"Peasant Empire": Jiang Zilong, the white deer is originally a classic, can not be imitated, can only find another way
To be honest, this book is a bit special, first of all, it wrote nearly 600,000 words, which is a great test for the current readers, the popular "White Deer Plain" is only half a million words, this brick-like thick book, can its quality exceed, or at least match the "White Deer Plain"? Secondly, the theme and content of the book are very special, although there is no foul breaking on the whole, but it is still sensitive, to the temple, but also to the rivers and lakes, which will also be mentioned in the media interview with Teacher Jiang Zilong; Finally, the so-called "peasant" problem is really so good-looking, is it worth writing for such a long time?
How many people now know that the content of the book, partly from many famous villages in China's real society, they were once poor, and there was a "stingy" brute force, in the early days of opening up, dare to take the door, play the side ball, experiment, breakthrough, under the leadership of one or more strongmen, quickly accumulate wealth, but also won the attention and support of the government, become "typical" and "benchmark", become a shining performance medal, so it is easier to get policies and loans, and it is easier to expand wildly. While accumulating huge amounts of wealth, its leaders will also show more or less "dictatorial" tendencies, and even turn a village into a totalitarian society, a solipsistic empire.
In modern society, the "imperial idea" and the market economy, of course, the current politics are incompatible, conflict has become an inevitability, I think almost all people who know the content of this book will ask a question: "Peasant Empire" is not writing about the "Daegu Zhuang" incident that caused a sensation in the country that year. Some of the reports about the book are interesting, such as: "You can't find the prototype anywhere in this story I wrote, and no one should think about taking a seat." Jiang Zilong said that he had a friend who was a county leader who advised him not to write "Peasant Empire", and that he might be in constant trouble after writing it, such as encountering bizarre car accidents, breaking legs and breaking arms.
"Now I am very relieved that in real life, no entrepreneur can compare with Guo Cunxian, and the people who look like him in the back are not so good in the front; the people who are so bitter in the front are not as big as the evil in the back." I also studied many peasant entrepreneurs, and none of them had sons whose sons were as good at reading as Guo Cunxian's sons, and none of whose wives were as beautiful as Guo Cunxian's wives. The report came from the Beijing Times, which sent a full-page headline with the headline "I am not writing Daegu Zhuang", which is very silverless and deeply rooted in my heart.
In the interview, the reporters and Jiang Zilong talked about two works, one is "Ordinary World" and the other is "White Deer Plain", Jiang Zilong's point of view is that these are two very good works, but in the two works, "Ordinary World" is difficult to create obstacles for latecomers in art, "White Deer Plain" is a classic, at least half of the classic, it needs to be crossed. Before Zhu Yu, Jiang Zilong still had to write "Peasant Empire", and indeed wrote unusual places, such as the moving description of the three-year famine, at the meeting, Jiang Zilong said that it was indeed not written in place, because it could not be too exaggerated.
Secondly, in terms of language and readability, "Peasant Empire" is still very in place, although the book is very thick, but in my reading process, there is still a great desire to read, in the middle of my subconscious self-pause, it is after a special period, the investigation team into the village and Guo Jiadian traces, this time gives me the feeling that "Guo Cunxian" to some extent and contemporary history too close, all the way through the thorns, and there is the taste of the reform novel of The Director Qiao. But soon, the "realist" writing of the second half will pull people back, so that the quality of "Peasant Empire" is also superior in terms of art, language and readability.
In this way, "Peasant Empire" is still a relatively cautious and heavy work, for various reasons, it condenses the turmoil of history into a person, rather than a system or a temporary politics, which is wonderful enough for the novel, very wise.