Chapter 78 Zhou Guoping, two scholars from the same autobiography, questioned Yu Qiuyu's new "invention"

Xu Ying In the recent book market, two scholars' autobiographies have become the focus of attention, one is Yu Qiuyu's cultural autobiography; the other is the spiritual autobiography of philosopher Zhou Guoping. In his autobiography, Zhou Guoping wrote more about his sexual awakening and reflections on sex.He also admits that sex is not the selling point of the autobiography. Regarding Yu Qiuyu's autobiography, Zhou Guoping said: "Memory literature does not have the surname 'Yu'".But Zhou thinks it is difficult to compete with Yu Qiuyu in the market, "His market has always been very large, and I cannot have such ambitions."

Zhou Guoping questioned Yu Qiuyu's new "invention" - autobiography is "memory literature" autobiography is an account of oneself While everyone’s attention was focused on Yu Qiuyu’s cultural autobiography, another cultural scholar—a poet who wrote the documentary literature Niu Niu, Notes of a Father and the academic work Nietzsche: At the Turning Point of the Century, The spiritual autobiography of philosopher Zhou Guoping will also be on the market soon. Aiming at the fact that celebrities are writing autobiography earlier and earlier, Zhou Guoping put forward his own point of view.He believes that people of any age can write autobiographies, and so can young people, but the autobiographies written by different ages will be different.For Zhou Guoping, it is entirely possible to write his autobiography later. "The reason why I write now is not because I am afraid that my popularity will decline in the future, and my works will not be read, but because I am afraid that my spirit will decline, and the things I write will not be as good-looking as they are now."

Zhou Guoping believes that in the current book market, the autobiography of celebrities is too entertaining, and there is a lack of really good autobiographies like Rousseau and "The Autobiography of Duncan".Zhou Guoping hopes that he can write a more serious autobiography that records the history of his spiritual growth. Even if there are few readers, he doesn't care. "My autobiography is to have an account of myself, not to entertain the public." dare not compare In the preface of this spiritual autobiography, Zhou Guoping mentioned Rousseau twice.The reporter then asked him if he was suspected of deliberately comparing the new book with Rousseau's, and he clearly denied it.Zhou Guoping said that this gap is too big.His autobiography definitely has no such ambitions, and he doesn't expect it to become such a masterpiece.The reason why I mentioned it twice is that the first time I came at my fingertips, I felt that I had reached the age to write an autobiography, because Rousseau was only 58 years old when he finished it.Secondly, it is to illustrate that any autobiography is the author's description of his own image, and it is almost impossible for this description to completely exclude the elements of self-beautification.

Even if he is as frank as Rousseau, for example, when he confesses his bad deeds in China, he is proud of it while confessing it. Zhou Guoping said that he is no exception.But the only thing I can praise myself is that my writing attitude is still very serious, "I am really serious about asking myself to be honest. I can at least say that in this era when celebrities make a show, I am not showing off." Sex is not the selling point of autobiography What deserves people's attention is that in this autobiography, Zhou Guoping wrote more about his sexual awakening in childhood and his reflection on sex.The reporter asked Zhou Guoping, is it for selling points or for autobiography that such a straightforward description of this part of the content?Zhou Guoping said, "I don't want to pay such a high price for selling points. In fact, these topics are not unavoidable. This is not only privacy, but also a phenomenon of human nature. It troubles many people. I am Use a rational thinking to reflect on this issue."

Zhou Guoping especially does not want this book to attract so much attention because of this topic. "Some media have asked to select this part of the content, but I do not agree with it, for fear of misleading readers. I also warn the media not to extract fragments of the book to make gossip, that would be a serious blasphemy against the book. I only hope that when readers open this book, they believe that the author wrote it with a serious heart, so they are willing to read every word of it with the same heart." Memory literature is not surnamed "Yu" When it comes to memory literature, which is currently being hyped, Zhou Guoping said that he also knows this from the hype in the media.When asked whether his spiritual autobiography can also be included in Yu Qiuyu's newly created category of memory literature, he said, first of all, he doesn't know what Yu Qiuyu really means by memory literature. From a broad concept, all All autobiographies should be memory literature.Autobiography is first of all about memory, and it is also about literature. He does not think it is Yu Qiuyu's invention, nor does he think that memory literature has any characteristics.

When asked if he ever thought about competing with Yu Qiuyu in the market, Zhou Guoping said: "His market has always been very big, and I cannot have such ambitions."But Zhou Guoping said that he would still be interested in reading Yu Qiuyu's autobiography, because there are too few autobiographies of scholars.