After dinner, like everyone else, Tie Ning and Wang Anyi returned to their rooms.
As soon as he closed the door, Wang Anyi couldn't wait to open the title page of the novel: "Farewell My Concubine?"
"A classic piece of Peking Opera."
Tie Ning said: " Didn't Yan Zi say it when we were eating just now? He incorporated opera art and Peking Opera culture into it. "So, "Farewell My Concubine" is also a roots-seeking novel." Wang Anyi gave it a look. Bright and bright.
Tiening nodded and turned his attention to the densely packed words on the paper.
From Cheng Dieyi cutting off his fingers to learn skills, to Cheng Dieyi changing from a "boy" to a "female girl", to Juxian breaking into Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi's relationship, the story begins Ring after ring, gradually, both of them fell into the words of "Farewell My Concubine".
"Tie Ning, do you think the relationship between these three people is a bit complicated?"
Wang Anyi said weakly: "It is obviously a story about two men and a woman, but it is like It’s an entanglement between two women and a man.”
“Yanzi’s writing is more avant-garde, more avant-garde, and comfortable. We need to criticize it from an artistic perspective.”
Tiening's eyes were shining, as if he had awakened some extraordinary attribute.
The night sky outside the window is as black as ink, and everything is silent. The lights in the house are always bright as day, and remain bright until daytime.
The sky is bright and the sky is white.
"Hiss, hiss..."
Wang Anyi's eyes are red, but it is not because he has not slept all night and lacks sleep. It is because he occasionally sobs, often occasionally, he cries red forcibly.
When "Farewell My Concubine" turned to the last page, I couldn't help but sigh: "The king is exhausted, how can I live a life for this humble concubine!"
"No, no, no." Tiening shook his head.
"What's wrong?" Wang Anyi was stunned, "Did I pronounce it wrong? No, the original sentence of "He Xiang Wang Ge" is like this."
"What I meant Is it useless? Yes, what kind of overlord is Duan Xiaolou worthy of "The Song of King Xiang"? "
Tie Ning hated the iron and said: "Concubine Yu is the real concubine, but the overlord is a fake overlord!"
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Wang Anyi deeply agreed, "Cheng Dieyi is really a pitiful and pitiful person who has been teased by fate and time."
At this moment, dazzling sunlight shined through the window. Their faces were shining directly into their red eyes.
"Ah, it's dawn!"
Wang Anyi realized that the two of them had watched "Farewell My Concubine" for a whole night.
“This kind of work is worth spending a few nights watching!”
Tiening stretched himself, and instead of feeling tired, he was in high spirits and wished he could talk in dialect for an hour.
Yanzi, your "Farewell My Concubine" really makes me happy!
They are not the only ones who have such thoughts, but everyone who has watched "Farewell My Concubine" is extremely excited.
Everywhere in the corridor, in the cafeteria, or in the entire sanatorium, people were discussing "Farewell My Concubine."
“Ha~”
Gu Hua let out a long yawn and passed by Wang Anyi.
Tie Ning was very curious, "Lao Gu, didn't you sleep well last night?"
Gu Hua said: "What makes you sleep well? I didn't sleep at all. I watched it with Shao Gong. One night's "Farewell My Concubine".
"You guys stayed up late to watch too." Wang Anyi was surprised and happy, "I thought it was just me and Tiening who did this."
"It's not just us, look at the big guys, I basically watched it all night.”
Gu Hua glanced around and said, "Yanzi's book is really addictive. I can't sleep until I finish reading it."
As soon as these words came out, other people in the cafeteria immediately echoed. .
Although Zheng Yi, Ji Hongzhen, Zhong Acheng, Ke Yunlu, Jia Pingwa and others also stayed up all night, as long as they talked about "Farewell My Concubine", they all felt as if they had been given blood. , chattering endlessly sharing his thoughts after reading.
"I originally thought that the "Once Upon a Time" trilogy was a creative peak for Yanzi, but I didn't expect that he would reach a new level!"
"Yes, Yanzi's realm I’m afraid I can’t even match it.”
"I have a hunch that "Farewell My Concubine" will be a milestone in root-seeking literature, no, a milestone in contemporary Chinese literature!"
"..."
"I think we are today Let’s not talk about any other topics. Let’s talk about “Farewell My Concubine”. What do you think? How is it?"
No one had any objection. Suddenly, a voice came out from the crowd, "Where is the Yanzi man? Why didn't you see him?"
Tie Ning looked around, looking for him. Fang Yan saw him going downstairs with magazine editors such as Li Xiaolin, Zhang Zhonge, Ru Zhijuan and others.
"Yanzi, you haven't decided which company will publish this manuscript yet?" Li Xiaolin asked.
“It’s agreed, it’s already been agreed.”
Before the dialect could speak, Zhang Zhonge immediately declared the sovereignty of "Contemporary" magazine over "Farewell My Concubine".
“This is wrong.”
Li Xiaolin said that the entire seminar was jointly sponsored by "People's Literature" and "Harvest", since "Farewell My Concubine" was circulated during the seminar Come on, it should be published by one of them, either in "Harvest" or in "People's Literature".
Why should we feed cooked duck into the mouth of "Contemporary"?
“Our "Contemporary" and "People's Literature" are both journals under the Humanities Society."
Zhang Zhong'e also argued with reason. "Contemporary" and "People's Literature" are different parents. My brother! Blood is thicker than blood!
The editors of magazines such as "Shanghai Literature", "Flower City", and "West Lake" were not far behind and started to compete.
Everyone knows how high the literary and artistic value contained in this novel is, at least as high as three or four floors.
"There's no rush, no hurry. It won't be too late to decide after the seminar."
Fang Yan couldn't bear the disturbance and resorted to procrastination.
After finally escaping from the "wolf's den" of the editors, he "accidentally" ran into the "tiger's mouth" of Tiening and others.
"Yanzi, I'm waiting for you, come on, come on!"
Wang Anyi waved excitedly.
Seeing that everyone was ready to fight for 300 rounds, Fang Yan advised: "Everyone has been watching all night, why don't you go back and take a rest first?"
"There is no need to rest, we want to have a good talk now. Talk about "Farewell My Concubine"! "What Han Shaogong said was the answer everyone wanted to say.
“Look at you, you are in a hurry.”
Fang Yan said: “There are some people who haven’t watched or haven’t finished "Farewell My Concubine" Yes." Then he suggested: "In my opinion, it is better to take advantage of this time to have a good rest and recuperate. If you really don't want to rest, you can also take some notes on your experiences. When the time comes for discussion, it will be more targeted. It’s true.”
Everyone thought about it again and again, and felt that it was not unreasonable, so they readily agreed and went back to the house to rest.
The originally bustling living room suddenly became deserted, with only a few people left.
"Leave aside "Farewell My Concubine" for now, let's talk about Ma Yuan and "The Temptation of Gangdise" first."
Fang Yan pushed Shi Tiesheng's wheelchair and put him Push it in front of everyone.
Shi Tiesheng said: "To be honest, forgive my limited ability. I watched "The Temptation of Gangdise" for a long time last night and still couldn't understand it."
"Tiesheng, it's not surprising that you can't understand it. This novel doesn't have a complete storyline at all, and its meaning is also unclear."
Han Shaogong said unceremoniously: "There is no logic and technique of normal narrative, and it is also I don’t know if it’s intentional or accidental?”
Fang Yan said: “ I feel like this was intentional and careless, just some kind of experiment in narrative structure.”
“I agree with Teacher Fang’s point of view!”
Yu Hua clearly supported Ma. Yuan's narrative exploration, praised as "a unique way of creatively twisting and transforming it beyond recognition".
Fang Yan encouraged: "Go on."
"I think he is a veteran in playing narrative traps, a paranoid methodologist in novels."
Yu Hua said: "Even in some narratives In terms of technique and structure, there are traces of imitating "Malevolence""
""The Temptation of Gangdis" and "Malevolence". The difference is quite big."
Fang Yan shook his head and smiled, holding out his first finger, "First of all, the narrative structure and narrative techniques I use are the methods and routines commonly used in mystery novels. But what Ma Yuan uses is more like the technique of magical realism, in terms of time, person, space, etc., the virtual and the real.”
"That's right!"
Ru Zhijuan nodded and said: ""The Temptation of Gangdise" has been realizing the transformation between reality and fiction in the content by changing the narrator's person without prompting. Because there is no clear prompt or clear The context is easy to be confused when you first read it.”
“This is the second point I want to make, the narrative and content”
Dialect. The second finger, "The order of general novel creation is Write from the beginning to the end, but this is not necessarily the case for mystery novels. Like my "Malevolence", I write from the end to the beginning, from 'effect' to 'cause'. The advantage of this is that no matter whether it is in reverse order in the middle , narration, flashback, omission, As long as the logical relationships such as causality and character relationships remain unchanged..."
Then he smiled and said: "No matter how complicated the narrative is, no matter how suspenseful and messy it seems, the content is complete and clear. "
Shi Tiesheng agreed very much, took a picture of the manuscript of "The Temptation of Gangdise" and said:
"I always feel that this Ma Yuan seems to be endlessly looking for his narrative method, or in other words, he has been endlessly searching for it. His way of telling stories gives me the feeling that he wrote a bizarre story just to try out this narrative structure."
"Yes! Yan Zi and Ma Yuanquan. Of course, they all designed narrative traps and did so deliberately, but Yanzi did this to make the mystery novel full of suspense and more readable. However, Ma Yuan took a deviant approach and put the narrative form above the narrative itself. "
Han Shaogong said: "The result is that the story is not clear and cannot be explained clearly."
"Teacher Fang, can't it be written this way?"
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Yu Hua believes that literature is not only about “what to write” but also “how to write”.
What is unique about Ma Yuan’s novels is precisely that they do not put the drama of the novel’s story and the potential of its content first, but instead put the stylistic elements of literature, narrative techniques, narrators and people. The intricate connections between the protagonists are regarded as the focus.
“I agree with this kind of experimental behavior in narrative form. Just like in foreign rock music, there is a type called ‘experimental rock’.”
Fang Yan said: “But I personally don’t recommend it. This narrative approach does not serve the content. ”
“ But isn’t that what magical realism is like? At first glance, it looks supernatural and fake, but upon closer inspection, it’s real and realistic,” Yu Hua said, “I think the reason why Ma Yuan’s narrative seems vague and uncertain is. It just blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction..."
Han Shaogong, Ru Zhijuan and others looked at each other with helplessness.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, a piece of "magic realism", has fascinated a group of contemporary Chinese writers.
Fang Yan frowned, "According to martial arts novels, if you take such an eccentric approach, you can easily become obsessed with evil."
Most young writers these days have a sense of rebellion and feel that tradition The literary forms of Chinese novels are too rigid and they are eager to break the old literary forms and "modernize" and "internationalize" Chinese novels to keep up with world literature.
As a result, I relied on Western literary schools and became "avant-garde" in terms of techniques and concepts.
For example, Ma Yuan is a representative of the narrative revolution, and his signature techniques are "meta-narrative" and "narrative trap".
Another example is Can Qi, who is a representative of survival exploration. He studied existential literature, and his novels are all about "hell on earth."
However, the reason why this group of writers want to experiment with narrative language and narrative methods is just like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige who made the movie pictures and colors beautiful. The ability to tell a good story.
Therefore, avant-garde literature is often said to be "niche literature" where writers enclose their own territories and are alienated from readers and not grounded.
“Obsessed? Teacher Fang, why do you say this?”
Yu Hua blinked his doubtful eyes.
Fang Yan looked at him meaningfully, and immediately thought of realist novels such as "Alive", "Brothers", and "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood".
As one of the few writers in avant-garde literature who can write good stories, I feel it is necessary to give him a warning.
"If you think about it, if you think about it carefully, there may be two ways to solve a mathematical problem, there may be three ways to solve it, but are there countless ways?"
"The various aspects of the novel The more possibilities are experimented with, the smaller the space and meaning for exploration of narrative techniques and textual language becomes.”
"Just like why the literati of the Song Dynasty wrote 'Song Poems' instead of continuing to explore 'Tang Poems', because the 'Tang Poems' had been almost finished by the literati of the Tang Dynasty. It was even an exaggeration to say that they had already written all of them, and most of the authors would have lost The space, motivation and goal of creation.”
“And a handful of people who persevere may reach the extreme, like "Three Chapters of Meiling""
"Beheaded Today. How do you feel about starting a business? It's hard to go to Quantai to recruit old people, and you can kill Yan Luo with a hundred thousand banners." The world is full of flowers of freedom.”
“But it is also possible to go to extremes, and it is easy to go to extremes. Do you see this trend in magical realism now?”
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Yu Hua felt that it made sense. He was speechless for a moment, with confusion in his eyes. Where would his future literary path go?
Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind. I looked up at the Big Dipper and thought of Teacher Fang!
Teacher Fang is a guiding light in the literary world!
Follow me, Teacher Fang! You must cover me! (End of chapter)