Reading ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classics and promoting "reading for all" in the field of literature requires the guidance of truly heavyweight masters. The reporter learned that recently, the fourth series of the 2021 National Publishing Fund funded project "Everyone Read Everyone" was officially published by Yilin Publishing House. This is a set of literary appreciation courses edited by famous scholars Ding Fan and Wang Yao, including Tie Ning's "Hidden Masters", Yan Lianke's "Writers of Writers", Ge Fei's "Boundaries of Civilization", Li Er's "Writing of Insiders", and Qiu Huadong's "The World Created by Masters", a total of five works. The five authors are both the leading creators of the contemporary literary world, as well as the profound critics, and the profound humanities and arts education, which is the first time that they have published a private book list, especially it is worth mentioning that it also includes Ge Fei's first literary lecture on Tsinghua University.
After Bi Feiyu's "Novel Lesson", he continued to do a general education class for literary masters
The reporter learned that the "Everyone Read Everyone" series began in 2017, and Bi Feiyu's "Novel Lesson", which was first published in the first series, was widely praised, and the subsequent works of Li Oufan, Zhang Wei, Ma Yuan, Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan, Wang Jiaxin and other works echoed it, becoming a phenomenon-level event of literary reading that year. The fourth series of the book series continues the concept of "being a general knowledge classroom for literary masters", and the content of the book is more diverse.
"The Hidden Master" is a collection of essays on literature and art by Tie Ningman, which is divided into four series: reading people, reading books, reading paintings, and reading the world. "Reader" describes the author's interaction with Yang Dai, Sun Li, Ma Zhitu, Xu Guangyao, Kenzaburo Oe and other predecessors, and is sincere; the author shares the nourishment of her art and life by famous artists such as Lin Fengmian, Feng Zikai, and Wang Zengqi. "Reading" reviews Tie Ning's own creative experience, involving famous novels such as "Oh, Fragrant Snow", "Stupid Flower", "How Far Is Forever", and also explores the writer's sense of responsibility, the driving force of creation and other related literary concepts. "Reading Painting" not only fondly recalls the artistic influence of a group of Chinese painters, such as Zhang Deyu, on the author, but also sharply comments on the painting masterpieces of Bruegel, Fomeyer, Courbet, Repin, Miller, Monet, Renoir, Egon Schiller, Chagall, Hopper, and Wise, and the appreciation and analysis often have a unique female perspective, which is quite inspiring. "Reading the World" is a collection of essays written by the author in his early years, from the discussion of people to the discussion of the world, which is deeply philosophical. Reading this "Hidden Masters", readers can not only empathize and resonate with these masters, but also deeply appreciate the dark meaning of literature and art to light up life.
"Writers of Writers" is Yan Lianke's literary reading notes, which are divided into five series, covering Latin American literature, Russian and Soviet literature, European and American literature, Asian and African literature and other themes. Among contemporary writers, Yan Lianke's acceptance of foreign literature is quite representative, and he constantly draws on experience and forms an independent literary style. In this book, as the lead reader, he shares with readers the "beauty of the classics": "Metamorphosis", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Dawn Here Is Quiet", "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "My Name is Red", "My Mihair"... He reviews his own reading path from the perspective of a novelist, and tells how literary classics are created, interpreted and passed on from generation to generation.
The Frontiers of Civilization is the first publication of Ge Fei's literary lectures at Tsinghua University as a collection of literary criticisms by robert Muzier, Naoya Shiga, and Melville, three writers from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, focusing on several classic works such as Muzier's "The Man Without Personality", Shiga Naoya's "Dark Night Walk", and Melville's "Moby Dick". They are writers from different regions of Europe, Asia, and the Americas, living in different societies or in time and space relations, but their lives and writing activities have formed incredible kinship. They are all intermediaries who have transitioned from traditional nature to modern civilization, staggering alone on the road of testing the boundaries of civilization, and warning of the crisis of humanity and civilization with their own brilliant works. In their gaze into the future, we are in the middle.
"The Writing of insiders" is Li Er's literary reading notes. The book is divided into five parts: "Reading and Writing" talks about the enlightenment of contemporary literature by Borges, Camus, Carver, and so on; "Commemoration" recalls the literary achievements of late famous artists such as Ba Jin, Qian Gurong, Radar, and Shi Tiesheng; "Encounter" traces back to the interactions with contemporary writers such as Zhang Wei, Ge Fei, and Liang Hong; "Speaking from Works" starts from typical texts such as "Dream of the Red Chamber" to explore the basic issues of literary artistry, moral sense, and values; and "Dialogue" is a record of dialogue between authors and scholars, critics, and media reporters. "I told some of my views on people and things, literature and the times, and it was those views that determined why I wrote those works, and also the success or failure of them." This book is a concentrated presentation of the author's literary outlook and creative outlook, and it is also a high-level classic literature reading lesson.
"The World Created by the Master" is a carefully selected reading note accumulated by Qiu Huadong over the years. As a contemporary literary master deeply nourished by world literature, Qiu Huadong, a master of reading, focuses his attention on the dozens of people who have had a profound impact on the pattern of world literature from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present: from European modernist novel masters such as Joyce and Kafka, to American novel giants such as Hemingway and Saul Bellow, to Latin American "literary explosion" giants such as Rulfo and García Márquez... With the accumulation of rich and extensive reading, he went deep and simple, carefully read the text in a way that stripped away the cocoon, and carefully sorted out the different life paths and eye-catching literary achievements of these literary masters. Each article is followed by a detailed reading list of the author, helping ordinary readers to get closer to the masters and enter their literary world.
Invite five famous artists to read Chinese and foreign classics
"The reason why a classic can become a classic is that it must contain timeless beauty, eternal love, and vast qi." "Those classics that have endured in the long river of history have embodied the coherence of the hearts and knowledge of writers and artists, the fusion of morality and talent, and the unity of character and art." Calvino's definition of the classic in Why Read the Classics is that the classics are the books that you often hear people say, "I'm rereading" instead of "I'm reading," and he emphasizes the process by which the classics are constantly being recognized. And the attitude of most ordinary readers to the classics can be glimpsed from Mark Twain's ridicule that everyone wants to read, but everyone does not want to read.
The reasons for "not being able to read" often have two aspects: one is the dyslexia from the work itself, such as crooked teeth, obscure, too long, complicated narratives, and the era gap in the background; the other is the reader's own reasons, such as reading preference, comprehension is limited due to the inability to read, and reading time fragmentation. Therefore, the core of promoting classic reading is to ignite the reader's interest, which requires excellent readers to guide readers to discover the value of classic works.
Tie Ning, Yan Lianke, Ge Fei, Li Er and Qiu Huadong are domestic first-line writers and literary researchers, who have rich creative experience and profound knowledge reserves. In the creation of this "literature class", they changed their identities and ways of speaking, deleted the complex and simplified, and used vivid and vivid words to consider the classics, touch the classics, and interpret the classics. Editor-in-chief Ding Fan believes: "Such text interpretation has to a certain extent replaced the writing class that teachers and students in colleges, middle schools and primary schools have a lot of headaches. The most fundamental reason why many of our professional teachers cannot achieve such a teaching effect is that they only have the "literary principles" that are rigidly set, but have no practical creative experience, lack of sensitivity, and empty rationality. The literary classroom of the five literary masters not only has the insight and detailed analysis of the form, but also can be sublimated and refined to the theoretical level, and achieve the purpose of indoctrination of humanistic literacy while giving readers aesthetic pleasure.
Promote reading for all and make the classics "come alive"
Since 2014, "reading for all" has been written into the government work report for eight consecutive years. "Literature and art cannot be slaves to the market, and do not be stained with the smell of copper." Excellent literary and artistic works should be both ideologically and artistically successful and welcomed in the market." The "Everybody Reads Everybody" book series came into being in this context. The authors of the first series are all well-known writers in the field of literature; then the "second series" was published by Yilin Publishing House, which included the manuscripts of Xia Zhiqing, Wang Dewei, Bai Xianyong, Yuwen Suoan, Sun Kangyi, Hu Xiaozhen, Tian Xiaofei, Zhang Xiaohong, and several academic figures at home and abroad; the content of the "third series" focused on foreign literary translation; the fourth series published this time became the position of famous Chinese writers to speak classics, continuing and broadening the thinking of the first three series, and the five leading readers focused on the classics handed down in the fields of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign literature and art. Delicately interpret the artistic achievements and spiritual connotations of writers and works for the public, so that literary classics can be popularized, works of art can be brought to life, and elegant culture can be popularized.
Invite humanistic "everyone" to interpret the masterpieces of Chinese and foreign people in a simple and simple way, and let "everyone" (referring to ordinary readers) share the reading experience of "everyone". The former "everyone" put down his body and did the work of popularization and puzzle solving for the latter "everyone", and the purpose of this interactive exchange is to let the two "everyone" work together to promote the current "reading for all". Editor-in-chief Ding Fan said: "The planning, writing and publication of this series of books is a long-term and arduous project, and we will use our life's energy to build it. We hope that this series of books will become a big platform for the improvement of the core humanistic qualities of our country and nation, and open up a new channel for popularizing the humanistic spirit of literature. It is reported that the "Everybody Read Everyone" book series has been a national publishing fund project for many years, and there will be new masterpieces in the future. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
Source: Purple Cow News
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