"There is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to love life after recognizing the truth of life."
This sentence is used to describe Liang Xiaosheng's characters, such as Zhou Bingyi in "The World of Man", which is most appropriate. It is not impossible to use it on himself.
"I'm an extremely calm realist. My vision of life, the goal has always been set very close, very low, very realistic and realistic. Liang Xiaosheng once wrote in the book.
Since childhood, the family has been in a difficult situation, the father has been working in the province for many years, the mother is frail and sick, and there is a sick brother in the family... Liang Xiaosheng knew very early that he could only be loyal to realism in his life, and he could not be exaggerated, abstract and hypocritical.
However, like the little girl in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, he regards writing as a light of hope that illuminates life, and has compassion for all sentient beings.
A few days ago, he attended the "Chinese Tao Li" media meeting. The interview scene unsurprisingly turned into the writer's own Q&A and insight sharing conference on "the world": he did not shy away from talking about the "very vulgar" side of reality such as house, income, marriage, and social networking; but from time to time he changed into "Zhou Bingyi", and he was fascinated by the emotions and pursuits of "our time".
After more than seventy years of "human world", this old-school realist writer still like a sentence he once wrote: like a donkey hovering between two meadows, he has always "looked left and right between idealism and realism".
Acknowledging that some of the novel's plots are "beautified"
"Almost repeating the pattern of "The World"
In the newly launched essay collection "Little People Walk Through the Big Times", he recounts the ordinary and vivid lives of one after another, reflecting the changes of the times and the hearts of the people of the world: workers who intersect with hardships, migrant workers who run for their livelihoods, intellectual fathers who have lost their beloved daughters, peasant women who have been cheated on stocks, female owners who fall in love with their own hired workers, as well as scavengers and black car drivers...
In the new novel "Chinese Tao Li", he reviewed in the first person the college life, love, friendship experienced by Li Xiaodong and Xu Ran, young people in the "post-80s" small town, as well as the successes and failures on the way to Beijing, who endured the ruthless pressure of high housing prices, experienced ups and downs in the workplace and love field, and wandered and was bitter in order to return to their hometown or stay in the big city. Occasionally a hint of humor flashes between the lines, giving people the impression of a "youth version of "The World".
Liang Xiaosheng admitted that describing the love and friendship of young people in the new book is indeed a great challenge, and there is also a "generation gap" between him and this era, and he will not use his mobile phone to ride and pay until now, and he only learned to reply to text messages in the first two years. Still, "we can communicate intimately." ”
In the face of the outside world's doubts about the "too beautification" of some of the plots in the book, he generously admitted that the friendship experienced by the protagonist "beyond the class", the kind of friendship that can be opened up to life, is "not very existent" in life, "almost repeating the pattern of "In the World"; but he also patiently explained to the reporter that some of the plots and characters in the book, including those cadres and children with pure character and who can be called the "clear stream" of the officialdom, are indeed experienced by him personally.
What do people pursue in this life? "If you think about it, in addition to truth, goodness, and beauty, everything else is a passing cloud." Liang Xiaosheng said.
"Writing is a craft,
It's not much different from opening a noodle restaurant."
In the TV series "The World", Liang Xiaosheng made a cameo appearance as a judge for the first time, becoming the biggest "Easter egg" in the film. In the new book "Chinese Tao Li", he spends a lot of time describing the situation of the Chinese professor "Mr. Wang" in class, and he encourages students to start a journal, allowing them to lie on the table with candy in class to watch the movie "Taxi Driver"... Let people vaguely see the Chinese Department of Science Class, as a university professor Liang Xiaosheng.
Borrowing from Mr. Wang, he once again expressed his reverence for literature: "Literature is essentially a renewable resource left by human society to ordinary people, and there is almost no need for investment. In his view, for most ordinary families, the best family wealth left to their children is books.
In his mind, the best person to play "Mr. Wang" is Fan Wei, on the grounds that "when he squints his eyes and smiles slightly, there is a state of kindness and benevolence." ”
Despite his admiration for literature, he deliberately took his status as a "writer" and arranged such a line for the characters in the book: "If I come to write 'The World of Man', I will definitely write better than Liang Xiaosheng." ”
He said that these jokes actually contain his own attitude to writing: in a certain period, literature did play an "enlightenment" role, but in today's peacetime, writing is a craft, "not much different from opening a noodle shop", and the profession of writer does not mean that it is superior. Those who have to carry the novel "on a high place, as if it is mysterious", in his view, are all "nonsense".
According to him, "Chinese Tao Li" will be his "penultimate" novel, and after writing the last two, "no matter what the level, 'Liang Ji Noodle Shop' will be closed." The next one (work) is an old man sitting on the side of the road basking in the sun. ”
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[Reporter] Guo Shan, Huang Chuxuan
【Photo】Courtesy of the publisher
【Author】 Guo Shan; Huang Chuxuan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client