The writer Mr. Wang Meng has a new work.
At the beginning of the new year, his novel "Monkeys and Teenagers" was launched by Huacheng Publishing House.
The Monkey and the Boy
Wang Meng, Flower City Press, January 2022 edition
In this work, Wang Meng tells the life of an elderly man named Shi Bingyan, a foreign literature expert over ninety years old.
In 1958, the young Shi Bingyan came to Da walnut Shuyu Village, Luoying Township, Beiqingshan District, and started another life. Decades later, the young Hou Changyou he met, and the clever and unfortunate little monkey "Third Young Master" are still in the memory. In the retrospection of the years, this work brings the great era and the changes in people's destiny to today's readers.
Wang Meng also wrote himself into the novel, and in the dialogue between the novelist Wang Meng and the old expert Shi Bingyan, the echo of "long live youth" was played.
The new book came out, and the big names in the literary world first shared their reading feelings -
Literary critic Li Jingze said: "Wang Meng's novels have always had a 'monkey nature' and a juvenile nature, until this time, the eighty-seven-year-old Wang Meng was still a monkey who went to heaven and earth, a teenager who returned and fled forever. He is like a teenager running in his twilight years, his naughtiness, his wisdom, his vitality, his excitement, his surprise and the source of Wan Hu, his vast compassion and blessings, converging into one "Monkey and The Teenager". ”
Wang Meng himself said in the "Afterword to Creation": "People who can recall it into a novel also use the novel to look forward to and chase away, don't you envy the blessings of the novelist? ”
Wang meng
A famous contemporary Chinese writer and former Minister of Culture. He won the 9th Mao Dun Literature Award and was awarded the national honorary title of "People's Artist" in September 2019.
Wang Meng has been practicing for nearly 70 years and is known as a pioneer in the modern writing techniques of contemporary Chinese literature. Representative works include "Long Live Youth", "A Young Man From the Organization Department", "Activities Change into Human Form", "This Side of the Landscape", etc., and the works have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese and other languages and published abroad.
【Postscript】
Memories create monkeys
Knock on the key to gently feel the mood, the first love is good to blossom, like the waves of the river passing away, like a dream mimosa has not faded. Long live the song of youth is not old, and the hundred-year-old fish is remembered and happy. Raise your eyebrows and chant the new book, and there are more monkeys and hi.
When I was a teenager, I first watched the movie "Thunderstorm" that I made in 1938 when I was four years old, in Shanghai during the period of hostility and hypocrisy. The most impressive thing was that Shi Ping was reunited with Zhou Puyuan after thirty years, and Shi Ping mentioned the events of thirty years ago, saying: "At that time, foreign fire (matches) was not used. ”
A teenager, hearing a woman recall a completely unknown past thirty years ago, I was shocked, my heart was heavy, I cried for an ancient and even ape who had lived in the era of "no foreign fire", and my heart beat faster.
In 1958, when I was twenty-four years old, I read Chairman Mao's "Seven Laws to Shaoshan" sentence: "Don't dream of faintly cursing the passing of the river, the old garden thirty-two years ago." "I am in awe, I think of the greatness of life, the ruthlessness of time, the arduousness of the cause and the longevity of the times. I was respectful and ashamed, inferior and sad, introspective and heavy.
At that time, I could not have imagined: what state should a writer who is about to turn eighty-seven years old, from the memories of sixty-three years ago, appear at this time? What kinds of blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate, hormones, tear glands, ECG and EEG? Isn't it a little dizzy, dizzy, dizzy...
There are also memories of sixty-three years ago, of course, memories of a more distant era than sixty-three years ago.
Along with tears in the memory are more and deeper love and closeness, happiness and gratitude, humor and smiles, and perhaps the flapping of flying wings.
Along with the distant and the vague are exceptionally clear, prominent, three-dimensional, distinct, relief and steaming.
What is gradually separated from the gradually distant is more and more cherished, the fragrance of the aged Maotai, the rarity of the cultural relics of the advanced age, and the narcissistic mood of telling the children about the ancient.
Along with innocence and some mistakes is alive and kicking, it's fun, it's youth Mars splashing around, it's wine and ridiculous rotten eggs, it's a one-hundred-and-one macaque, memories create joy and sorrow, and monkeys.
Thirty years ago, in Season of Revelry, I wrote about 1+1 cats. Thirty years later, in Monkeys and Teenagers, I wrote about 1+N monkeys. The name of this monkey is "Third Young Master" and "University Scholar". They are favorites in my fictional works.
Along the way, not only sixty-three years and sixty-eight years (my artistic age), from yesterday to today, but also to tomorrow, next year, the year after, at least to 2023. People who can recall it as a novel also use the novel to look forward to and chase away, don't you envy the blessings of the novelist?
When the reader sees this little text, the Three Young Masters, the Teenager, the Writing Talk, and the Afterword have all become memories.
Then tinkered with new novel writing. (From Monkeys and Teenagers·" Creation Postscript")
【Early reading】
Mountains after mountains
In 2021, shi Bingyan, an expert in foreign literature born in 1930, recalled his different life experiences from 1958. He talked to his little brother Wang Meng about his experiences and various reverie. He was quite excited.
Shi Bingyan, who is already over ninety years old, said that in his youth, he learned a large set of literary names about age, and he felt strange and distant, still not without sadness. Seeing the words "ancient rarity" and "old age", the strange and imminent feeling made him avoid. What he was more afraid of was that he would lose the blessing of reaching gu rare and elderly people in the middle of the way. Later, the same distant north and south poles, the equator, although he did not go, after all, in Anchorage, Alaska, he had stopped for eight times, and the airport's lounge was as big as a basketball court, and on the wall of the airport fast food restaurant was a flattened polar bear skin. And Singapore, especially Ecuador, made him feel that the equator was not equatorial, and there was no need to be surprised. His senses of remoteness and strangeness, strangeness and remoteness, Antarctica and Arctic, equator and Ecuador, rarity and old age became closer and closer. Close to the calendar, the annual calendar, from alaska, Ecuador airport.
Unconsciously, incredibly, the wonderful sayings about age, he has also experienced it one by one and lost it or is experiencing it is losing. There is a sadness in the world that gain is loss, including all achievements and possessions, but it is not as good as age and age. And look at the reputation and status of money, it is gained and lost, and before it is lost, of course, it is obtained steadily, even for one day. And the age caused by time, seconds, minutes, hours, days, days, months, years, years and centuries, once acquired, there is not a moment that is not decreasing and lost.
There are also one or two statements about the fact that behind the age is the birth and death, he is not sure and does not want to talk about it, he can only go with the flow, optimistic, or - that is, to mourn the change, to drive the crane to the west.
Carelessly, he went through swaddling, childhood, hairy years, long years, total horns, yellow mouths, dancing spoons, dancing elephants, weak crowns... It's really dazzling, the tricks are complete, because he's old, he's getting old, and it goes on. He was reviewing, he was doubting, and he asked himself: Is it true that such a complex and ingenious set of terms full of strange elegance and nobility is true? Isn't it the Ecstasy Array of the Chinese People's People who have eaten enough to support the beans? He regurgitated and recited, and threw his body to the ground. Hair hanging in the year, changing teeth in the year of decay, thirty and standing, forty not confused, fifty-sixty knowing the fate of the ear shun, sixty flower armor, seventy ancient rarity... One is from the Chinese calendar, the other is from Du Shi, and the theory of huajia gushu is actually more popular and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people than Kong Shengren's statement on knowing life and obeying the ear. Or is it the folk power, which is also called "loss of courtesy and the wilderness"?
Eighty years old, the public number Xiaobian actually wrote it for gluttony, but also afraid that the audience can not understand and will not read, note the Chinese Pinyin tāo diè, Sven may sweep the ground, may also be directionless with the wind drifting away, and then can actually eat a handful, how happy? Wrong so morale-boosting!
Ninety years old, called the back of a mackerel, has a tattoo on the back that resembles the side of a mackerel? Old and fishy? Fading trajectory? He knew that there was an evolutionary theory that people evolved not monkeys but fish, and even dolphin seals. Those who turn their backs, recognize their ancestors and return to the sect. I think of my whole body, I want to cry, I want to laugh. Weak crown standing, twenty-thirty years old is fine, natural and kind, did not pay attention to you, how can a guy actually make a ninety-year-old fish skin wrinkle? All the stations, are all your surname Shi all over the place? You wouldn't be jumping around, would you? After the age of fifty, Did Gollum fall into the pit of sixty-three? Time, time, you don't care about anything, you strip the black hair, you crumpl the skin of the teenager, you look like water, you change everyone's way of life, you don't say hello, don't remind or warn, you never interact and communicate with people who expect you, are afraid of you, miss you, and love you, is this how you self-righteously play with the life of the old man?
He is ninety, an hour a day will not be bad, if the difference of five minutes, then five minutes later is not bad, if the difference of ten months, then, less restless, you are tense, unless you have heart failure brain collapse Father chase the sun and time race to the head. There is no doubt that this is one, incredible, this is also one, not two.
A hundred days of expectations, looking forward to good maintenance, respect for people, people and "Rui", is the life of happiness, successful people's iconic jade. Later, it was added that one hundred and ten is the year of light, which is a folk minority word newly born because of Mr. Zhou Youguang's longevity. Don't have illusions, don't refuse, this is the nature of the Tao. Freedom to come and go, policy out of necessity, no choice, necessity is actually of course, safe, natural, this, you!
"Interesting. Everything in the world must be called the most appropriate name. Live to be old, learn to be old, grow to be old, named to old. Then, live together, down-to-earth, and be at peace. Wang Meng praised.
Bing Yan said that he himself, when he was about to be ninety years old, he surged up and overflowed with memories of sixty, seventy, and eighty years ago, singing and crying, mourning endlessly, self-comforting, liberated and happy, and really embarrassed, dare not dare and do not have to, there are so many pains and pleasures, pain and awakening, pain and pity, pain and bravery, determination, broken boats, mourning soldiers will win, things will be reversed, put to death and be reborn, smashed and restarted, long-term responsibility, another stove, failure is the mother of success.
What about at the time? It's called head-to-head drinking, it's called head breaking blood, and in today's language, the saying in the TV sketch is: You're on the table!
The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the south flying geese are also looking forward to it. Sweeping thousands of junks, storms, big booms, also called a different face, called thunder, rain is not so small, rain is sunny, willows are dark and bright, twenty years later it is a good man. Gongs and drums sound in unison, beautiful scenery on a good day, enjoying pleasures, and mountains after mountains?
Professor Shi Bingyan and Vice Chairman Shi Bingyan asked Wang Meng: "Tell me about some of my things and provide you with some materials, can you listen to it?" ”
Wang Meng said: "Welcome, thank you, of course. ”
Wang Meng thought again, when the old man talks, don't be tired, and hope that he can stop talking. Knowing and then there is a determination, no fixed can mean that there is no accurate child, there are more words, and the little brother I can't afford to accompany it.
Actually love to listen. The old man has dry goods, and the young man is passionate. Fifteen dollars a gram of dry goods, one dollar a cubic meter of passion.
Lao Shi, who was still Xiao Shi at that time, sixty-three years ago, after the stall was over, he entered one mountain after another, and one after another water. Landscapes are like dreams, like pictures, like turning pages, like the opening gong of the overture of a grand opera, like the opening party of the carnival carnival. (Excerpt from Monkeys and Teenagers·" Mountains")
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