Mo Yan once said that the first time he saw Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was in 1984, when he was in the military art writers' class, in the bookstore in Weigong Village, when he first read the first dozen pages of the novel, he was full of heat and very excited, he said that he did not dare to read it again after reading it for a while, he felt that this novel was too great, he read it again, he would be completely controlled by it, so he did not dare to read the book, he put the book down, and quickly ran back to the military arts dormitory.
After winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for a hundred years of loneliness, many people ask: What is its greatness?
The most correct answer is that it creates an unprecedented narrative that attracts others to imitate. It has influenced a whole generation of Wenqing in China, and the works of Jia Pingwa, Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Chen Zhongzhong, Han Shaogong, and Su Tong can all see the shadow of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
Mo Yan Yuhua Chen Zhongzhong and others imitated "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" has a beginning that has created a miracle, but has never been surpassed:
"Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia will remember the distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice."
After Mo Yan first saw a hundred years of loneliness in 1984, he quickly ran back to his dormitory, sat down at his desk and began to write
"On the ninth day of the first month of August in the ancient calendar of 1939, my father, a bandit, was a little more than fourteen years old. He followed the team of the legendary hero Yu Zhan'ao, who later became famous all over the world, to ambush the Japanese car team on the Jiaoping Highway. ”
This is the beginning of Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum".
"Bai Jiaxuan was most proud of later, and he married seven women in his lifetime."
This is Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain".
"Until much later, Sand can still vividly recall the scene when Dongshan knocked on his door that morning."
This is the beginning of Yu Hua's "Inescapable Doom".
Even the current Guo Jingming is imitating "One Hundred Years of Solitude":
"Many years later, I stood on the shore where a stone was erected, facing the sea, facing My Kingdom, facing my people who were subject to Me, facing the undulating noise of the world, facing the snowbirds in the sky, and weeping."
This is Guo Jingming's "Magic City"
Why is such an opening so popular?
According to the words in Wang Xiaobo's novel, it is like water flowing year, and flowing years are like water. People on the stage of history take turns to play, like flowing water, but their deeds in this thousand years of historical evolution are like water flowing through the river, sweeping away tens of millions of tons of sediment, leaving a broader and broader road, proving to people the traces of their existence.
So they need to talk about the past, the present and the future.
We all know that Mo Yan and Yu Hua imitated "One Hundred Years of Solitude", do you know who Márquez imitated?
Many people know that many Chinese writers imitate "One Hundred Years of Solitude", but basically no one knows how Márquez created such an opening, who did he imitate?
Márquez loved to read Juan Rulfo the most, and Márquez could recite the writer's Pedro Paramo, not only with his back to his back, but also with his back upside down, and even say something that he could point out appearing on the first few pages.
There is a line in Pedro Paramo that "Father Redriard will recall that night many years from now," which One Hundred Years of Solitude imitates.
What is the charm of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? Let Mo Yan and other domestic writers worship, but also let tens of millions of readers fascinated
Everyone is very familiar with a hundred years of loneliness, but few people know that when Márquez came to China, he saw that the streets and alleys were all a hundred years of loneliness, but these were not authorized by him, and he said angrily:
"For 150 years after my death, I will not authorize China to publish my works, especially 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'"
Qian Zhongshu was embarrassed not to speak next to him.
Until 2008, Chen Mingjun, the editor-in-chief of the new classic culture, wrote a letter to Márquez, which impressed Márquez. In 2010, he finally officially authorized to China Publishing House.
The reason why a hundred years of loneliness is so popular is because Márquez wrote about loneliness with romance.
The loneliness of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the loneliness of isolation and helplessness, the cage that is trying to break through but is stronger, the fate of every member of the Buendia family, a kind of inability to love, powerless to love. But even if they know that they cannot get rid of it, every Buendian has no choice, they look for ways to fight against fate, they struggle bravely, they struggle to get rid of it, and this tenacious vitality will be transmitted to every reader who communicates with them, thus becoming firmer and more tolerant.
Life has never existed alone. Whether we are born, we grow, we fall in love, or we succeed or fail, until the end, loneliness exists like a shadow in a corner of life.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, which chronicles seven generations of the Buendia family and the centuries-old rise and fall of the Caribbean coastal town of Macondo, reflects a century of Latin America's turbulent history.
The book says that all the brilliance in life will eventually need to be repaid by loneliness, and life will eventually be a single trip, before loneliness is confusion, and after loneliness is growth.
Many people comment that if you can only read one book in life, it can only be "One Hundred Years of Solitude"!
After reading this book, Lao Gu felt that no matter how impetuous and complicated the world was, as long as he drilled into "One Hundred Years of Solitude", that period of time would be romantic, peaceful, and calm.
It is worth reading again and again, it makes us understand that loneliness is the norm of life, and what we have to do is for me to enjoy loneliness and learn to cherish life between life and death!