Huipai interview video
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News Famous writer Hong Fang was a guest last weekend on the Huipai column broadcast by the ancient title of the original pulp of the Gujing Tribute Wine Vintage. This time, he brought the novel "Chasing the Wind", which wrote the story of the great changes in Hefei Science and Technology City, into the Huipai live broadcast room, sharing the relationship between the book and Hefei, the significance of Hefei, and exploring the handling of the relationship between a writer's epochal creation and pure literary writing. Although the branches and leaves of Nanzhou in the book always flash the shadow of "the innovative highland of the famous city of the Great Lake", Hong Fang also admits that from Tongcheng to Hefei, he did feel the innovative pulse of the second hometown, but this is still a fictional literary work, but there is always a constant enthusiasm for cutting that coincides with the footprints of Hefei, and the epitome of the innovative spirit of a country in a fictional work. He said that in Hefei and in the times, this "Chasing the Wind" has a deep sense of mission.
The intimate feeling of being grounded
Huipai: The first program of the Year of the Tiger of Huipai wishes the audience a good luck in the Year of the Tiger. Walking into our Huipai live broadcast room today is Mr. Hong Fang, vice chairman of the Provincial Writers Association and chairman of the Hefei Writers Association, and Teacher Hong first greeted the audience of our Huipai.
Hong Fang: I have the honor to walk into the Huipai in the New Year and wish everyone a happy new year.
Writer Hong Fang
Hui Pai: This year's issue is quite festive, this new book "Chasing the Wind" brought by Teacher Hong, these two words remind me of the Winter Olympics we are holding, which is a new book in December last year.
HongFang: The word "chasing the wind" itself is a dynamic light force forward, a yearning and summary. As far as this novel called "Chasing the Wind" is concerned, this is a typical realist work, a realistic theme with major themes, and a comprehensive reflection of the process of scientific and technological innovation for more than ten years. Our reform from the industrial economy to the institutional reform to the present mainly into scientific and technological innovation, the process is complex and long. As a typical work that comprehensively reflects the promotion of urban scientific and technological innovation, it is also what I feel. As an author, if the book uses two words to say "science and technology" and four words to say "scientific and technological innovation". Of course, it is the realism of major themes, as a writer, to face reality and pay attention to the changes around you.
Emblem: Close to the pulse of the times.
Hong Fang: In fact, it is accurate to say that the book was revised four times, which lasted three years. After the first draft came out, it can be said that it was rewritten once. The responsible editor of this book actually participated in the creation of this book and paid a lot of effort. What is presented now is completely different from what was originally presented, and the display of inclusiveness and process is very complete.
Emblem School: Four drafts. Must have put a lot of hard work in it. I finished yesterday, there is a strong sense of substitution, I said this is not our Hefei. Is this kind of creation a good thing or a bad thing for a writer? Is it fiction or documentary literature?
Hong Fang: To some extent, as a real writer, no writer can leave the spiritual and cultural world he identifies with, and will take the hometown in the cultural sense as a creative base. As a new Hefei person, under the influence of Hefei culture, the city of Hefei has gradually entered my spiritual hometown. Writing any novel, it is difficult to avoid the connection with the cultural hometown of Hefei. The book is more obvious, which is based on Hefei's scientific and technological innovation, but it is not documentary literature. As a basic reference, there are many elements of Hefei and some technical treatment has also been done. Readers feel the spiritual dependence of the writer's creation, and there is a certain sense of intimacy, indicating that the creation can really be grounded and truly reflect the facts, rather than the things that are hanging in the air and are all fiction.
The creative test of a true story blueprint
Huipai: Three years and four drafts, where is the most difficult part of this?
Hong Fang: The first draft has a strong documentary nature, all the materials I have mastered have been placed in the first draft, and the published draft has been processed, but there are some places such as Science Island that cannot be changed, it is specific, of course, there are some commonalities in the creative materials.
Huipai: Some people will naturally take a seat on the number, will they intentionally deal with it?
Hong Fang: This novel, four drafts, the novel story literature should be constantly changed, the character setting story conflict, are constantly revised. As a novel, it is still necessary to deal with it from the characteristics of the novel itself. A novel, first of all, is literary, and on the basis of literature, it is necessary to let the reader read a good story - my advantage is that the story of Hefei's innovative development is itself a good story. Many readers will say that it is written in Hefei after reading, I also hope that readers will see the story of Hefei in the novel, while fully considering that this is a novel, the story sets the emotional setting, after all, the novel is the art of regeneration, the novel will also appear Beijing elements Shanghai elements, the elements of scientific and technological innovation in other places, there must be the main existence of Hefei stories, but definitely not a single Hefei story; second, the characters in the book are a collection of the characteristics of multiple characters, which exist as the literary nature of the novel. Definitely not a specific character, writing to Science Island is the need of writers' creation, and it is the responsibility of writers to implement them, and at the same time, as a writer in Hefei, he also wants to push Out Hefei, which is also the responsibility of writers.
Huipai: Imagine walking around Swan Lake and watching children pile sand while creating. Which character in that appeals to you the most? Teacher Hong modestly said that there is a good story blueprint, but as a novelist facing such a blueprint, will the imagination space be narrower? Especially the depiction of characters, how to avoid falling into the face?
Hong Fang: It's really difficult. One of the most important things in literary creation is that there is a problem of authenticity and artistry in the creation of a typical story blueprint. The biggest problem encountered this time is the treatment of literature and authenticity. But this is also a tempering, on the basis of ensuring literature, while not sticking to a single work of reality, several feelings are particularly deep. The first is how to deal with realistic themes and literature. Writing other works has more fiction and imagination space, some things can not be imagined, or even have no room for imagination, at first very confused, they determined the basic direction, first of all, literary works, written according to this standard, around the four words of literary works to outline the fictional characters of the story; the second, how to solve the real relationship between the story with the story blueprint and the novel. The book must have paid a lot of attention at the beginning, first of all, the theme of scientific and technological innovation is relatively small, and secondly, it is very concerned about the role they played in this process, what traces they have left, what kind of image they have created, as the author to solve this problem - can not write a particularly obvious individual, a particularly obvious major case, excessive face; the third is how to deal with the relationship between major realistic themes and current social development. At present, this is the first novel based on the scientific and technological innovation of a provincial capital city in the country.
Everywhere is Hefei, everywhere out of Hefei
Emblem: The first part?
Hongfang: Right. It was the first one to write this subject in its entirety. How to present the role of scientific and technological innovation in the development of the whole city, to give the city people a sense of gain and achievement, scientific and technological innovation is an important factor in the city's progress, but not the whole of the city. Around the scientific and technological innovation, the city has also done more work, through the resolution of these contradictions, to avoid readers too much to look for hefei in the novel. I also hope that after the small words are said, Hefei readers feel that this novel is written in Hefei, but it jumps out of Hefei everywhere and is not too rigid to Hefei.
Huipai: The focus of resolving contradictions is still to write as fictional literary works. Does Teacher Hong have any small Easter eggs in the book to resolve conflicts, the kind that has spent a lot of thought?
Hong Fang: Definitely. As an author, I think a lot and discuss the details with the responsible editor many times. The character of the mayor, purely from the perspective of general literary works, will make the contradiction and conflict bigger and broader, but considering the novel of scientific and technological innovation, the treatment of the role of the mayor, hesitation, opposition, and even obstruction, do some small actions, and later I think it is too literary to write, or to respect the realist tradition, all his actions are their own considerations, he has his difficulties, so what is presented now is that it is possible to lack the courage and courage of reform. But he is also a mayor who is conscientious and considers the people, and is generally a good mayor, but lacks the courage to innovate.
"Chasing the Wind" is responsible for the editor Han Lu (left) and the author Hong Fang as guest Huipai
Huipai: You can't contradict and conflict for the sake of contradiction and conflict, it is too facial.
Hongfang: Right. A person with a big contradiction and conflict is a director of the experimental area, and this character has also done some processing, not written as a person who is completely corrupt, but a person who is very capable of wind and fire, has the ability to have personality and characteristics, and also has his own pride and self-satisfaction, and finally becomes a corrupt element, and strives to make the characters diverse and comprehensive. There are also small details is the emotional line, a writer wants to write a good work, the emotional line is certainly important, but considering the main body and theme of creation, the emotional line is relatively rational, the whole is implicit and not revealed, the emotion and work are intersected together, rather than daily life, of course, also involves some. A lot of small details, as an author I think is still a bit of a look.
Huipai: The point of the few characters you just mentioned is that he is not an either-or extreme, not a face. As for you, is this creative theme a first attempt, and what does it mean to you?
Hong Fang: As a writer, I can write such a work thanks to this era, there is such an era background to have such an opportunity; the second is to thank me for coming to Hefei, with such a life experience to have a chance; the third is to fully thank the blueprint of this book, Hefei's scientific and technological innovation, the country's scientific and technological innovation You go deep into it to see more colorful and colorful, the novel is only one of them, in recent years, there are hundreds of hefei science and technology enterprises, Jianghuai Automobile, Changxin Storage, is also a learning process, Hefei's scientific and technological innovation is indeed worth writing The rich story of the rich course, the level of action at the institutional level, the high-tech zone science island Hefei scientific and technological innovation power and bring you feelings, give you impulse. Living and working in this land, you have to write the place that can impress you the most, and I also have the responsibility and obligation to express to everyone what I know and feel in Hefei. A writer in Hefei wants to tell the story of Hefei well, we can write stories that are far away from us, but we pay attention to what we are in the present, the land where we live, which is our duty. But this is not Hefei's documentary literature, it is a novel, important motivation, important materials, important creative motivation from Hefei, should try their best to do a good job.
Hong Fangwei went to the factory for on-site interviews (photo provided by the interviewee)
There are too many stories in the torrent of innovation
Huipai: Everyone has been concerned about the speed and innovation of Hefei in recent years. This theme is large, and there is also reform literature in front of it, which is a sample of a new era? How to deal with the relationship between time and literature?
Hong Fang: I can't talk about the sample. As a writer to create an experiment, a journey. China's reform literature, starting from the 80s of the last century, from "Qiao Factory Director's Appointment" to "Heavy Wings", they are more likely to pay attention to the main body of the enterprise, from the liberation of productive forces, the biggest core is to liberate the productive forces, the benefits of enterprises will come out, workers have become the main body of enterprises; after the 90s, various reforms have entered a new era, and novels represented by "Dachang" and "New Star" are not only concerned with productive forces, but also go deep into the reform of systems and mechanisms, with a strong critical color. China's reform literature has been continuing, reform has entered the deep water area, a single characteristic has disappeared, is a comprehensive reform, until recent years, especially after the Eighteenth National Congress, scientific and technological innovation has become a national policy, which is a big trend, some people say that scientific and technological innovation is China's third industrial reform. Reform is definitely painful, and I also hope that readers can learn more about the context and extension of reform from my book, and as a writer, I also want readers to see the flesh-and-blood characters presented in this book.
Huipai: The novel is very vivid, has anyone contacted to adapt the film and television drama?
HongFang: Yes. Inconvenient to disclose.
Emblem: Sure enough. I think it is also because the novel is not only a scientific and technological achievement, but also the mental state of the characters of the times. It's really a good fit for the screen. If you wrote the screenplay yourself, what else would you do?
Hong Fang: For the later adaptation we have great expectations, first of all, we need such a comprehensive reflection of scientific and technological innovation of the work, the second novel provides the possibility of film and television drama adaptation, but there is definitely still a distance, I believe that there will be opportunities in the future, as the author of the novel, can provide more details of scientific and technological innovation that have not been written, film and television dramas can be more abundant, such as private science and technology enterprises in the novel, there are many stories, three overseas returns, three people do drones, in fact, there are many such moving stories, There is also a lot of rich details to provide, and I also believe that after it comes out, it will be a TV series that can move people with a sense of the times.
Chasing the Wind Seminar (File Photo)
Emblem: Back to the creators of the novel. Teacher Hong wrote this book, there must be difficulties and regrets.
Hong Fang: Definitely.
Huipai: Will this kind of genre continue next? Or is there a new project for the Year of the Tiger?
Hong Fang: In recent years, starting in 2019, basically in this book, although I have also written some short and medium stories, but very few, the main energy is still in long novels. What to write about next, whether to write along this road, is very likely, there are many materials, characters and stories to write. It is our scientific and technological innovation in Hefei, the quantum of China's sound valley small and medium-sized enterprises, this is certainly an important theme library, writers in this era, have their own pure literary dreams, but also have their own grand theme of the times, writers grow up in this land, to write the best poems on the ground. I will definitely write such a work, but the timing and method will depend on the chance. All these years have been writing about Hefei, in fact, it is also a problem of the defamiliarization of literature, and it is an impact on the inherent creation. I am also looking forward to returning to Tongcheng and having new and unfamiliar feelings about the culture and reality of my hometown, so as to write and regain my Tongcheng spiritual text.
Huipai: Whether it is the vernacular text of Tongcheng or the scientific and technological text of Hefei, I look forward to Teacher Hong's future new works.
HongFang emblem inscription
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Net Dawan News Reporter Jiang Nannan/Wen Xue Chonglian/Photo