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On the evening of January 7, Mo Yan brought the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue" to meet the audience in the Douyin live broadcast room. More than 2 million people poured into the live broadcast room that night, and the atmosphere in the comment area was as lively as the Deyun Branch.
For two hours, Mo Yan and his friends Yu Hua and Nishikawa shared their experience of creating when they were young, "revealed" the formation of Mo Yan's writing language style, and discussed the specific creative details of the novel "Life and Death Fatigue". For the life after opening the public account, Mo Yan joked in the live broadcast that he once felt that he had become twilight, and after opening the public account, he felt that he was coming to Japan, felt his youthful hair, and would often look in the mirror to see if his hair was too much.
Conceived for 43 years
43 days to write "Life and Death Fatigue"
The live broadcast is the launch of a new edition of Mo Yan's novel "Life and Death Fatigue", which was first published in 2006 and recounts the historical development process of rural China in the past 50 years from 1950 to 2000. The book focuses on the heavy topic of land, explains the various relationships between farmers and land, and through the artistic images of the cycle of life and death, shows the life of Chinese peasants since the founding of New China and their tenacious, optimistic and tenacious spirit.
Mo Yan remembered the process of creating "Life and Death Fatigue" in the live broadcast, which was created in the autumn of 2004 in a second-hand room in Beijing's Changping district. "It's quiet in that courtyard, and you can occasionally see planes flying overhead, and 43 days is a full-time work."
Mo Yan also mentioned that the book is a pen after contacting the computer, "writing with a computer has no sense of achievement, but also easy to be distracted, 500 words a piece of manuscript paper wrote more than 900 stacked on the desk, write 30 a day to feel that the task is completed." Mo Yan revealed that the new book took 43 days and finally presented more than 500,000 words. However, such a fast writing speed has been questioned by netizens, what is the content of the book? Yu Hua joked in the live broadcast room, "After writing this novel in 43 days, Mo Yan actually conceived it for 43 years." ”
Writing 43 days conceived for 43 years is not a joke. Mo Yan shared the creative process in the live broadcast, "Life and Death Fatigue" is the image of the character first, and then the formation of a long novel, inspired by the experience in his own life. "The animal has a prototype, the donkey in the book is very strong, there was a "donkey" in the family, and there are still painful memories of it standing in the courtyard screaming in the sky and grinding in the West Wing. The prototype of the cow is a cow that I let go in the production team after I dropped out of school. Mo Yan recalled that it was a black tendon cow, fierce in nature and very powerful, but when he bought it, he did not work, "Let you whip, beat, burn, and do not work, and then the cow was sold." The image of the monkey is relatively unfamiliar, so the length is shorter and more concise. Pigs are 'little old pigs' who eat much meat, climb over the walls and trees to do everything, and the feeding sheds built are dismantled in two days, chewed up and spread like mattresses in the nest. Mo Yan recalled in the live broadcast, "At that time, pigs climbed the tree every day hungry to climb the wall and gnaw on the bark, and the howl made was like a wolf howl, resounding throughout the village. Finally, there was a swine fever, and finally the group of 'monsters' died. For this description of pigs, Mo Yan said that he was also elated in writing.
Some netizens in the live broadcast asked, "How can I win the Nobel Prize in Literature", Mo Yan seriously replied, "The quality of writing in the writer's pen is the first, and it is better to write ten novels of average quality than to write a novel of good quality." "He took his friend Yu Hua's work "Alive" as an example, saying that Yu Hua wrote novels easily without shooting, and the first shot had originality, and repeatedly polished for a long time." It is true that a writer can write continuously and write a lot of works, but it is valuable for a person to combine three novels into one novel. ”
Writing is particularly fast
Eat the sea and drink, eat and drink the Mo yan language
The novel "Life and Death Fatigue" is through seven images, and finally completes the image of a person. There is a lyrical part of the language, but there are also smooth words, oil poetry, witty writing language and Mo Yan's experience. Nishikawa commented on Mo Yan's language style, "Mo Yan's language is particularly interesting, he has a very carnival side like the French writer Rabelais language, he can 'eat the sea and drink', and the other side is 'no food and no drink'. ”
In the live broadcast, Mo Yan shared that language is the endocrine of writers, and the language style of writers is closely related to birth, experience, reading, and upbringing, Mo Yan said that the "customary" parts of his writing are from the folk, and that culture has a deep influence on himself. "Rural culture, storytellers in the bazaars... There are many people who rhyme and speak in the environment of life, and childhood memories are filled with talented oral language artists from the countryside. ”
Writer friends who are familiar with Mo Yan understand that Mo Yan's writing speed has always been very fast, and Yu Hua described his and Mo Yan's creation in the live broadcast, Mo Yan's writing is a short pain, and he is a long pain. Mo Yan used to carry his bag back to Gaomi, and in two or three days he could drag back a large box full of manuscripts. I am particularly envious that once Mo Yan starts writing, he is very fast and enters the state very quickly. ”
Mo Yan also revealed in the live broadcast room that the creation of the book "Life and Death Fatigue" was first of all a story brewed for a long time, the characters of the novel have prototypes, like friends are very familiar, "like the old carpenter to work like a drawing, plus with a pen and paper to write, the work is very fast." ”
The writer Mo Yan created many images based on himself, and in Mo Yan's novel "Late Ripening Man", there is a character who runs through the novel, called "Mo Yan", and in the book "Life and Death Fatigue", there is also a "Mo Yan" image. In the live broadcast, Mo Yan revealed that "Mo Yan" plays a role in supplementing the storyline, telling the story process, and promoting the development of the storyline in the work, and at the same time is the narrator of the story, which is the third voice in the work.
The atmosphere in the live broadcast room that night was very happy, netizens commented, "Yu Hua and Mo Yan partner is simply a happy comedian", Yu Hua is like a satirist, said that the first time he saw the novel "Life and Death Fatigue" was in 2006, the first time he read it was very jealous, "How Mo Yan wrote so well", and the second time he read it was happy, happy for Mo Yan for Chinese literature.
Yu Hua also praised Mo Yan through WeChat and Mo Yan at that time, "This is a great novel. "Yu Hua said that 'Life and Death Fatigue' is a book that gradually dissolves hatred, and most of the time reading is joyful, but seeing the death plot of cattle and donkeys, the details of the story are easy to shed tears and make yourself tearful." Write the details of the fight and watch the blood boiling. In the passage of the pig fight, Yu Hua gave a high evaluation: this pig named Pig Sixteen must be the most cattle pig in the history of literature.
At the end of the live broadcast, Mo Yan also sent blessings to the young people, "I wish young friends to be full of vitality and progress every day in 2022." At the same time, he also shared his own creative experience, "'Life and Death Fatigue' tries to complete a closed loop, but this must be impossible. Because the characters are still evolving, the old hatred dissolves, and the new hatred is still emerging, becoming a painful reality. But efforts and realizations of hatred to dissolve are also constantly happening. People will one day become more aware of their own structure and emotional patterns. The continuation and progress of literature is also based on the continuous development of human beings' understanding of themselves, and the characters created by writers can be distinguished from those of their predecessors and the types they have written. We must go deep into life, understand reality and understand reality, so that the novel can maintain the vitality of keeping pace with the times. ”