Chapter 57 1997 "My Spiritual Homeland"

Genre: Essay Collection Author: Wang Xiaobo Release time: 1997 Wang Xiaobo was born in Beijing in 1952.After graduating from middle school, he went to the countryside in Yunnan and Shandong, and successively worked as a farm worker, farmer, worker and private teacher.He studied at Renmin University of China and the University of Pittsburgh.He taught at Peking University and Renmin University of China, and finally resigned to focus on writing. Passed away in 1997.Known as China's Joyce, it is also a self-selected collection of essays by the Chinese king Xiaobo who has won the important award of the world's Chinese literature circle "Taiwan United Press Literary Award Novella Award" twice.The book is divided into three parts: culture, art and society.With an almost cruel frankness and straightforwardness, Wang Xiaobo expresses the life we ​​live in but never consider. This is the truth, so that we no longer live in the middle of the secular society.Because of him, we know that there is still wisdom and interesting existence in this world.

Wang Xiaobo distinguishes right from wrong, and he shouts to the people behind him with black and deep humor?But not maddened or kitsch.After reading his essays, you will suddenly have a sense of transparency.It turns out that topics such as culture and spirituality are not just idle talk of scholars or academics, they can also be "whether it is effective to sit on the toilet and object to it" by "ruffians". Most of the topics in the book "My Spiritual Homeland" involve cultural status and the fate of intellectuals, except that the situation of literati is the situation of people. Naturally, such topics are inevitably embarrassing and bitter, but in Wang Xiaobo's works, even if you step on a humorous The outer shell of the "culture" has opened the mysterious and dark hole of "culture", and even occasionally laughs at the rascal's language, but you will never think that Wang Xiaobo is a ruffian.Lu writer.I have very low requirements for myself: I live in this world, just wanting to understand some truths and meet some interesting things.If I can do what I want, my life will be considered a success.For this reason, you have to discuss right and wrong, otherwise you will not understand the truth, and you will not encounter interesting things.I started too late and probably won't accomplish anything, but I have to make a statement.In fact, as long as a person wins the right to distinguish right from wrong, his life is not in vain.

Most of us are mediocre without knowing it, or just bear it weakly, but he has a kind of rage towards the mediocre life, vowing to soar from above and trying to do so with his whole life; most of us seek advantages and avoid disadvantages or just He kept silent, but he went against the current, chose to write seriously, and was outspoken, and regarded it as his responsibility to criticize culture, society, and art; ’, he created a marvelous interest in wisdom and love, and showed an attribute that wisdom and love should have but that we have long forgotten, that is, nobility; most of us have a kind of cunning His intelligence is based on the freedom, equality and honesty of science. "The truth is extremely hard." I think this kind of intelligence is cute and necessary.All of all, maybe we are yearning but we can't do it ourselves.

For a young man who likes literature--for me, in "My Spiritual Homeland", "Society" and "Culture" made me understand many problems, while "Art" opened up the world of Alibaba for me. door. Please see "My Teacher's Legacy", at the end it says: "Their books are still there, and they can be a model for learning literature..." "They" refer to senior translators such as Wang Daoqian and Zha Liangzheng.Xiaobo wrote: "The poet's translation is the best; it is they who discovered the rhythm of modern Chinese. Without this rhythm, there would be no literature." The reason why he likes the poet's translation so much probably stems from his youth: " After growing up in meditation, I started to like poetry. I read a lot of poems, and some of them were really good poems, good poems described different things, and the rhyme was variable, but there was a little bit of the same thing. It has a crystal-like brilliance, as if it came from the stars..." The article also mentioned Mr. Fu Lei and Mr. Ru Long. These two gentlemen are famous all over the world. Although their translation collections were only printed 10,000 copies, they are still piled up in bookstores Can't sell out.Perhaps the answer is here: Chekhov's art is an elegant art, a real literature, the simplest and most profound words.What it needs is not a curious mind, but an elegant taste.In the end, he wrote a sentence that touched and benefited me: "It is my responsibility to remind young people today that they remember their names and read their translated books." There are many wonderful and interesting things in the With the power of Lun Shifei, he has already won without a fight.

Some humor does not make people laugh, but makes people sad.Watching Chaplin's comedy, sometimes it is necessary to prepare a handkerchief to wipe away tears: Mr. Lu Xun's humor also stabs the reader's heart with a dull pain from time to time.This is the difference between the master's humor and the humor of the market.The market rogue was caught by the police, and he begged, "Master policeman, just let me go as a fart." This kind of humor and imagination are not bad, but they have no other function except to make people laugh.The master's humor is often touched to the end, but it is an olive with endless aftertaste, always chewing and always fresh.

Nowadays, there are very few humor masters who can taste some profound connotations in the aftertones, and Wang Xiaobo is one of them.It is a pity that he died young at the age of 45.Wang Xiaoyou suddenly appeared in the literary world like a knight-errant, and then left suddenly. It can be understood that he is always jealous of talents, and it can also be regarded as God's humor.The same is mixed in the literary world of Kyoto, so it is reasonable to have a small get-together.What impressed me the most about Xiaobo was his humor, which was not Wang Shuo's eloquent humor, on the contrary he was a little taciturn, at least in front of a stranger like me.But if there is any topic that arouses his interest, if he interjects occasionally, it must be a wonderful sentence that turns everything into gold, which will be unforgettable for a long time.

Humor requires not only education and talent, but also a benign atmosphere.This atmosphere requires the listener to have the same interest and alertness, but also a positive and tolerant judgment.I dare not say that everyone will like Wang Xiaobo's essays, it is based on my suspicion of the latter, the real sense of humor is always an expression of goodwill, when Wang Xiaobo reconciles his reason and emotion, trying to establish his fairness When he was in harmony, many took his witty words for crude attacks and malicious jokes.Therefore, the humor of literati from Lu Xun to Wang Xiaobo is often a tragic operation.Political humor such as Gogol's "The Imperial Envoy", Mark Twain, and Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes" are all based on the profound tradition of humor of the nation. American movies can make fun of the president and congressmen, while China wants to form A normal humorous environment will take time.An olive with an endless aftertaste, always chewed and always fresh.

Regarding Wang Xiaobo, his wife, Ms. Li Yinhe, wrote such a passage behind him: Xiaobo is a romantic knight, troubadour, and free thinker.Li Yinhe knows Wang Xiaobo well, and these three titles can be said to have exhausted Wang Xiaobo's charm. And I read Wang Xiaobo's "My Spiritual Homeland" intermittently and over and over again, and what jumps into my mind is Zhang Yuanqian's poem: Watch the flying snow with your hands in your sleeves, and lie high for the end of winter. Floating at the end of the matter spring, first I chase after lonely. Take the wind and rain with the pen, quickly write the hills and valleys in the chest,

Refuse to get out of the cage. Laughing out loud about ancient and modern times, we can go east and west while enjoying ourselves. "Laugh out loud about the past and the present, and go west and east when you are happy." The prosperity and death of the ages are all talked about in jokes.It is really appropriate to use this sentence to describe Wang Xiaobo's writing style.Each of his essays seems to be written impromptu, written like chatter, with a style of innocence and frankness, without embellishments.Sometimes, the frankness even surprises you, how can all the humbleness in a person's heart, and the so-called nobility that is usually beautified by himself, be dissected by him to restore their original appearance one by one?

Wang Xiaobo is a romantic knight. The BMW under his crotch is his pen. People are like pens, pens are like people, pure, unrestrained and free.He laughs, writes, without any constraints.He said in the preface that these articles were written to distinguish right from wrong. "I have very low requirements for myself: I live in this world, I just want to understand some truths and meet some interesting things." He also said that if the written text is not interesting, then he would rather not write.Unmotivated by any utilitarianism, his writing avoids the dreaded kitsch.He rejects all hypocrisy, boredom, and dogma, while infinitely advocating freedom, individuality, and sincerity.

He can always find absurdity in ordinary people's seemingly ordinary ideas and statements, and then touch the core of truth.In the article "About the Sublime", he said, "In the 1970s (the last century) an educated youth went into the water to chase a telephone pole that had been washed away by the flood. Commendation, became a revolutionary martyr. This incident caused a little confusion among the educated youth: Is one of our lives worth a piece of wood? As a result, the confused people were criticized. To tell you the truth, I I am one of the confused people, so I still remember this incident." "A person has the right to reject a hypocritical sublime, just as he has the right to refuse to go into the water to catch a straw. If this is right, it puts forward higher requirements for those who create or promote social ethics: they cannot only be romantic and sensational, There must be room for it; in other words, you can’t just talk about the sublime and not be reasonable.” He also said, “For an intellectual, it is more important to be an elite of thought than to be an elite of morality.” Read on, you must not I don't admire his penetrating analysis and his courage and courage to say what others dare not say.It can be seen that the basic point of Wang Xiaobo's thinking is the hatred of hypocrisy and high-profile duets, and the ultimate concern for human nature and life. Wang Xiaobo is a troubadour, his poetry is the natural expression of free spirit and independent personality.There was a carelessness in his smile, but also a kind of indifference.On the back of the text, we can even see his playful smile, which is the uniqueness of Wang Xiaobo.He doesn't like the formal way of expression, just chatting with you, and writes his thoughts inadvertently, which is very different from the traditional dagger and spear-throwing essays.The humorous style and flowing writing, from ancient times to the present, from the East to the West, will always make you feel a kind of freedom.His thoughts, his breathing, and every paragraph of his words are full of freedom and sobriety. Reading his essays is like walking on a forest path after dinner and talking with him freely, without the heavy feeling that some essays bring to you, but it will arouse your deep thinking.In many essays, Wang Xiaobo mentioned the pursuit of "fun" many times, which also represents his outlook on life - a boring life is not worth living.For example, he said in the article "The Joy of Thinking": "Although knowledge can bring happiness, if you compress it into a pill and pour it down, you will lose the fun." "The greatest pain is that there are always people who want to destroy happiness for various reasons." required polymorphism." In an article by Wang Xiaobo, by depicting the life of a maverick pig, he reveals three living states of people: people who set up other people's lives, people whose lives are set by others and live comfortably, people who pursue freedom and dare to set up their own lives .Thus showing my likes and dislikes - I always miss this maverick pig.In fact, there is a shadow of Wang Xiaobo himself in this pig - he refuses to be indoctrinated and assimilated, but always insists on his own stand and point of view. He wants to live out his own life.The true self, even if it is not noble, must retain its integrity.In his article "On the Sublime", he said: "Some people think that people should be full of lofty thoughts and get rid of low-style thoughts. This statement sounds beautiful, but it makes me feel very panic. Because the lofty thoughts and the low The sum of my thoughts is myself; if I remove part of it, who I am becomes a problem. Suppose there is a gentleman with noble thoughts, I admire him very much; but if you want to dig out my brain and throw it away, replace him Yes, I will never, unless you can prove that I have committed a heinous crime and deserved to die. Since a person is alive, he has the right to guarantee the continuity of his thoughts until death." A "until death" expresses Wang Xiaobo's pursuit of life that he will never follow the wind and always maintain his true self.