Chapter 11 book review

Zhang Jialin: Love, between reality and reality Zhang Yueran, a leader in the "New Concept Composition" group, recently published a collection of novels (published by Writers Publishing House in June 2003).This collection of novels is composed of Zhang Yueran's unique and delicate writing, which always reveals the sorrow and joy bestowed on her by love. Love is always an eternal topic.But the love fused with Zhang Yueran's words has a different feeling.It is a kind of low-key, gentle and calm and sweet self-love mixed with the temperament of the text: the ethereal short sentences flow with real emotions, and the strange metaphors make people unbearable to skim.Therefore, I always read Zhang Yueran's novels carefully, which puts my brain in a state of tension, but my thinking is nourished.Through the text, we can see that only love can make "I" see the bright colors in the pain and confusion of growing up, so as to enjoy and revel in everything that exists, and continue to live and work hard for love... Ethereal It is the style of her writing, and love is the core of her writing.

The "I" in the novel has the pursuit of a beautiful and spotless ideal world and emotions, but everything in reality makes the dream constantly disillusioned.Zhang Yueran's novels are the essence of the protagonist's struggle between dreams and reality.Sometimes she has a timid, contemptuous, and even contemptuous attitude towards growth: "We are living, and we are also rotting. A person's life is actually a rot." It looks almost sacred, but life experiences and all kinds of things that cannot be changed in reality have dyed pure white, and dyed "my" dreams and beliefs to collapse.In reality, the "I" who maintains the beauty and purity can only sigh helplessly in the process of mental decline, and the words that are sweet but slightly sour are sighed out.

In the helpless sigh, we see the pain of being stabbed and stripped of Baibai's heart ("Baibai"); the loneliness and doubts in the heart after "I" and Ono left ("Nilu"); the broken fishbone on the button The scar on my heart and the astonishing pain it brought me ("Tao Zhiyun").This is because love is lost from the side, and "I" is trapped in the struggle of the black hole.However, behind the sigh is not complete despair: willing to throw away life to chase after the eternal sunflower of love (); the last action of "ruin" in the world is to unfold the money and remember the number of "my" ("ruin")... With love, there is more strength to struggle.

These stories with a strong or slightly urban flavor infect the readers, causing them to sniff or cry, and the aftertaste makes people think again. Zhang Yueran likes the works of Baby Anne.But she is different from Baby Anne's sternness and indifference. She is more tolerant, tender and caring about life. She has hope, knows how to laugh at herself, understands herself and shows the warmth and warmth that love brings to her heart.Watering love with tears and hard work makes her grow vigorously, even if she dies young, she is still beautiful. Different from other youth novels, this collection of novels is mostly realistic, but some chapters have a certain "magic" color, such as.This way of writing adds a bit of magic and illusion to the collection of novels, creates an atmosphere of nothingness, and allows us to see that the author has realized the innovation of writing skills intentionally or unintentionally.

So we feel: the love in Zhang Yueran's works runs through the virtual and the real. Zip code: 250100 Correspondence Office: Mailbox 312, School of Literature, Shandong University Yan Zhengdong: Silence and calmness One day in August 2002, when I was passing by the Zhongshan Park subway station after work, I habitually bought a copy of that month's "Sprout" at the newsstand.I saw my own novel "Xiaochen's Dressing Room" in the catalog, and what is even more exciting is the two authors Yang Qian and Zhang Yueran who are next to me. Yang Qian's articles are always full of sadness like water, and I like her "Such a Kind of Sadness" the most.And reading Zhang Yueran's words is like sitting on an old sofa in a lazy afternoon and savoring a cup of dry lily and lotus heart soup.The desolate feeling, the vivid text and the seamless plot make people chew and reminisce repeatedly in silence.Unknowingly, the imagination has inserted beautiful wings in the story."Tao's Fall" originally in the new concept is like a sweet bagpipe, floating in the small but comfortable world of Tao.Because of his youth, the end of the pen exudes the brilliance and innocence of wild flowers.Looking at the God-given story "The Black Cat Doesn't Sleep", my mood darkened a little bit with the arrival of dusk. Looking at the bloody setting sun in the western sky, I thought to myself: Maybe there is still hope for everything, but all the expectations And pay has been quietly obliterated.All that is left is the babbling in the dark corner, talking to myself in my sleep, the fragile and sensitive heart is a flawless echoing wall. The nightmare-like narration in "Destroyed" fills the heart with hopeless pain. In the face of the realistic reality, we have been powerless to do many things.Even if our hearts are as empty and hopeless.I empathize with the deep emotions between the lines, silently guarding my own real emotional space in loneliness, whether it is stubbornness or persistence, no one knows. "The Equator Cuts the Face of the City" is like a subway sneaking deep in the city in the middle of the night, retention and parting are one after another in the wind, only missing is eternal in this world.Just like what Faye Wong sang in Miscellaneous Songs: I would rather choose to be a souvenir than let go, wait until the scenery is clear, maybe you will accompany me to see the steady flow of water.It embodies the author's superb imagination and reproduces an emotional journey in a foreign land across the boundaries of time.A man he likes, a lonely woman, a story full of ups and downs.Facing the desperate painter, a sunflower stares coldly at this pale world in hallucination, and the flame in its heart is surging.It turns out that each other is willing in the process of giving or receiving.The heart goes faster than time, and if you miss it, you can never get it back.Let the coldness penetrating into the bones be polished by the memory repeatedly. Love has always been a matter of thousands of turns.

Zhang Yueran's words are the compass in the forest, leading a group of people to trot on the flat path.Calm narration, mild background, tactful melancholy.A nuanced feeling permeates you quietly.Wei Hui and Mian Mian interpreted the madness and intoxication of the 1970s with lengthy words.Zhao Bo and Zhou Jieru use fragmented language to construct an ethereal emotional world.Baby Annie tells you a desperate conclusion in the story—life is an illusion, love is a situation that can never be broken through, and we stand in the palm of fate.And Zhang Yueran's words are silent indulgence, filtering out all impurities, like the mild blue mountain coffee permeated with mist, she keeps the most authentic feelings in her heart.You go straight to read, and she meets you unexpectedly in the story.

Author's address: Yan Zhengdong, Qiuqiao Middle School, Chuzhou District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province Zip code: 223200 Wang Chunfang: Sunflowers in Dreams The sunflower in the dream has the beautiful and graceful body of a sunflower, and the delicate neck moves to welcome the sun and its light.This is not a simple plant, she firmly upholds pure love in her heart--and, she has feet and legs, she doesn't wait and see, she wants to go.She wants to mobilize the strength of her whole body to move and rush to her love. This is the sunflower that Zhang Yueran's novels tell us. Her body is filled with the fragrance of dreams and fresh and unique romance and innocence.What are they in their twenties firmly believing in and yearning for?is love.Give or get love.For the sake of love, they watched nervously and tirelessly, and opened such feelings to the world at a glance.

Sunflower is a sunflower that can walk or run, how lucky she is! "Disappearance" is a word opposite to "existence", but "disappearance" after finding true love is not a kind of eternity.She disappeared into the mortal world and ascended to heaven with love.This is the author's deep prayer to people, a flower of blessing blooming in pain. The year "1890" gives the book a long sense of history. In 1890, the popular painter Van Gogh was buried in the hills, and the sunflower who loved him was cut off and appeared at his funeral - she didn't need to go anymore, they were buried together.She is happy, and her beloved lies beside her.

However, not everyone can become a "walking sunflower", love suffocated by reality abounds.Therefore, the love in Zhang Yueran's works is also full of failure, brokenness, rupture and grievance.If the two novels "Destruction" and "The Black Cat Don't Sleep" express the persistence to the pure love (the angel in "Destruction" refused to hand over the phone number with "I" written on it, symbolizing The ticket of love; Chen Mu, the boyfriend of "I" in "Black Cats Don't Sleep", left a huge scar on love because he failed to take good care of the black cat that symbolizes the difficulty and responsibility of love. "I" has since resolutely Farewell to Chenmu's love.), then the three novels "Tao Zhiyun", "The Face of the Equator Breaking the City", and "Nilu" express the helplessness, stalemate and hesitation of love. In "Tao Zhiyun", because the boy "I" love is going to a distant city to "seek dreams", the separation leads to the suspension and shattering of love, and the cruel reality can put out a little finger to extinguish the flame of people's expectations ; In "The Face of the City Cut by the Equator", even though the distance in space does not suppress love, such a stalemate love is definitely not an ideal situation.The "I" in the novel is very pitiful, and I can only listen to the ringing of coins on the phone late at night, and I can breathe love; "Neon Road" reveals a stronger sense of helplessness. "I" is determined to go far away with my boyfriend to find a better love and stay together, but various problems of life and getting along with each other come to my face, and "I" has no choice but to come back.In addition to helplessness and disappointment, there is also hesitation: facing a boy who "I" loves him much more than "me", should "I" continue?Is the boy in the art coat, obviously beautified by "my" imagination, worth loving?

Unlike those "supreme boys", Zhang Yueran mocked the boys "I" love for the first time in the novel "These and Those".It is a mockery with a critical meaning.The question falls on "whether the other party is worth looking for".The boy promised that he would go to the small town called Yangshuo to open a small shop and sell the duck blood vermicelli soup that "I" like to eat and wait for "I", but the fact is that he stayed in the original city and never left.He is afraid of trouble.Expectations turned into broken bubbles; and in the novel "Peach Blossom Redemption", the pure love is stained because: the boy I love has had sex with my best girlfriend.This is how unbearable the fact of love is for the "I" who has a morbid, perfect and pure expectation of love!But love has a huge pulling force, and "I" can only slide down.So it is not difficult to imagine, when "I" intends to succumb to this hard-won love and ask the question "Do you have white cotton cloth?", how great the grief that is secretly surging in "I" is!

The disillusionment caused by perseverance, the disillusionment caused by reality, the disillusionment caused by illusion, the disillusionment caused by dishonesty, and the disillusionment caused by uncleanness constitute the splendid scenery of Zhang Yueran's novels.She is talking about tragedy because the ideal situation of love is difficult to reach.So she designed such a sunflower in the novel, even if it is unreal or illusory, we can still see that her novels are striving to move towards that ideal situation.Overcoming difficulties is the strength, courage and confidence her novels give us. Of course, her collection of novels is not just about love.In this forest, love is the trees, and other bright shrubs and vegetation.As Mo Yan said in the preface: "The value of Zhang Yueran's novels lies in: recording the psychological growth trajectory of sensitive and sad teenagers, revealing the truth that is very commensurate with the mental strength of this age. What do they like, what do they hate, what do they yearn for?" , what to resist, these can find the answer in her novels". The world does not perish, love does not perish.Therefore, the sunflower in the dream will grow taller day by day, and will eventually come to us step by step. Ji Jie: Youth is inherently bitter "Youth is inherently bitter..." I can't remember where I first heard this song, but I just remember being so surprised when the sad but exciting melody came into my ears slowly, Shocked and moved.Because it fits your heart perfectly, it speaks out the secret thoughts that have been buried deep in your heart for a long time, but you have never been able to find the right words to convey it.That's how it feels when you flip it open, too.Everyone should have had such a deep and unforgettable experience: no one tells you what growth is and what its consequences are, and then, when you are ignorant and inadvertent, youth quietly comes as scheduled.The dream of youth is colorful.In the dream, there is a beautiful head card, a long dress covered with lace, the elegant fragrance of kenzo perfume, a rainbow road leading to a happy future, and a little melancholy waiting for you in the distance Boys...all these together, what a delicate and perfect little world, it has no hypocrisy, no fraud, no snobbery, no vulgarity, and no ugly things in this world.It is a crystal clear water drop floating in the air.Has the story of the mermaid princess ever moved you?In order to be able to dance with the prince I love so much, I am willing to leave the lovely home where you were born and raised you forever, I am willing to endure the pain of walking on the tip of a knife, and I am even willing to lose the ability to tell him that I love him personally. The foam in the sea floats gently with the waves... This is the love bible devoutly believed by girls.Although you are not a mermaid princess, you can still be a beautiful sunflower on the hillside. You can still exchange your young life for a short-lived human identity, and come to the side of your seriously ill lover to protect him. To nurse him, then, to be a fragrant offering at his funeral, to slowly wither in tears of happiness.Willing to sacrifice everything, even life, for love.How sincere and pure is the young heart!It's a pity that small water droplets cannot live in a vacuum, so no matter how careful and clean they are, they still cannot avoid being continuously polluted by the foul dust in the surrounding environment.The dream of youth is also like that beautiful pottery button, which is so easily broken.Compared with the cruel real world, how fragile is the youthful vision.And how sensitive and vulnerable a young heart is.If the flowing time has not left deep footprints on your face, if you are possessing a youth that looks dazzling to others, how many people are envious or even jealous of you, but only you I know how much hesitation and helplessness, confusion and frustration are actually hidden under the youthful and gorgeous coat.The sky of youth is not always as empty and clear as those adults who are struggling to survive all day imagine.Here and there, there will be some melancholy dark clouds floating, and sometimes, there will be a drizzle in the sky.In order to protect yourself, and to make the last decisive resistance against this vulgar world, you put away your innocent and bright smile, and start to re-look at this world with a cynical eye. This person suddenly becomes loveless in your eyes , Cruel world.You see, a sick kitten is ruthlessly abandoned by its owner just because of its natural unattractive coat color; you see, young people who pursue a straightforward life are regarded as crazy by this rigid society ;you also see that in order to survive, just to survive, the hungry goldfish will kill the beautiful bride who loves it so much.When you quietly say that "a person's life is actually a rot", who can tell you, what is there to believe and expect in life?It is said that youth is rebellious, and youth is different, but who would know that it is actually just a cover for the insurmountable weakness deep in your heart.Utada Hikaru sang in the song: "Painted nails, colored contact lenses, headbands adorning hair, wearing fake fur, why am I looking for true love?" Who can understand?Heartbreaking youth!Cruel and beautiful youth!And when one day, the innocent and frivolous youth has become a permanent and irreversible past for you, the ordinary and mediocre torrent of life has submerged and washed away your last trace of beautiful dreams, in the evening when the cold rain knocks on the window , in the late night when the lights are like beans, when you look back and review those dusty memories, you will find that you, who are full of dust and exhaustion, have hated and loved so purely and passionately before. Cried, laughed, disappointed, looked forward to... It turns out that you once had it so fully!Youth is like an immature green fruit. When you first taste it, your mouth is full of the sour bitterness of the juice.However, after a long time, when you savor it carefully, you will feel an indescribable elegant and long fragrance.After those long and boundless years in between, the frustration and unhappiness in the past seemed to have all become blurred.You will feel that the taste of youth should be green.This is youth!You can't help but smile wistfully.Gently, you open the book on the desk, and the dream-like time reappears in front of you again... Even if it is bitter, even if it is full of scars, often accompanied by tears, we will cherish it carefully , that precious youth that can only be had once in a lifetime! Bie Xiaoyan: Sad Whispers I am no stranger to the name Zhang Yueran. I read her "The Black Cat Doesn't Sleep" a long time ago, and I was very moved by those concise, unique and sharp words.Now there is a whole book spread out in front of me, collecting the original "Cannibalism" and the latest "Destroyed", so I have the opportunity to get more trivial and specific information, of course I am just Guess, because the words we write down may be completely fictional, but I stubbornly believe that what Zhang Yueran wrote down is the real and unpretentious self-for example, she once said in a "there is a lake, some hills, clusters of She has lived proudly and happily in the city of "Lotus of Lotus", and now she is floating in Singapore, a wanderer in this clean and beautiful city; she likes Tori Amos' songs and Kenzo's perfume, and likes all beautiful and fragile things; A very ostentatious love, with parents who love her deeply and dote on her, and one or two good friends who are slowly maturing together; beliefs are pure and transparent, dreams are flying and unrestrained; still young, but already She began to cherish the past, to reminisce about the tenderness and pain she once had; she was still very young, but she had already begun to feel a little decadent, or rather, she liked the mood of decadence and this beautiful word (she said in "Destroyed", "'Destroyed 'is a twisted and beautiful word like a jigsaw puzzle", in my opinion, "decadence" is such a twisted and beautiful word, she should also like it.)...Of course I cited so many seemingly boring and wordy words The examples are not intended to prove how well I know Zhang Yueran, I just want to say that her hobbies and tendencies, her life and experiences largely represent a generation, born in the 1980s. For this generation, people seem to be used to looking down and criticizing rather than understanding in an equal way.They grow up in a very materialistic, chaotic and dusty environment, and they understand many things that are very mundane and confusing for pure and noble people prematurely.People are anxious about their prematurity, their willfulness, their wildness, and their strong desire to break free from all shackles. They are at the age of youth and vitality, but they have sorrow and decadence prematurely, and their dreams are stained with a touch of taint. gray shadows.Zhang Yueran's writing records such a mood—yes, it is a mood, the sensitive and sad mood of a teenager growing up.Zhang Yueran said, "Actually, I am just growing up, but the process of growing up is too dull and boring, so I am unreasonably sad." They are rebellious in this period, and everything they encounter in the process of growing up slowly It makes them refuse to believe in reality and resist all the routines determined by the world, but they can't find someone to rely on, so they inevitably show pride and inferiority, sensitivity and vulnerability, sharpness and depression, and bewilderment in their lives. And naive.These contradictions clashed and merged with difficulty.So when we read these words, we will strongly feel the tension and anxiety they convey and the penetrating perspective they produce. What we read are words that are definitely not smooth, they are as sharp and horny as their youth, sensitive and sharp.They are full of fantasy and narcissism, so they prefer to sneak into their inner world to examine the disharmony between themselves and the outside world and their inevitable disappointment and sadness in this dissonance.They need a totem to express their flawless and noble enthusiasm, so they choose love.In Zhang Yueran's pen, almost all of them are about love, which is the melancholy and pure love of the girlhood.In their view, these loves are extremely noble, but also thin and fragile.We can see that the love in Zhang Yueran's works is always tainted with a strong tragic atmosphere. In "Destroyed", the angel who sticks to the banknote as a symbol of love; in "The Black Cat Never Sleeps", lies between "I" and Chen Mu the black cat in "Sunflower 1890" who sacrificed herself for love like a little mermaid; the vulnerable love and friendship in "Peach Blossom Redemption"; Every love has a heart-stirring beginning, perhaps from innocent and blind worship or gentle pity, but the process wears down this pure love all the time, making it rough and making its sharp corners Cruelly scratches young hearts.Because of these, there is a very empty and dark hole in their hearts. They are desperately trying to fill it with the warmth of memory, but at the same time, cruel thoughts are also thrown into it. In my personal opinion, "Destroyed" is the work that best represents Zhang Yueran's style. In the author's almost rambling narration, there flows a gloomy and silent river.It's about the "ruined" love between an "angel" and a girl. "Angel" is pure, tender but also depressed and morbid; "I" is a girl who dreams of the noblest, cleanest and most romantic love, waiting for the angel to redeem her love.They met, fell in love, very pure love, and even had no contact information with each other, but they always met at a certain moment.This love affair was doomed to end in tragedy almost from the very beginning, because both parties are the kind of people who can throw themselves into love like moths to a flame -- "Let's love each other, or die. . . . Sharpness is full of temptation." The church in the background also casts a sad atmosphere on this love, "The sharp needle (the steeple of the church) pierced the skin of the angel who leaned over to look at it, and the angel was bleeding." The ending is hasty, simple, and tragic: "Angel" is killed by a taxi driver in order to save the banknote with "my" phone number on it.This is a beautiful, sad and noble love story. The language is concise, sharp, and dense. It is depressing and moving to read. This kind of emotion is not overwhelming, but penetrates into your body bit by bit. In, then into the blood, then into the bone marrow. But love is not the whole of life, family and friendship are equally important to them.In Zhang Yueran's works, we can always feel her nostalgia for her parents, friends and homeland.Friendship and kinship are often used as the background of love in her novels, or appear as a kind of opposite, which is the contrast between cruelty and tenderness.Her recollection is not the kind that is well-organized and can be clearly illustrated with examples, but is like ravings, fragmented, but the most touching.There are many things that can be missed, but those trivial things that are usually inadvertent are the ones that can most easily hit the soft and painful corner of the bottom of the heart in memory.So we see her thoughts jumping to "the street in front of my house is that kind of winding alley... willow trees, big wooden gates, spring water, and couplets." ("These and those"); suddenly thought of pampering her The noble and beautiful mother who went to buy her red bean ice ("Back"); thought of secretly giving the Korean car model that father loved to the boy he liked ("The Face of the Equator Cutting the City"); think of together Xiaoduo, a good friend who collects beautiful buttons ("My Beloved"); I want to wear a black lace skirt and apron with my mother and let my father take pictures ("This Winter's Family Letter")... These warm, let When people think of words such as harmony, happiness, and happiness, they express all the affection and friendship in their hearts. Sensitive and sharp language, dream-like narration, and sense of tragedy combined with rationality and sensibility endow Zhang Yueran's articles with a solid power to hit people's hearts. When you read these words, you will feel the trembling of your soul and the sense of tragedy. The painful struggles and tender expectations of youth that I have had or are experiencing.Zhang Yueran's words profoundly and meticulously record the growth journey of a generation, their joys and sorrows, their contradictions and doubts.She never intentionally constructs mysterious and complicated plots, but only uses seemingly fragmented words to describe such a mood lightly and sadly, dreamlike, messy but real.These are more likely to resonate with peers than those didactic texts, allowing them to get a little thoughtfulness and comfort in the helpless stage of youth—this may be the value of Zhang Yueran's novels.