Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client, March 21 (reporter Wan Jianhui) reporter learned from the People's Literature Publishing House that the agency recently launched the famous writer and screenwriter Shi Zhongshan's novel "Ask the Vast Land". On the afternoon of March 20, the launch ceremony of the new book was held in the form of online live broadcast, and the author Shi Zhongshan shared the creative experience of the new work, and held a dialogue with the famous literary critic Meng Fanhua, the national first-class actor Sarina who starred in "Breaking into the Guandong" and "The World of Man", and Shi Yifeng, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award and deputy editor of "Contemporary" magazine.
The first scene of the novel "Ask the Vast Land", the third from the left is the author Shi Zhongshan.
Since Shi Zhongshan published his debut novel in "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" at the age of 20, he has published more than 100 novels and novel collections, and is a contemporary writer loved by readers. His novel "Father Goes to Town" was adapted into the TV series "The Years of Burning Passion" to cause a sensation, and since then a large number of novels have been adapted into film and television works, and he has also begun to cross-border film and television, serving as a screenwriter and producer. His representative works such as "The Years of Burning Passion", "Shi Guangrong and His Children", "Happiness Is Like a Flower", "Brothers under heaven", "Military Song Loud", "Mainland Island", etc., have won various awards such as the "Five One Project" Award, the Feitian Award, the Golden Eagle Award, and the Beijing Municipal Government Literature and Art Award of the Central Propaganda Department.
"Ask the Vast Earth" book shadow.
Shi Zhongshan's latest novel, "Asking the Vast Land", was published in the "Selected Contemporary Novels" in Issue 5, 2021, published by the People's Literature Publishing House in March this year, this work is written about the secret contest and silent passion after the smoke of gunfire dissipated: On the eve of the liberation of northeast China, Bi Jian, chief of the intelligence section of the Social Department of the Northeast Bureau, and the Kuomintang agent codenamed "Old Master" began to exhaust his life's "cat and mouse game", and the one who was ordered to pretend to be the wife of the "old master" was bi Jian's long-lost sister, and the fates of several characters were entangled with each other. In the tide of the times, a string of waves stirs.
The screenshot of the online live broadcast of the first ceremony, Shi Zhongshan was speaking.
At the launch ceremony, Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, said that "Asking the Vast Land" combines the advantages of the two aspects, is another excellent masterpiece in the current spy war novel, and provides many new elements different from similar works in the past, from the eve of the liberation of northeast China to the reform and opening up, such a long span of time has brought a heavy sense of history. He hopes that "Ask the Vast Land" will be as popular as Shi Zhongshan's past popular masterpieces, which will be loved by the majority of readers, and there will be the next step of film and television adaptation.
Shi Zhongshan himself called "Asking the Vast Land" an "atypical" spy war novel, because this work does not focus on the ups and downs of the plot and the intricate character relationship like a typical spy war drama, but focuses on the contest between people and the fate of the characters in the context of the big era. He believes that the fate of each character in this work is inseparable from the times.
The famous critic Meng Fanhua believes that Shi Zhongshan's previous military-themed novels have contributed to shaping a new military image, such as "Shi Guangrong" in "The Years of Burning Passion", which is different from the past character image of strict and unblemished characters; at the same time, the film and television drama adapted from Shi Zhongshan's novel has made such theme works more lifelike, thus winning the love of the majority of audiences. Talking about Shi Zhongshan's new work "Asking the Vast Land", Meng Fanhua said that he would prefer to see it as an "anti-special novel". Because of the success of a series of works from "Latent" to "Cliff", spy dramas have become a trend, such works are written by our personnel to break into the enemy's interior, and Shi Zhongshan's new work continues the tradition of "anti-special themes" in classic works such as "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel" and "Secret Drawings", which is also a type that readers and audiences like to hear.
The content of "Ask the Vast Earth" is introduced >>>
In 1948, Bi Jian, chief of the intelligence section of the Social Department of the Northeast Bureau, almost exhausted his entire life in order to find a spy code-named "Old Master". In order to avoid being pursued, the "old man" disguised himself as another businessman, hiding his name and living in horror. In this lifelong "cat and mouse game", the two also met their lovers and married and had children. The lover of the "old man", who is also a trained intelligence agent, is instructed by his superiors to pretend to be his wife, and the two finally come together. And fate tricks people, Bi Jian and the lover of "Old Master" are sisters who have been lost for many years. After the sisters recognized each other, a chance made the identity of the "old man" exposed, and finally committed suicide.
Author Profile >>>
Shi Zhongshan, born in 1964 in Jilin Province, joined the army in 1981, worked in the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau and Beijing Television Station after changing careers in 1997, and is now a professional writer in the Political Department of the Armed Police. He is the author of novels such as "The Years of Burning Passion" and "Shi Guangrong and His Children".
【Editor: Deng Laxiu】
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