Julu Road Writers Bookstore, behind the sign of "Mileage Literature College" inscribed by Mo Yan, the main programming of "Harvest" Yongxin opened an "open classroom". The audience was composed of creative writing students from Fudan University and East China Normal University, and as the classroom text was Cheng Yongxin's recently published novel collection "If Only the First Sight".
"If Only The First Sight" is a collection of 5 novels with different themes, the novel "If only the first sight" starts from individual experience and is marked with the soul of the 1980s and 1990s with cruelty, passion and freedom; "The Shape of the Wind" tells the story of the encounter of a college student after knocking on the iron door of an old mansion in the hot afternoon, Su Tong said that the narrator image "reminds people of Cheng Yongxin himself in his youth"; "Qingcheng Mountain" involving history and martial arts themes explores the relationship between ideas, dreams and human nature; "Mahjong World" tells about friendship, Love and a life of cups and plates; "My Chiang Mai, My Teresa Teresa" uses sentimental emotions and moderation to write about Teresa's relationship with an era.
"My Chiang Mai, My Teresa Teresa", "The Tale of Mount Qingcheng", and "If Only the First Sight" have adopted a narrative method similar to wandering and wandering, with wonders everywhere and charms. Is this a conscious takeover of traditional Chinese novels or Western tramp fiction techniques? She Donghao, a 2021 "Creative Writing MFA" student of Fudan University, was the first to ask a question.
Cheng Yongxin started from his youth when he always wanted to escape from his hometown, talking about how he slowly understood what was Shanghai's attitude towards life after middle age, and in order to trace the clues of Teresa Teng's life, he deliberately went to Chiang Mai in Thailand to search, "Not deliberately having a succession relationship with some wandering novels, but individual experience determines that when writing, he can't help but integrate his relationship with the city into the novel." ”
As the article progresses, the students' questions become sharper and sharper, why arrange such a fate for the characters in the novel? Is there a "male aura"? A character seems to have the flavor of a "tool man"?
Cheng Yongxin explained the relationship between the characters of the novel and the archetypes of life, mentioning Llosa's work "Aunt Julia and the Writer", "Llosa has realized the real image and character in life through the work to achieve the depth and height he wants to achieve." Writing characters does not necessarily have to go to the 'big me' through the 'small self', but can show the 'big me' from the 'small self'. He admitted that the characters in the novel do have archetypes, "it was not that I deliberately arranged her death, she did die in life." This is a sincere, real person, and what I write is also a real state of life. ”
"This classmate's criticism is reasonable" "Thank you for reading this classmate so carefully" are the high-frequency words of Cheng Yongxin in this section of "Open Classroom". Talking about the "Qingcheng Mountain Record" that adopts the technique of genre novels, Cheng Yongxin frankly said: "It is very difficult to write, it is also very painful, the plot is not satisfactory enough, it should be able to look better, and the core has a spiritual existence." The five novels in this book are five completely different genres, both of which are aspects of my comfort and even some slight pride, but on the other hand, a writer's ability and proficiency are limited after all, and may be more familiar with emotional fiction, and genre fiction is also my own exploration. ”
"Facing students with a sharp edge is also a challenge for writers." Leading this "open classroom" walk is the lecturer of "Introduction to Creative Writing" at East China Normal University. In her view, text perusal is the basic skill of the writer, "if you don't read, you won't write", and having the ability to read carefully is also the basis for becoming a professional reader. Reviewing the first lesson of the "Open Classroom", she smiled and said, "Next time, professors and teachers majoring in writing should also participate." In the face of student questions, writers sometimes resort to 'cunning' roundabout tactics, which require further questioning. ”
In the eyes of walking, the beneficiaries of the "open classroom" are not only students, "the opinions of professional readers can also help authors to think further and have collisions." In her ideal, in the future, the "open classroom" can cooperate with the mature book club brand, or it can intervene in the creation of writers earlier, "before the manuscript is handed over to the publisher and put into submission, listening to the voices of these young professional readers may have unexpected effects on the writer and their texts." For publishing institutions, the opinions of the first professional readers have also been accumulated, hoping to promote a serious and valuable bridge between readers, authors and publishers. ”
Before the "open classroom" of If Only The First Sight, students spent three weeks perusing the text. In March, Chen Jiayong's "The Boss Is Gone" and Lin Zhao's "Tidal Map" and other works will also enter the "open classroom", and writers such as Lu Nei and Xiao Bai are already in the "queue". "Students are looking forward to communicating with young writers like Lin Zhao, who are close to each other generation, and Chen Jiayong's 'classroom' will involve many students majoring in creative writing and film and television at Tongji University, who are very interested in the cross-border experience of the writer himself from the champion of the New Concept Essay Contest to the filmmaker." Walk around, the "Open Classroom" of Mileage College of Literature will be held in major brand physical bookstores in Shanghai, and at the same time, through online live broadcasting, forming a truly boundless open classroom.
Sponsored by the Shanghai Yanfang Harvest Literature Special Fund, the Mileage Literature College integrates the senior editorial forces of well-known literary journals in the country such as "People's Literature", "October", "Harvest", "Contemporary", and "Flower City"; the planning and editing of readers, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Yilin Publishing House, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, etc.; the senior copyright procurement of the three major platforms of Aiyouteng, hoping that the discovery and cultivation of new literary forces in various places will make the literary achievements such as journal publication, type publishing, film and television adaptation bloom in a hundred flowers. Wang Yao, dean of the Faculty of Letters of Soochow University, served as the first dean, and the expert database included Yu Hua, Li Er, Su Tong, Ge Fei, Yi Zhou, Tian Er, Zhang Chu, Shi Yifeng, Li Xiuwen, etc. In addition to the "Open Classroom" to help young students appreciate the beauty of literature from the close reading of the text, another focus of the Mileage Literature Institute is "revision", and the "New Youth" Writing Camp in cooperation with Hunan Mao Zedong Literature Institute has selected 4 writers to submit manuscripts, and the selected students will receive "three-to-one" meticulous revision guidance. "Literary achievements are read and changed. It is hoped that the 'open classroom' and 'revised manuscripts' can become the ferrymen of literature. "Walk around and say.