Chapter 579 578 Lu Yao wants to write a political novel
After Fang Minghua arranged the work, he went to the next room and saw Lu Yao.
"Brother Lu, what do you want from me?"
Lu Yao hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Actually, it's nothing important. I want to ask you about the disintegration of the Soviet Union. What do you think?"
Fang Minghua was stunned for a moment, but he still spoke.
"This is of course a major event that will profoundly change the political landscape of today's world. As for the reasons for disintegration, there are long-term rigid economic systems and highly centralized political systems, wrong ethnic policies, Western countries' implementation of the "peaceful evolution" strategy, etc. These are Something, the leaders of our Writers Association held a meeting yesterday, and it was also mentioned in the study document distributed above. Why did you suddenly ask this again today? "
"We talked about it in the meeting, and I also read a lot of news reports on this. Do you know that when I read this news in the newspaper, I couldn’t sleep at night? A country that once had great writers such as Gorky, Sholokhov, and Bunin disappeared.”
< br>"Well, the disintegration of the Soviet Union has little to do with literature. Russian literature is already very powerful. Before the Soviet Union, great literary giants like Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin were born." Fang Minghua explained.
"Yes. It's true." Lu Yao suddenly changed the topic and lowered his voice: "Hey, do you know? Qin Bei, something happened to a few veteran cadres, their wives were separated, and their families collapsed."
“I heard about it, what happened?”
"From the disintegration of the Soviet Union, I associate it with the collapse of several veteran cadre families. I plan to write a novel. Starting from these families, I will explore the relationship between life, family, and politics, analyze the fate of a country, and write a novel. The novel is called "Collapse." "Lu Yao said finally.
"Brother Lu, this is a political novel. "Fang Minghua smiled.
"Yes, I want to try it. I have been thinking about this issue for the past two days. "
"Okay, but there will be a seminar for reading class members soon. You are one of the members and cannot be absent. "Fang Minghua wanted to remind.
"Don't worry, it won't happen. I'm just starting to think about it now. It's still early to actually write it. ”
The two chatted for a while, mainly because Fang Minghua listened to Lu Yao's conception of the new novel. Fang Minghua suddenly felt that it was a bit like "The Sheep's Gate" written by Li Peifu.
"The Sheep's Gate" depicts the image of Hu Tiancheng, the head of Hujiapu who "has not failed for forty years".
His courage to successfully control the villagers is closely related to his far-sighted management of the "people field"; in forty years, he built a network from the township to the county, The huge network of relationships from the provincial capital to the capital ensured his miraculous power to control the wind and rain, and his brilliance of "only success and no failure".
It’s just that according to Lu Yao’s idea, the characters involved have higher power and higher levels. Instead of writing about one person, Hu Tiancheng, he wrote about several characters. It has been written since the liberation until now, and the scale is grand.
"Brother Lu, I'm just waiting to see your masterpiece." Fang Minghua finally smiled.
"It's still early. When the first draft is written, you can help me read it."
Lu Yao chatted for a while and then left. Fang Minghua was thinking about what happened just now, but he didn't expect Lu Yao to write a political novel.
On January 3, the preliminary evaluation meeting of the first World Chinese Literature Award Reading Class was held at the Tangcheng Hotel in Xijing. At the opening ceremony, in addition to Hu Cai representing the Qin Provincial Writers Association, provincial leaders in charge of culture also attended the venue. He delivered a passionate speech and welcomed more than 50 writers, editors, and literary critics from all over the country to Xijing.
I hope they will have a good meeting and select outstanding works, and also have a good time living and playing in Xijing!
Qin Provincial TV Station, Xijing TV Station, as well as "Guangming Daily" and "Qin Provincial Daily" and other media reported this meeting.
On the second day of the meeting, the members of the reading class got into intense work.
In twenty days, their task was to select five novels and five novels from many literary works. A novel, five short stories, five essays and five collections of poems, as finalists for the first Chinese Literature Award for Poetry. At that time, the jury members will select the best one from each of these five different types of literary works to become the winning work of this year's Literature Award.
Since the call for submissions for the first World Chinese Literature Award, a total of 48 novels, 101 novellas, 187 short stories, 154 essays and 65 volumes of poetry (collections) have been received. .
Selecting five works each from so many works is also an extremely arduous task.
According to the selection rules, the members of the reading class will conduct the first round of voting based on careful reading of the solicited works in the past few months.
The novel, poetry and prose groups will conduct secret voting on the manuscripts of each group. The literary works that receive more than half of the votes will enter the next round of selection, and the rest will be eliminated.
Then discuss in groups, each expressing his or her own opinion on a certain work, including its advantages and disadvantages, and then conduct a second round of voting.
Those with more than half of the votes will still advance to the next round of selection. If there are less than five works of a certain type that receive more than half of the votes in this round, all works will be considered shortlisted.
The third round of voting is based on the first two rounds. The selected works are arranged in order from high to low, and the top five are selected as finalists.
This concludes the preliminary evaluation of the entire reading class, and the final evaluation is the task of the 13 members of the judging panel.
Fang Minghua participated in the discussion as a reading class member of the novel group, including Lu Yao, Jia Pingwa, and Chen Zhongshi, while the other two reading class members from Qin Province, Bai Miao and Wang Yu, were in the prose poetry group.
To be honest, in the past few months, people who read novels have been dizzy every day, and they have written a thick book of reading notes.
Among the novels, Fang Minghua pays most attention to four novels.
"White Gate Willow" by Liu Sifen
"Shouting in the Drizzle" by Yu Hua
and "Oranges Are Red" by Qi Jun
There is also the short story "The Fragrance of Strange Mountains" written by the American writer Robert Oren Butler. 》.
Historically, "White Gate Willow" won the next Mao Dun Literature Award.
Although "Shouting in the Drizzle" is not as good as Yu Hua's "To Live", he later won the French Chevalier des Lettres et des Arts for this novel.
Fang Minghua believes that "Oranges Are Red" has the highest literary value among the novels from Hong Kong and Taiwan writers received in this call for submissions, and is even better than "Dumplings" submitted by Li Bihua this time.
As for Butler's "The Fragrance of Strange Mountains", it is one of the few novels written by a truly non-Chinese-speaking writer. The content is also very interesting - the encounter of a Vietnamese in New York in the context of the Vietnam War.
Fang Minghua wants to see how far these four novels can go in these rounds of voting.
(End of this chapter)