Chapter 49 appendix

Appendix I Pursue plain Horton In the mid-1980s, I met a friend who was a writer, and he said to me: "The skill of writing is no skill." He said it was said by the old writer Ba Jin.I didn't think much of it at the time, my head was in the vortex of modernist novels in circles.But over the years, I have read so many books, and in order to write the novel well, I have also read a lot of articles on writing skills. The book and the experience of famous writers at home and abroad talking about the art of novels, but what really influenced me was "the skill of writing is the lack of skill."

"Couple"! Whenever I want to play tricks in my writing, this sentence fills my mind. I understand the old man Ba ​​Jin The meaning of the sentence is to pursue plainness.The so-called plain, of course, is plain and simple.In my opinion, this is a high realm. A friend with good taste once told me that he doesn't read magazines at all now because he finds them tiresome to read. Naturally, this is due to some writers playing tricks, such as marking punctuation marks, turning the time upside down, and writing with a pen. Wandering vigorously in dreams and so on.After reading one or two articles, I feel fresh, but after reading too many, I feel bored. In addition, I also deeply feel that these

Writers are all sons of foreign modernists, or even grandsons, so they fully reveal their lack of intelligence Come.I think the loss of readers of the publication has something to do with these writers.Readers read books to kill the extra time in the day Time, not to follow the writer's head.Since it is so strenuous to read, of course people might as well read "Popular Cinema" Or "Overseas Nebula" or something.I never looked at it this way before, on the contrary, I always wanted to make something different from others in my novels things, so I often use some brains on the structure.Of course it's a lot of work.I wrote "Three Trees" and "Moon Soul"

It is written like this.I deliberately messed up the chronological order of the story development, divided them into pieces and staggered them one by one, and the time went by. Jumping here and there and jumping over, the result is not ideal.Although, some people once said to me that it is interesting to write like that, but I myself I don't think it means much.When I wrote the two novels "That's It" and "We Are Like Sunflowers", I abandoned Instead of those thoughts, he used the old man Ba ​​Jin's "no skill" to spur himself, telling himself to try his best to be "flat".

Simple" on the road. I majored in fine arts, oil painting. When I was admitted to university, my dream was to be a painter like Miller. Interest gradually turned to literature, probably this is a fateful thing.No, maybe there is nothing in the literary world now pause.I lived very discouraged in the late 1980s, with only a cabinet of books and two drawers of unpublished works in my house (later moved house three times, burned these manuscripts), and had nothing else.In the midst of my wife's complaints, I can't speak confidently After reading and writing while sitting at the desk, I gave up my pen and went to decorate, and actually made some money.But the heart determined to literature is not dead, here

In the interval between one renovation and another, I wrote a novella "Life Is Not Guilty", which was submitted to this publication and that publication. I was treated as a rejection of the manuscript, and then I mustered up the courage to submit it to the one I admire very much. I didn't expect it to be in the hand of Xiao Yuanmin. sent.This Xiao Yuanmin is of course Xiao Yuanmin!In the past few years, I naturally haven't done any decoration, even though I pretend to be Huby writes novels to make money!I am a person who relies entirely on writing to support my daughter, so I am more diligent.

In my writing, I stick to the principle of "Actions are made by thinking, and ruined by following".This sentence was said by Han Yu. I once copied this sentence on paper, It was also posted on a note board as a motto for my daily writing.I usually have an idea, and the idea is in my mind After thinking about it, I write every morning (I don’t rest until I write 3,000 words), read books in the afternoon, and go out in the evening Play, get acquainted with the friends you want to be acquainted with, and add some life materials.I'm currently writing a book titled Big Water His novel is not about flood fighting and disaster relief, but about the oppression of a young couple in today's society.

Explore something about human nature. Appendix II Horton: "The Late Generation" and Secular Care one, As the cover character of "Fiction World" published in June this year, Horton sitting in front of me has lost that steel brush At home, he wears shorts and shirtless, smokes "Baisha" cigarettes, and talks casually in Changsha dialect. It made me feel him and his shocking novel realm more truly. The term "late generation" has recently emerged in the literary world to distinguish it from the "new generation" that focused on the description of secular life in the past two years.

Realistic" writers, such as Liu Heng, Liu Zhenyun, Chi Li, Su Tong, etc., and He Dun is considered to be the representative of the "late generation" one of the characters.This kind of boldness to face the mundane world and his calm approach constitute the compelling landscape of the works of the "late generation". However, when I asked Horton what he thought of this definition, he said that what "generation" is not "generation" is the opinion of critics. rowing method.He only recognizes one thing, which is to write the novel as "like" as possible, so that people will say "oh" after reading it.just like this

thing. Horton, who became famous in the novella "Life Is Not Guilty" since 1993, has since been published in "The Great "Home", "Zhongshan", "Shanghai Literature" and other pure literature magazines appeared repeatedly and out of control, and let the familiar and People who are not familiar with him will give a long or short "oh" after reading.Among them, "We Are Like Sunflowers", "Just Like This" Things", "I Don't Want Things", "Hello, Brother", "The Sun Is Very Good", etc. are particularly eye-catching

head.Du Xian and Zhang Yimou bought the film and television adaptation rights for the first two parts (long stories) respectively.Horton has published 4 medium A collection of novels, and a multi-volume collection of essays is awaiting publication.When people talk about pure literature, they are a bit unreasonable Nowadays, Horton's works are appearing inadvertently one after another, which is undoubtedly a bit surprising. two, He changed his name to Heton because of his admiration for the American military prodigy General Patton. In fact, he started developing as early as 1989. It was only in 1993 that he published the novella "Life Is Not Guilty", which received a great response and made him start from literature. Come out of the trough of dreams, and therefore summon up courage.In the years when people went to sea one after another, he has been working for several years The little decoration boss stepped out, sat in front of the computer at home, and paved his way to professional literature word by word. Horton's works are full of concern for urban secular life.He has also written about farmers, teachers, college students, etc. But what really finds its place is the portrayal of the urban "new human beings" emerging from the social and economic changes in the 1990s.From The experience of resigning from the school to doing decoration by himself made it possible for him to get in touch with these various people who "mixed in the society" Get in touch, and sometimes be a part of it yourself. "Misc" in Changsha dialect means that you must have a little skill to be able to be socially In terms of footing, the word "mixed" reveals their lifestyle and value choices.These people are in the new market environment Existence, they do not rely on wages to support themselves, but to obtain the basic resources of life in the market, by sharpening their heads To earn money, and obtain psychological and physical comfort in it.They are not rich, they are self-employed Group of people: maybe just open a motorcycle repair shop or a betel cigarette stand, set up a fashion boutique or a home appliance store, Or buy a minibus and drive it, sell and smuggle some foreign cigarettes and electrical appliances, at most become the boss of a decoration company or The director of a 100-page curtain factory and the manager of a dance hall.They form the shielding aspect of the entire city.their emotions Confidence and behavior are not the same as those of the street stall owners when they first opened in the early 1980s, but they are in the same vein Inheritance.Many of them earn a living by instinctive desire.Money and sex are their unabashed pleasures in life. medicine.They can work for themselves day and night, and after they are done, they can go to the dance hall to sway their blood and sweat. They dare to wear 8 gold rings on one hand and 4 earrings on each ear.I am loyal to my buddies, they are so nice except for their wives He can share and share.But when talking about brutality and ruthlessness outside, if a word is not convenient, you can go to war.Many times, they are They live by instinct, and because of this, prisons, jails, and detention centers are their seemingly ordinary places, and death God is always present too.Horton said: This is why he always deals with death and prison in his novels. Horton said that a good work should be writing about life, not talking about life, let alone inventing a dreamlike story out of life. world. three, The rich contemporary urban style and local taste pervading Horton's works is an important reason for his novels to be good-looking. because.He Dun's writing about Changsha is just like Jia Pingwa's writing about Xi'an and Chi Li's writing about Wuhan. The works are different. The proper use of dialects and the wonderful analogies that are readily available make Horton's works pleasing to many readers.Such as "bao Libaoqi" is much more vivid than stupidity, and "presumptuous and ruthless" is much more vivid than hard work. Not to mention that the person has no money, But he said "he was parched" and so on and so forth.Many readers in Lanzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing saw this completely unfamiliar words, They are all amazing, and there is no language barrier. Horton said that secular and concrete life is the most charming, and language is the key to vivid and attractive works.Big After studying oil painting in school, he picked up the pen to write novels.Nature also imperceptibly applies the skills of painting to language superior.He said to make people able to use their hands To touch the characters in the works and write the texture of life.If he describes a life with a pair of chestnut eyes or The eyes of a parrot, the mouth of a silver carp, and the face of a betel nut shell; it is said that the person's eyes are sunken, and he is called Chi with a pair of eyes hiding in the shade of a tree. Underneath, open two rotten leaves (eyelids) from time to time... He Dun is good at using false things with real things that people are familiar with. To make a vivid analogy with things, in this way, the elusive feeling can be touched with hands. Four, Horton, who now "goes ashore" and writes for a living, says that he is at his best right now.sit at computer every day Typing three or four thousand words before made him feel that he had found a free way of life and work.On the one hand, he believes that literature is a holy I dare not have the slightest element of "playing" in my dreams. On the other hand, I regard the current way of life as a teacher teaching, doing work, etc. Working in the department and working as a worker are commonplace, just another means of earning a living.Some people go to sea, and some people go ashore, He said that in this free life, there will be neither Huang Shiren's dunning nor Liu Wencai's oppression. If you really can't support your family because of this, then change careers. Horton has published one novel and three novellas in the first half of this year.Ruling is writing a novel about growing up in the 1960s A novel written by a group of educated youths from Sha to Jiangyong.For this purpose, he revisited nearly a hundred educated youths at that time.The film is tentatively titled "Looking at Life" The novel is his carefully constructed work in recent years.He said confidently that it might surprise you then. Originally published in "Shenzhen Special Zone News" Zhou Guohe Appendix III sunshine and wilderness Sunshine and wilderness are two important images in Horton's novels, which profoundly reveal the It shows the spiritual situation of the protagonist Ma Min in the novel and the Ma Min people in real life.I always thought that holding the "life" The basic belief of "living innocent" is that the Ma people who pursue worldly pleasures must also be very satisfied spiritually. As already People who get rich first beyond the goal of the entire nation (a well-off life), the cars and bungalows they own, It is not just a simple enjoyment, but has already evolved into a collective fantasy of the entire era.They are full of ambition, swaggering through the market, They spend a lot of money and spend a lot of money. What reason and courage do you have to doubt their spiritual wealth?not saying, Apart from these, "I don't want to do anything"? But here in Horton, I read the tragic experience of the horsemen on their own spiritual situation.they found themselves "In addition to making money, making money has become very material", "I don't understand the pain of life, and I don't understand the pain of life." suffering”, “I feel that I am living in a muddle, and I don’t know how to live”. On the spiritual wasteland: He felt that he was the cow walking into the sun with its thin buttocks. The frustrated cow is slowly approaching the beam of sunshine. And what is the sunshine—the sunshine that enriches our spirits and gives meaning to all our earthly endeavors? what?Is it love, or greater material wealth?Apparently not, because they are all owned by Mamin but not Have brought him sunshine.Compared with them, the meaning of sunlight is obviously richer and more abstract, so it is more difficult to Achieve: The sun cannot be caught, he thought, how do you catch the sun?Can you catch the water?You can only hold on to stones, Catch the grass, but the sun cannot catch it.Sunshine can only be felt, not captured. So far, we have found that the citizen hero's observation of his own spiritual desolation and his appreciation of the "yang" with a certain metaphysical color The longing and pursuit of "light" and the self-reflection of intellectual elites have been consistent. In the earliest proposal of "humanistic spirit "Crisis" in "The Quest in the Thorns" by Mr. Wang Xiaoming. I read this passage: Traditional beliefs have long been shattered, so where is the new replacement?Today, probably many people will feel the same pain as me. Feel your spiritual barrenness?Except for the extremely developed utilitarian desires that are stimulated, we can't find anything in our minds. Anything else, on a transcendental level, is simply empty-handed! A man so infinite, so devoid of faith, so ignorant of the grounds of his existence, is, of course, I can only follow the wind and waves, swaying here and there... As far as the depth and richness of spiritual experience are concerned, there are naturally many differences between the Ma people in reality and the cultural elites. They are the same, but when their thought monologues are used as a reference to each other, they show a striking similarity: this is when only "abnormal occurrence" On the spiritual wasteland of the utilitarian desire of Da Da, they are all walking towards the sun like an old cow struggling to move forward. In this way, an urgent and important question is before us: in the face of a common spiritual situation, what should humanistic intellectuals be? Should one only "rely on" the "moved by poetry and art" and "the experience of beauty"?trying to make a At the same time as a "student" of "original learning", should we have more "human feelings" and be a thinker of "original Tao"? In the holistic spiritual wasteland, we should not be satisfied with building a small tower, but should be a brave fire thief, The latter task is often more arduous and more honorable - he not only has to steal the fire with his wisdom and bravery, but also has to Spread the light with his sincerity and diligence.Stealing and spreading fire is the desire of the wilderness and the appeal of history.If say, two The several setbacks of the Enlightenment ideals of Chinese intellectuals in the tenth century were partly caused by special historical changes. The spiritual wasteland will be a rare historical opportunity for intellectuals.I hope that in the future of history, there will be no more Sorry for sending a mistake once! Originally published in the "China Reading News" article He Yanhong Appendix IV Critic looks on Horton ●In January 1995, Huayi edition "Life Is Innocence Preface" Narratives like Horton have neither complicated cultural backgrounds nor self-righteous personal attitudes. Urban stories are some truly liberated external "archetypes"—primitive states of form.Those men and women live by instinct, Live only for themselves, no creed, no rules, we can call them walking dead, but they Live happily, take a leisurely walk, and die after being addicted.Against the historical background of China's complete commercialization in the 1990s Below, it seems even more real. ——Chen Xiaoming, "The Late Generation and the Literary Flow in the 1990s" ●The 12th issue of "Extensive Books" in 1995 In recent years, his novels are like "carpet bombing", which is particularly eye-catching.Horton is such a writer: Even if his novels are not signed, you can guess the author.Attentive readers can find some rules in his works legal things.Different works, different classes, different backgrounds, different encounters... If you need to use a If the clues are connected in series, it means that the unbearable setbacks in life are common.Just take his three recent novels as examples: "Moon Soul" wrote the setbacks of society; "We Are Like Sunflowers" wrote the setbacks of love; "It Doesn't Matter" wrote the setbacks of fate. fold. ——Zhao Weimin, "Unbearable Setbacks in Life——Reading Three Novels by He Dun" ●January 2, 1996, "Beijing Youth Daily" This year, Hor Dun is considered by some to be the only young writer who has the potential to follow Su (Tong) Chao Liu (Heng). His novel "We Are Like Sunflowers" published in this year's magazine has so many readers that it makes people I feel that Horton is like the sun and readers are like sunflowers.Horton may become more prominent in 1996 as the leader of the late generation out.His work, advertised as "photorealistic", appears very simple to the author himself.Horton said: "I He is purely a person who makes a living by writing novels and selling money, which is the same as the farmers who fry sugar and oil cakes on the street, the difference What's more, I'm just trying to blow myself up. " ——Huang Jiwei's "Check Point 1995 Book on the Shelf" ●Contemporary Writers Review, No. 1, 1996 ——In my reading memory, the idea of ​​constructing novels with a group of "no story" little characters like Feng Jianjun Not much, but Horton manages to do just that in "We Are Like Sunflowers."Of course, if only this It is not unusual, the important thing is that Horton found stories from people who "have no stories", and the narrative of this story The above also makes you have to seriously face this group of people and the social and era causes hidden behind this group of people. Isn't this an interesting thing? ——Pan Kaixiong's "Strength Writers Compete for New Factors in Novel Creation" ●The second issue of "Everyone" in 1996 Horton's novels do not have that kind of transcendent ideal, but they have their own kind of extremely valuable secular concern. He is not trying to fight a decisive battle with today's life, but to present today's contradictions and confusion.The city he wrote about was Changsha. Changsha is not the most typical metropolis in China.Although it is the provincial capital, it is not very big, but Horton's novel is a very small city. It is also very foreign. Although there are many dialects, it still makes people feel very foreign.nothing sluggish Feel. ——Zhang Yiwu, "Review of the Literary World in the 1990s"