Chapter 73 A writer can and should be an all-rounder——To Comrade Han Shaohua①

Comrade Shaohua: Both the letter and your collection of essays have been received, thank you! I read the prose (people come and go during the Spring Festival, and I can't concentrate on reading), and I think your mind is very healthy.This is good. Now that the novel has been written, it is advisable to try again when the material is available.A writer can and should be a generalist.You are still young, and your writing days are long! There is an idiom in the West that goes: Youth is the time to write poetry, middle age is the time to write novels, and old age is the time to write prose.I don't think this is necessarily a rule.A guest is coming, in a hurry, I wish the pen healthy!

"Peach and Plum Piece" in your prose is just a curtain away from the novel!Bing Xin February 18 ① Han Shaohua, writer.Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in 1933 in Beijing. In the early 1960s, he began to publish prose and essays.Works include "Morning Light Collection", "Prelude", "Warm Sunshine" and so on.