Chapter 33 The achievements of writers

A writer in a crowd is like shining stars, bright flowers, magical pictures, and subtle music.This empty world needs them to embellish and describe it.This dry air requires them to temper it.This mechanical life calls for their comfort.They are what the crowd needs! If the crowd does not produce a few writers, we can conclude that our life is not interesting.Our feelings are incompatible.Our future is not bright.However, a number of writers have indeed been produced among the crowd, and they have been dotted scattered in the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries. Look: how much human beings admire, praise, and worship them!

"Genius, genius!" "Blessed by nature", "unique talent", we often add such terms to them.What now?Such superstitious words are over.We have only sympathetic worship for literary geniuses, not mystical worship; we only believe that geniuses are relatively suitable for his art in terms of physiology and psychology; However, whether everyone can become a writer is also a question. After careful study, the reasons for the creation of this writer are very complicated, and the relationship is also very long-term; it cannot be included in one or two sentences.Now let’s take the writer himself as the base, the vertical section is heredity, and the horizontal section is environment. What kind of inheritance and what kind of environment are easy to create a writer. We can roughly cite the following: (1) The writer’s parents ——Slightly distant, you can say ancestors——have a hobby that is close to literature.This is not to say that the parents of a novelist must also be novelists, and the parents of a poet must also be poets. If so, the writer would be hereditary and aristocratic. ——As long as they have some near-literary hobbies, such as liking flowers and trees, birds and fish, music, and pictures, have a deep and deep heart, pure and noble beliefs, or their thoughts are very poetic and picturesque.In this way, it will be easier for their children to become writers.This is the so-called "blessed by nature" and "unique talent".

(2) A writer should be born in a place with a suitable climate and beautiful or majestic mountains and rivers.The works of a writer are closely related to the place where he grew up. ——Just like the novels of novelists, poems of poets, and dramas of dramatists, they all contain local scenery strongly——the characteristics of his literature can sometimes be completely caused by geography.In this way, if a writer is born in a suitable place and is shaped by invisible influences, his output can be particularly gentle and honest, or heroic and full of sadness.It has a lot to do with his personality and the value of art.

(3) A writer should be born into a middle-class family—that is, a family that is neither poor nor rich.Kropotkin said: "Since the material desires have been satisfied, the artistic desires will naturally surge out." Naturally born in a wealthy family, sometimes he was robbed of luxury and wealth, and his wine and food were expropriated. Reason is blinded by imprisonment, and it is not easy for him to have the opportunity to display his genius.But being born in a poor family and having to be busy making a living, he cannot receive a perfect education.Even if his literature has already established a foundation, if he does not write novels or compose plays for a day, he will have nothing to eat for a day. In this way, his works are just hastily written for the purpose of making ends meet, not With the aim of contributing art, the result will inevitably go downhill.The Russian writer Dostoevsky once said: "I am certainly not as good as Turgenev (also a Russian writer, at the same time as him), but it is not that I am really inferior to him. Competing with him,...but poverty forced me, I had to rush to get money for the completion of the work, and as a result, my work became worse every day.” There are also two fragments of poems written by Ni Sibi, as follows:——The whole poem See "Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism" (according to translation): I even got my salary for next week, but if I don't do it, I will have nothing. What does God tell me to do?I won't do it again, cough, God, the whole family depends on my pen, and I can't write another line. Is this also like divine love?

From this we can see how difficult the situation of a person who takes literature as his profession is, and how he suffers from his art. Although it is said that the words of poverty are easy to work, but the subjective poverty is easy to fall into depression and complaints, and it is impossible to get the right temperament.Although it can win the tears and sympathy of readers, it is not a tool to promote literature.Therefore, the family most suitable for producing writers is the family of the middle class.Since he does not have to worry about food and clothing to earn a living, on the one hand he can receive a complete education himself.

His works are "self-made, not constructed by force", so they are naturally more dense and lively. In addition, the air in the family is also very relevant.A writer is born in a quiet and beautiful family, his mind is always gentle and calm, and he will not be disturbed by any major stimuli, which will make his mind biased.Naturally, how much "truth" and "beauty" should be added to his art. (4) Writers should read more literary works both at home and abroad.This is the first step in becoming a writer. He not only has a literary hobby, but also must read more literary works.The more you read, the more proficient you will be, the more convenient the materials will be, and the more lively your thinking will be.Over time, it will be able to find its own way and become a family of its own. ——Using the silkworm moth as a metaphor, when it becomes a silkworm, it only cares about eating leaves all day long. When the time comes, its body becomes transparent, and it pulls the leaves it ate within dozens of days into an orderly filament, and also wraps them He hides himself in it, like a rudimentary writer who has read through thousands of volumes and has a clear heart, melts theories of a hundred schools of thought into systematic thoughts, and immerses himself in it, but he cannot be imprisoned forever Those inside are also like silkworm moths, clothed in white like snow, biting through the cocoon silk and flying out.We can see that if the silkworm refused to eat leaves at the beginning, not only would it not be able to spin silk, cocoon, or moth in the future; it would also become dead immediately.Therefore, even if a person has a preference for literature, if he refuses to study more books belonging to literature, his thinking will eventually go bankrupt, and he will not be able to forcefully become a writer.

(5) Writers should always get close to the natural world.The beauty of nature is universal and permanent, and occupies an extremely important position in literary materials.Writers should cater to it, contact it, use it, invite it to appear in their own thoughts and dissolve in their words.If there are only colorful piles of words and sentences, it will become dull, lifeless and lifeless words.We must not recognize this kind of writing that is isolated from nature as literature.Therefore, a writer should always face nature quietly, and often use musical instruments, painting utensils and other pleasant objects as his companions.In this way, his works are full of lovely sounds of nature and people.

(6) Writers should study philosophy and sociology more.We now admit that literature can be established, but in addition, at least one or two kinds of knowledge should be specialized in, as a supplement to his literature. It stands to reason that if a writer can describe the lives of various people, he himself must "speak all kinds of teachings and nine streams, without any knowledge". However, this is just "communication". If you seriously study various knowledge and then apply it to literature, it is absolutely impossible to do it. ——Literature must draw materials from life; to describe life, one must have a deep understanding of human life, and must also study the meaning of human life as the standard for his writings.From this point of view, philosophy and sociology are the homework that writers should study besides literature.

(7) Writers should have less complicated communication with society.The life of a writer may be a little quieter, and he does not have to be constantly in the middle of the bustling scene to confuse his mind—if he examines the social situation, it is not communication, which is a different matter—he must be in the position of a third party. Then observe it, describe it, and criticize it with a calm mind and precise eyesight.With an objective attitude and basis for all aspects, it is like a bright mirror, clear on the outside and inside, and what is reflected in and reflected is a clear lesson.Otherwise, if you get too close, you will have your own share; "the authorities are muddled", their minds will inevitably be confused, their eyes will inevitably be blinded, and their minds will inevitably be biased, so they will not be able to describe and criticize as much as they want, and they will not dare to describe and criticize as much as they want.

(8) Writers should spend more time traveling.This article is related to Articles 2, 4, and 5 above.The beauty of the world cannot be gathered in one place.Celebrities in the world cannot all be born in one place.Literary materials cannot all be taken from one place.Therefore, writers have to do more travel work.Seeing the beautiful scenery of the world, making friends with the famous people all over the world, observing the customs and customs of the people all over the world; the materials of his literature are changing with each passing day, which are inexhaustible.Moreover, it is of great benefit to his thoughts, knowledge, and experience.

The above few, in my opinion, seem to be the most common path to becoming a writer; just like the common courses in middle schools.As for melancholy, or optimism, or the circumstances of his life, they are all related to literature; but the scope is too wide—refer to the histories of various writers in China and abroad, all of which are different—it is difficult to elaborate, so we have to start with omitted. When I think, when I write, I have infinite hesitation and infinite doubts about what I say.But hesitation, doubt, ultimately no results.Let's say it arbitrarily, and readers' comments are welcome. Wanying. )