A new writing on the spirit of the Great Long March

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

A few days ago, at the "Symphony of Documentary and Fiction -- Seminar on the Novel "Wujiang Introduction"," dozens of experts and scholars from Beijing and Sui launched a heated discussion on the writer Pompeii's long new book "Wujiang Introduction". Experts believe that given the rarity and particularity of the subject matter, this is a creation with "super difficulty". Pompeii rose to the occasion and made innovative explorations in the theme, structure, narrative, personal name and language of the novel, which made the novel text show a high literary quality.

Since its first release in early March, "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 and Taiwan 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.

A tribute, but also a declassified work

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 Yin" can be said to have handed over a relatively unique literary answer sheet, which is a tribute to the great theme of the Long March by Chinese literature and Chinese writers. 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.

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. ”

Provides a new perspective on the imagination of the Long March

Yin Changlong, a doctor of literature at Peking University, said in a video speech about "restoring the scene": "I believe that most readers have a feeling, is the text of "Wujiang Yin" true or false? 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. It's not about what Pompeii's Wujiang Yin wrote, but more importantly, how he wrote it, what kind of stylistic attempts he made, which interspersed and circuitous between fiction and non-fiction, bringing us into the historical scene. Unlike other works, Pompeii wrote about the Long March while also conducting a very important stylistic narrative experiment. 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. ”

Yang Qingxiang, deputy dean of the School of Literature at Chinese Min University, talked about the "technical significance" of "WujiangYin": "Our writing and imagination about the Long March is not too much, but too little, and the writing with characteristics, personality and strength is very rare, and "WujiangYin" 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 modernization orientation. ”

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. ”

Majestic momentum and dazzling beauty

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 Hidden" to "Unicorn" to this "Wujiang Introduction", along this vein you will find that Pompeii has always been a pure literary writer, 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 meaning of the novel "Wujiang Yin", the basic material of this novel is from the historical documents, and the entire critical community, including readers, may be right

Chinese writers will have a kind of dissatisfaction, thinking that most Chinese writers are unlearned. An important reason for not 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 by 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 graduated from the People's Liberation Army Foreign Chinese College in his early years, and after graduation, he worked in the headquarters of a certain department of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army. Such a professional background and creative strength make "Wujiang Introduction" a new writing on the theme of the Long March. ”

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.