For the first time, a private book list was made public! Heavyweight writers such as Tie Ning and Ge Fei take you to read Chinese and foreign classics

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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. Recently, the fourth series of the 2021 National Publishing Fund-funded project "Everyone Reads 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. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)

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.

Do a general education class for literary masters

It is understood that the "Everybody Reads Everyone" series began in 2017, and this book series is the fourth series, which continues the concept of "being a general education classroom for literary masters" and involves more diversified content.

"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. Among them, "Reading" reviews Tie Ning's own creative experience, involving famous novels such as "Oh, Xiangxue", "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.

"Writers of Writers" is Yan Lianke's literary reading notes, the whole book is divided into five series, involving Latin American literature, Russian and Soviet literature, European and American literature, Asian and African literature and other themes, Yan Lianke from the perspective of a novelist to review his own reading path, in-depth and simple, telling how literary classics are created, interpreted and inherited 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".

"The Writing of insiders" is Li Er's literary reading notes. The book is divided into five series: "Reading and Writing", "Commemoration", "Encounter", "Speaking from the Work", and "Dialogue". Among them, "from the works to say and go" starts from typical texts such as "Dream of the Red Chamber" and explores the basic issues of literary artistry, moral sense, and values.

"The World Created by the Master" is a carefully selected reading note accumulated by Qiu Huadong over the years. Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway, Rulfo, García Márquez... Qiu Huadong accumulates rich and extensive reading, and carefully sorts out the different life paths and eye-catching literary achievements of these literary masters.

Interpret the classics with vivid and vivid words

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 under the shape, 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.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie

Editor-in-charge | Huang Zhouhui