While the good news spread in the delivery room, there was also good news about the "Journey to the West" crew raising funds.
Li Jingwei generously donated money and readily agreed to sponsor 3 million funds with Han Yuemin in the name of Jianlibao to help the crew of "Journey to the West" complete the filming of the remaining episodes. The two parties successfully reached a cooperation intention and An appointment was made to formally sign the "Agreement on Joint Investment and Production of the TV Series "Journey to the West"" at CCTV, and this is not the only good news.
Li Hongchang, the "centipede spirit", also successfully begged for help from the China Railway 11th Bureau, and also provided help in times of need with very favorable conditions.
These two sponsorships not only solved the immediate needs of the "Journey to the West" crew, but also gave Yang Jue greater creative space.
Originally, with the 3 million invested by Li Jingwei and Han Yuemin, the crew could only compress the series and reluctantly delete about 5 episodes. However, with the sponsorship of China Railway 11th Bureau, they were able to shoot a full The 30 episodes of "Journey to the West" are not the 25 incomplete episodes from the previous life.
In addition, Fang Yan and Gong Cie also provided free assistance to the "Journey to the West" crew in terms of software and hardware such as camera, wire, and special effects.
It can be said that this life's "Journey to the West" will be far ahead of the previous life in terms of funds, equipment, personnel, and morale.
Fang Yan left the matter of supporting the crew of "Journey to the West" to Gong Jie. He had a more important thing at the moment, which was the National Symposium for Young Writers.
Xiangshan in early November is like a sea of fiery red.
The cotinus leaves all over the mountains and plains are as red as flames, with golden and orange complementing each other, like a gorgeous oil painting.
Yu Hua, Wang Shuo, Zhong Acheng and other young writers from all over the country climbed up the stairs and arrived at the designated guest house one after another.
People from different literary schools such as modernism, avant-garde, root-seeking, youth pain literature, ethnic and regional literature, etc. gathered together.
Dialect has been waiting for a long time, and the editors of "People's Literature" such as Zhu Wei and Chen Xiaoman warmly welcomed him.
"Come on, let me introduce to you. This is Zhang Chengzhi, the writer who wrote such excellent works as "Golden Ranch" and "Black Horse"."
"This is Zhang Chengzhi." Liu Sola, her "You Have No Choice" is a representative work of today's popular youth pain literature."
"Xu Xing, haven't you wanted to know her a long time ago? Sola, he is the author of "Theme without Variations"."
"..."
Dialect shuttled among the crowd In it, young writers who are strangers to each other are introduced to each other, get closer and break down the barriers.
Thanks to the West Lake Conference jointly organized by "People's Literature" and "Harvest" before, the preparation and organization of this Xiangshan Conference were quite easy. Liu Jianqing, Zhu Wei, Wang Fuzhi, Wang Pingzhi and others did not A little bit of a rush, almost everything is covered.
In the whole room, there was no other topic except literature. Only in the golden age of literature could there be such vitality.
At this moment, a very tall man stood in front of Fang Yan, with a round face and small eyes. He stood out among the crowd. His whole person exuded a cold and arrogant temperament that would repel people thousands of miles away. When Zhu Wei saw this , lower your voice, and When reminded:
"Teacher Fang, he is Ma Yuan who wrote "LS River Goddess" and "The Temptation of Gangdise"."
"Are you Ma Yuan?"< br>
Fang Yan raised his eyebrows.
“I am Ma Yuan!”
Ma Yuan said in a loud voice, "Teacher Fang, I have wanted to meet you for a long time, and I finally meet you today!"
As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted the attention of most people. , staring at them vaguely, and whispering at the same time.
“Is he Ma Yuan?”
“It’s him! It was he who came up with the concepts of ‘narrative trap’ and ‘meta-narrative’, and made a big step forward in the exploration of literary narrative. Step!”
Listening to the subtle discussion, Wang Shuo asked Yu Hua quietly:
"I know about narrative traps. What is meta-narrative?"
"Meta-narrative is that in the narrative process of the novel, the writer moves from the background of the narrative to the front, directly participates in the narrative, exposes the fiction in the novel, and challenges The relationship between reality and fiction in Minglitou is not like that of magical realism, which can only be distinguished by the reader. ”
Yu Hua rolled his eyes angrily, "I told you to pay more attention to pure literature and stop thinking about popular literature, but you just didn't listen."
"I'm not interested in pure literature."
Wang Shuo curled his lips, "If you are not even interested in his narrative traps and meta-traps, why can't you be normal? Who can read such obscure writing?"
"There are quite a few. The 'form is greater than narrative' he created is quite eye-catching and is praised by many avant-garde writers."
Yu Hua said: "But Editor Wang, Teacher Fang, Zhu Wei They were all quite disgusted and thought it was divorce. He is a traitor and is out of touch with the masses."
"Isn't that right? In my opinion, he just can't write normal novels, so he specializes in this kind of heresy and is unconventional."
Wang. There was a trace of disdain in Shuo's tone.
Yu Hua said in surprise: "You seem to dislike him?"
"Of course!" Wang Shuo said, "Although he looks obedient to the other teacher on the surface, but look at that look in his eyes, he is so proud!"
Yu Hua followed his gaze and said, "You Don't tell me, it's true, just like you, I like the crack in the door Looking at people, people of the same sex really repel each other.”
“What the hell, I’m proud of myself, but my teacher respects and admires me from the bottom of my heart. God can tell me!”
Wang Shuo stretched out his five fingers and swore.
After all, as Fang Yan’s lackey, there is only one sun in the sky, Fang Xiaojiang!
Therefore, when I saw that Ma Yuan, who was surrounded and complimented by avant-garde writers, dared to override dialects and try to be the focus of everyone, I felt very unconvinced and dragged Zhong Acheng and Yu Hua into the crowd. , want to see what kind of fame he has.
“It’s really hard for you to come from Tibet.”
Fang Yan spoke politely.
"Fortunately, to be honest with Teacher Fang, I have actually been collecting stories in Yanjing during this period."
Ma Yuan only answered half of the answer. The other half he did not say was that he and the leaders of the unit It completely broke down, and the boss angrily told him not to come to work in the future, and then he caught the blame. It wasn't that he didn't want to go to work, but that the boss wouldn't let him go to work.
I haven't worked since then and I still get paid.
After all, with "LS River Goddess" and "The Temptation of Gangdise", he made a name for himself in the literary world and became one of the benchmarks for avant-garde writers. He also became the only one in the Tibetan literary world. Some top writers were naturally reluctant to be fired by their work units, so they were left to fend for themselves.
"What do you think after staying in Yanjing for so long?"
Fang Yan cast an inquiring look.
Ma Yuan said that he had no creative inspiration in Yanjing. On the contrary, the longer he wandered outside, the more he wanted to return to Tibet. Dialect said: "It sounds like the plateau full of mysticism in Tibet is the soil for your creation."
“You are absolutely right. What I heard and saw there was different from the environment in the city. Every time I passed by the Tibetans who were worshiping and praying, I felt They will all be deeply shocked, and always feel that there is no place that can be compared with Tibet Province.”
Ma Yuan is very lucky that he chose to work in Tibet Province when he was assigned to graduate, so that he could write "LS River Goddess". "The Temptation of Gangdise".
Of course, thanks to the dialect, not only did he introduce magical realism into the country, allowing him to learn the narrative techniques of this avant-garde literature, but he also waved the flag and set off a trend of exploring ethnic and regional literature, allowing him to He cast his creative perspective on the land of Tibet.
“This is all your own creation.”
Dialect said: "Where you are is avant-garde literature, in Acheng it is root-seeking literature, and in Xu The young writers whispered to each other and whispered.
"Teacher Fang, I liked reading your "Malice" the most before. I liked the narrative structure, tricks and traps in it the most."
Ma Yuan grinned and said: "My narrative Trap borrowed this part from you, but now, I like your "Hunting" best "Hunting", the magical realism in it is simply a frightening dream, it makes my whole soul tremble..."
"I like it very much that you can give such a high evaluation, But the content of your evaluation is still a little inaccurate.”
Fang Yan corrected: ""Hunting" is not magical. Instead of saying it is magical realism, it should be called hallucinatory realism."
"Teacher Fang, this is also my biggest question since watching "Hunting"."
Ma Yuan cannot tell the difference between magical realism and hallucination realism.
“The difference is very big. Just like the pastoral poetry school and the landscape pastoral poetry school, Tao Yuanming and others describe and praise pastoral life, while landscape pastoral poets such as Meng Haoran and Wang Wei not only focus on rural life scenes, but also pay attention to rural life scenes. Focusing on the detailed depiction of the beauty of landscapes."
Fang Yan said: "The same is true for magic realism and illusion realism."
Yu Hua suddenly became interested, and unconsciously pushed forward until he reached the front of the crowd. He heard in his ears:
"Magical realism is the combination of past and present, reality and fantasy, The boundaries between humans and ghosts, dialogue and monologue are blurred, creating a bizarre and unpredictable picture. Readers are often confused as to whether the novel is real life or an illusion. ”
“ Even the subject of the story It is often impossible to determine whether it is a person or a ghost, but hallucination realism, as the name suggests, "The object must be a person, but the magic is a dream. In Teacher Fang's "Hunting", stream of consciousness and "realism" are used. Associations, fantasies, and memories cannot be said to be magical realism just because Teacher Fang blends Chinese mythology and reality into dreams when describing dreams.”
“His~”
Everyone was shocked, especially the avant-garde headed by Ma Yuan. They watched the dialect talk about the origin of hallucinatory realism, from the Eastern dream culture to the witch culture.
And using the theory of comparative literature, compare it with the Latin American culture of magical realism.
"What does art rely on in the first place? It relies on imagination."
"Witches rely on rituals to hypnotize themselves, and then hypnotize others, and everyone enters a hypnotic state together."
"The power of a witch lies in imagination and making others believe in his imagination. Now every artist is a witch and hopes that other people, including other witches, will also recognize their imagination..."
Although Ma Yuan, Yu Hua and others did not fully understand, they were greatly shocked and tried their best to ponder and recall the dialect words.
Like Wang Shuo, he didn't understand either and could only shout "Awesome", but there are also talented people like Zhong Acheng who followed the dialect's ideas immediately. , draw inferences from one example:
"Teacher Fang said it well!"
"The core of the principles of existing art types, whether primitive, classical, modern, or contemporary, It was still established in the primitive witchcraft period, which lasted for eternity, and was not changed by the awakening of the axis period. For example, in sacrificial activities, it included avoiding evil spirits and exorcising ghosts, incantations, summoning souls and praying for rain, reading Feng Shui, and dragon and lion dances. , clam shell dance and other folk arts are all typical representatives of shaman culture.”
In an instant, most people present fell into deep thinking
Yu Hua couldn't help but ask: "Teacher Fang, will you write works of hallucinatory realism in the future?"
"It may not be possible."
Fang Yan was noncommittal.
Ma Yuan's eyes instantly shone: "Teacher Fang, you pioneered root-seeking literature, and now you have created hallucinatory realism. Are you planning to shift your creative direction to avant-garde literature?"
The avant-garde writers also became excited, while all the root-seeking groups were shocked and looked at Fang Yan.
Teacher Fang wants to abandon root-seeking literature?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
In the field of serious literature today, the avant-garde and root-seeking groups are the most popular, and the two groups have always been in tit-for-tat opposition.
If dialects now join the avant-garde literature camp, not only will the avant-garde gain a nuclear weapon, but the root-seeking faction will also lose its pillar, and the entire literary world will undergo earth-shaking changes.
But to everyone’s surprise, Fang Yan shook his head:
"Although "Hunting" is a work of hallucinatory realism, I think that I am involved in realism and not in the field of avant-garde literature, so it cannot be regarded as an avant-garde literary novel."
"Teacher Fang, You can’t say that!”
Ma Yuan and other avant-garde writers were immediately anxious and wanted to put on the cassock of “representative writer of avant-garde literature” immediately.
I don’t even hesitate to be a talker. It’s cold and I wear a dragon robe.
However, Dialect still didn’t buy it.
"The definition of realism cannot be based on nineteenth-century European literature. In my opinion, Kafka and Marquez are realist writers, but Borges and Beckett are not."
"What?!"
Not only Ma Yuan and other avant-garde writers, but also the root-seeking, modernists and other mediocre people were shocked.
“Isn’t Márquez a magical realist writer?”
Yu Hua was both eager and puzzled.
"Who told you that Márquez is a magical realist writer?" Fang Yan raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, "Marquez never admitted that he was a magical realist writer. He himself did not like this title at all, no matter it was When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded, I was still accepting it When interviewed by the media, they have always emphasized that they are realist writers. "
Yu Hua, Ma Yuan and others felt as if they were struck by lightning, their heads buzzed and their faces turned pale, just like Yang Dong and others. Physicists realize that "physics no longer exists" and the Taoist heart begins to break.
If Marquez, who is regarded as the banner and cornerstone of the avant-garde, denies that he is a magical realist writer, the avant-garde building will collapse, and the entire avant-garde literature will be completely finished...(End of this chapter)< br>