Chapter 819 Italian New Workers Literature
North by northwest, Lanzhou is beautiful
This is Fang Minghua’s second time coming to Lanzhou University.
The last time I went to Minqin, Gansu Province with Wu Tianmin to shoot "Into the Dust" was in 1981. In order to write a literary theory article, I made a special trip to Lanzhou University to check the information. Later, I was invited by Ke Yang, the director of the Chinese Department at the time, to give a lecture titled " Literary lecture on the past life, present life and domestic development history of stream-of-consciousness novels.
Eighteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.
This school doesn't look much different from before. It just has some more modern buildings and some of the old school buildings have disappeared.
But Jishi Hall is still there.
As the main library of Lanzhou University, it has witnessed the ups and downs that Lanzhou University has gone through over the past century. Unfortunately, this school has begun to decline.
But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. As a 985 school, it is still very famous in the northwest region.
For example, the library in front of you has a rich collection of books and already provides Internet access.
Fang Minghua spent three days in the library and consulted a large amount of information.
Although "private" writing appeared in the literary world after the mid-1990s, its origins can be traced back to the private novels that were introduced to China in the early 20th century.
"Private novels" are a special form of modern Japanese novels. It uses things around the writer or personal experiences as creative themes, and boldly describes the conflict between spirit and body. When it comes to "private novels" in modern Chinese literary circles, the typical writer is Yu Dafu.
In this era, network management was not so strict, and it was relatively convenient to access external networks. Fang Minghua also read some other literary theoretical schools, such as the neorealist writing that is currently popular in China.
The literature lecture was held on the afternoon of Saturday, May 29. Radar came to Erzhao in advance and accompanied Fang Minghua there.
It was still early and the two of them were chatting in the room.
"How was Zhang Ping's lecture?" Fang Minghua asked casually.
"It's quite popular, but some students ask too sharp questions, which makes Zhang Ping a little bit difficult to resist. This is how it is in university lectures. If you don't have anything to say, it's easy for the students to "gang up"
"What's the problem?" Fang Minghua asked curiously.
"Mainly for his award-winning novels, the doctoral students in the Chinese Department criticized his novels for being more readable but not literary enough."
Oh.
In fact, this is also a criticism of the neo-realist novels that are popular in the literary world. They are good-looking, but their shortcomings are gradually exposed: the reformers are described as "iron-fisted men" and typical examples of "blue sky". The protagonist Li Gaocheng in "The Choice" This tendency is also the main reason why the outside world is not optimistic about it.
Of course, another reason is that Zhang Ping is an excellent writer, but his literary theory is not very profound. This is a common problem among writers born in the 1950s and 1960s. This is related to the lack of systematic education.
Otherwise, you won’t be intimidated by the theories of the current group of master’s and doctoral students.
"Minghua, you won't be there for what happened to Zhang Ping. Those students can't help you." Radar finally said with a smile.
Damn it
Is this a compliment or a disservice to me?
At 2:30 in the afternoon, the lecture was held on time in the Wenxin Hall of Lanzhou University. The director of the School of Liberal Arts gave an introduction first, and there was warm applause in the auditorium.
The title of Fang Minghua's lecture today is "Japanese Private Novels and Chinese Personalized Writing." Fang Minghua first explained the origins between the two, and then the characteristics of personal writing that are now popular.
1. From the perspective of the experiential content narrated in the novel, private writing expresses a kind of private experience, private consciousness and unconsciousness.
2. Secondly, in terms of writing methods, most personal writing adopts "new memoir" or "new biographical" narrative. Whether it's Chen Ran's "Private Life" or Lin Bai's "One Man's War".
3. From the perspective of the author's role, the author of personal writing is a lowercase "I" (private person), not a capital "I" (group, people or public spokesperson). 4. From the perspective of writing motivation, the author is personal. The driving force for writing is personal psychological needs, especially unconscious and secret desires
For two hours, Fang Minghua talked about the causes, characteristics and existing problems of personal writing in simple and easy-to-understand terms.
Finally, the venue burst into warm applause.
To be honest, Fang Minghua has quite a lot of experience in studying literary theory. After all, he has decades more literary experience than others.
What's more, it's much more convenient to look up foreign language materials now that we have the Internet.
Next is the student question stage, which is also the most troublesome question for lecturers. Students have all kinds of questions.
"Private writing is not the private writing advocated by some female writers."
"Is Lu Xun's novel a kind of personal novel?" etc. Fang Minghua answered one by one.
At this time, a boy standing in the front row suddenly stood up and said loudly:
"Teacher Minghua, I listened to Teacher Zhang Ping's lecture a few days ago, and I strongly disagree with the views of neorealist literature he advocates. What is the difference between the protagonists in these novels and the Qingtian Master in ancient feudal society? I I wonder if there is no such type of novel abroad? ”
When the question came out, there was a lot of discussion in the auditorium.
Some people say what question are you asking?
This is obviously off topic. If you want to ask, you should ask Zhang Ping?
Of course, more students looked at Fang Minghua on the podium.
Because he wrote a similar novel "In the Name of the People"!
However, the protagonist of that novel is much more fleshed-out than "The Choice".
Fang Minghua decided to answer this question.
"First of all, this classmate, let me answer your first question: Are there any novels of this type abroad? There are many Chinese students, graduate students, and doctoral students here, who can answer it?"
Fang Minghua suddenly asked the question to the students in the auditorium.
After a while, a girl who looked very quiet stood up, and the host quickly handed the microphone to her. She
"New workers' literature emerged in Italy in the 1980s, and there were some novels that were very similar in style to Mr. Zhang Ping's "The Choice"."
"You are right. Can you talk about the new workers' literature?" Fang Minghua encouraged.
"I'm sorry, I just read some literature on this, but I didn't study it in depth." The girl was a little embarrassed.
Fang Minghua didn't feel embarrassed. He asked her to sit down and then said: "Then I will tell you about Italian New Workers' Literature."
"The most famous writer in Italy wrote the article "New working class writing: in the name of bread and roses". The "We want bread and roses" in the title refers to the slogan of the American labor movement in the 20th century. Bread is a metaphor for asking for food. The rose is a metaphor for meeting cultural needs.”
Characteristics of Italian new workers' literature: refusing to complain, adopting critical humor, adopting an attitude of collective responsibility, transcending realist novels, and experimenting with different genres and expressions
Fang Minghua continued to talk for another half an hour, and finally said: "Let me answer this student's first question again. "Decision" does have common problems in this type of novels in terms of character creation, but it does not negate this novel. The excellence of this kind of novel cannot be denied.”
Finally, he paused and said: "Let me reveal my personal news. I am also writing a novel about the working class."
(End of chapter)