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At noon on October 15, a teenager's ten years of tenacious growth - the sharing meeting of the novel "Sting", as one of the supporting activities of the 2021 Chengdu Tianfu Book Fair, was held at the Chengdu New Convention and Exhibition Center. Writers Ah Lai, Jiang Lan and du Yanglin, the author of the book, appeared. Du Yanglin admitted that what was written in the book was related to his own personal experience, and he had been reluctant to admit it before because he was afraid of being said to be "sold miserably". Ah Lai said that today's young people like to say that lying flat, lying flat is too easy, suffering is the baptism of life.
Alai (center), Du Yanglin (right)
Alai: It takes courage to tear apart the past and show it to others
Du Yanglin once engaged in journalism in Chengdu and was once a prominent figure in chengdu's media. But he has not been able to let go of his literary dreams, left the media and engaged in literary creation, becoming a contracted writer of the Barkin Academy of Letters. Before the launch of his new work "Sting", he had already published many novels and non-fiction works.
"Sting" begins with the early death of the protagonist Ling Yunqing's father when he was a child, to the teenager Yunqing's admission to college and leaving his hometown Guanlong Village, presenting the personal struggle history of China's rural teenagers in the 1970s, and also presenting the true ecology of the entire Guanlong Village, human sophistication, and the goodness and ugliness of human nature.
Alai was one of the earliest readers of "Sting", "I saw the original appearance of this book when it was not yet written, which caused me a lot of associations. In terms of the title of the book, the sting is one of the 24 solar terms, and the thunder of the day awakens the insects lying on the ground and announces that spring has arrived. The use of symbolism here is a kind of awakening. The teenagers in the book grew up in the remote mountains of northeastern Sichuan at a time when China's reform and opening up was about to rise, and they also needed to be awakened. Reform and opening up is an awakening to the whole of China, and the meaning of awakening to the individual is growth. ”
Du Yanglin
"Sting" reminds Alai of Alyosha in Gorky's autobiographical novel "In the World", who has not given up after all the hardships of life and has saved himself by reading. Although I haven't read this book again in 20 years, Alai still remembers it vividly. "It was easy for people in the 70s and 80s to succumb to the environment, and in the face of the hardships of life, people were not strong enough to be hit at any time. But in "Sting", I saw the strength to be knocked down by the hardships of life and end up on my own. ”
Alai also mentioned that today's young people like to hang on to their lips, "lying flat is too easy, only suffering can form a real baptism." "It takes courage to come and see the past and tear it apart for others to see. The Ling Yunqing written by Du Yanglin is the Gao Garin that Lu Yao wrote in the more modern sense.
Du Yanglin: There is a shadow of himself in the novel, and he was reluctant to admit that he was afraid of being said to be "sold miserably"
At the scene, as Du Yanglin's old friend and as one of the readers of the book, the host Han Lu asked: "Is there your shadow on the protagonist in the book?" Du Yang lind for a few seconds and replied, "Actually, I have always been reluctant to say that the stories and experiences interpreted in this book are related to me, for fear that others will say that I have sold miserably." But Chairman Ah said that many famous writers write about things that they are familiar with, which is normal. 90% of the book is true, and many have their own shadows and the shadows of others. ”
The little girl who has an emotional connection with Ling Yunqing in the novel, is there such a person in her life? Hearing this question, the scene suddenly added a lot of joy. Du Yanglin revealed that the prototype of the little girl is his primary school female classmate, "so far we still have contact, but with the increase of age, different cognition, and finally scattered in the end of the world." She was married, and the care and innocence she once gave me had always been remembered in my heart. I couldn't help her, but for her parents, I gave her the best I could. ”
Unlike most, Jiang Lan: The hometown in "Sting" is a bit cold
In the view of writer Jiang Lan, Du Yanglin created a successful non-fiction novel. "This work has a certain distance from the popular novels of the present, many contemporary people talk about fantasy and crossing, more write some more comfortable, expand the imagination of the writing, Yang Lin's novels are more documentary, is to face suffering."
Jiang Lan also mentioned a special point, many people write that childhood will be full of affection, but the hometown in "Sting" is more calm, even a little cold. "I don't fully understand it as an inspirational work, inspiration may just be one of them. When many people sing the praises of their former countryside and childhood memories, this work allows us to see the cruelty and cruelty of the countryside, and few people write about their growth in a more cruel way. ”
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