After Jiang Yulou came out, he found that everyone looked at him strangely.
He came closer to Wang Meng and asked in a low voice: "What kind of look are you looking at me? It makes me feel weird."
"Just keep it in mind, everyone is just happy for you." Wang Mengpi said with a smile.
"Really?" Jiang Yulou touched his chin, "You're not jealous that my novel will be published in Ming Pao, are you? It's actually nothing. I'm a newcomer and can't get much remuneration. I can't compete with the famous writers in Xiangjiang. Than."
Wang Meng felt sour. Seeing his appearance, he couldn't help but said: "That is "Ming Pao" with a daily circulation of 100,000 copies. The more clearly you understand the influence of "Ming Pao", the more you can see the value of the novels serialized on it. !”
Not to mention the tens of thousands of yuan in royalties, they were so envious.
Old comrades like them didn't get much benefit from this literary exchange meeting, and they were all eaten up by this young comrade Jiang Yulou.
Jiang Yulou shrugged and said nothing more. He didn't want to be so high-profile, but excellent people are like a cone in a bag, and they can't see clearly at the end.
The next day, the weather in Hong Kong was very sultry, and the exchange group had to attend a tea party hosted by the literary and art circles in Hong Kong.
This is the first time that writers from both places have participated in an exchange tea party. The entire exchange team, from top to bottom, takes it very seriously.
Even the muggy weather couldn't stop them from wearing very formal clothes to attend the tea party.
The writers participating in the event were mainly Liu Yichang, with Ni Kuang and Mr. Jin also appearing.
Under the soft lights, the literary exchange venue was filled with a strong cultural atmosphere. An exchange event with the theme of "avant-garde literature" is in full swing.
In the center of the venue, there was a rectangular wooden table with several classic literary works placed on it. They were the core of this exchange meeting.
At the table, several old men in casual clothes were animatedly discussing the character creation in one of the classic novels. Their voices are sometimes high and exciting, sometimes deep and powerful, as if they were in that special era, experiencing joys and sorrows with the characters in the book.
Let me talk about what avant-garde literature is.
Avant-garde literature is an important genre of modernist literature. A small group of writers with a strong sense of self, based on the principle of "continuous innovation", break the accepted norms and traditions, constantly create new writing forms and styles, and introduce neglected and taboo subjects.
Writers of avant-garde literature often express themselves as "divorced" from the established order and declare their "subjectivity" from it. Their goal is to shock the perception of readers influenced by tradition and challenge the dogmas and beliefs of traditional culture.
Avant-garde literature is a type of modernist literature, which includes "symbolism, futurism, dadaism, imagism, surrealism, abstraction, ideology, absurdism, etc." Its tendency is to reflect the modern West In society, there are abnormal and alienated relationships between individuals and society, between people, between people and nature, and between individuals and themselves, and the resulting mental trauma, abnormal psychology, pessimism and emptiness.
It sounds like avant-garde literature is very niche, but it is not. Writers of this era were more or less influenced by avant-garde literature.
Such as innovation, and breaking tradition.
Their writing styles are all different, but they all have their own merits in becoming famous.
At this time, the work that caused intense discussion among writers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait at the exchange meeting was called "Ring Ruins." This work is one of Borges's second collection of novels, "Collected Fictions," and is an important novel that embodies Borges's "nihility of time" and "consciousness of death."
"This novel is undoubtedly absurd." Liu Yichang first set the tone for the novel, and then elaborated on his thoughts, "The absurdity lies in the fact that the magician created the boy in his dream and knew that the boy was an illusory shadow. Compared to the boy, he is undoubtedly "God". As the novel says, fathers care about their children who are born in moments of confusion or happiness, and the magician is no exception, but just when he is worried about what will happen to the boy when he steps into the fire When he discovered that he was a created phantom, he found that he was safe when he stepped into the fire.
Regarding the description of this paragraph, the work describes it like this, "He walked towards the flames. The flames did not devour his flesh, but soothed and drowned him without burning or burning. He knew with relief, shame, and fear He himself is also a phantom, a phantom in another man's dream." Doesn't this kind of ending show the absurdity and tragedy of the magician's life in the work? "
"I think this work has an excellent understanding of death." Wang Meng responded after Liu Yichang's speech, "Borges's thinking on death is full of Western-style speculation on the meaning of life. He is pessimistic about death, believing that no human effort can change the final outcome of an individual's death. The inevitability and inevitability of death are full of pessimistic overtones of fatalism. Fatalism may stem from the Buddhist teachings he received. Impact. And in this work, it is death that gives meaning and dignity to life."
Jiang Yulou stood next to them, listening with interest as they discussed the connotations of Borges's works. The void of time, existence of layers, and the consciousness of death were the most mentioned.
There are many praises for the character description and writing skills.
However, have these writers ever thought that Borges did not think so much when he wrote this work. I simply thought it was interesting to write like this, but the understandings of later generations are all far-fetched based on my personal understanding?
For example, before he was reborn, he heard an anecdote. The writer Alai once appeared on a program hosted by Mr. Sa called "Let's Talk". In the program, a girl from Jiangsu asked him that he often got good grades in the Chinese language test in school. Could he himself be able to answer these questions for his article?
Alai also admitted that he had a very embarrassing experience. A friend's niece happened to solve the reading questions of his article, so he asked him for advice. Unexpectedly, after I confidently agreed, I found out that I didn’t understand the questions, which was very embarrassing.
Moreover, this is not an isolated case, many writers have encountered this kind of thing.
Feng Xianzhi looked at Jiang Yulou standing thoughtfully beside them, and asked, "Yulou, what do you think of this novel?"
Jiang Yulou was stunned for a moment, "What?"
He didn't expect that Feng Xianzhi would call his name. He didn't think that much just now, he was just imagining.
"What do you think of this novel?"
The noisy venue suddenly became quiet. Everyone wanted to hear what the hottest and youngest writer had to say.
