On the last day of the meeting, it turned into a literary salon again, with everyone talking about their own ideas and expressing themselves freely.
Art forms, the boundaries of novels, absurdity, symbolism, humor and other aesthetic categories in new novels...
As we talked about the evening, the literary and artistic circles and publishing houses in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were in "Louwailou" "The food manager holds a banquet.
Looking out through the window, you can see mountains and rivers in the distance. The scenery outside the building contrasts with the rock bonsai inside the building.
And the delicious food is quite delicious. River shrimp, lake crab, asparagus and water shield are all delicious.
Zhong Acheng and Wang Shuo learned the lesson about rice wine and no longer dared to touch any rice wine when drinking at the wine table.
Fang Yan, on the other hand, had a drink with Zhu Wei, Shi Tiesheng and others, "I'll have to help you take care of Tiesheng on the way."
Zhu Wei was very curious, "Teacher Fang, don't you follow me? one Are you going back to Yanjing?"
Shi Tiesheng smiled and said, "He should take this opportunity to make a detour to the Shanghai market first."
"Those who know me are Tiesheng. .”
Fang Yan is going to the "Once Upon a Time" movie crew to explore Gong Qie's class.
Li Xiaolin extended an invitation, "Yanzi, since you are going to Shanghai, why don't you come with us?"
Fang Yan agreed, but heard her complain that she was not interesting enough. I gave "Farewell My Concubine" to "Contemporary".
"Editor Li, I think your "Harvest" has also gained a lot this time."
Shi Tiesheng helped smooth things over, "We have collected so many root-seeking literature works and theoretical articles... ”
Fang Yan nodded repeatedly, "That's right, that's right, it doesn't matter even if my article "Farewell My Concubine" is not included."
"You can't say that."
Li Xiaolin's tone revealed Resentment.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that even ten or twenty other novels and critical articles about root-seeking literature may not be worth the value of "Farewell My Concubine", let alone , this novel was written by Fang Yan, the current standard-bearer of the root-seeking literary school.
Obviously the organizers of this seminar were "People's Literature" and "Harvest", but the biggest beneficiary was "Contemporary".
This is like marrying a wife. Li Yunlong dug around and saved some money, built a house, found someone to talk to matchmakers, gave betrothal gifts, and held banquets. When he finished his work, the bride was about to enter the bridal chamber, but there was no one to worry about. Well, Ding Wei picked it up ready-made and went straight into the bridal chamber.
"Sister Xiaolin, next time, next time I have a good manuscript, I will definitely think of "Harvest" first."
Fang Yan was troubled and had no choice but to show a sly smile.
Li Xiaolin said happily: "This is what you said, we are committed!"
"Haha, we are committed."
Fang Yan turned his head and then told Zhu Wei, Wang Fu and others.
If the novels, theoretical articles and conference content included in "People's Literature" are only published in the December issue, not only will the magazine's layout and length be limited, but more importantly, the time will be separated. If it takes too long, the timeliness is too poor, and you won’t be able to eat hot meals by then.
The limelight may be stolen by a group of newspapers and periodicals that are the first to report news related to the West Lake Conference and root-seeking literature.
Therefore, it is planned to set up a special supplement with the theme of "Root-seeking Literature" before the December issue of "People's Literature". However, Fangyan can think of it, and other literary journals can also think of it. Everyone can think of the first person to eat crabs.
Therefore, Jiangsu and Zhejiang newspapers and periodicals such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang Daily and West Lake took advantage of the right time and place to take the lead in reporting on the West Lake Conference.
For a time, it caused quite a stir in the East China literary world.
During the period when Dialect stayed in Shanghai, one publishing house after another rushed to promote "root-seeking literature". Not only did they write long articles, but they also reported and commented on the West Lake Conference, which had already been reduced to The popularity of root-seeking literature is heating up again.
For example, "Wenhui Po" in Shanghai City does not hesitate to praise and support "root-seeking literature":
"Aims to excavate and explore traditional culture and national cultural psychology in order to find national culture It is a trend of literary creation that pays attention to the origin of human culture, the root of national spirit and the root of personal life, and injects new ideas into contemporary Chinese literature. The vitality..."
Another example is Yanjing's "Literary Journal", which commented impartially:
"The birth of literature's 'root seeking' is inevitable. It is a self-protection mechanism to resist the invasion of Western literary schools and follow certain Western literary schools. Writers, "schools", even imitators No matter how good it is, it cannot become an original artistic creation. Chinese literature should be rooted in the 'traditional cultural soil' and spare no effort to dig out it, so that it can dialogue with 'world literature'..."
But compared to the support There are also many voices of opposition.
Writers who admire Western literary schools feel that root-seeking literature is "turning back the clock on history" and is a literary retroism trend like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. Literature should not look backward, but forward. Look, look to the west.
There are even more fanatical avant-garde literary critics who believe that "seeking roots" is purely a nationalist and conservative slogan.
It is too late to cut off this rotten root of traditional culture, and it cannot be kicked out even if it is kicked away. What is the point of looking for a literary school that seeks its roots?
Look for roots, look for roots, look for the roots of a bird!
There are many writers, editors and critics who regard "root-seeking" as the "spiritual guardians" and "braid army" of declining culture!
The “avant-garde” avant-garde literature camp is not pleased with it, and the “conservative” local literature camp is also displeased with it.
"Root-seeking literature" is nothing more than a parrot of Latin American magical realism. At best, it is a parody of "Roots" by the African-American writer Alex Haley. It's just "African roots", nothing special at all.
This is a forked road, a wrong road, a crooked road, and an evil road. It is no different than avant-garde literature where monsters and monsters are rampant!
Public opinion is fierce and one after another. The vanguard camp believes that root-seeking literature is too "conservative", while the local camp believes that root-seeking literature is too "avant-garde". The root-seeking literature genre is caught between radicals and conservatives. It is criticized by both sides and is criticized. Output, criticize and question fiercely.
However, the members of the root-seeking literary school are not vegetarians. They will not be beaten or scolded at will. They stand up one by one with full firepower.
As Commander Fang’s vanguard general, Han Shaogong was the first to stand up and shouted in the newspaper:
“Our roots are the East. The East has Eastern culture, the essence of our national culture. Keeping more outside the norms of the Central Plains... What is outside the norms is the 'root' we need, because they are distributed over the vast land and deeply rooted in the fertile soil of the people. We can dig out the hidden heritage of the Chinese nation's civilization and explore the culture. ”
Immediately afterwards, Ru Zhijuan publicly supported it, and then the third, fourth, fifth, and so on, all unanimously expressed the same point of view:
"Learning from the West cannot be based on the root causes." To solve one’s own problems, only one’s own history and culture are the key to solving the problem.”
As more and more people in the literary world join the discussion, the entire debate is likely to spread across the country.
“It’s so enjoyable, this battle is getting more and more enjoyable.”
In the bedroom, Fang Yan flipped through the "Literary Newspaper", and there was a pile of recently released books on hand. Literary newspaper.
"You can still laugh."
Gong Zhen said with a worried face; "Look at what these newspapers say about you, 'literary demon', 'retrograde element', 'the world is declining'..."
< br>"What does this mean? It's not the first time."
Facing the public criticism, Fang Yan smiled and said, "It happens every time. The word 'literary demon' has almost turned into a complimentary word for me. No, it should have become my proper noun. It's quite good!"< br>
"Is it really going to be okay?" Gong Xie asked with concern.
"Even if there is, that's a good thing!"
Fang Yan said: "It's just a matter of literati being scornful. In the end, the works have to speak for themselves. My answer is "Farewell My Concubine."" (End of Chapter)< br>