On the 7th, Mo Yan, the nobel laureate in literature, together with Yu Hua and Nishikawa, two old friends in the literary world, held an online conference for the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue". In the evening, the live broadcast room was full of popularity, and many young faces poured into the live broadcast room, triggering a frenzy of bullet screen interaction. Netizens shouted that "these three literary top streams gathered together, comparable to the Deyun Society's meeting" "Such a large-scale literary event, really live for a long time" "Originally concerned about Mo Yan wanted to learn some literature, now I just want to listen to talk shows" "Don't look at it and don't know, Mo Yan is really humorous"...
"Life and Death Fatigue" is one of Mo Yan's representative works, Yu Hua admitted at the press conference that after reading "Life and Death Fatigue", he felt too jealous and wrote too well! ”。 Mo Yan said, "The Nobel Prize judges mainly awarded the Nobel Prize to me because they finished reading "Life and Death Fatigue". It is reported that the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue" is created by the reader culture, adding Mo Yan's reprint preface, original illustration, original character relationship diagram, and also specially including Mo Yan's calligraphy oil poems and Mo Yan's portraits. The reader's version of "Life and Death Fatigue" was listed within a week of listing, and it was ranked first in the total list of new books, and the sales volume of Douyin exceeded 10,000 in two days on the shelves, and the publisher printed 100,000 copies overnight.
Mo Yan Yuhua recalled the friendship in the same window room and exploded creative fun facts with each other
In the minds of the public, Mo Yan and Yu Hua can be described as the two peaks of Chinese literature, but few people know that these two peaks were once roommates who had lived together for several years. Mo Yan and Yu Hua are classmates at Beijing Normal University's Lu Xun College of Literature, or "brothers sleeping on bunk beds." In order to support his long-time friends, Yu Hua specially came to participate in the launch of the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue". The two recalled the hilarious past at that time, and Yu Hua laughed and said that he was "particularly happy" when he first learned that he was assigned to a dormitory with Mo Yan by the school, because he had "been admired for a long time".
When asked by netizens about the campus life of the two people that year, Yu Hua directly revealed that the two had shared a toothpaste when they shared a bedroom, which triggered a burst of laughter and cheers from onlookers. Mo Yan recalled the more interesting details of the two, when they lived in the same room, Mo Yan was working on "Wine Country", and Yu Hua was writing his debut work "Shouting in the Drizzle". There was only a cabinet between the two, and "you could hear the rustle of the tip of the pen rubbing against the manuscript paper" and "you could even hear each other panting." There was a slit in the middle of the cabinet, tired of writing, leaning back, the two people looked at each other, "and then the inspiration suddenly disappeared, he couldn't write anymore, I couldn't write anymore." The final solution was that Mo Yan hung up a wall calendar and blocked this slit. This was "the successful completion of their respective novels".
The fairy friendship between the two top authors of Chinese literature amazed netizens, and this friendship is not only in life, but also reflected in spiritual communication. After writing "Life and Death Fatigue", Mo Yan immediately gave Yu Hua a copy, which made Yu Hua intoxicated at that time. In order to participate in the launch of the new edition of "Life and Death Fatigue", Yu Hua specially reread the book, "every paragraph grasped me tightly", "both tearful to watch" and "constantly laughing". As the cover copy put it, "Laugh out loud when you are in extreme pain and gain deep relief from the depths of your heart." But Yu Hua's words turned again, and he did not forget to ridicule his old friend: "Although I watched crying, Mo Yan was more likely to cry, and he cried when he watched a TV series." ”
During the whole press conference, netizens interacted warmly, and they said that they were laughed at by the two masters that "the masks were cracked". Some netizens left a message saying, "I originally wanted to study literature, but now I just want to listen to talk shows." Some netizens said: "A few of them can get together and open a Deyun Society." One netizen summed it up very brilliantly: "The works of the two teachers are sad, and the daily life is so humorous, it is really to bring sadness to the reader and keep the joy to themselves."
Yu Hua on "Life and Death Fatigue": After reading it, the first feeling is jealousy
Talking about the feeling of reading "Life and Death Fatigue" for the first time, Yu Hua frankly said: "The first feeling is very jealous, it is too cattle to write! ”。“ But the second time I read it, I was happy, I was happy for Mo Yan, and I was also happy for our Chinese literature."
"Life and Death Fatigue" uses the form of six reincarnations to tell the story of Ximen Hao's reincarnation into a donkey, a cow, a pig, a dog, a monkey, and finally a defective big-headed baby. Yu Hua praised the way "Fatigue of Life and Death" is written, and no second person in China can write it. Even up to 430,000 words can still make people quickly enter the play, and it can be said that it is a thousand miles to read. Deep in love, Yu Hua also shared his love for the "pig" in the book: "Just describing the pig fight, I feel the glory of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", and the pig in "Life and Death Fatigue" is definitely the most powerful pig in the history of Chinese literature, the history of world literature, the literature of the past and the literature of the future. ”
For Mo Yan himself, Yu Hua also could not suppress his appreciation, and frequently expressed his love for Mo Yan at the press conference: "Through the image of seven or people or animals, to complete the image of a protagonist, this is not in the history of world literature, and it will not be in the future." Even if there is, only Mo Yan can write, and others cannot write. He criticized today's critics for always looking for great novels in translated novels, in history, and never thinking that there are great novels around them. But in his opinion, "Life and Death Fatigue" is a great novel.
As a great Chinese literary scholar, Yu Hua could not help but associate "Life and Death Fatigue" with his masterpiece "Alive", he said: "I think if we want to use a book in our Chinese literature to explain what "Alive" writes, it is best to use "Life and Death Fatigue". And vice versa, if you're going to explain what Life and Death Fatigue is about, it's Alive. Netizen barrage message, "This locked "Alive" and "Life and Death Fatigue", which was fixed on CP! ”
The miraculous work that impressed the Nobel Prize judges, do not look at it and do not know, Mo Yan is really humorous
In the sequence of Mo Yan's works, "Life and Death Fatigue" is indeed one of his most important works. Mo Yan himself has expressed his love for "Life and Death Fatigue" many times. He said that the book was the work he regretted the least, and admitted that if he only had two works to pass on, then there must be one of them " Life and Death Fatigue " . At the press conference of "Life and Death Fatigue", Mo Yan also revealed, "The Nobel Prize judges mainly watched "Life and Death Fatigue" before deciding to give me the award. ”
At the press conference, Mo Yan's good friend Yu Hua, who is also a writer, and others expressed envy, even "jealousy" for Mo Yan's process of creating "Life and Death Fatigue". Mo Yan was also extremely excited when talking about his creative process, and repeatedly mentioned that he was "very excited" at that time, "shivering and shaking his legs while writing", and used 43 days to complete the story that had been conceived for 43 years. No wonder even Yu Hua said, "Novelists want to enter a kind of madness, madness, a state of complete ignorance of their existence, and what Mo Yan envies most is that it is easy to enter, and he enters very fast." ”
This state of writing has also created a consistent language style in Mo Yan's works. Nishikawa commented that Mo Yan's language was a combination of "Shakespeare" and "Li Bai", with "natural creativity" and "enough to make a dry river rush into the Amazon". Exploring the formation of this language style, Mo Yan talked about his childhood. When Mo Yan was in the 5th grade of elementary school, he dropped out of school because he talked too much and entered the adult world prematurely. Leaving the group, Mo Yan plunged headlong into nature, so he began to be friends with cattle and sheep and talk to pigs and dogs. In the process, he began to think that what the human eye saw might not be the same as what the donkey, cow, and sheep saw, and that perhaps every animal had a human soul hidden in its heart. Based on this, Mo Yan wrote this book "Life and Death Fatigue" and completed this novel that yu Hua called great.
In the process of "Life and Death Fatigue" from one reincarnation to another, the memory of each person and animal continues, and this memory is the memory of generations in the novel. But judging from the span of 50 years of the novel, this memory itself is a large cultural memory, a memory common to human beings. This cultural memory can be adapted to everyone. This bystander perspective gives the reader a deep sense of compassion for the characters in the book, including the negative characters. It is an understanding and compassion for all people, a great tolerance, a great love, and a genuine and ultimate concern for the destiny of mankind.
When Mo Yan solved the problem of "Life and Death Fatigue" for us, he also mentioned the deeper value of this book to the reader. When suffering is inextricably resolved, what is the value of jumping out and seeing the six reincarnations, the six voids, seeing this infinite universe, our fame and fortune above a speck of dust in the universe, our success or failure? This is also the reason why it is written on the cover of the book, no matter how bitter it is, it can laugh out loud. Mo Yan integrates his personal life experience into cultural memory, using his humor to explain the inevitable pain in life, but at the same time proves to us that laughing out loud when in extreme pain is achieved and inner liberation is obtained. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen