Post-80s writer Sun Rui recently launched a new work "Ghee and Spicy Scalding" at the People's Literature Publishing House. From 2011 to 2018, Sun Rui, who had published the phenomenal bestseller "Grass-like Years", seemed to have disappeared from the "literary circle" and few novels appeared. This time, he returned as a new role of writer, screenwriter and director, bringing a set of short and medium stories set in the current life and showing the spiritual plight of urban people. On the evening of December 6, Sun Rui walked into the live broadcast room of the People's Literature Publishing House, brought readers the creation and sharing of the novel collection "Ghee and Spicy Hot", and launched a rich literary dialogue with writer and screenwriter Quan Yongxian and critic Cong Zhichen, and interacted with readers, and the response was warm.
In response to a question from Meng Xiaoshu, the host of this live broadcast and the responsible editor of "Butter and Spicy Hot", Sun Rui mentioned that he left the literary world for a few years to make movies, and after the film was filmed in 2018, he also saw the current situation of the industry, realized that it was approaching the year of confusion, and could not fully devote his limited time to endless meetings with producers, so he moved his energy back to novel creation. "Although it is not smooth sailing across the circle, the movie has been released this autumn, but it is a matter of heart, and now you can write a novel without distraction." In his view, the sense of value brought by the novel is not the same as that of writing the script, and people must have discoveries about themselves, and only the novel can achieve this goal.
When asked what is the difference between the works of the past two years and the "game mentality" when creating "Grassy Years", Sun Rui said that there is no essential difference, and there are two novels in the new novel collection that are also related to play, called "Zoo" and "Playground", and one "Athena" is related to the animation film "Saint Seiya" that the post-80s children watched, and the novel of the same name in the novel collection "Butter and Spicy Hot" is related to eating, and the life memories of these teenagers will unconsciously pop out after the passage of time. Awaken and ignite the spark of life. Different from the documentary-style restoration, these novels are written by the protagonists who return to the "playground" and "zoo" after they grow up and have more life discoveries. He also joked that the next step is to write "Billiard Hall" and "Video Hall" and put together a "four-room and one-room" series.
Cong Zhichen said in the dialogue that he was quite impressed by the novel "Playground", the novel began with "I" divorce and resignation in his prime, divorce would be written in the pen of other writers, writing all kinds of unbearable, but Sun Rui wrote very "juvenile", refreshingly two people left; resignation is not because of less money, not because of being fired, but because of the company transformation, the next thing to do, "I" as a book editor with editorial ideals do not want to do. Sun Rui's characters still have such a vigor at this age, and they are extremely idealistic. More importantly, after "I" returned to my hometown, I wrote extremely delicately, thoughtfully, and warmly about the experience of middle-aged life.
Quan Yongxian, as a golfer of Sun Rui for many years, feels that this "sense of youth" and so-called "idealism" in Sun Rui is reflected in the body of every spiritual product creator. "If you don't have this, you just go do something else." Even if it is a person who seems to live honestly, there must be a lot of turmoil in his heart. ”
Talking about the relationship between literature and people, Sun Rui frankly said that he often takes the initiative to avoid danger while taking the initiative to ask for the existence of some dangers, so that he feels interesting to live, and absolute safety will feel boring. "Man is truly a peculiar animal," and literature is the best way to express this peculiarity. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
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