More than twenty years of hard work, but it has been labeled as an erotic and absurd author. Wang Xiaobo: Life is a slow process of being hammered
- Hello, Mr. Book
I was twenty-one years old that day, and in the golden age of my life, I had many extravagant hopes. I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to turn into a half-light and half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant. Later, I learned that life is a slow process of being hammered, and as people grow older, their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and they eventually become like a cow that has been hammered. I felt like I was going to be fierce forever and couldn't hammer me with anything.
——Wang Xiaobo was rarely photographed before his death
As written in the "Golden Age" article - "life is a slow process of hammering" - Wang Xiaobo, as an author, does not know, a few sentences, but includes his own life.
Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis at the age of 40, ending his ups and downs. Kafka asked his closest friend to burn all his works after his death, but his friends refused this request, so that we can see great works such as "Judgment" today, and at the same time give birth to words such as "Kafka's Nightmare". It is also a very typical example of "canonizing the gods" after death.
Wang Xiaobo, "Chinese version of Kafka"! He died at the age of 45, and his works were spurned by the literati, saying that he did not have a literati attitude, and that his sword was biased to attract people's attention, and he actually wrote a "yellow novel". As a result, "The Golden Age", "The Silver Age", "The Bronze Age" and a large number of short essays were delayed.
丨 With the help of a "yellow novel", he married a beautiful person
In 1977, Wang Xiaobo, who was still a worker, wrote the novel "Green Hairy Water Monster" in the form of a manuscript, circulating among young people, the description of "sex" in this book can be described as very explicit and straightforward, Li Yinhe, who is already the editor of "Guangming Daily", was suddenly attracted by the author's passionate romance and maverick behavior, and she thought in her heart: What kind of poetic person can write such a novel.
——A photo with Li Yinhe
Since then, Li Yinhe has begun to pay attention to the writer of this "yellow novel". I'm also looking forward to seeing him.
By chance, the two really met. However, this meeting disappointed Li Yinhe. Because Wang Xiaobo is really, too ugly!
Wang Xiaobo was born in May 1952 in Beijing to a family of intellectuals, and his father Wang Fangming served as a cadre of the Ministry of Education, and was even received by Chairman Mao because of the great response to a series of articles published in logic. However, the situation was turbulent, Wang Xiaobo did not receive much orthodox education, and from the age of fifteen, he left home to go to Yunnan to do rural knowledge, which is also the prototype of Wang Er's story background in "Golden Age".
Wang Xiaobo, who likes to read, returns from farm work every day and begins to read, from Greek history to "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", when he is tired, he puts it away and sleeps upside down. Later, due to physical reasons, Wang Xiaobo returned to Beijing, and after returning to Beijing, Wang Xiaobo had accumulated a lot of reading experience and personal experience materials at this time, and became a "young writer" only one pen away. But Wang Xiaobo's whimsical and maverick behavior doomed the words put into this pen to be "extraordinary.".
——Wang Xiaobo when he went to the countryside
Wang Xiaobo's reflections on freedom, spiritual suffering and mutation choose to use the description of "sex" to reveal criticism and redemption.
As a result, a generation of literary heroes Wang Xiaobo, the early "yellow novel writers", was well known.
Li Yinhe's cognition of Wang Xiaobo also began at this time.
Malnutrition in the Zhiqing era, coupled with many physical diseases, although Wang Xiaobo, who is in his 20s, has grown to 190+, but he is skinny and bony, his face is ugly, which is a very big blow to Li Yinhe, and the deepest impression of a meeting is: "This man is really ugly!" ”
However, Wang Xiaobo fell in love with Li Yinhe at first sight, and through stalking and romantic words, he finally captured Li Yinhe's heart and embraced the beauty.
In the letter to Li Yinhe, Wang Xiaobo's maverick behavior often makes people can't help but be amused. For example: "When I think of you, my ugly face is full of smiles." "I give you my whole soul, along with its eccentricities, its little temper, its flickering light and darkness, its eighteen hundred evils. It's so nasty, only a little good, love you. ”
Soon after, Li Yinhe traveled to the south on a business trip, and the two places were separated so that the lovers could taste the pain of lovesickness. Wang Xiaobo suddenly had a fantasy and actually used the stave to write a letter to Li Yinhe, especially the first sentence of the opening sentence "Hello wow, Li Yinhe" was regarded as a classic by countless young people.
Li Yinhe said bluntly: "I don't believe that there is any woman in the world who can resist such poetry, such pure affection." ”
丨 Because of "pornography", the publication was rejected
With the full support of Li Yinhe, Wang Xiaobo, after marriage, began to devote himself to writing. The "Times Trilogy" has gradually taken shape. Wang Xiaobo, who was full of expectations, began to mail his samples to major publishing houses, but reality failed to open a door for Wang Xiaobo, as if "always unsatisfactory is the most true portrayal of reality." ”
No publishing house is willing to publish Wang Xiaobo's books, all of which are rejected on the grounds of "yellow novels", but his wife Li Yinhe firmly believes in Wang Xiaobo's talent, believes that gold will always shine, and still constantly encourages Wang Xiaobo to continue writing.
—Li Yinhe encouraged Wang Xiaobo to continue writing
For the times, women were called "fox spirits" when they looked at men, let alone talking bluntly about "sex", and even described as "so pornographic".
However, in the feedback circulating among young people, the spirit of Wang Xiaobo's works was favored, believing that his works were very valuable, but not adapted to this environment.
At the end of 1980, Zhu Wei, the editor of "People's Literature", once again returned the manuscript to Wang Xiaobo, at this time Wang Xiaobo also quipped to himself, since it cannot be published, everyone circulates to see, and it is also of value to see.
The first edition of the "Golden Age", which has been drained of blood for more than 20 years, was also published secretly behind the back of the leader with the help of Zhao Jieping, the director of the publishing house, and after the leader returned, he also reprimanded Zhao Jieping for a long time, after which Zhao Jieping fell seriously ill.
Zhao Jieping printed 6,000 copies for Wang Xiaobo for the first time, but no bookstore was willing to sell Wang Xiaobo's books, which is actually obedience to the contemporary environment, because "sex" in the current era is a threat to the world, a kind of cringe that everyone avoids talking about. In order to pursue a free soul, Wang Xiaobo has always firmly believed in the spirit of confrontation with practical actions, that is, pushing his own books with a trolley and going to the book market to sell them by himself.
At this time, "Golden Age" had been published in Taiwan for two years, and also received a bonus of up to 250,000 Taiwan dollars from The United Daily.
Until Wang Xiaobo's death, the 6,000 copies of "Golden Age" were still not sold.
丨 Chinese version of Kafka, "three eras" released at the same time
Wang Xiaobo suffered a heart attack while writing and perfecting The Bronze Age. On April 11, 1997, he passed away forever with regrets.
On May 13 of the same year, the symposium on the "Times Trilogy (Golden Age", "Silver Age", "Bronze Age") was held at the Museum of Modern Literature in Beijing. In Wang Xiaobo's works, although the depiction of "sex" is straightforward and bold, it is not a decadent daily attitude to life, but an elitist value ethic. It should not be seen with colored glasses, but should be dissected from an artistic point of view.
——Photo of Wang Xiaobo's trilogy
Subsequently, Wang Xiaobo's works were published in full. Like a giant cannon, the literary circle at that time exploded into a sky, a large number of comments and commemorative articles emerged, and the cultural phenomenon of "Wang Xiaobo fever" appeared.
It should be said that it is very rare for a serious writer to be read, concerned, and discussed in such a way in the two years after his death, and the cultural significance contained in it is very rich, and one of the basic information it reveals is that Wang Xiaobo has finally been recognized by the current era.
—— Tomb of Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age", "Silver Age", and "Bronze Age" were just published and sold out. The publishing house hastily added and repeatedly reprinted more than a dozen times to meet the needs of the public. For a while Luoyang paper is expensive.
"People's Daily" published an article: "Wang Xiaobo's 'Times Trilogy', whether it is a domestic or overseas student, occasional appearances will always cause a situation of queuing up to read." ”
Even Wang Xiaobo's only film script, "East Palace, West Palace", won the Best Screenplay Award at the Argentine International Film Festival, making Wang Xiaobo the first person to win the Best Screenplay Award for China at the International Film Festival.
——Stills from the movie "East Palace, West Palace"
Wang Xiaobo's work has since influenced generations of people. Many people will sincerely sigh after reading Wang Xiaobo's works.
The indispensable Wang Shuo commented on Wang Xiaobo like this: "Wang Xiaobo is good, I am also good, we don't have the problem of who covers whom, if Wang Xiaobo is alive, I think he will be more cattle, he is good does not mean that I am not good, we can shine together." ”
The writer Green Demon commented: "Wang Xiaobo let me know that good words should have the rhythm of music, the brilliance of stars; he laughed at the sacred discourse system, feared the light of reason, longed for wisdom and poetry, and on top of this, is free and uninhibited love, and these ridicules and awe, longing and love have become my genes." ”
After reading such a book, many people can no longer speak some sacred words that they do not believe in for the sake of speaking, and they can no longer live a sleepy but secure life, like a devil implanted in the soul, who keeps saying to me: "Life cannot be empty!" ”
I wish I could write such a poem. I wish I were a star too. If I could shine, I wouldn't have to be afraid of the dark. If I myself were so beautiful, then all fears could be dissipated. So I began to save a little hope - if I could do it, then I would overcome the fate of loneliness.