Text/Xia Lie Let's start with the novel.Fiction is not imitating the world of life.It is life itself, the world.Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, recently taught at the famous Norton Lectures at Harvard University. He said that "fiction is a second life."It makes readers feel that "the fictional world they encounter and enjoy is more real than the real world", and there is a kind of "illusory experience".This statement is reasonable but not new. The famous couplet in Taixu Illusion has this meaning, "The fake is true when it is true and it is false, and there is nothing to do." Cao Xueqin said that this is the confusion between the fictional world and the real world. It was created by my own writing, so "Jia Yucun (false words exist)" and "Zhen Shiyin (truth hidden)"—in other words, the novel is a world of "false words", where false words are false, the world is constructed, So we often say that novels are fictional art.

But I especially like the term "Second Life".Why do cats have nine lives, but humans live and die?God is fair, saying that human life is fragile, so let's live a few more times based on experience.Experience is to create an environment. It is an experience when you go to the south of the Yangtze River to see "look for osmanthus in the moon in the mountain temple, and watch the tide head on the pillow in the county pavilion". It is another kind of experience; you "you don't know the feeling of sorrow, you fall in love with the upper floors. You fall in love with the upper floors, and express your sorrows to write new words" is an experience, "now you know all the sorrows, and you want to say it. Hugh, but said it was a cool autumn" is another experience.

Experience the environment not only by physical space transfer, but a better way is the fictitious paper world of the novel.You may not be vain, but one of your personalities becomes Madame Bovary, and you feel that there is an irresistible desire that drives you to pursue the passion of life; Lun's Tang Juan or Jin Yong's Wei Xiaobao; you are really dissatisfied with this noisy and vulgar first life scene, the novel opens a random door for you, and you enter Haruki Murakami's end of the world and cold fairyland in a minute, where there is enough You enjoy solitude and oddities.In this way, the writers who created this second life are indeed talented. They are architects and liars. Drawing a bunch of characters gives you another experience, another life.I once said that the greatest function of a novel is to talk nonsense but make a big deal out of it. Good novelists actually accurately draw the extension lines of real life, and those extension lines we have learned in geometry class are dotted lines, but they show a fit. possible worlds.Therefore, God has many messengers, and this is one category.

Let's talk about the short story.A short story is a miser, but also a hard-working genius.A miser is one who saves money for himself and refuses to give more to others; a hard-working genius knows talent at first glance, but it is over soon. But I don't underestimate short stories, or relatively short novellas, among which the good stuff is much more refined.I have an impression that in the past ten or so years of reading Chinese contemporary pure literature novels, the achievement of short and medium stories is much higher than that of novels.This should not be my own opinion.And what's interesting is that because the traditional literary world is a paper culture, the order is like this-first publish short stories in literary journals, then publish medium-length ones, then publish long-form ones, and then publish books.As a result, I have seen a lot of good short and medium writers' long-form works are really horrible or mediocre.I can't help but think that maybe a good short story and a good long story are two abilities that cannot be combined.

Fortunately, online writing and publishing have no threshold, no cost, and no background. Depending on the "three nos", it is inevitable to have "three haves": there are those who are obsessive, those who are novice, and those who fill redundant texts—what I mean Yes, firstly, online novels, no matter stallion or danwen, are a paradise for YY (obscenity); secondly, many YY novels have collectively reduced to Xiaobai’s writing and intellectual state, there is no difficulty, nothing to talk about Skills and ingenuity, not to mention originality and depth; third, the longer the writing, the longer the writing, the long long long long long long, without seeing the Yellow River skyline flow. There are 3 million characters, 5 million characters, 8 million characters, and 10 million characters. This is "one" novel, everyone.I remember a meeting where the critic Wang Gan couldn’t help but compare it, saying that this is an “amazing output” and “more than 4 million words, which must surpass Ba Jin’s lifelong novel creation. I know that there are a few traditional literature that can be written particularly well. Su Tong, for example, has written less than 4 million words so far. Jia Pingwa may have a little more, and the total is estimated to be eight or nine million words.”Of course, this has something to do with the exchange of words by writers for rice in a certain period, with the production of words in the context of the cultural industry, and the habit of the audience waiting for you to add 10,000 words every day like waiting to watch a soap opera.However, are there any writers of really well-written short stories who plan to find a place to open a new auspicious shop?In particular, are there any spirits of heaven and earth who have emerged from the "three noes" environment of the Internet? !

So, we set up a big banner and wrote: short accent.If there are left and right facades, write respectively: one inch is long and one inch is strong; one inch is short and one inch is dangerous. ——Wen fighting is also like fighting in martial arts, with strong strengths and short dangers.A well-written novel is naturally strong. Lao Tzu said: "He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. He who overcomes others is powerful, and he who overcomes himself is strong." A well-written novel is completely a process of self-conquerment, and the mind must sink , The structure must be solid, and the physical strength must keep up.A well-written short story is naturally risky. Sun Tzu said: "That's why a good fighter has a dangerous situation and a short section. The momentum is like a crossbow, and the section is like a machine." It means that short stories not only have momentum, but also pay attention to the momentum. rhythm.

Therefore, Raymond Carver, the great American short story master, will pay special attention to the word "glance" when quoting VS Pritchett's definition of short stories-like "a glimpse of the corner of the eye when passing by", " It is the task of the writer of the short story to invest as much as he can in this glance, to mobilize his intellect and the literary technique to which he is able (his talent), to mobilize his sense of proportion and what is appropriate: what is there? How things are and how he sees them—unlike anyone else."These are the "dangers" of the short story, that is, the ways in which power is used.As for the rhythm of short stories, the Chinese also have their own set of traditions. If you think of such works as Shen Congwen's, Wang Zengqi's "Chen Xiaoshou", and A Cheng's works, you will definitely understand a certain short "tone".

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