Many people have a filter for most of the literary works, the love novels circulating on the Internet, simply for the sake of the reader's pleasure, this kind of non-nutritious work is generally not considered a literary work, and the literary works in the public's mind must be Yangchun Baixue, through the superb depiction method to express the metaphorical central idea, when the literary works begin to describe the miserable life of the low-level people in the city, the reader may not be able to accept.
For example, Mo Yan's "Fat Buttocks" and Jia Pingwa's "Waste Capital", these two books are because of the straightforward description of life in the city, the audience is difficult to accept such a straightforward description of sexual behavior, and even once some people questioned, why did China's literary history develop like this? Is it really the development of Chinese literary history that has deteriorated?
Singing the praises of the mother's "Fat Buttocks"
Mo Yan likes to describe his hometown, "River in the Rain", "Black Sand Beach" and other works are loved by many readers, mountains and rivers have been written, Mo Yan will set his sights on the people in his hometown. So there was the book "Fat Buttocks". The title page of the book is also clearly marked with the spirit of heaven dedicated to the mother.
The background of the creation of this novel runs through the 1920s, the protagonist Shangguan Lushi was born in 1990, and his husband Shangguan Shouxi has no fertility, so his wife can only ask other men to "borrow seeds" in order to pass on the generations. The author uses a very bold brushstroke to describe the process of the mother's "borrowing seeds" on a large scale, and also shows this feudal scum product that violates morality and ethics very bluntly in the book.
As soon as the book came out, it attracted a large number of resistance from readers, first of all, his name "Fat Buttocks" is very straightforward and vulgar in the eyes of readers, everyone thinks that he describes some crude and ugly content in the name of literature, and the only son of the mother in the book is the product of the secret affair between the mother and a foreign priest, which makes the reader even more resistant to the book, and for a while the question is constant: Why can't mothers and Chinese give birth to sons, and foreigners can? Isn't the author in this way exalted? Pressure from public opinion eventually led to the book being pressed to close.
This can't help but make people wonder, is it possible that a generation of Nobel Prize winners Mo Yan has fallen off the altar? In fact, although the author's depiction method is quite controversial, it is all to express the author's praise for the birth of a mother, although its content is vulgar, it is indeed a real phenomenon of that era.
In china in the early twenties, under the smoke of war, Shangguan Lu's husband died in the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, and the image of a female mother who was struggling at the bottom of society but optimistic and tenacious was portrayed vividly, her "fat buttocks" gave birth to her daughter, and her "abundant milk" fed her daughter.
The author uses the simplest and most straightforward brushstrokes to truly restore a piece of history from a first-person perspective. It not only renders the cruelty of the war, clearly and intuitively expresses the author's reflections on the history of the war, but also writes an ode to the great selflessness of the mother.
Wu Yun Chuyu "Waste Capital"
The same opportunity as "Fat Buttocks" is Jia Pingwa's "Waste Capital". The protagonist of the book is Zhuang Zhidi, one of the four major cultural celebrities in Xijing, for his portrayal, the author is bold and unrestrained, and straightforward and simple, there are a large number of sexual descriptions in the book, as well as a variety of elopement and derailment plots. This caused readers at the time to resist.
Most readers have shallow eye holes, only see the skin phase, not the bone phase. The book is not at all as bad as the reader claims, but on the contrary, it contains profound philosophies.
Jia Pingwa mainly wants to use the book "Waste Capital" to criticize materialism, he believes that the development of society to this day, only materialism is rampant, constantly corroding people's souls, so he hopes to use this book to make a literary rebellion against this phenomenon, the book protagonist Zhuang Zhidi's pathological behavior, is also based on scientific psychosis.
The author also uses simple and straightforward brushstrokes to describe a real phenomenon, although the description of "sexual behavior" occupies a lot of space, but a close reading can taste the protagonist's emptiness under this kind of Wushan clouds and rain, life has not become full because he is with many women, he is still living in loneliness and emptiness.
"Waste Capital" is a good combination of the background of the times, the 1980s and 1990s coincided with the special period of the transition from the socialist planned economy to the market economy, this background is of great practical significance, Jia Pingwa's portrayal of the characters in the book is also very delicate, a good display of the characteristics of each character in the background of the times and their spiritual pursuits, exposing the upper class although the appearance is well dressed, but the inside has long been corrupted by "greed", but also expressed the author's questioning of a paranoid modern commodity society from the perspective of traditional literature. It highlights the collision between traditional culture and modern literature.
brief summary
The emergence of "Fat Buttocks" and "Waste Capital" does not mean that Chinese literature has fallen off the altar, Chinese literature has always been a hundred flowers, whether it is Yangchun Baixue or Xia Riba people, they all express the truth or emotions expressed in the most empathetic way to the reader. Chinese literature has always been a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred flowers competing for beauty.
As readers, we should be tolerant to appreciate literary works, many people as soon as they see such large-scale words, they will naturally have the idea of diaphragm, and even without seriously reading these works, they will begin to label these works as vulgar and yellow, and then rise to the scale of Chinese literature.
Most readers did not understand the profound meaning expressed by the author, nor could they seriously read it, and under the leadership of the author, they pondered the social background and social phenomena at that time. Instead, it is a very one-sided approach to only see the so-called "vulgar" depictions in them, and then to criticize these works and even question the development of Chinese literature.
The expression of art is the same way, all the depiction techniques are also for the central idea to serve, a literary work, can let the reader understand the profound philosophy contained in it, or let the reader feel the emotions transmitted by the author, then he can be called a good work. Readers should also appreciate literary works more inclusively, not to easily deny a work only by relying on superficial senses, but to understand the deep meaning expressed in the book, trigger thinking, and resonate.
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