Mo Yan: "If I can have two books to circulate, 'Life and Death Fatigue' will definitely be one of them." Mo Yan also said: "The Nobel Prize judges awarded this prize to me because they finished reading "Life and Death Fatigue". ”
It has to be said that Mo Yan is Mo Yan, a 567-page,430,000-word book that spanned more than half a century from 1950 to 2005 and experienced six reincarnations, and it is said that he became it in only 43 days. What is even more unbelievable is that this huge work, which took only 43 days to complete, actually won the Nobel Prize and became one of Mo Yan's masterpieces. No wonder even Yu Hua was very jealous after reading it, angrily praising, "After I read it, I first felt very jealous, M, written so cattle, I *." ”
"Life and Death Fatigue" is one of Mo Yan's masterpieces, with this book, he became the first Nobel Laureate in the mainland. Last year (August 2021), Mo Yan opened a public account to talk to young people. The text in the public account is full of humor, so that everyone can once again recognize Mo Lao's humor and cuteness in addition to "Life and Death Fatigue".
Even, some netizens left a message: "Teacher Mo Yan took the Nobel Funny Award." ”
I think this netizen must have also read the book "Life and Death Fatigue". Otherwise, this "summary" would not have been reached!
Yu Hua once said: "Life and Death Fatigue" does not feel tired to read, and it is mesmerizing to watch, which is a great novel.
According to Mo Yan himself, it took 43 years to conceive, but it took only 43 days, from the perspective of animals, to write a masterpiece, telling the six reincarnations experienced by an unjustly killed landlord, donkeys, cows, pigs, dogs, monkeys, and finally transformed into a human being, but unfortunately, this is a big-headed baby with a congenital incurable disease, and then with the help of this big-headed baby's mouth, he talks endlessly about his strange feelings when he is an animal. As well as the sad and joyful story of the landlord Ximen's family and the peasant Lan Jiefang's family for more than half a century of life and death fatigue.
Spanning 50 years of self-redemption, the six reincarnations are a story that originates from reality and is detached from reality, and the vulgar and thorough text makes people sigh after reading it. All sentient beings are lonely flat boats, swimming in their own sea of suffering!
Through the eyes of donkeys, cows, pigs, dogs, monkeys and animals, the novel tells the great transformation of rural society in the past 50 years, which is noisy and full of suffering, restores that period of history to a certain extent, and makes people better appreciate the difficulty of life and cherish today's life at all times.
The Buddha said, "The fatigue of life and death begins with greed." Less desire and inaction, body and mind at ease. ”
Mo Yan uses animal perspectives, playful language and ghostly narrative techniques to make this book that tells a heavy story full of surprises; using humor and ridicule to dissolve the pain of reality, so that people can still laugh out loud and give people strength when they are in pain.
The protagonist Ximen was a large landowner with a wife and two concubines and a hundred acres of fertile land. Later, he was arrested, half of his head was knocked out, and his death was terrible. The dead Simon came to the Yin Cao Mansion and kept crying out. He felt very wronged, he had been building bridges and roads and relieving the poor in the past 30 years in the world, and he had never done anything wrong, and he did not deserve such a fate. The unjust death made him very unconvinced.
The king of Yama couldn't bear it anymore and simply asked the ghost pawn to throw him into the frying pan like fried fritters, until the fried crisp did he catch him up. But even then, he refused to give in. Insist on going back and asking, why do you treat yourself like this?
The king of Yama was overwhelmed by him and finally agreed to let him reincarnate. But on the way to reincarnation, ximen, with grievances and impatience, knocked over the Meng Po soup without drinking, and remembered the hatred. So, in 50 years, with the memories of his past life, Ximen Hao began the process of six reincarnations: the first was a donkey, the second was a cow, the third was a pig, the fourth was a dog, the fifth was a monkey, and finally he was born as a man.
In these 50 years of six reincarnations, Ximen Hao has never left his home, and each reincarnation is reincarnated to his previous home, and with the eyes of various animals, he has witnessed the "life and death fatigue" experienced by the "blue-faced" family of the long-term worker "Blue Face" in the family for three generations.
Donkeys toss, cows gallop, pigs bark, dogs rally in the square, monkeys learn to wear hats. When the people's communes disintegrate and the old debts are written off, who knows? The Buddha's eyes are low, and life and death are tired. - Mo Yan
This is a book that makes me smile and look at it, but after reading it, my heart is extremely heavy.
Mo Yan's words, especially funny, are full of black humor. As soon as the opening chapter attracted me, the description of the Yan King's Palace was really too great, there was a kind of flickering light and dark, emitting the aroma of soybean oil, especially Ximen Hao was summoned by the King of Yan to put the little devils into a frying pan and fried into fritters, fried chicken, Tianjin twist flowers, full of crispy feet, kneeling where still dripping oil on the ground.
After reading it, I suddenly remembered the book "Alive".
As Mo Yan said: "In life, I am destined to suffer many grievances." The more successful a person is, the more grievances he suffers."
There is no life that is not tortuous, no one's life is not wronged, in this world, who is not carrying the weight forward?
We cannot control our own destiny, but we can control our attitude towards it. Calmly bear the inevitable encounters that fall on your head. Bitter without words, painful without words, tempering the sweetness of life!
All sentient beings are suffering, and I should be three provinces and my body every day.
At present, our best state of life is: calm, relieved, calm!