Today (17), the Chengdu Novel Committee released the "2021 Chengdu Novel Creation Annual Report". How many blockbuster works have Chengdu novelists introduced in the past year? What awards and honors have these winners won as "Chengdu Novels"? This annual report gives us the answer.
Luo Weizhang, "Who's Knocking on the Door"
The creation and publication of Novels in Chengdu has yielded fruitful results
What blockbuster works have been launched?
Examining the creation and publication of novels in Chengdu in the past year, fruitful results have been fruitful. Luo Weizhang's 700-page-long macro-production "Who Is Knocking on the Door" was launched by Guangxi Normal University Press, which in the endless desolation, let people feel the burden and vanity of "Fang Sheng Fang Die, Fang Die Fang Sheng", as soon as it came out, it was listed in the "China Reading Daily" and the long novel list released by the Chinese Novel Society, becoming an annual high standard for the creation of novels nationwide.
Ma Ping's novel "Sai Ying Ji", after being published in "Writer" magazine, was selected into the "Sichuan Provincial Theme Literary and Art Creation and Production Annual Project (2021)", which was published by the Sichuan People's Publishing House, which attracted attention and was listed on the annual "Top Ten Novels List" released by "Sichuan Guan News"; Wang Shu's novel "Sangtian Rinuan", which was included in the "100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party and the Comprehensive Construction of a Well-off Society ConcernEd Works" of the Central Propaganda Department, was published and published in "October" magazine and Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House. He is known as the rural soul who wrote an era (before and after the reform and opening up); Liu Shifu's novel "Ghost Gate", published by Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, won the reputation of "writing the northeast Sichuan style and material history, extremely classical charm and old-school story quality"; Du Yanglin's novel "Sting" has the characteristics of Gorky's autobiographical novel "In the Human World", allowing people to see the "strength of being knocked down by the sufferings of life, and as a result, they climb up and move forward." After the publication of "October" magazine, it was published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, which quickly attracted the attention of the literary circles, and held seminars in Beijing and Chengdu respectively.
Qiu Shan Shan "Defending the Cherry"
Qiu Shanshan published a short story collection "Defending Cherries" in Jiangxi Education Publishing House, which is composed of thirteen short stories such as "Wild Grass Grows Wildly", "Instep", "Laba Porridge", "To Alice", "Master Jin's Sunlight", "Swiss Wheelchair", etc., each of which has its own characteristics, and the protagonist's age level and social class are also different. The characters in the book are rich in emotion, profoundly reflecting the current social reality and exposing the good and evil in human nature. At the same time, Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House also launched an illustrated version of Qiu Shanshan's novel "I Am Waiting for You in Heaven"; the "Hundred Flowers Novella Series" of Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Publishing House also published her "I Need to Talk to You".
Lu Yiping published the novella collection "Dostoevsky and the Desert" and the novella "The Great Earthquake" published by Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House, the latter of which was selected for the "Hundred Flowers Novella Series" carefully created by the Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Publishing House; Lu Yiping's "Great Earthquake" used the "Wenchuan Earthquake" as the background of creation, describing a death row prisoner in the face of disaster, between "escape" or "return", after experiencing human torture and struggle, and finally completing self-redemption under the writer's pen; Qiang Renliu's short story collection "Qiang Renliu". In 1997, the pumpkin disappeared into the wind" and was selected into the "Our Times" series of books by the Yellow River Publishing Group. As a young novelist in the limelight, his works also happen to have the narrative force of the "5.12 earthquake", but he is slightly different from lu Yiping's novel theme, and the aesthetic paradigm of Qiangren Six's works lies in his keen and closed juvenile perspective, inner and outer harmony, Yuzhuang yu harmony, feminine and cold, transcendent and elegant brushstrokes, writing his imagination and remembrance of the mountains and rivers of the "fault zone" of Longmen Mountain in northwest Sichuan.
Truly appreciate the charm of the cluster of Novelists in Chengdu
Feel the creative talent of "Chengdu writers"
The annual report also mentioned that although the epidemic has brought trouble to our survival situation, the creation of short and medium stories in Chengdu is a steaming masterpiece.
Qiu Shanshan published short and medium stories such as "Missing Oleander", "Master Is Not at Home", "Road Meets Road", "All the Way Safe", "I Have Only Seen Him Twice", "Wormwood of the Dragon Boat Festival" and other short stories in "Mountain Flower", "Xiangjiang Literature and Art", "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art", "Beijing Literature", "Shanghai Literature", "Mountain Flower" and other short stories, among which "Road Meets Road" was reprinted by "Novel Monthly", "The Master Is Not at Home" and "All the Way Safe" were reprinted by "Selected Novels".
Luo Weizhang published the novella "Mirror City" in "Zhongshan"; Tang Yiwei published the short story "Dr. Han in America" in "Sichuan Literature" and the novella "Yale's Covenant" in "Youth Literature", the latter of which, along with Yuan Yuan's novella "The Woman Who Calls Herself a Tree Spirit" and Zhen Mingzhe's novella "Plato Watch", were published with writer's creation talk or famous commentary.
Xiong Deqi's short stories "When the Moon Matures", "Testimony of Poetry", "Iron Egg", and "Squid" were published in "Youth Literature", "Writers", "Young Writers", "Beijing Literature" and "Shanghai Literature" respectively, of which "Goose in the Mirror" was selected by "Selected Novels"; Jia Yu's novellas "In Search of Pheromones" and "Dragon Gate Array" were published in "West" and "Science Fiction World"; Wang Zhi's "Novelist's Legacy", "Empty Room", "Fish Eyes", published in "Shanxi Literature", "Chinese Writers", and "Sichuan Literature" Xiao B's short stories "Our Peaches", "Greek Letters", "Dasi Ming", "Red, Green and Blue", "Fluttering Fish", published in "Xiangjiang Literature and Art", "Anhui Literature", "Novel Monthly Original Edition", "Qinghai Lake", "Contemporary Novel"; Wang Magazine's short stories "Chasing Tails" and "Getaway" were reprinted by "Novel Selection" and "Novel Monthly", "Red Tears", "Class", "A Brief History of Enlightenment" were published in "Chinese Campus Literature", "Red Rock", "Hundred Flowers", and the novel review "Who Is Knocking on the Door" How to Knock on the Reader's Reading Kinetic Energy" was published in "Literature and Art Daily"; Xia Lan's "Seven Questions of "New Liaozhai"" with Alai's commentary "Starting from the Origin of Language" was published in "Young Writers"; the convex short story "Sisters" was published in "Writers"; Lu Yiping's short story "Crime and Punishment" was published in "Works"; Du Yanglin published the short story "Brothers" in "Young Writers"; Li Yongkang's short novel "Bensheng" was published in "Northern Literature", which was published in "Selected Miniature Novels" and "Selected Miniature Novels" Reprinted in the Selected Short Stories and included in the Selected Works of Contemporary Chinese Literature (Seventh Series).
Liu Xiaobo's novel criticisms of "The Early Style, Late Style and Intermediate State of Literature: An Investigation Centered on the 2020 Novel", "How Music Influenced Literature?—— An Investigation Centered on the Writing of Contemporary Chinese Novels" "Urban Literature: Writing Tradition and Research Paradigm", "How can the theme of 'normalization' achieve the effect of 'defamiliarization'?—— Analysis of the Exploration of the Formal Level of novels in 2020", "Remembering History and Engraving the Present, The Epic Of Constructing the Nation and the Times: A Review of Novels in 2020", "The Persistence of Realism and the Exploration of Formalism- Commenting on Fan Xiaoqing's "War Choir" and His Novel Creation", "How should Yu Hua's novels be read? ——From the new work "Wencheng", "Luo Weizhang", "Who is Knocking on the Door": The 'Jing' of Dahe Novel and the 'Latitude' of Individual Narratives", "'Chicken Feathers in a Place', 'Coincidence', 'Talk', and 'Twisting'—Taking "One Day and Three Autumns" as an Example to Talk About Several Keywords of Liu Zhenyun's Novels", etc., Dabie has published in "Novel Review", "Southern Literary Circle", "Youth Literature", "Literature and Art Forum", "Selected Novels", "Yangtze River Literary Review", "Sichuan Literature", "Yalu river", "Literature and Art Daily", "Chinese Contemporary Literature Research", etc.
Chengdu writers' short and medium stories and novel reviews, attacking the city strategically, attacking from all sides, appearing in the "National Journal" and the veteran literary magazines, let people truly appreciate the charm of the cluster of Chengdu novelists, and feel the creative talent of "Chengdu writers".
Ah Lai, Qiu Shanshan, Luo Weizhang, Ma Ping, Lu Yiping, etc
Heavyweight novelists are indispensable
In addition to the novels and novel reviews of various writers published and published in major publishing houses, mainstream literary newspapers and academic journals, and achieved good results, qiu Shanshan's short story "The Boy by the River" won the 2021 Outstanding Work Award of Beijing Literature; Luo Weizhang's novella "Hidden History" and novella "Backlight" won the first Phoenix Literature Award and the 2021 Excellent Work Award of Beijing Literature, respectively; Wang Ke's novella "From Comrade to Mr." won the "Tenth Sichuan Literature Award". It has won literary honors for "Chengdu Novel" and added a rich quality connotation.
Wang Shu "From Comrade to Mr. Wang"
Of course, as the annual observation of the novel committee in the post-epidemic era - 2021, the classic symbols and phenomena of Chengdu novels are indispensable, including heavyweight novelists such as Ah Lai, Qiu Shanshan, Luo Weizhang, Ma Ping and Lu Yiping.
Alai, a writer with extensive domestic influence and international popularity, his name is not only a classic symbol of contemporary Chinese novels, but also the "top traffic + top IP" of "Chengdu novels". After Alai's novel "The Dust Settles" won the Mao Dun Literature Award, after more than 20 years, this masterpiece has not only been adapted into film and television dramas, Sichuan operas and operas, but also toured in the north, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places last year with an investment of nearly 10 million "National New Year's Eve Drama", a luxurious lineup of 45 actors, and an epic drama length of 3 and a half hours.
In 2021, in addition to creating a long new work "Searching for Gold", Alai also has Zhang Xuexin and Professor Liang Hai's "ALai Theory" that summarized his literary achievements, which was launched by Sichuan People's Publishing House and appeared at the Tianfu Book Fair.
Zhang Xuexin and Liang Hai, "On Alai"
In 2021, when Alai literary symbols triggered media effects, Luo Weizhang and Ma Ping, two "leading writers in Sichuan" and three other "leading writers", also hosted by the Sichuan Writers Association, the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, the Book and Newspaper Information Center of Chinese Min University, and hosted by Contemporary Literature Magazine and Alai Studio, became the focus of the "Frontier Summit on Chinese Literary and Art Theory" in Mianyang, becoming the focus of online and on-site discussion objects for experts and scholars.
Starting from the "History of Sound" and "History of Silence", Zhang Xuexin commented on Luo Weizhang's novel masterpiece, believing that he had been writing solidly for more than twenty years, adhering to the familiar land, and his brushstrokes had never left the hometown of Sichuan and Shu, and many novels and short stories with neat textures had left a deep impression on people, especially the two novels of "History of Sound" and "History of Silence", which not only amazingly reached a new narrative height, but also solved the problem of language and philosophy, and exuded the life philosophy power of long novels; scholar Li Ning also "History of Sound" The History of Silence and Who Knocked on the Door are regarded as Luo Weizhang's trilogy of the times, and it is believed that the voice of history echoes between his words.
Ma Ping's "Shadow of the Plug"
Writer Li Er and critics interpret Ma Ping and his works. Li Er analyzed Ma Ping's "Caofang Mountain" and believed that the protagonist runs through the book with a happy dream, and Ma Ping's observation and description have a sharp and spicy side, and it is necessary to affirm the efforts made by the writer in the pursuit of novel art. Although xiangyi has not been exposed to Ma Ping's novels for a long time, in reading, there has always been a sense of closeness. When analyzing Ma Ping's long new work "Sai Ying Ji", Xiang Yi believes that Ma Ping is a romantic and decent novelist, he is calm and unhurried, and his eloquent tone makes the poetic truth, goodness and beauty illuminate reality, and such practice and effort are extremely precious in the current literary creation.
Lu Yiping", "The Great Earthquake"
Along with Luo Weizhang and Ma Ping, Lu Yiping has become the focus of this year. Since 2021, Works Magazine has promoted China's "post-70s writers classicization" plan, selecting more than ten "post-70s writers" for "classicization" with strict literature and academic standards, and Lu Yiping has been listed with years of literary accumulation and huge novel volume and quality, and intergenerational influences. At the same time as launching Lu Yiping's novel "Crime and Punishment", "Works" also published the young critic Yang Jingyuan's "Classic "Post-70s Writers": Lu Yiping's Theory" in a large length of 30,000 words, which aroused heated discussion and attention in the literary circles. Yang Jingyuan's monograph argues that Lu Yiping's neo-historicist writing "adopts a peaceful and enlightened attitude." He makes good use of the narrative strategy of Rou Kegang, hiding the tendency inside the text, neither rendering, flaunting, nor destroying, vetoing, his historical writing can always turn the heavy burden of the times into a pair of gray wings, although it is still pressed on the characters, but the characters not only do not fall because of the weight, but because of the wings behind them, there is a special upward spiritual aura. ”
Red Star News reporter Chen Mou
Edited by Li Jie
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