In 1997, before Wang Xiaobo died, he screamed bitterly, and the neighbors turned a deaf ear, and found deep scratches on the wall after entering the door
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"After death", it seems that it has become a kind of chaos in the literary and art circles, and although many artists are talented before they die, they are poor and destitute all their lives, and no one cares. After his death, he became famous and attracted much attention. Let's say the Austrian writer Kafka. His Metamorphosis and Judgment have influenced generations of people.
And in China, there is also a writer like Kafka, who is the writer Wang Xiaobo. Today's young people mention that Wang Xiaobo can remember his love letters to Li Yinhe and the "Times Trilogy" he wrote. These books open up a new world of love for young people and give people a new perspective on love. However, these works, which were canonized as works of God, could not even be published before Wang Xiaobo's death, and were even once misunderstood as "forbidden books"!
Born with a literary dream
Wang Xiaobo was born in Beijing in 1952 and was named Xiaobo because his father was labeled an "alien" during a special period. The family hopes that this storm will be over as soon as possible because of Wang Xiaobo's arrival. However, although Wang Xiaobo was far away from their home after he was born, his life was seriously affected by this storm, and the biggest embodiment was in his body.
When his mother was pregnant with him, because the family's economic situation was not good, nutrition could not keep up. As a result, Wang Xiaobo had a serious calcium deficiency after he was born. And his appearance is also different from the child of the same age as innocent and cute, when he was a child, he often stayed alone, closed his eyes and listened, and communicated with people is also a look of love and ignorance, like a very different.
At that time, everyone in the family had doubted whether the child was stimulated in the fetus, causing a problem with the head. Fortunately, with the growth of age and the continuous increase of knowledge reserves, Wang Xiaobo's condition gradually improved.
When he was a child, Wang Xiaobo's father studied liberal arts with his children. In his view, the liberal arts not only have no future, but also lose their lives. For example, many well-known people in the contemporary literary world died after becoming famous, so four of the five children in the family studied science.
But the dream of literature was stationed in Wang Xiaobo's heart when he was very young. At the age when Wang Xiaobo was sensible, he would often go to his father's bookcase to steal books, especially those foreign literatures, Wang Xiaobo often saw sleeping and forgetting to eat. For example, he watched Ovid's Metamorphosis no less than a few times.
The so-called literary background is based on accumulation, because of the frequent reading of literary works, Wang Xiaobo germinated a desire for writing. At the age of 16, he wrote his first poem in the mirror with a fountain pen. Although the mirror was eventually written in blue, this move further aroused his desire to create. After that, Wang Xiaobo's love for literature was out of control.
In 1978, wang Xiaobo, who was already 26 years old, walked into the campus of the National People's Congress. Before entering the National People's Congress, he encountered a problem that made him very anxious, that is, to study literature or theory.
To him, literature is like food for his spirit, able to give him a rich spiritual world. But science is what his father always wanted him to choose, and it will indeed be of great help to later life. After many considerations, Wang Xiaobo finally chose to major in science.
Although he chose science in his major, Wang Xiaobo was inseparable from literature in his daily life. For him, literature was his whole nourishment. Therefore, during his school days, he would always find three or five friends to read books together, talk about the past and the present.
Four years of college passed in an instant. After graduating from college, Wang Xiaobo did not rush to find a job like other students, but was responsible for data statistics and computer maintenance at the Peking University Social Institute. Although the work is tedious, it is very comfortable.
Although he has participated in the work safely, Wang Xiaobo is not an ordinary person after all, just like the meaning of a book he wrote before, "The Pig Who Has Always Been a Maverick". He was not satisfied with the status quo and did not want to live a stable life in the eyes of others. He wanted to follow his heart, to be good at himself, and to find his own value in literature. Therefore, after working at Peking University for several years, Wang Xiaobo resolutely resigned from the faculty and began the writing process.
It is often said that if you want to succeed, you need to find another way and follow a path that no one else has taken. Because of the path that everyone has traveled, there is often no fruit left. Perhaps Wang Xiaobo at that time also thought so! Unfortunately, his novels were not popular with fans in that era.
He was just a man who was hurrying in the darkness, alone and alone. In fact, at that time, Wang Xiaobo also felt that he had lived a very small life. His teacher is a professor, famous and powerful. And yourself? Just a novelist who dreams.
Exhausted and lonely
"If you can't survive in the future, just become a truck driver." This sentence was said after Wang Xiaobo's work has not been recognized by the publishing house and cannot be published, when he took the driver's license of the truck driver.
During wang Xiaobo's four years at home, he wrote a number of novels, including "Red Breeze Night Run", "Wanshou Temple", "Like Water Tenderness" and many other novels. Although these novels seem to have extremely far-reaching literary value today. However, it was not recognized at that time, and was even named "yellow novel" by many publishers.
In fact, for the matter of book publishing, Wang Xiaobo also painstakingly thought about it. For example, in 1996, an editor at Beijing Literature wrote a letter to Wang Xiaobo expressing his love for the novels he wrote. He also promised to publish his work.
But the promise is still far from reality, even if the staff member vigorously defends Wang Xiaobo, or even compromises by deleting words, the final result is still the same, and there is no way to publish it. Faced with the dilemma of reality, Wang Xiaobo finally had to compromise with reality and obtained a driver's license for a truck driver. Hopefully, one day I'll be able to make a living by driving a van.
Bad luck
Li Yinhe once said: April is the most cruel month. Because on April 10, 1997, Wang Xiaobo died of a sudden heart attack at his home in Beijing, at the age of 45. The writer who made the truck driver his last retreat finally said goodbye to the world.
At 11:30 p.m. on April 10, 1997, neighbors heard two screams coming from inside Wang Xiaobo's house. By the afternoon of the next day, the neighbors still did not see Wang Xiaobo out. Worried, he knocked on Wang Xiaobo's door. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiaobo had passed away at this time.
When he learned the news of his lover's death, Li Yinhe immediately rushed home to deal with the aftermath for Wang Xiaobo. She knew Wang Xiaobo's preferences, knew that he was uninhibited, loved freedom, and did not bend to one side of the land. After finding many cemeteries, he chose a large stone in the Changping Foshan Spiritual Garden, dug a hole in the ground of the stone, and placed the urn in it.
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What Li Yinhe did not expect was that his obscure lover, a month after his death, his most valued "Times Trilogy" was actually published by the publishing house, and the market response was very strong. Even in the second year of the book's publication, the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature held an academic discussion on Wang Xiaobo's novels.
At the seminar, many experts and scholars said that although Wang Xiaobo's "sex" is bold and straightforward, it is not a decadent daily life attitude, but an elitist value ethic, which should be analyzed from the artistic level. Even Gao Xiaosong said after watching Wang Xiaobo's "Times Trilogy" that Wang Xiaobo was a god-like being in his heart.
Unfortunately, all this pertinent praise came too late. The man who spent his life writing novels, the man who had worked so hard to publish them, was long gone. Looking at Wang Xiaobo's life, it can only be summarized by "bad luck and bad fate". When he was alive, he was not recognized and miserable. After his death, it became a shining moment in his life.
As Nietzsche once said: My time has not yet come, and some people are released after death. Maybe this is exactly the case for Wang Xiaobo! His concept of transcending the times, his advanced thinking, what is needed is the precipitation of time, and what is needed is people's slow understanding!
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