"I suppose it is not at all strange that man is born to hide, to disappear; besides, before we came into this world, we were not hiding so well that we could not even remember where we had been hiding?"
In the movie "Sunshine", Ah Hao told another version of the story of Sima Guang smashing the cylinder, so that more people know that behind this story there is actually the prototype of a novelist, he is Yuan Zhesheng, Yuan Zhesheng's words write that each of us is more or less frightened.
"Sunshine" actor Xu Guanghan also mentioned in an interview that before entering the crew of "Sunshine", he was asked to read Taiwanese writer Yuan Zhesheng's short story collection "Lonely Game". The details and temperament in "Lonely Game" can often be found in the corresponding text in "Sunshine".
Yuan Zhesheng is the representative writer of the "introverted generation" of the literary genre that has disappeared in Taiwan, and the authors of this genre are deeply loved by lovers of Chinese literature. At the end of the 1980s, in the wave of de-strictness, deconstruction, gender discourse, and fierce localization of Taiwanese literature, There was a downward trend in Taiwanese literature that was an introverted turn, and the representative writers who were classified as the "introverted generation" were: Huang Qitai, Qiu Miaojin, Lai Xiangyin, Luo Yijun, Huang Guojun, Tong Weige, etc.
They inherited the modernist tradition and opened up a new "inner landscape" for Chinese fiction creation. However, in a short period of time, many of these writers have either committed suicide or withdrawn from the literary world, which cannot help but make people suspect that their literary style is intrinsically linked to fate, which is a literary tragedy and an intriguing puzzle.
At the age of 39, the year before entering the year of confusion, Yuan Zhesheng ended his life by suicide, and his friends were always surprised by this, because in their hearts, Yuan Zhesheng was probably a humorous and joking person.
Often compared with Yuan Zhesheng is Huang Guojun, who is friends and is also classified as Taiwan's "introverted generation", and Zhang Dachun commented that Yuan Zhesheng and Huang Guojun are "two writers who support the novels of the 21st century". Huang Guojun committed suicide at the age of 32, and after his death, Yuan Zhesheng wrote an article in his memory called "Remote Crying".
Their untimely death has become a pity for readers, but the attention and research on their works has not been severed. Although life has passed, but consciousness is transformed into words to survive, which may be regarded as a kind of compensation for the author by writing. We can only continue to explore their souls in the few works they have left behind.
They write about the loneliness at the end of the universe, absolutely cold and silent. Read them as if someone from the other side is spying on your heart, and it is so accurate that it surprises you.
"Sending Off" Yuan Zhesheng
In 2005, Aquarius Culture published a commemorative collection of essays for Yuan Zhesheng, "Still in: Beginning and Final"; now the simplified version of "Sending Off" has been published, not only as a memorial, but also as a kind of inheritance, allowing the novelist to be re-recognized and his works to be constantly re-read.
In addition to including Yuan Zhesheng's out-of-print first work "Sheep Still in the Tree" and the unpublished novel "Hot Spring Bath", "Sending Off" also invited Taiwanese novelist Tong Weige to write a preface to the new edition.
In "Sending Off", we can see Yuan Zhesheng interpreting classic authors such as Shen Congwen, Wang Zengqi, and Hemingway with a "light and short playful, thick and thin novel reading technique"; we can also see that he writes prose with a different style than the novel, talking about the taste of love, service experience and daily life. Yuan Zhesheng's creative aspects and inner world outside the novel are preciously preserved in this book.
For Yuan Zhesheng, writing is to say goodbye to the world in an affectionate way. In "Sending Off", he expounded his personal creative philosophy, using keywords such as "radio, thermometer, psychic medium, and boy" to explain what a novelist is, and using "summoning spirits and channeling" to explain the art of writing. These replies open up new horizons for people and let future readers and creators go further.
"The Lonely Game" Yuan Zhesheng
The American novelist Hemingway once proposed the famous iceberg theory, and the writer left only one-eighth of the writing to the reader, and the other seven-eighths disappeared. Yuan Zhesheng, who has always admired Hemingway's iceberg theory, also shows an iceberg writing exclusive to himself in this "Lonely Game".
Through the usual calm text and simple structure, he leaves one-tenth of the part; the blank space between the lines hides nine-tenths of the profound meaning for the reader to explore on his own. When the reader feels the nine-tenths of that, the meaning of Yuan Zhesheng's words is truly revealed.
In this seven-part short story," "The Lonely Game," Yuan Zhesheng repeatedly captures the "sense of difficulty that people are born to face" through a variety of different interpersonal feelings, such as the affection between parents and sons, the friendship between classmates when they were young, or the marital feelings of the two who have been married for many years.
Loneliness and loneliness have always been a common tone in literary works, and they are also the emotions that many writers try to describe, but when we carefully taste Yuan Zhesheng's calm and restrained words in "The Lonely Game", we will eventually find a kind of lonely writing that is unique to Yuan Zhesheng.
"Monkey Luohan Pond" Yuan Zhesheng
Yuan Zhesheng, who was in his later stages, turned his attention to another universal literary theme for the first time: love. "Monkey Luohan Pond" is Yuan Zhesheng's first breakthrough work to fully explore love, and in the two works of "Monkey" and "Luohan Pond", he asked in writing: "How good can love be?" ”
Love is the core of his creation. However, when we follow Yuan Zhesheng and slowly move from the beginning of the novel to the end, we can vaguely feel that there are still various elements other than love in the work, which makes it impossible to say clearly. As later readers, we cannot know whether the novelist intended to do so; but what is certain is that Yuan Zhesheng did once again write works worthy of repeated taste in the universal literary theme.
"'Religion' and 'love' are equally followed, and equally 'hierarchical' are rich." Yuan Zhesheng's later creation is also more and more often add religious color to his works, the "Luohan Pond" included in this book will be eighteen Arhats, Guifei Guanyin and other religious statues with love, artistic creation, "into the world of love", "out of the world religion" and "the essence of artistic creation" three combination of each other, so that "Luo Han Pond" is different from Yuan Zhesheng's early lyrical works, the novel has a lyrical mood like a legend is particularly far-reaching.
"Xiucai's Watch" Yuan Zhesheng
"Xiucai's Watch" established Yuan Zhesheng's status as "the founding ancestor of Taiwan's new vernacular literature". A large number of southern Fujian dialects, rural scenery and characters let people see how Yuan Zhesheng combines various local elements in the novel, and how to create a new vernacular literature different from his predecessors.
"Xiucai's Watch" is composed of three independent but related novels, set in the old rural settlement of "Boiling Water Ditch", and the story revolves around Xiucai, Wuxiong, Huoyanzai, Kongmao Yangzai, Wu Xilang and other local characters living in "Boiling Water Ditch". Xiucai, who insists on delivering letters to distant places, The Empty Mao Yangzai who leads many beggars, Wu Xilang, who can change the time... A large number of dialects and vernacular elements are spread throughout the book, allowing us to see how Yuan Zhesheng created novels and different vernacular novels; the in-depth description of time everywhere also allows us to discover how Yuan Zhesheng shows many subjective and complex appearances in the objective and absolute nature of time.
This book is a novel written in time unique to Yuan Zhesheng. The disappearance of people, the change of the countryside, the loss of childhood time, Yuan Zhesheng through a variety of changes in human affairs to depict the face of time, flip the rhythm of time, explore the meaning and essence of time.
"Degree Outside" Huang Guojun
Huang Guojun's "Degree Outside" was first published in Taiwan in 2000. Among them, "Leaving Blank" won the Recommendation Award of the 11th United Literary Fiction Newcomer Award, and was affirmed by Zhang Dachun, Shi Shuqing, and Zhong Acheng, three literary predecessors. The publication of "Degree Outside" and "The Cave Entrance of Watergate" was the first introduction of his works to the mainland fifteen years after his death.
Huang Jinshu once proposed the concept of "introverted generation" in Taiwanese literature: "From those samples, we can clearly see a crisis form about writing itself, the fragile, on the verge of dividing 'self' becomes the real subject of writing, and the world and language are problems." Introverted, inwardly collapsed, and even had an unusual fascination with death. Huang Guojun is one of the representative figures of this "introverted generation".
"Degree Outside" is a collection of short stories by writer Huang Guojun. In this collection of novels, Huang Guojun uses experimental texts to explore new possibilities in the art of fiction, and he breaks and stitches time with a different delicate soul, placing rich meaning in the language of "degrees outside", bringing readers a completely different reading experience from the past. Among the countless attempts to write Chinese, Zhang Dachun said that Huang Guojun's novels "have a solemn style that does not play with the people of the times", and even now, there are still few works similar to them.
"Blind Gaze" Huang Guojun
"Blind Gaze" is another collection of short stories by Huang Guojun, which is another masterpiece of his after "Degree Outside". The book contains a total of 10 works, which are prefaced by his father, Huang Chunming, a famous taiwanese vernacular literary writer, and Huang Guojun, who wrote a preface.
The works try to extract the essence from folk literature full of wild power such as fairy tales, fables, and legends, and inject vitality and new patterns into its literature. With the brushwork of a "storyteller" and a mysterious narrative style, the author strives to capture the psychological landscape of the flow and drift of the complex world, presenting the alienation, uneasiness and speculation between people, as well as the various mistakes derived from it.
From "Degree Outside" to "Blind Gaze", Huang Guojun transformed from a word experimenter to a "storyteller". The author uses his pure soul and intellectual speculative words to reproduce Kafka's hesitation and deformation, and explodes a strong modern allegorical color between the virtual reality of the story, portraying the complex desires of the world. This book also includes Huang Guojun's very personal hand-drawn line drawings.
"Yes or No at All" Huang Guojun
In the later works, Huang Guojun pursues the essence of "telling stories" that are appreciated by the novel, which is particularly evident in "Yes or No", and the author uses his sensitive and delicate soul, calm rationality and vigilant personality to construct his own unique alienation aesthetics, showing the various appearances of male and female emotional and erotic problems.
"Yes or No at All" is the last work of Taiwanese writer Huang Guojun, which is a collection of novels, stories and short essays after "Degree Outside" and "Blind Gaze". The book contains a total of 25 works, and there is a preface to the original Editor of Taiwan and a preface to the author's eldest brother Huang Guozhen.
Most of his works are based on love, presenting a variety of aspects of the emotional and erotic problems of men and women. In the self and others, in life and death, in the mystery and reality, pull out a seductive tension. The author's clear words and sacred structure are actually a literary landscape worth cherishing in the world of novels.
"Microphone Audition" Huang Guojun
"Microphone Audition" is a collection of short essays by Huang Guojun, a collection of humorous essays that shows the "cold-faced laughing" side of the writer.
This collection of essays has a wide range of themes, telling new knowledge, anecdotes, strange people, and strange things in a relaxed tone for readers to laugh, creating self-created passages between virtual reality to make the theme more vivid and vivid, and gossiping about his unique interpretation of life, art, and life. The whole book reads different from the delicate and sensitive style of Huang Guojun's novels, and his prose contains a high density of humor in a short length, and behind the humor, it is actually the sharpest analysis of some social phenomena of that year.
Huang Guojun's inner exploration and literary techniques are very impressive. In this "unorthodox" collection of essays, Huang Guojun's keen eye insight into the absurdities of society is expressed through the sharp and creative tip of the writer,000 people can't help but be amused and the case is amazing.
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