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In the Chinese literary world, Wang Xiaobo can be described as a maverick existence.
First of all, the personality is like a naughty child, and all the rules of interpersonal relations in front of him are not only useless, but will be embarrassed by his disdain to the point of revealing their original form; secondly, the thought is amorphous, as a writer, his writing always jumps between the wilderness of human nature in the form of a wandering skeleton.
And the essence of these personalities and ideas is condensed in his favorite "Golden Age".
I think that even people who have not seen "The Golden Age" will hear a little about a large number of "sexual depictions": blunt and naked text descriptions, and sometimes make unprepared readers blush.
This has also led to the fact that "Golden Age" has always had a polarized evaluation in the literary world:
Some rushed to label it yellow fiction; others marveled that it was enough to shoot all the novels of writing.
All cognitive differences stem from the conceptual ambiguity of the most essential problems.
Therefore, people's prejudice or admiration for "Golden Age" is ultimately to clarify its meaning:
Why did Wang Xiaobo show a large number of "sexual depictions" in "The Golden Age"?
Of course, figuring out the significance of this question is not to make you completely fall in love with this controversial book, but whether you like it or not, you really understand Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age"!
In 1968, 16-year-old Wang Xiaobo came to Yunnan with great expectations in the call to "go up to the mountains and go to the countryside".
He thought that he could exert his ambitions in this jianghu, but he was limited by the double lack of material and spiritual.
But along with unsatisfactory circumstances came a delicate reflection on life and human nature; these ingredients, called "writing nourishment", were fully implanted in the Golden Age.
Any author who meets the narrow road of the Cultural Revolution, even if he tries to make elaborate mannerisms, will reveal the traces of the era in his works; but unlike the scar literature in those memories, Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age" has no sense of frustration and despair, but is full of deviant comics.
Because at the beginning of the novel, the question discussed is: Is Chen Qingyang a broken shoe?
The heroine, Chen Qingyang, was originally a doctor at Beijing Medical University, because her husband was imprisoned, and she was also organized to be sent to the countryside for reform; but she did not expect that in the remote Yunnan countryside, she was labeled as a "broken shoe" by the people around her.
Chen Qingyang's reason for being identified as a broken shoe is also very funny: because he is beautiful and has a beautiful body.
"Everyone thinks that a married woman should have a dark face and sagging breasts if she doesn't steal, but your face is not black and white, and your breasts are not sagging and towering, so naturally you are considered to be broken shoes." 」
In the law of groups, when individuals stand out from the group and show obvious differences, they are naturally targeted and attacked by the group.
This also determines that even if Chen Qingyang behaves obediently, because of his prominent appearance, he is still rejected and disliked by the mainstream group that has been suppressed by human nature.
In order to get rid of this stigmatization encounter, Chen Qingyang hoped to get the help of Zhiqing Wang Er to prove that he was not a broken shoe; but this defense of self-dignity was subtracted from Wang Er's seemingly unreliable but actually well-founded analysis:
"If you want to prove that you are not a broken shoe, you must prove your chastity; if you can't prove it, it can only become a broken shoe in everyone's heart." 」
Obviously, as a married woman, Chen Qingyang could not prove that she existed in chastity, but she was not willing to innocently bear the slander of reputation; so she chose to start a real physical pleasure with Wang Er, and get rid of the slander around her by becoming a real "broken shoe".
Turning disgusted rumors into facts of existence, and using the absurdity of individuals to counter the absurdity of groups, this is Chen Qingyang's special way of defending human dignity.
What's even more funny is that since Chen Qingyang openly had an affair with Wang Er, people around her have really withdrawn the title of her "broken shoe".
Whether it is Chen Qingyang's decision or the result of the development of the matter, it has a funny color of unclear meaning; but these ridiculous storylines are precisely The condensation of Wang Xiaobo's testimony to that special era.
The real background in "The Golden Age" is absurd, and human nature is also repressed; in the dilemma of the moral bottom line constantly moving backwards, the numbness and ignorance of human nature have become the mainstream of the world, making it difficult for truly sober people.
This dooms the state of "everyone in the world is drunk and awake" is no longer a kind of purity, but a problem of survival: because the power of the group is strong, and it can arbitrarily charge individuals with all kinds of false accusations; even if they are wronged, the parties cannot prove their innocence.
Therefore, the only way to deal with the absurd world is to choose a more absurd way.
Understanding this and analyzing Chen Qingyang's choice, we will find that her combination with Wang Er is not a moral degeneration, but the best protection of her own personality in a shocking and absurd environment.
To describe heavy things in a ridiculous way, this is also Wang Xiaobo's invincible black humor.
The uniqueness of "Golden Age" is undoubtedly to break free from the shackles of the environment of the times; in the conservative era of sexual discoloration, Wang Xiaobo is like a naughty child who goes against his way, and wakes up the sleepy world and literary world with overwhelming sexual depictions.
Those depictions of human lust are even more wonderful and straightforward, so that people are terrified and can't stop!
What is more valuable is that whether it is the human body structure or the joyful scene, Wang Xiaobo's tone is always calm and natural, and the word "sex" is controlled in the forbidden area of not crossing the fragrance.
It is also because of such outstanding depictions that the alternative status of "Golden Age" in the literary world has been established, and no one has surpassed it so far.
So, what exactly are these blunt and naked sexual depictions trying to express?
I think that in addition to superficially preaching people's lust to face up to primitive nature, Wang Xiaobo is even more shouting for the freedom of human nature bound by power!
For in that particular age, organization and instruction were greater than anything else, and it was like a shackle that imprisoned the freedom of human nature.
Even when two people have an intimate physical relationship, power dictates everyone's thoughts and desires for sex.
There is this description in the work:
Since Wang Er and Chen Qingyang's secret affair was known, in order to purify Turgen, the two moved to the mountain to live, and lived happily for a long time; but they did not expect that just after coming down the mountain, they were arrested by the organization to write account materials.
The content of the confessed materials is the details of the physical relationship between Wang Er and Chen Qingyang; even including the location, posture and feeling...
Moreover, Wang Er found that every time he wrote an account of the material, the more detailed the description of the sex life, the more satisfied the leaders were; he completely read the report material of the two as a pornographic novel.
It is not difficult to see that the right to once constrain people's code of conduct has become here a talisman for leaders to satisfy their personal desires and cover up ugly human nature; such a social phenomenon cannot help but be astonishing!
In the conservative years, Wang Er and Chen Qingyang described the details of sex in detail. Such behavior seems absurd, but it is actually the most normal and sober person in the absurd group.
Defend your own sexuality and face your own sexuality! These are two men who have been manipulated by power, the most utter rebellion against the absurdity and suffering of the absurd years.
Reading "The Golden Age" can be found that Wang Xiaobo's Chen Qingyang and Wang Er, whether in personality or thought, have always been incompatible with the environment of the big era.
In the years of radical group thinking, the two had no enthusiasm for politics and revolution; but because they could not break free from the shackles of the times, they could only use rebellious and subversive words and deeds to protect the soul that belonged to true freedom.
Resolutely being an interesting soul in the boring era, this precious spirit has also brought a precious golden age for the two.
Wang Xiaobo once said: Before writing "Golden Age", I never thought that I would write such a good work!
This work, which Wang Xiaobo regarded as a "darling", took 20 years to revise and complete, but because of the limitations of chronological cognition, it fell into the predicament that no one dared to publish; it was not until Zhao Jieping, the editor-in-chief of Huaxia Publishing House, risked being dismissed that the book was completed.
From being unloved to being admired, not only because "Golden Age" has the most scarce spiritual food in today's fast-food books, but also because Wang Xiaobo's frank and free soul.
Living in an era of careful words and deeds, he is constantly approaching the ideal life in the way of "I write my heart by hand"; this brave choice that is true to the heart is exactly what we need most now.
If you want to have the ability to create interesting souls in this complicated world, you may wish to check out Wang Xiaobo's works!
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