In 2020, Jia Pingwa returned with his 17th work "Temporary Sitting", once again letting readers appreciate the strength of this old Xi'an man.
With this, Jia Pingwo won the Humanistic Achievement Award, "Temporary Sitting" became the overall champion of the annual novel of "Contemporary" literature, and everyone who has seen the work has a high evaluation, and can't help but sigh: life is just a process of "temporary sitting".
Born in 1952, Jia Pingwa has achieved unparalleled achievements: Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, Chairman of the Shaanxi Writers Association, and winner of many domestic and foreign literary awards.
But how many people know how depressed Jia Pingwa was.
In 1993, "Waste Capital" was officially published, and the insults followed, for only one reason, that is, the description of the affairs of men and women in the book was too much and too direct, it was simply invisible, almost equivalent to the H book.
However, the master of traditional Chinese studies, Ji Xianlin, said: "'Waste Capital' will shine in 20 years. ”
Although it did not wait for the shine, the literary world did justify the name of "Waste Capital", because after being banned for more than ten years, "Waste Capital" was finally accepted by the public.
However, there are still many people, including the famous writer Wang Shuo, whose evaluation of Waste Capital has not changed, and still thinks that this book is cultural, Wang Shuo's original words are like this: Waste Capital is completely a toilet thing, he is really decadent to the point of boredom, don't pretend to be 'everyone'. ”
This is a bit excessive, but the word "decadence" is precise, and the biggest feeling you feel when you read "Waste Capital" is decadence, a sense of spiritual collapse from cultural intellectuals, and this is exactly what Jia Pingwo wants to express, but the way of expression is very low-level and interesting.
Objectively speaking, "pickpocketing toilet" is really picking toilet. A simple example: there is a plot in the book that goes like this, saying that the protagonist Zhuang Zhidi, in order to cover up the bad facts, let the eighteen-year-old woman go to the fetus, who expected that just after the operation, he would have a beastly haircut and insisted on pulling the woman again.
If evaluated in a few words, it is: shame, vulgarity, perversion.
In fact, how the creators write and how to express their attitudes is completely free, and Jia Pingwa later personally admitted that the plots in "Waste Capital" were all fantasies he had fantasized about but did not dare to put into practice, and everyone had fantasies of imagination or unforgivable sins, which was beyond reproach.
But what makes Xiao Xie angry is that many people actually said this when evaluating "Waste Capital": ""The "Waste Capital", which is extremely obscene and vicious, is simply the contemporary "Golden Plum Bottle".
Between the words, it seems that there is a book like "Golden Plum Bottle" is a very bad thing. This is because many people do not realize how classic "Jin Ping Mei" is and how high its status is.
"Jin Ping Mei" is one of the four great strange books of the Ming Dynasty and one of the four strange books of ancient Chinese novels, so what are the other three? They are: "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Journey to the West". Seeing this, everyone should understand what it means, right? That is to say, if "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not written, then "Jin Ping Mei" is likely to be one of the four famous works.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" was written in the late Ming Dynasty, because of its stronger literary and realistic, and consistent with the "Golden Bottle Plum" genre, so it replaced the latter's position, since then the world knows that the Red Chamber is good, and only when the Golden Bottle is evil and filthy.
Even if "Waste Capital" is not exactly a work of bad taste, it also has a thought-provoking connotation, but what does it compare with "Jin Ping Mei", which is the peak of classical fiction? Can't compare, can't compare.
A netizen said it well: they are all inseparable from the love affairs of men and women, but "Jin Ping Mei" is based on human nature, and "Waste Capital" is based on animal nature.
This sentence summarizes the characteristics of the two books very well, and also breaks the difference between the two books.
"Jin Ping Mei" is the product of a specific historical period, the public appearance covered by the social fashion at that time, while "Waste Capital" has no roots and no source, it can occur in any period, and the reality and pertinence are not so strong.
The artistry of "Waste Capital" cannot be denied, but it cannot be exaggerated, at least it is inappropriate to compare it with "Jin Ping Mei".