Recently, the famous writer Liu Liangcheng's new long story "Bemba" was launched by Yilin Publishing House, and the "Works of Liu Liangcheng" (exclusive collector's edition) led by him was also released as a whole, and this edition included all of Liu Liangcheng's important works for the first time, fully presenting his creative and spiritual world. Liu Liangcheng said: "'Bemba' is the most pleasant novel I have written, it is also the childhood epic I wrote to myself, and it is the most naïve time in my writing history. ”
Set in "Jianger", it traces human childhood
More than a decade ago, Liu Liangcheng traveled to Xinjiang and Buxel Mongol Autonomous County, the hometown of hero Jiang Geer. Located on the northwestern edge of the Junggar Basin, "sheep roads are spread over every valley prairie, a path that sheep have walked for thousands of years, embedded deep in the earth." "He was so shocked that he traveled all over the grasslands and mountains and met many herders.
Since then, Liu Liangcheng began to read the Mongolian heroic epic "Jianger", and he never forgot this grassland, "In those ancient nights, on the vast steppe, a group of people sat around, listening to these raps, and heard the moon set stars and the east white, all without tiredness." Touched by the hope and strength that epic innocence brings to the tribe, and by the brilliant imagination of time in human childhood, he has since germinated the idea of "writing a naïve novel."
For more than a decade, this idea gradually expanded from birth to become a novel "Bemba". "Bemba" is Liu Liangcheng's latest novel after being nominated for the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award, and won the 2021 Huadi Literature List annual long work. It unfolds against the backdrop of the epic poem "Jianger", recreates reality in another way, traces the lost human childhood, and explores the historical memory and poetic wisdom of a nation.
Time is the eternal motif of Liu Liangcheng's writing
In "Bemba", Liu Liangcheng stands at the end of the epic to restart time, achieving this imaginative and naïve novel, shaping a country of Bemba that does not age, does not die, and everyone lives at the age of twenty-five, with magnificent and sparkling.
What is the significance of this treatment? Liu Liangcheng said frankly: "I want to write about time as an essence in "Bemba", rather than a means, and write the face of time. He believes that in fact, the ancestors are imagining time, they are in that era, surrounded by powerful enemies, people are afraid of aging, once they age, they will be bullied and conquered, so they naively imagined a "everyone lives at the age of twenty-five" Bemba country, not aging or dying, strong enough to resist all foreign enemies. "Bemba" then goes on to think about the concept of time: What is time for us? What kind of situation can we imagine about time?
In fact, the motif of most of Liu Liangcheng's works is time. He once said: "I hope that my words will eventually show a face of time." "Whether it is "A Man's Village" written in the early years of working in Urumqi, or the later novels "Virtual Earth", "Chiseled Void" and "Carrying Words", they are closely related to time, and "Bemba" can be described as a fantasy novel that travels arbitrarily through time.
A Reprint of One Man's Village
The newly launched "Liu Liangcheng Works" (exclusive collector's edition) includes seven kinds of novels: "Bemba", "Virtual Earth", "Chiseling The Void", "Carrying Words", the essay collection "A Man's Village", "In Xinjiang", and the interview essay collection "Talking about Things on earth to heaven".
Among them, "One Man's Village" is Liu Liangcheng's representative work. The book poetically depicts the grass, animals, winds, nights, moonlight and dreams in a village, leading readers to re-understand the local nature, while the philosophical and charming language in the book shows the unique innocence and magnificence of the Chinese language, making the book a model for contemporary Chinese writing. Since its first publication in 1998, more than 50 articles have been selected as secondary school Language textbooks and test questions. In "The Cold Wind Blows Through", "the snow that falls in a person's life, we can't see it all." Everyone spends the winter alone in their own lives", which has profoundly influenced generations of students.
The new edition of "One Man's Village" is the first revision by the author in more than 20 years, and more than 62 places in the original manuscript have been revised.