Once, Mr. Qian Zhongshu said to one of his "fans" who wanted to visit him: "If you eat an egg and think it tastes good, why do you know the hen that laid the egg?" Euphemistically and humorously refused the visit. However, the writer's world, intertwined with reality and dreamlike, makes countless readers yearn for it: for many readers, after reading a good book, they will want to know more about the author of this good book, and even the place where this good book was born- the study, which may be the common feeling of another kind of person. For writers, half of their lives are reading books, the other half of their lives are writing books, and the study is both a face and a lizi, one of the most unique places in life.
In general, the study is not a necessity of life, even for writers. For example, Zhang Ailing, not even a bookcase and a desk - "Ms. Zhang's living room, there are dining tables and chairs, and there are 'strong light' bulbs like photographs, except for the lack of a desk, which is really incredible for a writer who knows the world with pen and ink." I asked her why she didn't have a desk? She replied that it was more convenient, and with a desk, it seemed too formal to write anything! ”
Of course, for many writers, having their own study is the happiest thing. On the question of whether to show the study to visitors, Zhou Zuoren said a very famous sentence - "Your own study should not be seen by others, because this is a dangerous thing, for fear of being seen in your own mind." It is not difficult for a person to make an article and say good and obedient, just by looking at the books he reads, at least he will pull out a little pound and two. "Yes, the study, like its owner, has the same personality, there is no secret between the study and the master, and the writers here either with civilizational aspirations, or with literary affection, or with literature, but also with literature to encourage themselves, but also here to write the miracle of literature.
What does the writers' study look like? This article collects the study rooms of Writers such as Kitajima, Feng Jicai, Ma Yuan, Mai Jia, and Mo Yan, what was the initial space for the birth of literature? (Multi-map warning ahead!) ）
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Feng Jicai: The study room is the most undefended place for writers
For writers, only in the study can they face the world authentically and face themselves nakedly. This is the place where one's soul is placed, the origin of one's own spirit, and one's own concentration. ——Feng Jicai, "A World in the Study"
At the beginning of this year, Feng Jicai simultaneously launched two new books, "A World in the Study Room" and "Strange People in the Secular World (Three)", the former is to read himself, and the latter is to read people. In "A World of Study Rooms", Feng Jicai is like a learned and funny tour guide, leading readers into his study. Tell the story behind the furnishings and objects in the study.
"Cluttered" – Feng Ji used the word to describe his study.
"My books and artwork are completely mixed together, my nanny helps me clean up the house, and I ask her not to move a piece of paper. All the paper was messy, but I knew in which pile of paper I needed to be found. ”
Feng Jicai believed that everything in the study was the externalization of the writer's personality, or the embodiment of the writer. The writer will never be bound in his own study, and his temperament will naturally render the study everywhere, showing the writer's personality, temperament, habits, preferences, interests, and aesthetics. In the room full of manuscript papers, letters, photos and other objects, there must also be many things that cannot be understood, and it is also necessary to hide the story that the writer himself knows, or private. Perhaps, this is what Zhou Zuoren said, "It is dangerous to ask people to look at the study"!
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Mo Yan: The study once saw no sunlight all year round
In 2000, someone asked Mo Yan how you would like to spend the prize of more than one million DOLLARs if you won the Nobel Prize. Mo Yan replied that he wanted to buy a big house with it. In October 2012, Mo Yan did win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and when faced with the same question, Mo Yan's answer was still: "Buy a house." At that time, Mo Yan's study did not see sunlight all year round.
Now, Mo Yan's study is called "YiDou Zhai", the decoration is extremely simple, a small table, two wooden chairs, and there are only more than 100 classics on the shelves, such as the works of Lu Xun and Tolstoy. The other books, Mo Yan chose to "do subtraction" - they would be cleaned up once a year and sent to some schools.
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Jia Pingwa: "My master is writing a book, don't disturb"
As the old saying goes: First-class people are loyal to their filial piety, and two things are to read and cultivate the fields. ——Jia Pingwa, "Qin Cavity"
Jia Ping's study is called the upper study. Shang shu shu refers to the place where the emperor and grandson of the Qing Dynasty went to school and read, which was called "Shang Shu Fang" before the Qing Daoguang, and was changed to "Shang Shu Fang" during the Daoguang years. Why did Jia Pingwo name his study in this way? He said to himself: But sometimes I like to read, so I can "go to the study" when I have nothing to do!
There is a door god at the door of the upper study, which is a mirror plaque that is one person high, and in the middle it reads: "My master is writing a book, don't disturb." "This is his creative workshop.
When you walk into the "Upper Study", you can't see any books, but you are full of large and small Buddha statues, wood carvings, pots and pans, stone mills and calligraphy works. You have to be careful when you walk in the study, otherwise, if you accidentally touch something, it is an antique. Even on the desk, it was full of places, leaving only a place to write, and that "small basin" was like the word "concave" in Jia Ping's name.
On the Bogu shelf, Jia Ping wrote sentences such as "The storm is the time when the dragon rises", "I have a mission and dare not slacken off", "In this life, I have repaid all the debts, but I owe plum blossoms a few lines of poetry" and other sentences that warn and motivate him.
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Ma Yuan: The study room is the "republic"
"Some once-desolate scenes have flourished and eventually become ruins, just like the long years spanned in the novel, making it impossible to distinguish for a moment what is real and what is fiction." —— Ma Yuan, "Girl Village"
"Since I have an incurable disease, I will not be cured." In 2008, Ma Yuan, one of the "Five Tigers of Avant-garde Literature", was diagnosed with lung cancer. Therefore, he quit his job and came to the girl village in the border of Yunnan with his family to live a "paradise" life. At the foot of Nam Nuo Mountain, Ma Yuan built the castle-style Jiuma Road Academy.
Borges said, "If there is heaven, it is what the library looks like." And in the mysterious and dreamy village on the edge of Yunnan, Ma Yuan's study, as Borges described, is truly a paradise for every book lover.
In the woods, paths lead to many rooms, there is a window in each direction of the room, each window can see a different scenery, each room is named after the literary master - "Green House", "Camus House", "Faulkner House", "Kafka House", "Hawthorne House", "Tolstoy House", "Hugo House" and so on.
▍ The daily life of literature
He used the eight pillars of the house structure to design a circular library that takes into account the use of space and lighting, which not only increases the sense of depth of this square world in the interlacing of light and shadow, but also brings infinite relaxation. His library was the "Republic" of his life.
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Kitajima: The residence is the study
If you are a boat, drifting is your destiny, but don't dock. - North Island", "Green Lantern"
For the North Island, in general, the residence is the study. Since childhood, Kitajima has not had a space that can be called a "study", and for many years, it has hardly thought that there will be a study of its own. For more than 20 years, North Island has switched residences in 8 different countries, and the number of moves has been uncountable. In Hong Kong, Kitajima really has its own study.
Due to the limited living area in Hong Kong, Kitajima decided to rent a separate study. It takes only six or seven minutes to walk from home to the study, between Ma On Shan Park, and the window of the study is the bay. Compared to the past, this is a bit too luxurious.
▍North Island is located in the study room of Ma On Shan, East, Hong Kong
▍ Kitajima: The most memorable "study" is still in the chase shop on the construction site, if it can be called a study. I would say that the conditions were the worst at that time, but my reading and writing was full of passion.
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Mai's House: Open private study
In a lifetime, people always have to go through many things, some things are like air, drifting with the wind, leaving no trace; some things are like watermarks, which can be left for a while; and some things are like woodcuts, carved up, and cannot be lost. ——Mai Jia,"Life Sea Sea"
In 2008, Mai Jia won the Mao Dun Literature Award for "Dark Calculation"; in 2009, the novel "The Sound of the Wind" was adapted into a film with great success; in 2014, "Decryption", which has been published for 12 years, was discovered by the international publishing community, and as of now, "Decryption" has been translated into 33 languages, and its English version has been included in the British "Penguin Classic" library, which is the only Chinese contemporary writer selected for the library after Lu Xun, Qian Zhongshu and Zhang Ailing. Last year, mai family finally launched a new work after 8 years - "Life Sea", which appeared on the cover of the magazine, in the annual book list, and some time ago, it appeared in the live broadcast room of "Taobao Sister" Wei Ya, and now, the sales have exceeded one million copies.
After becoming famous, the Mai family was also lost, but in the end he found his own direction. The Mai family feels that they must be able to withstand loneliness before becoming famous, and they must be able to withstand temptation after becoming famous. In order to encourage reading and literary creation for the whole people, he created the Maijia Ideal Valley, a private study opened by the Maijia family, in the Xixi Creative Industry Park in Hangzhou.
▍ Reading is going home, this sentence was placed by the Mai family at the door of the Ideal Valley
▍ Don't laugh at dreams
It was his studio, a place for his private collection, a poetic home for young people who loved to read, and a place to offer free book clubs for young writers. The "ideal valley" of the Mai family, the open private study, completes the meaning of more "study".
▍ Mai family accompanies you to read
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Jin Yucheng: The concept of the study should be changed
The older you get, the more you feel lonely, it's normal, you're born independently, you die independently. People and people, can not communicate, the good and bad situation in the world, is no longer worth a laugh, life is a desolate journey. - Jin Yucheng , "Blossoms"
"I don't think I'll be limited by the environment, the concept of the study has obviously changed, I don't have to read and write in one place at home, and most of the authors nowadays can write wherever the computer is." Jin Yucheng believes that at home and in the office, there are books in all places, and there are books to read, that is, "study rooms".
The garden house of the Shanghai Writers Association, along the spiral staircase, is Jin Yucheng's office, which he said was also his "study". The mansion, formerly known as the "Garden of Eros", was designed by Hudak.
You can smell old newspapers across the screen.
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Su Tong: Many people wanted to come and photograph my study, but I refused
Their past was a cup of rotten tea, served in the same cup. Care must be taken with the cup lid. The lid of the cup is opened, and the secret of the rotten tea is exposed. Cannot be opened. Can't recognize each other. Can't talk. - Su Tong's "Yellow Sparrow"
Su Tong did not want outsiders to break the simplicity and calmness of his study, so many people who wanted to photograph his study were rejected by him. The only thing we can glimpse is an interview with Su Tong by the Yangtze Evening News a few years ago, and the photos in the study are blurred due to "age".
Su Tong's study is very simple - rectangular, more than 10 square meters, smaller than expected, but this study does not seem to be simple - here, you do not seem to feel the passage of time, you will be very calmly idle, or sit in a chair in a daze.
The entrance is greeted by a shutter, and the left-hand wall with the corner is a bookcase that stands on top of the sky, and opposite the bookcase is a small desk. There is a black computer on the table, and Bao Run, Miss Bai, and Liu Sheng in "The Yellow Sparrow" were born from here and entered the real world.
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Qian Zhongshu & Yang Dai: There is no study, and there are study rooms everywhere
"I don't have a study, only a living room and a studio, and also a living room, but every room has a bookcase and a desk, so there are study rooms everywhere." Mr. Yang Dai once said this about her and Mr. Qian Zhongshu's study that others were curious about.
When the study becomes a ubiquitous way of life, it doesn't matter whether it has a specific room or not. "A simple life and a noble soul are the highest realms of life." This is a quote that Mr. Yang Dai likes very much. She was very content to enjoy such a simple way of life, simple but not monotonous, and there was a deep soul hidden under the simple appearance. The master's style that the world looks up to is nothing more than a simple enough perseverance.
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