Recently, the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award winner and writer Chen Yan's latest masterpiece "Comedy" was published by Writers Publishing House. The book is the finale of Chen Yan's "stage trilogy", which uses comedic brushwork to write the life story of comedians (clowns) who are mixed with tragedies and joys, ups and downs, and moving.
"Comedy" is a comedic brushwork to write the comedian (clown) tragic and joyful, ups and downs, moving life story. The author takes the life and fate of the two generations of the father and son of the He family as the main line, and in the interaction between drama and life, he implicates the life situations of the vast number of people in the human world--resentment and hatred, love and separation, the ups and downs caused by various encounters, success or failure, gain and loss, honor and disgrace, etc., and expresses a thorough understanding of the relationship between opera and history, the times and reality.
Hegabe once deviated from the values held by his father's burning heaven, and went farther and farther down the "evil" road of comedy, and finally turned his comedy life into a tragic end. However, He Torch repented by chance, and in the often and change of human conditions in the world, he realized the importance of the "right way" in the art of comedy, thus opening up new possibilities for comedy life to start from the beginning and turn the peak and loop.
Chen Yan is a writer and playwright. He has created dozens of theatrical works such as "Late Blooming Rose", "The Tree Moves West", "Xijing Story" and so on, won the "Cao Yu Drama Literature Award" and "Wenhua Screenwriting Award" three times, and his works have been selected as "Top Ten Excellent Plays" of the National Stage Art Fine Arts Project three times. He has won the national "Five Ones Project" award five times. Created a long-form TV series "Big Trees and Small Trees", which won the "Feitian Award". He is the author of novels such as "Xijing Story", "Loading Stage", and "Protagonist". "Loading The Stage" won the 2015 "China Good Book" and the first "Wu Cheng'en Novel Award", and was selected into the 70 Novel Collection of 70 Years in New China. "Protagonist" won the 2018 "Chinese Good Book", the third "Shi Nai'an Literature Award" and the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award.
"Comedy" is the finale of Chen Yan's "stage trilogy", and like "Loading the Stage" and "Protagonist", it is still a touching life story of the central characters inside and outside the opera stage, and it is nothing more than the ups and downs of success or failure, in and out, and the ins and outs, and the clutching and returning, but it is also a place for self-improvement, which also contains a thorough understanding of people's experience in the world, a deep understanding and a wonderful artistic treatment.
Different from the "Protagonist" in "Protagonist", although she is facing the external world and the struggle of non-reputation, but blindly refining the upward road of self-achievement, the protagonists of "Comedy", He Jiabei and He Torch Brothers, belong to two types, from which two states of life are generated: the former cannot or forget the heroine Wan Dalian because of his depression in his heart, and he also goes farther and farther on the evil road of "comedy", and finally goes astray and is difficult to extricate himself, and his "comedy life" eventually turns into a "tragedy"; although He Torch also occasionally goes astray, he repents because of chance. In the evolution of human conditions in the world, he had an epiphany of the comedy skills discussed by his father's burning sky, as well as the essence of the relationship between drama and the living world, thus opening up new possibilities for comedy life to start from the beginning and turn the peak and loop. Although the spiritual paths of the two are different, they have the same meaning of mutual participation in the strange and positive life of the same ambition. Therefore, "Comedy" is not only about the complex relationship between the interaction and mutual achievement of drama and life and the living world, but also involves the realm, boldness, and subtle inheritance and creation of the essence of comedy. In the meantime, there are personnel metabolism, ancient and modern exchanges, intertwining of life and death, love and hate entanglement, there are also flowers and brocade, fiery cooking oil, alternating between heat and cold, feasts will be scattered, and so on, and it is you who sing and I appear.
A grand and vast human world, a complex situation in which all sentient beings cannot escape, gradually appears. If you can contemplate the theorem of the world here, understand the wonderful wisdom of life, or know things and me, right and wrong, reputation, success or failure, it is enough to intertwine interaction and mutual achievement, contain limitations, and also contain the power of transcendence and exaltation of great achievements.