On January 22, 2022, the "Sixth Annual Gold List of Novels (2021)" sponsored by "Long Fiction Selection" magazine selected 5 "Gold List Works", which was the result of the previous reader network voting and the on-site final evaluation vote of the expert jury. Among them, including Sichuan writer Luo Weizhang's work "Who Is Knocking on the Door".
When the American philosopher Santayena was teaching at Harvard University, one morning, a mockingbird flew to the side of the classroom and chirped, and he said to the students, "I have a date with Yang Chun!" After saying that, he rushed out of the classroom, resigned, and went to feel the spring.
Luo Weizhang, born in 1967 in Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province, is a member of the Chinese Writers Association. He currently lives in Chengdu. He graduated from the Department of Chinese of Chongqing Normal University in 1989. After many years as a teacher, one day in 2006, like Santayena, he left DabaShan and came to Chengdu to earn a living on the fee.
Luo Weizhang is familiar with rural life in northern Sichuan, and he writes about the tenacity, quiet beauty and fertility of that land, as well as the loneliness, diaphragm, diverse personality and humanity, and depression and despair there, how these undercurrents surround his life. His 9 novels and dozens of novellas form a mountain landscape.
Luo Weizhang's works are full of regional colors, and the novel "Dance of the Great River" published in 2010 directly writes the legendary story of the ancient Ba people.
"Who Knocks on the Door" has no shortage of depictions of the Daba Mountains, the Qingxi River, the ancient Ba people's customs and their intangible cultural heritage, even if some passages are not so mellow in the writing, it undoubtedly lays the historical thickness and civilization vision for the whole novel...
Sometimes, the knock on the door is a person's face and a person's heart, and which kind of person knocks out what kind of sound is like what kind of dream will say what kind of dream. When this voice sounded, it had gone to the chest cavity for a while, and with anger, arrogance, and disguised resignation, it reached the finger bones, to the door, and then into the room, and the eldest sister knew that it was the brothers who had come.
——In 2016, Luo Weizhang wrote this line, which became the first paragraph of "Who Is Knocking on the Door".
Born as a human being, it is inevitable to face the various levels, many of which have their first parting,
It is a farewell to parents,
And the death of a loved one often brings insurmountable sorrow.
Luo Weizhang's latest novel" "Who is Knocking on the Door", with "father's illness" as the fuse, a sudden parting, the children's inner world exploded one by one -
From learning that Zhang Huang was confused when his father was hospitalized,
When I went to the ward to accompany the nursing staff,
From the choice of abandonment of treatment when forced,
And then face the regrets of his father's death...
A variety of complex and subtle emotions are intertwined, and the same grief and different difficulties between brothers and sisters are condensed into feelings and questions about life and death, morality, and human nature.
The first part of the novel Who Knocks on the Door advances slowly, like a wanderer.
Close-up shots are generally depicted, even including objects, animals, and landscapes.
It can also be seen from this that the author's ambition, such a delicate and accurate description of the stacked bed frame house, is not only to write the story of the father, the story of the family, the story of the region, but also to retain the appearance of an agricultural civilization.
In terms of language expression, there is often a structure of "empirical description + philosophical sublimation".
After an extremely delicate depiction, the author attempts to make a thorough summary of agricultural civilization and the various forms of life it has nurtured. However, it is worth continuing to explore whether such a slow narrative is a little too evenly forced, which leads to the flooding of the main points. Is there an upper limit to the cherishing of details, which in turn ensures a balance between refinement and a sense of strength? But if the cultural context that the novel has to face is also included in the observation, then how can this slow narrative not be a kind of "literary resistance"?
When we face the bombardment of fast-food cultural consumption, the significance of slowness deserves to be highly affirmed.
In the epilogue to Who Knocks, Luo Weizhang said: "'One Hundred Years of Hunger' is the civilization of the mountains, and 'Who is knocking on the door' is the civilization of the river. The word shanhe refers to their flesh-and-blood connection—the flesh-and-blood connection between traditional civilization and modern civilization. ”
"People in every era have ancient songs in their bone marrow."
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