Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
A "Human World" takes many people back to extraordinary years, and resonates with the lives of ordinary people presented on the screen. In the author Liang Xiaosheng's view, the "common people" actually include almost the vast majority of Chinese people - workers, peasants, small traders, intellectuals... All along, Liang Xiaosheng has adhered to the position and conscience of civilian intellectuals, paid attention to the real people's livelihood, and compassioned the fate of the bottom, vividly depicting the colorful spiritual map of various small people. This is also the reason why the novel "The World of Man" has touched many people.
In the latest new work "Little People Walk through the Big Times" published by the Oriental Publishing Center, Liang Xiaosheng continues to write about the sentient beings of our time in the form of prose, including the author's own brother who is suffering from illness, the worker who intersects with the author's suffering, the migrant worker who runs for his livelihood in the city, the little girl who collects waste, the thrifty, industrious and kind mother of friends, the intellectual father who has lost his beloved daughter, the miner who has left his hometown on the train, the old tea farmer and his daughter, the peasant woman who has been cheated on stock speculation, and the woman who watches bicycles , the female owner who fell in love with her own hired worker, the "two-person turn" actor, the carpenter, the glassmaker, the gallery owner, the black car driver... Their joy and sorrow, persistence and helplessness, are the "historical records" of the intersection of the reality of the big era and the sadness and joy of the fate of the small people.
As the author said in the "Afterword": "My prose naturally has many chapters about my own emotions, feelings, feelings, moods and emotions, but more of them are about others- those who are ordinary and attract my attention." These "others" are inconspicuous little people, and their joys, sorrows, bittersweets, bittersweets and bittersweets can touch our heartstrings the most. After all, the vast majority of people in the world are ordinary and ordinary.
When talking about the function of literature on reality, Liang Xiaosheng believes that literature should have the power to attract people to goodness, and creators should present "the temperature of human nature". He spoke up for those familiar and humble little people, comforted the damaged crowd with warmth, and poured out his humanistic care for the people at the bottom. He did not stand on the commanding heights of morality, deliberately exposing and accusing the inferiority of the little people, but more from the standpoint of the common people, describing the life of the little people, the cold and warm feelings, and showing their upright and kind nature in a difficult and difficult environment. No matter how many vicissitudes and changes there are in the world, the yearning for a better life is the background of their struggle.
On the postcard presented to readers with the book, Liang Xiaosheng wrote: "If my pen can present the bittersweet, bittersweet, hard work and pursuit, glory and longing in their lives, it is really my comfort and my glory." I wish my pen could write a few more words for them. ”
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