"Books and Far Away" submissions| reading "Remembering the Flow of The Year with Literature" has a feeling

"Remembering the Year of Flowing with Literature" is a collection of essays by the famous writer Ah Lai. Before, I only knew this writer through Alai's novels. This was the first time I had seen Alai's prose.

This book has a total of seven chapters, including "Records in the Clouds", "Reading Secretaries", "Travel Notes", "Huai ren Records", "Appreciation Notes", "Wine Tasting Notes" and "Speech Notes", covering the author's cognition of reading and writing, his yearning for his beloved poets, and the elaboration of flowers, plants, travels and hobbies around him. From this collection of essays, as readers, we can jump out of the novel and know an ordinary person with flesh and blood.

In the chapter "Records in the Clouds", the author describes his thoughts after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. As a Sichuan writer, Ah Lai personally did his part in disaster relief and fulfilled his responsibilities as a Sichuanese. It is reasonable to say that such a huge theme of human nature is in front of him, and it is so touching that a writer will not let go of this opportunity to express his feelings, but Ah Lai did not immediately write a work on the theme of earthquakes, because he was very close, felt too deeply, and had too many materials, so he needed to precipitate for a longer time.

The author admits that for himself, inspiration is not the most important, the most important thing has always been language. A specific way of language can express the emotions that you want to express the most. Language is the foundation of writing, the gateway, the high ceiling. Writing is a re-construction that calls on language to join spirit and emotion. Therefore, ten years after the Wenchuan earthquake, Alai's related novel "In the Clouds" officially began to be created. This is the author's reflection on nature and human beings, the glory of human nature, and the praise and praise of life force in the past ten years.

Combined with the "Record in the Clouds" article, let's look at "Reading The Secretary". In "Reading the Book", Alai chose two poets as his spiritual idols. One is the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu, who "looks back at the vastness of Jincheng". One is the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

Ah Lai's liking for Du Fu was obvious. Du Fu was a talented poet and a down-and-out poet. He led his whole family over the mountains and traveled thousands of miles to find a place to settle in a grass hall, but he was never able to do so. Compared with other cities, Sichuan treated Du Fu kindly, and Du Fu also repaid Sichuan with poetry, "Jinshui Chunguang was occupied by the public, and the Caotang people returned on the day." In "A Travel Guide with a Poem", the author visits Neruda's hometown of Chile with Neruda's poems, which can be regarded as a kind of memory and reunion of his youth.

Of the next few articles, I was most impressed by Metasequoia, the Story of a Tree. This essay has won the Ding Ling Literary Award for Prose Works. Metasequoia, known as the "living fossil of the plant kingdom". This essay is about how Metasequoia was rediscovered. The whole prose is full of linguistic charm, and some of it can be classified as beautiful. In the author's opinion, the process of Metasequoia rediscovery is magical. Metasequoia is like Chinese. "The spirit of Chinese was once vibrant, once heroic to the world, but also once lost." The alley has a thousand family music, people have no heart", fortunately, the passage of time, looking for Metasequoia, that is, looking for a Chinese the story of reawakening in culture and rediscovering the world. ”

If you like Alai, this book is a book worth reading. From this book, you can re-acquaint yourself with Alai, your perception of the world and Alai's rich inner world. This is a more vivid, full of human fireworks Alai.

Author: Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Schott Bing