Zhao Xin's "Vacant Seat": Constructing a Hundred States of Contemporary World Conditions

Zhao Xin officially published his works in 2013, but only 8 years, but his short stories have been written in nearly 100 manuscripts and collected into four volumes. If this set of figures were put on a young man of about thirty years old, we would describe him as a young talent who is "not young and young" and "young fengqing in the old phoenix", but he is over fifty years old and is not included. Of course, literary age and physiological age never have to be juxtaposed, how many years more than half a hundred writers creative passion is still surging surging, although the beginning of the late, but the first half of life's endorsement accumulation is never in vain, so that they reach the level of not spitting unhappy when the work written is enough weight, enough to perfection.

The protagonists of Zhao Xin's novels and their families are basically ordinary people, even if they have a certain family background, they will not be set up as high-powered people, reflecting that his writing vision is fully oriented to the low-level characters. This is naturally related to his status as a judge, and he has a variety of people who have adjudicated cases over the years, but it is conceivable that most of the people he faces are ordinary people. As a result, he was able to come into contact with a large number of vivid and vivid cases, which in turn became his writing material.

We can simply sort out the identity of the protagonists of these novels to make it clear: the protagonist of "Vacant Seat" was initially an ordinary clerk and later promoted to director; the protagonist of "Dialysis" Wu Shixiong is a language teacher in a college entrance examination cram school; the protagonist of "Who Moved My Story" is a TV drama screenwriter; the protagonist of "Ben Yue" Xiaoli is a salesman who sells wine by a private enterprise; the protagonist of "Interview" Wu Shixiong is the director in charge of a city's food and drug administration; the protagonist of "Brother and Me" is a policeman; The protagonist of "My Friend's Name is Orange" is a middle-aged man who makes up stories for the website; the protagonist in "Dark room" is an ordinary clerk; the protagonist of "Special Police Intelligence" is a policeman; the protagonist of "Now Withdrawing from Court" is a grassroots official; the protagonist of "Ginseng Doll" is still a policeman. It can be said that these character stories written by Zhao Xin are usually around us, and if the possibility is greater, we are the protagonists of one of them. It is precisely because of these colorful stories that together they have constructed a picture of the contemporary world situation - it covers almost every corner of our real life. Zhao Xin observed these cases and was able to point out their way forward with sincere brushstrokes, and the good life was by no means obtained by opportunism, but by solid struggle.

Here, I don't have to deliberately say how good and awesome Zhao Xin's novel is, I just want to say that the narrative rooted in the bottom layer is extremely demanding is the sense of detail and reality, which of course is also consistent. Because, since it is the underlying narrative, the ordinary life of the vast majority of us, of course, we are also the most familiar, it is difficult for the people of xialiba to say the words of yangchun and white snow, and the life of a chicken feather in a place naturally cannot fiddle with a sense of luxury. The valuable thing about Zhao Xin is that he can really go deep into the details of the lives of these ordinary people, and the editing and conversion methods of handling texts are very mature, just like the micro-films he is very good at - the techniques are novel, the picture sense is full, and the reader can't stop at the beginning and end.

Judges write novels and write more brilliantly, and several works written in his novels that reflect the identity of political and legal personnel are worth exploring. Take "Special Police Situation" as an example to see what the artistic characteristics of the writing from the perspective of political and legal personnel are.

The protagonist of "Special Police Intelligence" is a grassroots policeman, his wife Ning Ning is an only child, but also his college classmates, the family has a little background, originally found an ideal job for her, but for love, resolutely came to the north with him to develop. It can be said that the life of the hero and heroine is the epitome of a considerable number of police brothers and sisters-in-law, and it can only be said that this Ning Ning police sister-in-law has paid more to support her husband's career. The tension of the story lies in the fact that the protagonist Wu Shixiong went to the police in this case is more difficult - a peasant couple, because the husband Liu Cheng coveted huge returns, lent the compensation for land acquisition to an unreliable borrower, the first year also settled the interest as scheduled, and the borrower absconded with the money in the second year, resulting in the money even if the court supported their complaint but could not be enforced. Then, faced with a life of poverty and hopelessness, her husband Liu Cheng wanted to kill his wife Ye Mei and then commit suicide. Wu Shixiong successfully handled the case after leading the team members and Liu Chengdou to fight with wisdom and courage. This is the main line of the story, and the secondary line that develops with the main line is that the protagonist's father-in-law is hospitalized, Ning Ning accompanies his father, and Wu Shixiong, as a son-in-law, can only be in a hurry, the so-called loyalty and filial piety are difficult to complete, he knows better than anyone. When he had dealt with the above case, a special police situation appeared - he needed to lead the team to the scene of his father-in-law's surgery immediately to give him a blood transfusion, of course, the final result was very satisfactory.

Wu Shixiong in "Special Police Intelligence" can be described as resourceful in his treatment of official duties, and he can detect Liu Cheng's criminal psychology in time and stop it in time to avoid the further occurrence of tragedy. And he is extremely indebted to the family, he thought that in many major events and small feelings of life, it is the wife who bears it alone, and even in recalling the past again and again, he found that his wife and her male classmates seemed to be closer, which was the crisis caused by his neglect of running the family, fortunately, he was able to make up for it and avoid the "special police situation" of his family to handle Liu Cheng's case.

Zhao Xin's political and legal theme novels are also valuable in being able to reproduce the scene truthfully, the "Interview" Discipline Inspection Commission and the protagonist's thrilling psychology and scene description of fighting wits and courage again and again, "Now Withdrawing from the Court" shows the cruel test of human psychology in front of money, etc. These novels we fully believe that real life really happened, Zhao Xin reproduced the ins and outs of these stories with a gripping brushwork, they are just like a well-edited movie in front of the reader. This kind of novel is a direct birth of Zhao Xin's own work, and it is a particularly successful type of his work.

Reading Zhao Xin's novels, a major impression brought to many readers is gripping, which is of course related to his work as a judge author and his subject matter is mostly more thrilling political and legal cases. However, in the author's opinion, his success also lies in his proficiency in the use of magic realism techniques, which greatly enhances the artistic expression of his novels, and makes the scope of the protagonist's activities and his own abilities and techniques become colorful, promoting the development of the novel in a certain atmosphere of horror, illusion and obscurity.

Editor-in-Charge: Hengwen only

Source: China Youth Daily client