Back to 80: My Literary Life

"Stream of consciousness novel?" President Huang was surprised when he heard this.

"I know that this writing technique is now popular in the West, but few people in China have tried it. Do you want to write in this genre? I'm afraid it's more difficult."

"I want to try."

President Huang glanced at him, didn't say anything, just patted his shoulder, turned and left.

Fang Minghua made a cup of tea and answered just now not on a whim.

Scar literature is still popular in the domestic literary world, but the climax has passed.

Representative works of scar literature such as "Class Teacher", "Furong Town", "Xu Mao and His Daughter", and "Spirit and Flesh" have been published one after another. There are also excellent works published later, but they cannot touch the height of these works.

Military literature?

Li Suan's "Garland Beneath the Mountain" has been published, which will surely ignite the climax of military literature again. There will be a large number of military-themed novels such as "Shooting the Sirius" and "Triumph at Midnight". There is no need for me to join in this. lively.

"Life" published by Lu Yao can be classified into the category of reform novels - novels about the political and economic reforms carried out in Chinese society since 1978. The origin of his work is "The Taking of Factory Director Qiao" published by Jiang Zilong in 1979.

In addition, Ke Yunlu's "Thirty Million" and "New Star", Zhang Jie's "Heavy Wings", Zhang Xianliang's "Men's Style", Jia Pingwa's "The First Moon of the Twelfth Month", "The Family in the Chicken Coop", etc. .

These works have already come out or are about to come out, so let’s write something new.

Before the Chinese New Year, he discussed stream of consciousness with Professor Michel, including the subsequent debate with Zheng Quan, a student from the Foreign College, which made him interested in this genre.

There are not many famous domestic stream-of-consciousness novels, but there are many stream-of-consciousness movies. Before the time travel, "In the Mood for Love" and "Ashes of Time" made by Xiangjiang's Sunglasses King, and "The Road" by Bi Gan, a new domestic director "Picnic" and "The Last Night on Earth" all belong to this type of movie.

Of course, there is also the famous "The Sun Also Rises" filmed by Jiang Wen.

Fang Minghua likes "Ashes of Time" produced by Sunglasses King very much, but martial arts novels have not yet emerged in the mainland, and few people know what the new martial arts novels are.

More importantly, if you want to write fan fiction, you have to go to Xiangjiang to find Daxia Jin to get his authorization.

Don't be like the time when a certain Internet writer was sued by Daxia Jin for this matter before time travel.

Then write "The Sun Also Rises" by Jiang Wen.

It is a film written, directed, and acted by Jiang Wen. The film tells four intertwined stories, with themes of madness, love, guns, and dreams.

Isn't this a proper stream of consciousness?

The film won many awards including the Golden Horse Award and the Academy Award, but failed miserably at the box office.

can't read.

In fact, I can’t understand many stream-of-consciousness novels.

It doesn't matter, you will eventually understand it, just like this movie was finally rated as a masterpiece.

Although this movie was written and directed by Jiang Wen, it still has the original text. It is adapted from Ye Mi's short story "Velvet". It is said that it has been greatly revised, and it is basically two different things.

Fang Minghua had never read this novel before traveling through time.

Let’s continue to adapt movies into novels. Is this considered one of my strengths?

Now that he had decided, Fang Minghua started to conceive. After all, movies and novels are two different things.

Anxi is still relatively cold in the first month of the year, but Fang Minghua has the coal stove in the room burning brightly, which makes it quite warm. He writes hard in the room during the day and night. Of course, he can't forget the patrol at 11 o'clock every night, so he can change his mind. .

The novel "The Sun Also Rises" has approximately 50,000 words, which can be considered a novella, and took twenty days to write.

It was already early March, and spring was belatedly arriving in Anxi. Fang Minghua had already taken off his bloated cotton-padded jacket and put on a sweater. He looked at the thick stack of manuscripts and felt quite satisfied.

Who should I look for to check?

Fang Minghua thought of Lu Yao first.

Seeing that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, it was estimated that Lu Yao had already gotten up, so he put the manuscript in his yellow satchel and rode his bicycle straight to the Writers Association.

In the small courtyard behind the Writers' Association, Fang Minghua discovered that Lu Yao was chatting and puffing with a man in the small courtyard. It turned out to be Jia Pingwa.

"Brother Jia, why are you free to come here today?" Fang Minghua greeted with a smile.

"He called me a few days ago and told me that he had finished the novel and asked me to take a look at it. This was just a reply." Jia Pingwa said and pointed to Lu Yao who was sitting on the wicker chair.

Lu Yao also spoke: "Xiao Fang, I saw you were busy writing a few days ago, so I didn't feel like disturbing you. Is the novel finished?"

"It's over, come here to see if Brother Jia is here, help me check it." Fang Minghua said and took out the manuscript from his yellow satchel.

"Oh, I've become your editor. Okay, you look at Lu Yao's, and I look at yours." Jia Pingwa said and handed the manuscript in her hand to Fang Minghua.

Fang Minghua took the manuscript, held a small stool and sat on the side to read. Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa gathered together to read Fang Minghua's manuscript.

The small courtyard was very quiet, with only the sound of three people flipping manuscripts, and occasionally Lu Yao coughing.

The novel written by Lu Yao is called "In Difficult Days". It is also a novella, about 40,000 words.

Before traveling through time, Fang Minghua had not read this novel, but he had heard of the name. Together with "Life" and "The Ordinary World", it was later called Lu Yao's life trilogy.

Compared to the latter two, this novel is less compelling.

Fang Minghua looked carefully and realized that it was a campus novel, telling the story of a poor rural student named Ma Jianqiang who struggled with hunger while studying in the city in the 1960s.

Isn't this the shadow of Sun Shaoping in "The Ordinary World"?

Fang Minghua was a little surprised.

However, in "The Ordinary World", Sun Shaoping's fate was tragic, and Tian Xiaoxia, who truly loved each other, died while saving others.

And Ma Jianqiang had a good ending in the end. He fainted from hunger on the way home after dropping out of school. He felt very guilty that he had caused a lot of trouble to Wu Yaling. He thanked Wu Yaling for her kindness.

He understood that most of his work in the Armed Forces Department was paid by Wu Yaling out of her own pocket. Because of the rift and disagreement between her and David Zheng, he felt very sad.

David Zheng doesn’t look like Gu Yangmin. He studies well, is humble and polite. Helped Ma Jianqiang to resume school, helped him apply for relief funds, and reconciled with Wu Yaling. In the end, the annoying Zhou Wenming also apologized to Wu Yaling and David, and the four of them happily walked back to school hand in hand!

A Chinese-style happy reunion.

Obviously, this is an inspirational article.

But in terms of literature and art, it is not as good as "Life" and the subsequent "Ordinary World".

"Have you finished reading?"

Fang Minghua looked up and found Lu Yao looking at him.

"Yes, finished reading."

"Xiao Fang, tell me your opinion."

Fang Minghua pondered for a moment and asked in a tentative tone: "Brother Lu, why don't you make Ma Jianjun's ending more tragic? Just like Gao Jialin did?"

"I have thought about it too." Lu Yao took a puff of cigarette and said slowly: "However, in the end, I still want to have a better ending. The ending of "Life" is a bit regretful. Let me give readers some hope this time." Lu Yao Finally smiled.

So why did the main women in "The Ordinary World" end in tragedy?

Naturally, Fang Minghua couldn't ask this question.

"Brother Lu, to be honest, I think this novel is not as good as your "Life"." Fang Minghua was very honest.

There is no need to praise it, it is of no benefit to anyone.

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