Chapter 64 Introduce three good novels

Reading novels is my pleasure, especially good short stories.I think the short story is harder to write well than both the novella and the novel, because it has to be written concisely, concisely, and tightly.I have always defended my "shortcomings", so I leave this issue to everyone to debate! The first one is Zou Zhian's "Party Secretary Steps Down to Sing a Great Opera" (see "Beijing Literature", No. 6, 1986). It tells about Zheng Sanbao, the head of the theater troupe. The branch secretary stepped down and sent someone to book the play.There are only fifty or sixty families in this village, and they managed to scrape together one hundred and ten yuan. Even though the amount was small, Zheng Sanbao was so happy that he agreed.In his joy and impulse, he thought that this branch secretary must have done a lot of bad things, so the masses would celebrate his resignation.When he arrived in that village, he realized that the play was sung to comfort the dismissed party secretary!

Surprised, he first visited Lao Men, the secretary of the township party committee.Lao Men said: "This play can't be performed, there is something wrong with the branch secretary." But he couldn't find out what the problem was.Zheng Sanbao insisted that it would be wrong to dismiss people without clearing up the problem, and he must act in this play. He went to visit all the men, women, old and children in the village, and finally went to see Party Secretary Li Runwa herself. He found that Li Runwa's cave was full of people who came to comfort him and sympathize with him. This made Zheng Sanbao feel that this play must be performed.He wants to sing "Changbanpo" and "Bayitu" and also give a performance of "Tasting the Courage".Against the opposition of the County Cultural Bureau and the secretary of the county party committee in charge of culture and education, he loudly emphasized the principle that literature and art should serve socialism and the people, and angrily asked his troupe to perform tricks in a crowd of black crows. Finish.

This short story is well written and has a good ending. The second article is "Continue to Practice" by Li Xiao (see "Shanghai Literature" No. 7, 1986), which is about two graduates of the Chinese Department of Huada University. To the most sought-after newspaper as a reporter for the fourth page.Four Eyes because his tutor, Professor Wang, plagiarized his thesis - "Seating Arrangement for the 63rd Yihong Banquet".He came to Huang Yu and begged him to announce the news.So Huang Yu returned to Huada, found Mr. Hou, the most fast-talking teacher in the department, and told him about it.The Chinese Department was originally heavily guarded, and even the teaching assistants of this faction were dismissed as dissidents when they wooed the female graduate students of the other side. Amidst the intrigues of various factions in the Chinese Department, Professor Wang hid under the pretext of illness. All the Chinese teachers came to talk to Huang Yu, and finally Professor Li, the new director, picked him up with a Toyota.As a result, the defense of Four Eyes' master's thesis still failed.Huang Yu and Siyan had no choice but to go back to their university dormitory to "continue to practice".

This short story is just like the "post-editor" of "Selected Fiction" said "extraordinary shot".It's humorous, spicy and playful, and it seems to see through everything!The jokes make people can't help laughing out loud, and then feel infinite sadness after laughing.This witticism is like pearls, like when Huang Yu told Four Eyes that he wanted to expose Professor Wang’s plagiarism of Four Eyes’ papers, he said: I want to draft an article to make Luo Binwang's discussion of Wubai look like a Casio electronic piano advertisement. For example, Four Eyes gave Huang Yu a "Wanbao Quanshu", which contained words such as "resonant breath" and "lingering sound", which were used to describe:

Bass, lark, pipa, popsicle seller shouting, sprinkler horn, even farting, these two sentences are all suitable. Another example is to describe the internal chaos of the Chinese Department of Huada University: the Chinese Department is now like the Jia Mansion before the provincial relatives in Yuanchun, and it is extremely chaotic.There was a big fight between the Liu and Liu factions, and the Liu faction blamed each other, threatening to blow up Mount Lushan. After failing to defend his master's thesis describing Four Eyes, he said: Stand up with four eyes, don't look at anyone, and go out the door.In front of him, the crowd parted to make way for a path like Moses crossing the Red Sea.

He always mockingly called the girls in the university "little hens". When he walked out of the examination room with four eyes dejected, Huang Yu comforted him and said: Don't move, look who is coming in front, this group of little hens who have never been beaten and scolded by their parents, all of them have hearts like coal balls, they don't understand that men also cry when they cry, we can't give up on them. I can't copy any more, my hands are a little sore, but in short, readers have to read this short story by themselves in order to fully enjoy it.And just as the "post-editor" of "Selected Fiction" said: "Like 'continue to practice', there have been more and more of them recently, and it can probably be regarded as a trend in creation."

I will introduce the third one now, Xiaojian's "The Mayor of This City Has No House to Live in" (see "Chinese Writer" No. 6, 1986.) This short story is also extremely witty and pungent to expose the conspiracy of "uncrowned". The battle in the "Emperor" kingdom turned out that Jiang was still old and spicy! The "I" in the novel is also a reporter—the director of the News Department of City Daily. He was only thirty-six years old and was trying to replace the fifty-six-year-old editor-in-chief.He used a female assistant reporter who just graduated from the journalism department of the university to interview the mayor of the city, He Rubing, because some readers wrote to him, complaining that the mayor did not use power for personal gain, and ended up living in a small house converted from a factory shed.The report received many letters of praise, and the readers rejoiced that the city had a good mayor.Later, the female reporter got another letter from a reader saying that the city has a mayor's building built of marble seventy years ago, and the old mayor stayed there instead of living in the dry building built by the new mayor for retired cadres. The new mayor will not live in the new house with four bedrooms and one living room assigned to him, but stays in that dilapidated shed. "I" issued two copies of "" "Internal Reference", using this as a trigger to blow up the seat of the current editor-in-chief. "I" thought it caused the old mayor's dissatisfaction and resentment towards the newspaper, so naturally someone came forward to remove the nail for him.After the internal reference was published, the new mayor was silent, and the old mayor became angry. Soon after, the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee ordered the removal of the president and editor-in-chief of the Municipal Daily.A month later, "I" was appointed editor-in-chief, and the municipal party committee ordered the old mayor to live in the dry rest building.In a fit of rage, he died of a brain attack. "I" was sitting comfortably in the editor-in-chief's office, but the former editor-in-chief was appointed as the propaganda director of the municipal party committee. It turned out that he was a long-term guest of the new mayor, so the next step for "I" was to become the propaganda director.

In this story, Ding Nini, a graduate of the journalism department of a prestigious university and a new news assistant who wants to be China's Farazi, is also vividly inserted.Describes her new clothes, new jewelry, and new moods every time she comes to talk; at the same time, the story also runs through a big-bellied female spider in the corner of the editorial room roof, and then another male spider is also spinning a web. Afterwards, the female eats the male to reflect the cruelty of life. The best thing is to always write a short philosophical assertion and conclusion after every turn or paragraph of this story.Such as "The Power of the Calf", "The Misunderstanding of History", "The Necessity of Mercy", "The Immortal Balance", "The Distorting Mirror of the Soul", "The Concern of the Priest", "The Shock of God", etc., are all extremely cool and witty .

Speaking of these three short stories, readers have to read and appreciate them carefully, and you will definitely find out the more amusing, clever, exciting and thought-provoking parts among them. December 27, 1986 Morning 1987