"Amateur Player" is the latest collection of novels by young writer Meng Xiaoshu, there are three stories in the book: "Please Cheer for Me", "Amateur Player", "Cool Beijing", the protagonists of the three stories are Sun Chuangchuang, Chairman Fei, and Su Ling'er. "Please Cheer for Me" tells the story of the rock and roll critic Sun Chuang Chuang who wrote the script, but encountered a series of changes; "Amateur Player" tells the story of Sun Chuang Chuang, as a keyboard player, who makes the ghost send God to compete with the previous band to participate in a talent show; the third story tells the story of Sun Chuang Chuang and Su Ling'er's love.
These three stories reflect each other and complement each other, writing about the three personalities of Sun Chuangchuang, interweaving a sense of insanity of life like a dream. And the three stories are also about the multiple possibilities of a person, Meng Xiaoshu proposed a concept called "Sun Chuang", which is the sum of a part of the urban youth, which covers all the dark hearts and positive desires.
Recently, "What They Are Trying to Change - Meng Xiaoshu "Amateur Player" New Book Sharing Meeting" was held online, and writers Shi Yifeng and Ban Yu, critic Li Weichao, and the author of the book, Meng Xiaoshu, shared it.
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"A sense of déjà vu"
Li Weichao recommends young people to read "Amateur Player" because it reflects the life and spiritual and emotional state of young people in our time. It's not just a certain profession here, Meng Xiaoshu observes the lifestyle of young people, and writers tell their stories. Specifically talking about the group of "literary and artistic youth" and "marginal figures" represented by the protagonist Sun Chuangchuang in "Amateur Players", Li Weichao said, "Write a group of literary and artistic youth who may not be reliable in the eyes of the outside world and screw up." In the three stories of "Amateur Player", what is unreliable is society, it is the rules, and it is the so-called principle of capital, while the people in the story are reliable. ”
Ban Yu expressed empathy for the "sense of déjà vu" created by Meng Xiaoshu in "Amateur Player". He believes that the common theme of the three stories in "Amateur Player" is "life in a panic period", "this panic comes from a sense of rupture, a literary youth, whether you like music, art, or movies, how these people should put their place in a stable, solid social structure where interests rather than emotions are paramount." ”
Ban Yu talks about the specific characters in the novel, in the first part of the music critic Sun Chuang broke into the underground music world to call the wind and rain, but when he wanted to make a movie, his performance was very cramped and vulnerable, which was an embarrassing situation encountered by many literary and artistic young people in the previous period and now. The things you are good at, love, and are particularly handy to yourself, sometimes seem useless to the outside world, or belong to the category of self-expression and self-indulgence.
From this point of view, the image of the literary and artistic youth or the Sun Chuangchuang in these three articles is precisely the delay of this state, eager to get some kind of recognition, but always resisting, thinking of a more suitable and reasonable way to cut into the life of this moment, and fully realizing their own value, but each such effort and attempt finally failed. He was not dedicated to a great cause or a noble goal, perhaps their greatest purpose was only two words — remembrance. Of course, at the same time, they also know that they have many shortcomings, which may be aesthetic or artistic narrowness, or some conceited and fragile parts of their personality, but these have not interfered with their enthusiasm. Ban Yu said.
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"The new prodigal sons of the city"
Shi Yifeng believes that in writing, Meng Xiaoshu himself took a step back and retreated to the position of observer, Sun Chuangchuang is not a kind of person with her, but she can consider the problem from the perspective of Sun Chuangchuang. Shi Yifeng also noticed that the three grandsons in Meng Xiaoshu's pen actually had a regular pattern to follow. The occupations of the characters in the novels are all new occupations of modern life, such as singing rock music, radio DJ, or music critic. Meng Xiaoshu did not write about people who had traditional old professions, and her writing had a characteristic that the occupations of fictional characters must be fresh and semi-marginal, and his profession itself was irritating.
Ban Yu believes that "the protagonist is very much like the prodigal sons of the new students in the city, with similar experiences, similar feeling structures, and very strong uncertainties." The novel is particularly like the romantics' weak youth, sick and troubled on the one hand, and with a particularly strong desire for the outside world. ”