Chapter 430 Yu Hua and Su Tong’s Anxiety
Chi Zijian was surprised when he heard this.
Wen, like the person he is, does not exist here at all in Yu Hua.
The two introduced each other and heard that each other was going to take the graduate class of Yan Normal University, so they chatted together and had a great time.
Don’t tell me, this guy Yu Hua is very humorous and very popular with women.
The meeting was held in the hotel conference room at 8:30 the next morning. After the leaders delivered enthusiastic speeches, it officially started.
At the meeting, everyone sorted out and reflected on the creative trends at that time, and had a lively discussion on the return of realism and how to return it.
At the meeting, Lu Yao, a famous writer from Qin Province, became the focus of the participants. His novel "The Ordinary World" became very popular last year, and he himself is also an adherent of realistic writing.
This time, Lu Yao did not talk about his previous works, but about his feelings during his visit to Italy.
“During the visit, we watched an Italian movie "The Miracle in Milan". In order for us Chinese audiences to understand, it was kindly translated into Chinese subtitles, and it was about being in an orphanage. The story of Doudou, an abandoned baby who grew up and lived in a slum outside Milan, where he led the poor to achieve a happy life. ”
"Why do I mention this film here? Because it is a representative work of Italian neorealist films. The neorealist films here are very similar to the new realist novels we are discussing now. According to Italian colleagues, this is after the avant-garde film movement. The second film aesthetic movement that emerged."
Lu Yao talked eloquently in his somewhat nasal Mandarin. Everyone listened attentively, and some even took notes in small notebooks.
How nice to talk about this!
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Fang Minghua is also very satisfied.
During the four-day symposium, everyone spoke freely about the text characteristics of new realistic novels, and finally everyone summarized a few points:
1. A rough and simple living state that does not obviously contain cultural connotations, and does not contain a heterogeneous and particularly imaginative flow of life.
2． A concise narrative without redundant descriptive elements, a unity of pure language state and pure life state.
Of course, it is mainly a few critics and leading writers like Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa - Jia Pingwa used his novel "Shangzhou" as an example to explain his views on the new era. A realistic novel perspective.
There are also Chi Li and Liu Zhenyun who have already achieved certain achievements and experience in small new reality creations.
Like Yu Hua and Su Tong, they basically sat quietly listening to what others said.
They have their own ideas and confusions.
Two people share a room.
At the symposium for young and middle-aged writers held in Xijing in 1986, both of them participated, so they knew each other. They discussed and listened to other people's speeches during the day, and exchanged each other's opinions in their own rooms at night when they were sleeping.
"Yu Hua, how do you feel about what they said today?" Su Tong asked.
"To be honest, the more I listen to it, the more confused I feel. It is completely contrary to some of the writing concepts I accepted before." Yu Hua made no secret of his views.
“The essence of avant-garde novels is modernism, while the essence of new realistic novels is realism. The two are inherently contradictory. The most significant difference lies in the gap in formal skills between them.” Su Tong, who attended Yan Normal University, has a deeper foundation in literary theory.
"You have been eating rice, and now I suddenly ask you to eat steamed buns. Of course you are not used to it."
After hearing what Su Tong said, Yu Hua laughed.
"Then tell me, is it possible to be used to eating rice and steamed buns at the same time?" Yu Hua suddenly asked a question.
Su Tong pondered for a moment and then said: "It's difficult! I personally think the two are contradictory."
"But according to Editor Fang's intention, it is obvious that the mainstream of the literary world will return to the mainstream again in the future. Come to reality." There was a hint of anxiety in Yu Hua's tone.
Su Tong understood Yu Hua's anxiety.
Although I am also classified as a avant-garde novel writer, compared with the fifth generation of avant-garde novel writers recognized in the literary world today - Ma Yuan, Hong Feng, Tashi Dawa, Can Xue, and Yu Hua , his "pioneer nature" seems not that sufficient.
Different from Ma Yuan’s fictitious experiments, and unlike Yu Hua’s obsession with violence and parody, his avant-garde novels are highly readable, and the lingering ambiguity of the Jiangnan water town is revealed between the lines. Feeling tired. If the literary world really returns to realist writing in the future, then his transformation pressure will not be as great as that of Yu Hua, so he will not be as anxious as the other party.
"How about we talk to Editor Fang?" Su Tong put forward his own idea.
"Okay, let's go now."
At this time, Fang Minghua was in his room talking to Bai Miao about the writer's contract.
"I have talked with Liu Zhenyun, Chi Li, Liu Heng, and Chi Zijian, and they are willing to sign the "Great God Agreement" with us," Bai Miao said.
Fang Minghua was very happy after hearing this: "That's enough. With these four people, plus the transformation of the original avant-garde writers into writing, our "Yanhe" can seize the new writing hot spots in the new literary world."
As they were chatting, they heard someone knocking on the door. Bai Miao went over to open the door and saw Yu Hua and Su Tong standing outside the door.
“Come in, come in.” Fang Minghua greeted warmly.
"Editor Fang, we would like to talk to you about some creative issues." Yu Hua got straight to the point.
"Okay, sit down. If you don't have anywhere to sit, just sit on the bed."
Seeing this posture, Bai Miao was about to go out, but was stopped by Fang Minghua. "Editor Bai, don't leave, let's listen together."
Bai Miao also sat down after hearing this.
Yu Hua had been in contact with Fang Minghua for a long time and was relatively familiar with them, so he expressed his doubts about Su Tong just now.
Fang Minghua was not surprised by the two people's doubts.
"Yu Hua, I will talk about the issue you mentioned at the seminar tomorrow. The novel itself is a natural formation. It is not something that a critic or editor came up with. It is not something that our "Yanhe" "puts forward a slogan for everyone to write about this. It's just that we see such a surging undercurrent, extract this narrative method and narrative strategy from the novel, let it surface, summarize and amplify it. ”
"Of course, the writers invited this time are all writers who have made some achievements in this field and have writing skills in this field."
"Editor Fang, what you mean is that Su Tong and I can write new stories." Realistic novel?" Yu Hua finally understood what he meant.
"Yes. How about I not invite Mo Yan, Ma Yuan, Liu Sola and the others? I even haven't invited Ge Fei for the time being." Fang Minghua's words were meaningful.
That seems to be the case.
Among the many writers participating in the conference, it seems that he and Su Tong are recognized as young writers of avant-garde novels.
Su Tong was overjoyed after hearing this.
But Yu Hua got even more headache after hearing this: "Editor Fang, you asked me to jump from modernism to realism all at once. I think it's a bit difficult."
"It's not difficult. This question is for me. I was supposed to talk about it tomorrow, but since you are here, I will tell you in advance." Fang Minghua smiled and took a sip of tea and said:
"The literary paths of realism and modernism are not two mutually exclusive paths. In the process of intersecting straight lines, they will eventually merge at the same point in their continuous extending movements, and this is the "new realistic novel"
"The gradual dissolution of the gap between the two. To make the gap clear, to break the critical point of distinction, and to turn it into a new style of writing, this is the goal of the creation of "new realistic novels". Realist novels and modernist novels in the strict sense will gradually disappear. The mutual penetration and complementarity of the two will form a new pattern of Chinese novel creation. ”
Fang Minghua talked eloquently.
Su Tong listened very carefully, and Yu Hua was a little confused.
After the two left, Bai Miao, who had been silent, spoke: "Editor Fang, you value these two very much."
"Yes." Fang Minghua did not hide it.
“The 1980s are almost over, and the most active people in the literary world in the 1990s were young writers, including them and Mo Yan.”
(End of this chapter)