Back to 80: My Literary Life

"Twilight" tells the romantic love story between two middle school students, Bella and Edward.

After Bella moved to the small town of Forks to live with her father, she met Edward, a mysterious and handsome male classmate. He has a charming appearance and a super ability to read other people's thoughts. He is a vampire of the Cullen family. But he couldn't sense Bella's thoughts, but was deeply attracted to Bella. As a vampire, he wants to suck her blood, but he is trying his best to suppress his blood-sucking desire for the sake of love.

In fact, this is a strange love story between a man and a vampire, set in a vaguely Gothic style.

A campus love story wrapped in fantasy!

Although Fang Minghua has only read the original work once and watched the movie adapted from it, it is not difficult for him to have watched so many vampire stories and all kinds of bloody campus romance novels before traveling back in time.

It doesn’t have to be exactly the same as the original work, and you can’t do it yourself. It should be roughly the same, and you can write the details yourself.

Also, the writing style of the "Twilight" novels is relatively poor. However, what Fang Minghua read was the Chinese translation. Some people said that because the translation was so poor, it was basically a literal translation, and the original work was still good.

Fang Minghua feels that we should pay attention to this point. How can a very romantic love novel be good if the writing is not good?

As for translation, Fang Minghua believes that Li Li, who has a doctorate in comparative literature and has translated so many books, will definitely translate well.

Write slowly.

The first year of the 1990s has passed.

In this year, the biggest event in the country was the successful hosting of the 11th Asian Games, which greatly enhanced national pride.

In the field of literature, the novel world seems to be calm. Except for the novel "Skywalker" written by Fang Minghua at the beginning of the year, which set off a craze, the rest is calm.

Mesozoic writers such as Chen Zhongshi, Jia Pingwa, Feng Jicai and others closed their doors and thanked guests and devoted themselves to writing. Young writers such as Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Chi Zijian and others are still immersed in reading and studying on the campus of Yan Normal University. They are pioneers in the literary world. The novel has declined and the new realistic novel has become dominant.

But the prose world that used to be deserted suddenly became active. In the middle of the year, Fang Minghua's "Fragments of Civilization" came out, creating a "cultural prose". It was majestic, and was obviously different from traditional prose. It was original. Got the style of prose.

At the end of the year, the young man in a wheelchair once again refreshed people's understanding of him with an essay "Me and the Temple of Earth".

Full of philosophy and extremely humane.

The writer Han Shaogong once commented: "I think that even if there is only one of his works "Me and the Temple of Earth" in 1990, it can be said to be a good year."

The long-dormant prose world began to become active.

After several requests, the dean of the Shanghai Theater Academy finally resigned from his position as dean and began to travel around the country to systematically inspect important sites of Chinese culture.

He didn't want to be Xu Xiake and write "Xu Xiake's Travels". He wanted to be Fang Minghua and write cultural prose.

At this time, Fang Minghua was coding in the study.

Today is New Year's Day. I originally wanted to take my two children out to the zoo to see giant pandas, but it was windy and snowy outside. I guess the giant pandas are also afraid of the cold, so the family of four hid at home.

My daughter is practicing piano alone in the piano room on the second floor.

twinkle Twinkle Little Star

The sky is full of little stars

Hang in the sky and shine brightly

Mozart's "Little Star".

The son was lying on the edge of the coffee table writing seriously.

In fact, a child over three years old does not need to practice writing, but Lele seemed to be very interested in this stuff, so Fang Minghua just let him.

The dog Doumiao wandered around its little master, while the kitten Doumiao lay dozing under the radiator by the wall.

Fang Minghua was writing in the study room on the second floor, and his wife Song Tangtang was sitting next to him reading the printed chapters.

"Minghua, the style of this vampire story you wrote is different from that of "Interview with the Vampire"?" Song Tangtang said while reading the content.

"Interview with the Vampire" is a novel written by American writer Anne Rice in the 1970s, and is the first in the "Vampire Chronicles" series.

There is no Chinese translation of this book in China, but Song Tangtang went to the United States last year and bought an original English book. She was fascinated by it and told Fang Minghua from time to time.

After listening to his wife's words, Fang Minghua stopped typing, turned around and said with a smile: "Of course it's different. "Interview with the Vampire" is a horror novel, and this "Twilight" is about campus life, wearing the clothes of a vampire." "Pi, it's mainly about emotion, otherwise how can it be called a romance novel?"

"Dad, Mom, I want to listen to vampires too!"

Suddenly a childish voice sounded at the door of the room, and the two turned around to see their daughter Ruirui standing at the door, holding a Barbie doll, followed by the little bean sprout wagging her tail.

Ruirui is now over three years old, and she is at the age where she likes to listen to adults tell stories. When she gets home on weekends, she pesters her parents to tell her stories.

Two days ago, Fang Minghua was so happy that he talked about the vampire novel he had written. Although his daughter seemed to understand the story, she was not afraid of vampires. Instead, she was very excited after hearing it and pestered her father to tell her more. !

Now hearing that her daughter was about to talk about this, Song Tangtang quickly said: "Ruirui, this is a novel for adults, not for you children."

"But vampires are fun."

Fun?

Fang Minghua and Song Tangtang looked at each other. Isn't this daughter of theirs too courageous?

The other children were frightened when they heard about ghosts and the like, including her son Lele, but she giggled after hearing this!

Of course, they knew in their hearts that this novel was not suitable for kindergarten children.

"Ruirui, have you practiced piano? Can you play "Little Star"?" Song Tangtang quickly changed the topic and asked with a serious face.

"Mom, I've already mastered it. Teacher Zhao even praised me." The little girl said.

"Where's the ballet? How's your split practice going?" Song Tangtang asked again.

"Mom and Dad, I already know how to do it, you see." The little girl said, stretching her legs and making a beautiful horse on the ground.

Fortunately, I was wearing loose house clothes, otherwise my crotch would have been ripped open.

Fang Minghua felt very proud.

My daughter learns everything quickly. She is better at playing the piano, dancing, painting, swimming and even fighting than her peers.

In addition to learning to write and practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

The son is just the opposite. Apart from writing and arithmetic, he can't do much else.

Just learn whatever you like, Fang Minghua adopts a laissez-faire attitude.

Seeing his daughter like this now, Fang Minghua had no choice but to come over and pick her up: "Baby, these books are really not suitable for you children to read. How about this? When you have time, daddy will write you a book for your children, okay?"

"Dad, you have to keep your word!" After saying this, the little girl held out her cute little finger.

"Hang yourself with a hook, and it won't change for a hundred years. Who will become a puppy!"

The father and daughter talked together and laughed together.

"Okay, Ruirui, dad is writing a novel, so don't disturb him." Song Tangtang took the opportunity to take her daughter from Fang Minghua's arms.

"Let's do this, Ruirui. Can mommy teach you martial arts? Let's go downstairs."

"Okay." The little girl immediately clapped her hands happily: "Is it the military boxing that my uncle taught my brother? That's really fun!"

"Yeah, so can mom."

As the footsteps went downstairs, the voices of the two became smaller and smaller.

Fang Minghua shook his head with a smile and continued his coding work.

After New Year's Day, Fang Minghua focused entirely on the writing of "Twilight". In addition, it was cold outside, so he rarely went out. He was too lazy to attend some meetings of the Writers Association, so he took leave whenever he could.

However, although the north wind is howling outside and the weather is very cold today, Fang Minghua has to go out because the TV series "The Ordinary World" shot by Zhang Yimou has been completely produced, and Shengshi Film and Television Company invited him to watch it in advance.