Chapter 695: The visitor is evil?
I originally wanted to ask him a few questions about this, but thought about it and forgot about it.
Although I am the chairman of the Writers' Association, this kind of academic discussion requires everyone to express his or her own opinions, and you cannot unify your thoughts.
Otherwise, as Wang Menggui serves as the vice chairman of the National Association of Associations, Zhang Binbin, an ordinary cadre, still scolds him?
After a day and two nights, the train arrived at Hangzhou Railway Station in the morning. The four of them bought a traffic map, piled on the bus and went straight to the hotel where the meeting was held - the West Lake Hotel.
The hotel is located to the west of the West Lake, with three sides facing the lake and one side facing the mountain. The scenery is very good.
The four of them rushed to the hotel to report. The place had become busier than usual. There were already some literati and writers from various places who came to report, and Fang Minghua knew many of them.
Zhang Xianliang, Feng Jicai, Han Shaogong, the younger Tie Nian, and Chi Zijian are basically leaders of the provincial writers' associations.
The meeting was held in the hotel conference room the next day. The host was Wang Meng, vice chairman of the Writers Association.
Others, the leaders first gave ceremonial speeches, affirming the importance and necessity of this meeting, etc. They were basically the routine of eight-part essays and had little nutrition.
On behalf of the Writers Association, Wang Meng delivered a speech on the theme of the meeting. His speech was very long, lasting two hours.
The main meaning is: the 1990s are about to pass halfway, and the entire social economy and humanistic environment have undergone tremendous changes compared with the 1980s.
In terms of literature, compared with the 1980s, many new phenomena and problems have emerged. On the one hand, our writers have become increasingly mature - a large number of young writers who originally emerged in the 1980s have now become The backbone of the literary world has written many excellent literary works.
But at the same time, the literary atmosphere in the entire society is deteriorating rapidly. People no longer have the passion for literary works that they had in the 1980s. This has brought great challenges to literature. Everyone started a discussion on this theme. Everyone expressed their opinions and offered suggestions for the development of Chinese literature.
Everyone resonates with Wang Meng’s speech to varying degrees. Times have indeed changed, and some writers are at a loss.
In the afternoon, there was a group discussion. However, the meeting was not divided into geographical regions or provinces according to the Northeast Group and Northwest Group as before. Instead, the list of participants was shuffled and divided into random groups.
Fang Minghua was assigned to the sixth group and arranged to be held in the 3rd conference room on the 4th floor.
There are about twenty people, some of whom I am familiar with, such as Zhang Xianliang, chairman of the Ningxia Writers Association, the leader of this group, and Han Shaogong from Hainan, etc., and some of whom I am not familiar with.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone started a discussion around Wang Meng's speech.
Of course everyone will not talk about this kind of speech in general terms. Everyone has prepared a speech - everyone has written it in advance, and Fang Minghua is no exception.
The first person to speak was the group leader Zhang Xianliang. As a big brother in the literary world, he is very important not only in Ningxia, but also in the entire domestic literary world.
The title of his speech is also very "thrilling"
"The literature of the 1990s is gray"
"When talking about the literature of the 1980s, there is a sense of certainty. Many people in the literary world today Writers, including those who came to the meeting this time, especially young writers such as Minghua, Mo Yan, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Liu Zhenyun, Liang Xiaosheng, Su Tong, etc., are either already quite famous or have published their debut or masterpieces. Their roots were deeply rooted in the soil of the 1980s, and their branches and leaves flourished in the 1990s.
People seemed to be pushed into writing in the 1990s, a period of social transformation, without any psychological preparation. There are many uncertainties.
There is a writer named Wang Qian who did not come to the meeting today. Not long ago he published a book called "Selected Essays of Wang Qian". He uses the word "bulk" to describe his newly published book.
In fact, "bulk" can also be used to describe the literary form of the 1990s. Writers "went overseas" to write for the market, film and television impacted literature, the circulation of literary journals declined rapidly, and serious literature was lost in the face of popular literature. Market competitiveness, and more importantly, "readers are dead" - this is a prediction 20 years in advance... The "bulk" phenomenon occurred because literature at that time became a victim of invisible violence, and This kind of invisible violence can be seen as the destructive shape of thought and culture after the rapid transformation of society, and it can no longer gather people's consensus and strength. Giving up literature has become a fate."
Zhang Xianliang was speaking, and Fang Minghua and Han Shaogong were sitting together, whispering.
"Hey, Minghua, I'm I found Zhang Xianliang’s speech a bit pessimistic. "Han Shaogong said.
"How about his title is called "Literature in the 1990s is Gray"?" Fang Minghua laughed softly.
“What do you think?”
“I generally agree with his statement, but there are still bright colors in the gray.”
“I am still relatively optimistic. I think literature It’s still very promising.”
Han Shaogong’s idea is not surprising. Unlike Zhang Xianliang, who was half businessman and half literary, Han Shaogong has been active in the literary world, including later organizing and planning the literary magazine "Tianya", and he has not left. literature.
It was Fang Minghua's turn to speak. The title of his speech was "The popularity of personal writing and the rise of best-sellers"
The content was very concise:
"With emerging writers Chen Ran, Lin Bai, Xu Xiaobin and other women Note that the writer's writing represents the tendency of personal writing: the core of the artistic style is the uniqueness of the writing method, rather than the personal nature of the content of experience.
"The other is the prevalence of best-sellers, which I will talk about here first. Let’s talk about the concept of bestsellers. "Fang Minghua took the manuscript and looked around and continued:
"The English name for best-sellers is Bestseller. The word originally originated in the United States in 1895. The American "Scholar" published the six best-selling books in bookstores in 19 cities. The title of the book, which is considered to be the first bestseller list in history. The characteristics of best-sellers are that they conform to the reading tastes of people at that time.
"For example, "White Deer Plain" by our provincial writer Chen Zhongshi, "Abandoned Capital" by Jia Pingwa, "Alive" by Yu Hua, and Wang Shuo's novels can all be considered best-sellers. Of course, the ones I wrote recently can also be considered bestsellers. Counting the bestsellers."
At this point, Fang Minghua emphasized: "I want to emphasize this. What's more, bestsellers are not necessarily good books, but they may also become famous. All this depends on whether the actual value can stand the test of time."
"Minghua, let me interrupt, don't. I dare not say, at least Wang Shuo’s novels will definitely not become masterpieces!” It was Han Shaogong who spoke. "
Fang Minghua smiled slightly and said nothing.
In the discussion on humanistic spirit, Han Shaogong also criticized Wang Shuo!
"Minghua, can we have a discussion on this issue? For example, can the "Jieyou Grocery Store" you just published become a famous book in the future?" A man's voice came from across from Fang Minghua.
He is a writer surnamed Liu. He is over sixty years old and his name is Liu Guowei. He is the vice chairman of the Writers Association of X Province.
Fang Minghua once read the novels written by him, and it felt like reading Haoran's "Sunny Sky" and "Golden Avenue".
Actually, Fang Minghua said that his best-selling book did not refer to "The Worry-Free Grocery Store".
This book has been published for several months, and its results cannot be compared with novels such as "Tian Xingjian" and "Gang's Piano", let alone last year's popular "In the Name of the People"
I wonder why he suddenly promoted this book?
It seems like there are some bad intentions?
(End of this chapter)