Chapter 100 Preface to Chunping's Novel

A literary critic told me that writers who write novels that focus on reality are really full of enthusiasm, because Chinese readers, who are known as spectators, often ignore the writer's good intentions and are only obsessed with hunting for novelties and spying.And the bookseller told me that as long as the novel is close to the officialdom, it will sell well. I don't know whether it is the writer or the reader who should reflect.Writers have no right to ask readers to reflect, or to think things through themselves first.I have a stubborn idea: literature must focus on reality.There's an argument I don't want to understand: the tradition of Western literature

It's something out of nothing.The so-called evidence, the most extreme is Kafka.But even Kafka, no matter how I read it, is just a philosophical illustration of reality.Somehow, in the eyes of others, Kafka's novels are created out of nothing.For such people, literature created out of nothing is high-level literature.I don't even believe it. I have no choice but to focus on literature that focuses on reality.Chunping's novels are just like this.Officialdom is the biggest reality in China, and there is nothing we can do about it.If we say that in the past it was farming China, in the past fifty years it has been official China.I am also annoyed by people's excessive attention to officialdom.One day, the officialdom will no longer make people worry about it, and the river will be clear.

However, the water in the Yellow River was still muddy, so Chunping wanted to write about officialdom.This novel of his has most of the elements of real officialdom, it is almost original, vivid and intense, and it is embarrassing.In my humble opinion, this type of novel is the easiest to fall into a dilemma: if you stick to the truth, you will follow the footsteps of shady literature, which will only add to the entertainment of the audience; .Chunping must be more energetic than I am, because from the protagonist of this novel, I can see some kind of ideal. This year's affairs are almost too busy, so I will read Lu Xun again when I have time to spare.During the era of Lu Xun, the Beiping authorities prohibited women from keeping male dogs. It was said that it was not only harmful to health, but also indecent and harmful to the state.More than half a century later, China banned officials from having female secretaries and drivers.The same method but the same effect, it makes people smile.Mr. Lu Xun said that when soldiers call themselves Buddhists and officials wear rosary beads, Buddhism will be Nirvana.At present, some officials, no matter what kind of bastard they are, have not leaked the truth yet, and they all look like human beings, and their faces are full of moral paint.In a society where officials are simply judged by good or bad, moral image is more important than anything else.However, words must be called morality, and morality is also going to nirvana.Just like Chu Kuang's sigh: Feng Xi Feng Xi, He De's decline!

Lu Xun rummaged through thousands of years of Chinese history, and all he read was cannibalism; I rummaged through Lu Xun's writings, and all I read was despair.Lu Xun never thought that literature has much ability, but it is just "useless".Therefore, no matter whose novel you read, you don't have to take it too seriously, even if it is a good novel.