Writer Yu Hua has once again become the topic of netizens after dinner, not because of his new book, nor because of the famous book "Alive", but because of his classic quotes: "(Yu Hua) lives by living", "I C, write so well, M's", "Our family has no appendix"... Netizens glimpsed the real personality of writer Yu Hua in these humorous passages, which is very different from the work, but fresh and interesting. This kind of "literati do not match" author, Yu Hua is not the first, but the most classic example at the moment, it makes us rethink a proposition, that is, how to look at the relationship between literary style and writer personality.
The author | Yuanyuan nodded (Cultural Industry Review Author Group, Researcher of Sanchuanhui Cultural Tourism and Sports Research Institute)
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There is a kind of person who writes the most unhappy book in all of China, but he is super happy.
This person is Yu Hua, a funny entertainer who has been delayed by literature.
As a well-known contemporary Chinese writer, he was last surrounded by exposure lights at the moment of the publication of his novel "Wencheng" in February last year, which attracted market attention as soon as it came out on February 22, and achieved amazing sales and discussion.
However, the follow-up "fuel" that continues this wave of heat is the sense of humor he showed in the interview.
Not long ago, he and singer Li Jian appeared on the hot search, and when you expect two talented people to collide with the spark of art, they tell you with actions that the "primary school chicken comparison" between literati is the most beautiful quarrel.
"This time the new record comes out, I must go and buy ten copies and give them to others."
"But I bought thirty copies of your new book"
"Then I'll buy sixty copies"
In fact, this is not the first famous scene that Yu Hua contributed, and he can "speak amazingly" in almost every interview to amuse the audience.
"Talk show stars" who don't want to go to work are good writers
Counting Yu Hua's most famous "talk show" scenes, that is probably the story of him abandoning medicine and practicing literature, because people who envy the cultural center can swing on the street and start writing novels, so as to successfully jump ship to the cultural center.
Then, deliberately arriving two hours late to inspect the "working atmosphere" of the cultural center.
This speech can be called a smoking lung in the hearts of book fans, and those who have memorized a wrong word will be expelled from the powder book, and even the leaders of cultural units will use it as a negative teaching material to spur new comrades every day.
Another classic fragment that deserves to be remembered forever is the "national essence" of the three consecutive times when commenting on Mo Yan's new book.
At this new book launch, he also complained about the friendship between himself and Mo Yan, which has reached the point where he will have no inspiration if he accidentally looks at each other.
△ Yu Hua complained that Mo Yan changed the time of writing the novel many times
In fact, yu hua had already shown his humor a long time ago.
When a French reporter asked him: "What is the biggest difference between French writers and Chinese writers?" The corners of his mouth rose, and he almost couldn't control the laughter, but he still pretended to answer the reporter coldly:
The last time I was so speechless, I heard that the biggest difference between Confucius and Socrates was that one was the ancient Greeks and the other was when Chinese.
Even when he participated in CCTV's variety show "Readers", he could not get serious. In the program, Yu Hua shared the story of his father who pretended to be ill when he was a child and was cut off by his father, who was a doctor, and the absurd description made this sad story sound like a senseless joy, so that netizens heard "Our family has no appendix", and the DNA of laughter will automatically work.
△ Readers who are curious about the complete story can go to Weibo to search for "Yu Hua Appendix"
Writing can't go viral, it's okay to talk about paragraphs
In pure literature, eight out of ten writers are "funny men/women", and seemingly serious literati are more novel and sharp than stand-up comedians.
When they complain about others, they are full of firepower, justified, and full of lethality.
Punching themselves in the face, they are also not soft, holding high the banner of "labor" on the front foot, and shouting "very tired" on the back foot.
On the Kangzhuang Avenue of "Lying Flat", they are striding forward, as if they are not writers, but dangling "gai slips"
Just last year, the fairy tale king Zheng Yuanjie turned red again with golden sentences, and the gradual sand sculpture style caused many netizens to watch.
Writers are humorous, this is not surprising, the precipitation of the years and the accurate grasp of language art give them stories and storytelling skills, the strange thing is that netizens are tirelessly interested in these paragraphs, even if they are not so funny complaints, they listen to it with relish, even those rude words in their eyes are "eyebrow clear", this love only comes from the writer's "filter"?
First of all, most of the background colors of these literati passages are mean, sour, decadent and even rude, and they just meet the needs of the times. Yu Hua's "jealousy" of Mo Yan's 43 days to write a book is like a microcosm of the envy and jealousy of the small town writers for the god of learning, Tolstoy's complaint of "not wanting to work" has stepped on the collective emotions of netizens, and Ji Xianlin's rude words have broken the taboo of civilization and alternatively vented people's dissatisfaction.
△ From the diary of Wang Zengqi, a representative figure of the Beijing School of Writers
Secondly, the writer's aesthetic taste and style of work are difficult to grasp, and it is necessary to go through professional study and research to get a glimpse of the spirit of a writer hidden in the work, and the writer's realistic performance is easier to grasp as a dominant existence. People pay attention to the "lace" of the literati's life, not only in search of the real personality of the writer, but also in the patchwork of the writer's artistic temperament, in a sense, this is a shortcut to understand the writer and the work.
△ Unfortunately, the interview content is only 50% credible
Most importantly, this situation of completely unrelated people and literature brings a fresh sense of contrast. In the traditional Chinese concept, it is emphasized that "Wen is like its person", Liu Xun proposed in "Wenxin Carved Dragon" that "Tuna Yinghua, Mo Fei Temperament" elevates the personality of the writer to the fundamental status of creation, while Yu Hua writes cruel and ruthless adult fables, but humorously lives, this kind of literary dislocation of people brings no less surprise than the hidden money in the blind box.
It is not unusual for tragic authors to tell passages
Confucianism pays attention to the cultivation of the body and mind, emphasizing that the character should be unified with the literary character, "the text is like its person", "the painting is like its person", "the book is like its person" The concept of art criticism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has become the national subconscious of the Chinese, but the complete conformity between the text and the person is not a matter of course, and the relationship between the writer and the work can be roughly divided into three situations: the idealized text is like its person, the separation of the text and the person, and the adaptation of the part of the text to the person.
The text is like its own person
This level of realm is the most ideal state in traditional Chinese culture, which means that the writer's personality cultivation and articles have a high degree of consistency and unity, the writer can enter his world without hindrance, and the style he creates can be used to judge his ideal demands and political aspirations.
The great writers such as the Romantic poet Qu Yuan, the bold lyricist Xin Shuyi, and the euphemistic lyricist Li Qingzhao followed the traditional path of being a person first and then making an article, continuing the characteristics of a high degree of unity of personality and style.
Literati separation
The personality quality of the writer is completely disconnected from his creative style and content, and even contrary to it, this situation is the separation of the literati. This situation is not uncommon, it means that the writer abandons his personal cultivation in literary creation and creates according to imaginary aesthetics or standards, which can lead to two different results.
One is that people are not as good as literature, in the article to show a magnificent atmosphere, the writer of the style of a gentleman may be a villain in the camp, poetry will deceive people, madness and civilization can be two sides of the same body, literature and language can also become deceitful things, as Lin Yihan wrote: "Associations, symbols, metaphors, are the most dangerous things in the world." ”
The other is crazy in the literary world, the characters in the novel are racing all the way on the road of breaking the law, the negative characters kill the righteous and win the victory, while the author himself is critical of this behavior, among which the controversial is Nabokov's "Lolita", some people think that he beautifies the "pedophile" behavior and promotes crime, he himself in an interview rejects the touching characteristics of the protagonist of the novel, saying that "Humbert is a vain, cruel villain, but makes himself look very 'touching'." ”
△ Screenshot of the movie "Lolita"
As the concept of value neutrality in the natural sciences gradually penetrates into the humanities, the separation of people from literature will become more and more common, and it is no longer a feasible shortcut to interpret articles by judging the character of authors or the personalities of users.
Literati semi-adapted
This situation refers to a certain personality of the writer through refinement and reinforcement into the work, affecting the style of creation, such as the famous 19th century French writer Georges San, her body is mixed with masculine and gentle two different temperaments, complex personality in different works are reflected in different works, in "Antiana", she relentlessly pursues independence and freedom, passionately resists oppression, and in the book "Magic Swamp", she becomes innocent and poetic.
In summary, the personality quality and style of writers are not one-to-one correspondence, the relationship between the two is rich and complex, not all writers are like their own people, and not all literati discrepancies can bring surprises.
summary
"I looked at the winding path that led to the city, and I couldn't hear my son running barefoot, and the moonlight shone on the road like it was sprinkled with salt."
This classic quote in "Alive" has seen many readers crying, and Yu Hua's own mental journey when writing is likely to be - "I want to laugh when I think of how many people I want to cry to death in this period", this kind of text has an upside-down relationship with the human world, while making readers grit their teeth and shout "The bad old man is very bad", while making netizens very happy, creating a strange scene of Yu Hua himself and his works. However, some people's contrast with the text brings about the violence and deception of language, the judgment of "people as their text" is no longer applicable in today's world, and the complex relationship between the personality and style of the writer requires us to dynamically look at the writer and the work. Perhaps, we should have realized that the fact that a writer is only chosen as a person who sells words in the division of labor in society does not mean that he is necessarily synonymous with "Meilan Zhuju".
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