"My Spiritual Homeland" is an anthology of Essays by Wang Xiaobo. Although the "alternative" writer Wang Xiaobo has left us since his publication in 1997, his attitude to life and his unique writing style have become more and more sought after by a wide range of readers.
The stories in the text all come from his life and personal experience, and studying abroad, going to the countryside, and being a young man have become the materials and sources of his creation.
Wang Xiaobo is very good at telling stories, three words and two words can grasp the synopsis, and popular and witty expressions, those scenes and psychological activities that are not handsome, can most arouse the reader's resonance and interest.
A few days later, I was also robbed. There was only one robber and no gun in his hand. He was a white boy, not as tall as me, not as strong as me, and a little sick and crooked. It was said that I robbed him, but I was indeed robbed by him.
Yu Qiuyu said: The power of drama is also "narrative tension", and narrative tension can also be said to be the magic of storytelling, which can not only be enjoyed by the audience, but also by the storytellers.
This kind of statement to describe Wang Xiaobo, who can tell stories, is most appropriate. After the resumption of the college entrance examination, which had been interrupted for ten years, the first university Wang Xiaobo applied for was the Department of Drama and Literature of the Central Academy of Drama. Therefore, Wang Xiaobo's black humor and ability to control stories may be related to his love of drama.
On the surface, he writes interesting things about life in a cynical and careless way, showing the various situations of the world, while at the same time naturally pinning down the shortcomings of the times, making a deafening sound, sometimes without spicy irony.
The state pays everyone to watch movies for publicity and education. Frankly, I didn't watch much of these movies. At that time, I was reviewing my homework for college, and every minute was precious.
Except for me, other young workers refused to look, some people wanted to lay furniture and prepare for marriage; some people were talking about friends. In short, everyone is busy.
Young people let the teachers go to see it, but there are many masters and women in our factory, and they say that the movie theater is too dark to make sweaters.
I have the following advice: if the screening union is reserved, there should be proper lighting in the cinema so that women workers can watch movies while wearing sweaters, so that people can be left in the field.
Black humor is Wang Xiaobo's most representative style, and this style runs through almost every one of his essays. From the text, you can feel that he is an interesting soul. I don't even doubt that black humor is also a reflection of his attitude towards life.
If I had to say, there is no romance in any kind of movie — people have to be finished in less than a month, as in this kind of movie.
I have seen many such movies, and they are all watched with my wife. She was in tears over here, and I was talking over there.
After the movie ended, her eyes were still red. I can't help but say: you look at you, the age is not small, or PhD, watching this kind of movie shed tears, cold is not chilling.
My wife said with a lot of words: You don't know, people often shed tears, which is good for the body.
According to her, watching romance movies is to stimulate the tear glands. I have no reason to object to this hobby of hers.
As a creator of serious literature, he pursues freedom and liberation of human nature, and is most opposed to false emptiness and false canon. Any grandiose, old-fashioned pedantic atmosphere became the object of his criticism. In this regard, Wang Xiaobo dared to be a pioneer, even arrogant and unceremonious.
Chinese Confucians have always regarded the liberation of the world as their mission, and they do not know whether they really want to liberate or blindly romantic.
If the world is really in the "upside down", it is good for you to rescue them; now that you are still upright, you must hang people upside down in your imagination in order to rescue them, which is obscenity.
For the general lack of humor in Chinese, Wang Xiaobo also gave reasons for this and expressed his views.
In the United States, the church, the military, and the upper echelons of society, constrained by religion and hierarchical concepts, often commit false and serious problems, so they become the object of ridicule.
This kind of humor is not available in China, but it is not difficult to understand. The right here does not allow for humor, only for false canon. Joking will cause you trouble.
Until now, China is one of the few countries in the world that does not have political cartoons. Humor has thus become an unfathomable science in this country.
John. In "We Meet Here," Berger points out that "life needs to be treated in a way that is not carefree and humorous, whether this approach is ultimately compromise or persistence." ”
Then, Wang Xiaobo, who is good at self-deprecation and self-blackness, is undoubtedly also a practitioner of using humor to view suffering.
In life, people often fall into some "sayings".
Some statements are incorrect, fall on your head, you take it seriously, after the passage of time, how you should look at yourself is a serious question.
This incident made Chinese talk too complicated, and the Americans said it simply: Isn't this just a stupid X?
The word stupid X, most Americans have prepared for themselves.
In contrast, Chinese people always refuse to admit that they have been stupid, as if this can make themselves appear intelligent; in addition, they must also look at their past ugliness with an aesthetic attitude.
A stupid method like this is simply not worthy of being stupid.
Throughout the ages, the masters of all ages have opened up the wisdom of the people in the way they are good at, they have bright eyes and unusually clear minds, playing with the fog of the times.
And what I admire most about Xiaobo is that he shows us how to be an interesting person in mediocre times.
I now have a wisdom that I didn't have when I was twenty. Now I sit idly in front of the computer and write articles, without being fooled by anyone, which is much better than when I was younger.
At that time, I was stuffed with dogma, and my emotions were violently instigated, and I could only do stupid things, and I couldn't do a single smart thing.
With two references, you can generally know what is right. This is my wisdom: to have this wisdom is not worthy to be called a wise man, but at best an adult.
Unfortunately, many of our peers didn't even have that wisdom, and they missed the only wisdom we could learn in our time—knowing that we had been fooled.
Xiao Bo's sincerity lies in the fact that he did not teach from the perspective of a god who was miserable and compassionate, but as a participant in that era, one of the many fooled little people, he did not hesitate to laugh at himself and blacken himself, thus showing the picture of the era of suffering and hardship and inexplicable irony. Edutainment and thought-provoking.
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Quote from: Wang Xiaobo's "My Spiritual Home"