Paintings" on the market. Some people in the publishing industry have estimated that the total number of pirated "Chinese Paintings" should be more than five million copies. In China's most remote county, you can see pirated copies of "Chinese Paintings" in various guises. Along with this, there are all kinds of pirated novels, no less than a hundred kinds of pseudo-books signed with my name, which are filled with small bookstores and small book stalls everywhere. A famous shop has more than 4,000 kinds of books signed with my name on the Internet, all of which are pirated books and pirated fake books. The owner of this website is a famous mouth, saying that there are no fakes on his online platform, and those who are accused of being fakes should be called online goods.
I originally refused to sign pirated books, but one summer in Shenzhen, I announced that I would henceforth sign the pirated Chinese Paintings until they were reprinted. The origin of the story was that the general manager of the hotel brought dozens of copies of "Chinese Paintings" for me to sign, without exception all pirated books. On that day, I gave up rigidity and pedanticness and decided to sign the readers who could not buy the genuine "Chinese Paintings" to express my respect and gratitude to the readers. Since then, I have not been angry when I meet the vendors who sell pirated books, they are mostly families who have no way to make a living. There are also those who have made a fortune by printing pirated copies of "Chinese Paintings" alone, and may now have leisurely sunbathing on the Caribbean coast. In Changsha alone, several businessmen said that the first pot of gold they made was to print and sell pirated copies of "Chinese Paintings." In the past ten years, the genuine "Chinese Painting" has been nowhere to be found, and the pirated version has been widely circulated. This book once tenaciously lived underground.
Fate is like the sky, high above, inescapable. But if people can forget the existence of fate, this world is beautiful. The so-called encounter with a good fate must have experienced too much suffering first; the so-called bad fate is a deep predicament. The place where the god of destiny hovers overhead all the time is not a promised land after all. Chinese have feared fate since ancient times, because the god of fate is too powerful, and people are often small and helpless.
I was in awe of heaven and earth, but I was a stubborn atheist and did not believe that the god of destiny was really high in the clouds. They are actually on the ground, breathing the same air, bathing in the same sunshine, and eating the same grains. Such so-called living gods and immortals, if they only control the life and death of the text, are not too unfortunate. Man cannot be resurrected from the dead, but words do not die. Time is enough to be awe-inspiring, and hope is always growing in the dark.
In 2012, "Chinese Painting" was republished. Re-reading this book, I still can't help but burst into tears. It was beyond my mental preparation. More than a decade later, I should have become diluted and calm. However, the people and things in the book often stir up the flames in my heart. The bowling alley in "Chinese Painting" must be manually scored, and now the electronic scoring of bowling balls is no longer fashionable, and golf has become the daily entertainment of the nobles. When mobile phones were luxury goods, luxury homes and famous cars are now common gifts that nobles receive privately. The beings creeping on the earth are becoming more and more convinced of their fate, and anger is already a very meaningless thing.
I admit that "Chinese Painting" is a book of loneliness and indignation, but also a book of sorrow. However, it is a deeply misunderstood book. The word "sadness" may be closer to the background of my work; this "sadness" also has a deeper background, that is, compassion for certain human losses. Because of compassion, so warm. "Chinese Painting" is not a gray and cold novel, the book exudes the warmth and brilliance of human nature everywhere. Of course, my novels are more revealing and critical of national nature. The mission of national criticism advocated by Mr. Lu Xun's generation of writers has not been completed by contemporary literature. I think that the person who misunderstood this book was not because of his mind, but because of some kind of extremely dishonest intention. People who refer to deer as horses are not really unaware of horses.
"Chinese Painting" is my first novel, which can only be regarded as a study work at best. For more than a decade, there have been many accounts of the book, both positive and negative, and both. I'm not a person who likes to listen to flattery, but I cherish the criticism more. If I can make up for it, I would like to use it to axe it. But I have not been able to grow in literature for more than ten years, and I know that "Chinese Painting" still has obvious flaws, but there is no way to make it better. I instructed myself that in the future, when writing novels, I must cherish the ink like gold, and I must not be too arrogant. The whole book is divided into chapters, and there is no look back, and the sky is down, chaotic. My original intention was to project the ambiguity of the state of life itself directly onto the textual form. My idea may be childish.
I have heard many young friends say that when they graduated from college or graduate school, their teachers solemnly suggested that they read "Chinese Painting". I smell dark and sad. Ancient Chinese gentlemen, with the ideal of self-cultivation and family rule of the country and the world, the must-read book is the Analects, and they believe that half of the Analects is enough to rule the world. If you are born in a chaotic world and want to get ahead, you will read the "Warring States Policy" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and the like. To survive in a chaotic world, it is necessary to use strategies and strategies. But the more tactics or schemes are used, the more sinister and cunning the human heart becomes. Chinese, however, we prefer to beautify the twists and turns of the heart, called "the depth of the city government", or "the careful thinking". I have self-knowledge that "Chinese Painting" is not a remarkable book. If young people really have to read "Chinese Painting" at the beginning of their journey, I would curse it for its rapid decay!
"Chinese Painting" has always been a bestseller and long-selling book. Some people say they are very taboo about their books selling well, and I don't know if they are telling the truth. Mr. Lu Xun and his brother Zhou Zuoren were the first to translate the foreign novel "A Collection of Novels Outside the Territory", and it is said that only twenty copies were sold, one of which was bought by Mr. Lu Xun himself pretending to be a reader. It is this collection of novels translated into Chinese that makes Mr. Lu Xun see clearly that literary language must go in the direction of vernacular. Mr. Lu Xun cares a lot about whether his books are best-selling, and it is natural. My book is a best seller, which is a very happy thing. I don't think good literary books are necessarily unbeatable. On the contrary, chinese classical literature classics are bestsellers, just imagine "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Golden Plum" Which one is not a bestseller? One Hundred Years of Solitude is the great literary classic of the twentieth century, and it has been selling well all over the world since its publication. Bestsellers are not necessarily good books, and good books are often bestsellers.
When I wrote, I never considered whether this novel would sell, let alone deliberately add so-called best-selling elements in order to sell well. To be honest, I don't know what literary best-selling elements are. Come to think of it, any of my novels are about everyday life. "Chinese Painting" quickly became popular after publication, which was really unexpected to me. This novel is really a chicken and a dog! Perhaps, it is those seemingly meaningless lives that consume our lives like blunt knives cutting flesh. Literature with pain is good literature. This may be the reason why "Chinese Painting" is loved by readers.
I'm very happy that my book is a bestseller. I remember when "Pale Yellow" was just published for ten days, I was a guest of a book website, and the host clicked on a web page and told me that the book sold for $9.98 in California, AND could be ordered in North America for a week. I was surprised to see that modern means of communication are too fast. Some remote mountainous areas in China have not yet arrived, and books can be bought in North America. I remember it was Saturday, and the site sold nearly four hundred copies a day, which was a good sales situation, because weekend online sales are often half of the usual sales. I was signing at Xidan Bookstore in Beijing, and the scene was also very lively. Readers who came to sign told me that "Cang Huang" has been ranked first in the Beijing book list. One year, I went to a remote county at the source of the Yellow River with a population of just over 30,000 to collect wind, and my friends who had dinner with me all took "Chinese Paintings" to let me sign. Even though they brought pirated copies, I happily signed them. I've heard a writer say that if his book is too bestseller, he feels ashamed. But I'm very happy, my realm is too low.
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