Jingsui experts talk about "Wujiang Introduction": This is a creation with "super difficulty"

"'Wujiang Yin' is a 'warm depiction' of that historical legend." "This is a breakthrough in style, and this kind of revolution and innovation is very prominent." "He can return to the language scene of the Long March." This is a very remarkable experiment. "Between the virtual and the real, through the combination of multiple texts, the aesthetic of this novel has been raised to a higher height." "Literature of history, fiction of non-fiction, he found a way." "'Wujiang Yin' can be said to have handed over a relatively unique literary answer sheet, and is a tribute to the great theme of the Long March by Chinese literature and Chinese writers." ......

On March 26, at the "Symphony of Documentary and Fiction - Seminar on the Novel "Wujiang Introduction"", dozens of experts and scholars from Jingsui and Sui launched a heated discussion on "Wujiang Introduction". Experts agreed that given the rarity and particularity of the subject matter, this was a "super difficult" creation. The writer Pompeii rose to the occasion and made innovative explorations in the theme, structure, narrative, personal names and language of the novel, making the novel text show a high literary quality.

The scene of the seminar on the novel "Wujiang Introduction"

Since its debut in early March, writer Pompey's long-form new book "Wujiang Yin" has aroused enthusiastic repercussions among readers and literary and historical circles. This work "presents the epic solemnity and grandeur of the great journey" in three dimensions, and has been praised as "a new writing for the spirit of the Great Long March".

"Wujiang Yin" presents another legend of the Long March epic, a little-known secret force, which is the second bureau of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission with the "three masters of deciphering" Zeng Xisheng, Cao Xiangren and Zou Bizhao as the main force of deciphering. Using the signals of the enemy station detected by early wireless communication technology, they successfully deciphered almost all the cryptographic intelligence of the Kuomintang army, which played a crucial role in the Red Army breaking through the siege again and again and surviving in a desperate situation, while the Kuomintang army found nothing against the Red Army. This is an isolated case of intelligence warfare in the military history of mankind in which the weak prevail over the strong. The Second Bureau of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, a secret existence. Even if they walk in their own ranks, their identities are unknown...

Pompeii, author of "Wujiang Introduction", presents the 1933 Red Star Medal

At this seminar, the participating experts made an in-depth interpretation and interpretation of the literary nature of this work from the perspective of the integration of documentary and fiction. Wu Yiqin, member of the party group and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, commented: "This is a particularly important excellent novel and a very important work. In the whole Long March theme, it is also a very unique novel. The Long March is a rich mine of history for us, a rich mine of spirit, and a rich mine of literature. Compared with the great connotation of the Long March, literature is far from enough. The Long March is a great miracle in the history of the world and in the history of mankind, and there are very few literary works that can be worthy of this miracle, which is also the call and test of the Long March to contemporary literature and contemporary writers. "Wujiang Introduction" can be said to have handed over a relatively unique literary answer sheet, which is a tribute to chinese literature and Chinese writers to the great theme of the Long March. This is a tribute to it, but also a work of declassification. I am particularly pleased that this is a long novel, a work created in the form of a novel. ”

"'A symphony of documentary and fiction', this expression can capture the soul of this work." What is Documentary? Our expectation of reading the documentary is that you are a witness, qualified and capable, I have seen this, you can believe me. But In this book, Pompey is very clever, and in the first part of "Sketches" he uses the name 'we' to tell. Those who are qualified to be 'us' are basically gone, so this 'we' is very beautifully used! I'm making you think I've experienced it, that this is fiction, that it's actually fiction, and that's a very high strategy. You think he's fictional, but it's actually because his writing skills are so high that you can't help but believe it. But if you look closely, it is impossible for these 'us' to narrate these things as protagonists. The second part, "Silhouette", this is actually exploration, is documentary. Through documentary and investigation, some truths are salvaged back to everyone, and this is a documentary. So the two parts constitute a symphony, complement each other, complement each other, this writing is very wonderful! Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of "Literature and Art Daily", analyzed it this way.

He Xiangyang, director of the Creative Research Department of the China Writers Association, further explained, "'Sketch' uses 'we' as the protagonist's narrative, and 'Silhouette' uses 'you' to complete the narrative, then, the final 'Appendix' is 'they', one by one, listed by name, real name and real surname, these people who really exist in history." They are selfless, no individual, no family, no name, they are originally a 'we'. The enlightenment of "Wujiang Introduction" to us is first, structural thoughts: initially "Quotation"; the first part is "Sketch"; the second part is "Silhouette"; and finally "Appendix", the real names and real names of these unsung heroes of the Second Bureau of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission at that time, although it is a page, we can feel a particularly heavy weight. The second is to be very careful in the narrative. The third is the use of metaphors, such as the word 'citation' in the title of the book, and the word 'ferry' at the end of the text, crossing the river. ”

In the view of Professor He Shaojun, vice president of the China Contemporary Literature Research Association, for a work with a unique style such as "WujiangYin", we do not have to use a fixed concept of documentary and fiction to locate it, because the most important thing is that this form is completely in the service of content. "This is a stylistic breakthrough, and this revolutionary and innovative nature is outstanding. It is not to say that which paragraph in this book is fiction and which paragraph is documentary, and the work cannot be analyzed in this way. Pompeii broke the fixed concept of fiction and documentary, and he completely expanded the function of the novel, allowing us to see a new function of the novel. I understand the Wujiang Quote from this perspective, and I prefer to use the word 'reduction' to understand the purpose of Pompeii's writing. For ordinary readers, even if the words 'Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission' are seen in the historical materials, it is only a cold term. What Pompeii had to do was a job of restoring historical details. This work is a bit like the work of the paleontological restoration painter, the ancient creatures were buried in the ground for thousands of years, excavated by the present, only a scattered skeleton is left, the paleontological restoration painter can restore the complete form of the paleontology on the basis of a skeleton, so that we can see the scene of thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago. Pompeii is to be a revolutionary historical restoration painter, and he wants to recreate the youthful figure of the unsung hero of the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission. ”

Shao Wu, the main programmer of "Chinese Writers", uses "resurrection" to express this "restoration": "Resurrection of characters, resurrection scene, resurrection details, these three resurrections can only be achieved by literary means, and only literature can make these boring historical materials infectious." "Wujiang Yin" is a very good work, and this work gives us great enlightenment. Many of our reportage literature and novels are often simple retellings of war history, military and party history materials, and we must use literary methods to deal with them. ”

Yin Changlong, a doctor of literature at Peking University who was trapped in Shenzhen due to the epidemic, also talked about "restoring the scene" in a pre-recorded video speech: "I believe most readers have a feeling, is the text of "Wujiang Yin" real or fake? I think it should be true or false. But it is precisely between fiction and non-fiction that it breaks through the usual ways of writing that we have seen before in writings and literary works about the Long March. Not only in Pompeii's "Wujiang Yin" wrote, but more importantly, how he wrote it, what kind of attempts he made in style, this attempt is interspersed and circuitous between fiction and non-fiction, bringing us into the historical scene. Unlike other works, Pompeii also wrote the Long March while conducting narrative experiments with very important genre texts. We say that writing the Long March is to return to the historical scene of the Long March, and what is particularly worthy of our attention is that he can return to the language scene of the Long March. This is a very remarkable experiment. Restoring history is not only to restore the political, historical, and military scenes of that time, but also to restore the scene of culture and language. ”

"Reading the second "Silhouette" is also a bright spot, it sublimates the previous part. "Silhouette" has genre fiction elements, non-fiction elements, suspenseful things in it, virtual reality, through the combination of multiple texts, in fact, the aesthetics of this novel are raised to a higher height, which is also a very important attempt by Pompeii. Yang Qingxiang, deputy dean of the School of Letters of Chinese Min University, while analyzing the stylistic innovation of the work, also talked about the "technical significance" of "Wujiang Introduction": "Our writing and imagination about the Long March is not too much, but too little, and the writing with characteristics, personality and power is very rare, and "Wujiang Introduction" provides a new perspective for contemporary literary writing on the imagination of the Long March. Here, these codebreakers are professional technicians. There were the most elite intellectuals and technicians in China at that time, so that the revolution could achieve final success. This actually implies that the Chinese revolution is not a simple peasant revolution, it is a revolution with a modern dimension. ”

Liu Tong, an expert on the history of the Long March of the Red Army and a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said in his online speech about the resonance of "Wujiang Introduction": "After reading this book, I was greatly shocked. For a long time, many people could not write this history, because many things on the hidden front were difficult to write, and Pompeii used a very clever method. The first half of the book, "Sketches", uses literary techniques, documentary literary techniques, and uses literary imagination to make a real representation of history. The second half of "Silhouette" writes history, turning to completely real names, place names and events are also true, and the work also presents a sense of destiny needed for a long novel. ”

"Reading this novel has several impressions, one is the unity of tradition and innovation. Tradition is heroism, and innovation is no longer the narrative style that people used to use in the past, but to find their own narrative style and narrative perspective. The second is the unity of reality and illusion. For example, the last verse of the work: "In the depths of time, there is a kind of silence." It was the starlight in the water, the breath in the wind. "The first "Sketch" is a real picture of the big history, and the second "Silhouette" is like a starlight in the water, flashing little by little, it seems to be a little ethereal, but it is another kind of reality. The third is the unity of thickness and refinement. This subject matter is undoubtedly heavy, but the author has written a lot of subtle things, such as on the eve of the southern crossing of the Wujiang River, the only 'fate' word in the Kangxi Dictionary that Director Zeng said had a homophony and no homophony, and through such a detail, the image of Director Zeng was written. As the director of the cultural department of the People's Liberation Army Daily, the poet Liu Xiaowei paid tribute to all those who contributed to the work of "WujiangYin" on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the army.

He Chengxuan, an 86-year-old senior information officer, a veteran of the technical investigation front who came from Yan'an, as the inheritor of the cause of the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission, also came to the venue to congratulate the publication of "WujiangYin". He said that his system produced three writers, Mo Yan, Mai Jia, and Pompeii. The biggest feature of "Wujiang Introduction" is that it is true, so it has received a warm response in the military circles. Zhang Jun, former director of the First Bureau of the Chengdu Military Region, said in a written statement that "Wujiang Yin" is a "warm depiction" of that historical legend. Zou Xuefang, the daughter of Zou Bizhao, one of the "Three Masters of Deciphering" of the Red Army, also came to the Beijing venue, saying that "Wujiang Yin" recreated that unforgettable hidden time, and it was unbearable to read.

Xu Zechen, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize and deputy editor-in-chief of People's Literature Magazine, talked about his feelings about compiling and distributing WujiangYin, and also talked about the excitement of reading Pompeii's novel "Endless Treasure" many years ago. "From "Endless Treasure" to "Unicorn" to this "Wujiang Introduction", along this vein you will find that Pompeii has always been a pure literary writer, and it is a very elite kind, and each of his novels has something very intellectual. If people say he's academic, I think the first thing is that his writing is better than many writers. Xu Zechen pointed out that all of Pompeii's novels are structurally fussy, including the Wujiang Introduction: "Sketch is immediately followed by Silhouette, and the novel suddenly transforms from a documentary text into a fictional thing. Pompeii has been operating such things in his works, and a man like him does not write a thing casually, nor does he write anything below the standard. From the perspective of writing, the significance of the novel "WujiangYin" is that the basic materials of this novel are all derived from historical documents, and the entire critical community, including readers, may have a kind of dissatisfaction with Chinese writers, feeling that most Chinese writers are unlearned. An important reason for the lack of learning is that we can only tell the stories of the present, the stories of legends, and it is difficult to transform the old into the new through our own intelligence, through a systematic cultivation, academic training, etc., to give history and to the past with new structure and understanding, and writers have been criticized for this. But in this, Pompeii took the most real, and which could not be adulterated, through literary means, through desk work, literature, that is, literature of history, fiction of non-fiction, and he found a way. ”

Zhang Peizhong, secretary of the party group and full-time vice chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association, commented: "This is a book of exploration, innovation and uniqueness with magnificent momentum and dazzling beauty. Its uniqueness is reflected in three levels: one is the uniqueness of the subject matter itself; the second is the uniqueness of the narrative perspective; and the third is the uniqueness of the writer's writing. The author Pompeii is a member of the presidium of the Guangdong Writers Association, graduated from the Plapuer's Foreign Chinese College in his early years, and worked in the headquarters of a certain department of the PLA General Staff after graduation. Such a professional background and creative strength make "Wujiang Introduction" a new writing on the theme of the Long March. ”

"Wujiang Yin" is by no means just a declassified novel. The young literary critic Cong Zhichen said: "In fact, in this novel, Pompeii has always known and told the work of the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission from a political level, not just at the military level. Therefore, "Wujiang Yin" is not only about the unknown legend, but also fully writes the revolutionary nature of the legend. Such a revolutionary legend, which is based on the past of the second bureau, celebrates not only the unsung heroes of the hidden front, not even our army, not only our achievements in the past, but also the whole cause of our Party. ”

It is reported that the seminar was held simultaneously in Beijing and Sui by video connection. The seminar was sponsored by the People's Literature Publishing House, the People's Literature Magazine, the Creative And Creative Joint Department of the China Writers Association, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, the Guangdong Writers Association, the Propaganda Department of the GUANGZHOU MUNICIPAL CPC Committee, the Propaganda Department of the SHENZHEN MUNICIPAL CPC Committee, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, the Guangzhou Academy of Literary and Artistic Creation, the Huacheng Publishing House, and the Guangzhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and Literature.

Nandu reporter Huang Qian