In the 1980s, the aisles of the East China Normal University's Literature and History Building were plastered with posters and articles. The corridors were full of people every day: the people who posted their own articles and the people who read them. Ge Fei is also one of them.
Narrative mazes, gaps, repetitions... Because of his unique writing style, Ge Fei was known as a "student of Borges", and together with Yu Hua and Su Tong, he was known as a representative figure of avant-garde literature.
In the last decade of the 20th century, Yu Hua won the Highest Award for Italian Literature, the Grizzana Carver Literary Prize, for his novel "Alive"; Su Tong's "Flock of Wives and Concubines" was remade by Zhang Yimou as the movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High"; but Ge Fei slowed down the pace of writing and concentrated on teaching at Tsinghua University.
"A person who does what he likes without being noticed is the best state."
After nearly a decade of silence, Ge Fei won the Outstanding Writer of the Year Award at the 4th Chinese Literature and Media Awards and the 2nd Dingjun Biennial Literature Award in 2005 with "Peach Blossoms". Later, he published two works, "Mountains and Rivers into Dreams" and "Spring in Jiangnan", which were collectively known as the "Jiangnan Trilogy".
From conception to finalization, the "Jiangnan Trilogy" lasted seventeen years, and Ge Fei also won the Ninth Mao Dun Literature Award for this work.
Some people refer to the "Jiangnan Trilogy" as "China's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'", While Mo Yan calls it "a novel inheriting the Dream of the Red Chamber", ge Fei said: "I hope that when readers read the "Jiangnan Trilogy", they can find themselves in the works and see his own soul." ”
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01
Three generations in a hundred years, nothingness dilemma
The "Jiangnan Trilogy" is a "century of loneliness".
The timeline in the book continues from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the end of the 20th century, and three generations of a family cannot escape the fate of becoming "marginal people".
Márquez once said:
"Loneliness is an emotional response of people to the world around them. When a person is unable or unwilling to understand the external world, nor can he or she is unwilling to be understood by the external world, a sense of loneliness arises. ”
Lu Xiumi in "Human Face Peach Blossom" is like this.
When she is a big lady who does not understand the world in the courtyard house of The Deep Beauty of Flowers and Trees, the people around her always keep silent about her and refuse to tell her what is happening in the world;
And when she inadvertently embarked on the road of revolution, everyone around her accused her of being a "madman" and unwilling to understand her.
"No one would listen to me say these words, and not a day went by without my head being painful, like frying someone in a frying pan. Sometimes, I really want to bang my head against the wall. ”
In the long period of loneliness and turbulent pain, Lu Xiumi couldn't help but doubt herself. After the defeat of the revolution, she chose to live in isolation, remained silent, and became a "crazy woman in the attic".
Zweig once lamented:
"There is nothing more terrifying in this world than being in a crowd and having to live alone."
And this kind of loneliness is something that human beings have been unable to get rid of for many generations.
Forty years later, Lu Xiumi's son Tan Gongda also embarked on a similar path to his mother.
Tan Gongda is the governor of Meicheng County, who has the dream of the unity of the world, but he does not have the support of the masses.
They said his dream of reform was whimsical and unrealistic.
His universal ideals are constantly being destroyed in real life.
After a failed reform, Tan Gongda was removed from his post and imprisoned. Tan Gongda, who originally wanted to "transform reality", became the object of "being transformed by history".
"Everyone's heart is a besieged island, isolated."
This sentence was attached to everyone in the family like a magic spell.
At the end of the century, science and technology developed rapidly, and life flourished rapidly, but people's loneliness continued to deepen.
The human soul is constantly torn apart, and the only way out is probably to hide.
Unlike his father,who devoted himself to transforming reality, the poet Tan Duanwu spent most of his life fleeing reality.
He refused to be tainted with the stench of copper, did not go to work every other day, hid at home to write poetry or listen to Mozart, isolated himself from the world, and passively accepted everything with a cold-eyed attitude.
Tan Duanwu used his attitude in life to cling to the last value of intellectuals, but his stubborn persistence appeared vulnerable in an era that had been extremely materialistic, and became the object of ridicule by others.
In the great changes of a century of history, three generations of a family have tried to pursue their own ideals and use their own value scales to confront the world, and ultimately failed.
"Their respective dreams belong to the clouds and smoke that flutter in the sky, and as soon as the wind blows, they disperse, and they do not know the end."
Small as duckweed, they cannot change the course of history, but the "Gangnam Trilogy" is not a tragedy, it is only a revelation of the dilemma.
"If you can't even find nothingness, how can you save yourself, how can you find hope?"
After the disillusionment of ideals, the characters in the book all look for individual existence value in their own ways, and they achieve self-enlightenment in loneliness.
With a keen sense of smell, Ge Fei touches the spiritual symptoms of the times, trying to awaken the repressed spiritual pursuit of human beings through the interpretation of the protagonist's ideals.
02
Taoyuan dreams are exhausted, fame lust
A family and a small village often become a microcosm of the nation and the times:
In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the Buendía family, which has changed from generation to generation, is becoming less and less creative and energetic, and the blessed land of Macondo has also fallen rapidly;
In "White Deer Plain", a strange anecdotes of the city and the family's sorrows and joys all occur on the Weihe River Plain.
The story of the "Jiangnan Trilogy" takes place in a village called "Huajiashe": Mulberry Bamboo Beauty Pond, wading into fun; yellow hair hanging down, pleasant and happy; boat swaying lightly, the wind blowing clothes, the heavens and the earth are harmonious, and there is no obstacle at all times.
For one hundred years and three eras, Hua Jia She has served as an anchor in the long river of time.
When Ge Fei first conceived the novel, he presupposed the changes of Hua Jia She over the past hundred years:
"At the beginning it was a small fishing village, a small village, and then in the second part, it may become a county town, and in the third part it will become a city, which is also related to the development of modern Chinese society, so the locations of the three novels are actually staggered."
Huajiashe is not only a witness to a hundred years of history, it is also the entity of the dreams of three generations of characters: three generations of the family once wanted to create a peach blossom garden in Huajiashe.
But in the flower house, love, morality and civilization gradually dissipated, and only endless desires remained here.
In Lu Xiumi's time, Hua Jia She was a den of bandits, sprinkled with tears and blood;
In Tan Gongda's time, Hua Jia She was monitored by a mysterious organization and was an airtight black box;
In Tan Duanwu's generation, Huajiashe directly became a gentle township for modern people to indulge in dark colors, and became a "men's gold cave".
At the end of the story, the history that has happened has become a play that dissolves jokes on the stage, and the flower house is encroached upon by consumerism and modernization, covering up all kinds of dirt in society.
The flower house has decayed several times, and the human dream has been disillusioned several times.
Macondo was destroyed by the hurricane, the white deer plains were full of yellow sand all year round, and the flower house was engulfed by desire.
"In the end, the wind and clouds are dim, people go to the empty building, and the miserable world is dark."
03
Classical beauty, elegant and indifferent
Although Ge Fei insists on portraying the posture of "loser" and reflecting on the romantic ideal of "Peach Blossom Garden", his words are still romantic and poetic, revealing the classical beauty of the heart.
"Why is the spring still haunted,
After the people parted, the mountains and rivers were far away.
I counted the return dates for you, and the painting damaged the top of the eyebrows."
"The peach blossoms are leisurely, and the wind is full of sorrow at the bottom of the tent;
Crescent Moon did not know what was going on in her heart, and sent her face to the head of the bed. ”
"As soon as the wind blows, the flowers sway, and endless sorrow piles up in her heart."
It is no wonder that in the judging words of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, it is mentioned: "(The Jiangnan Trilogy is) a novel with a Chinese style... Delicate narrative, elegant language, the inner structure of the cycle like Spring and Autumn..."
And a set of books "Jiangnan Trilogy", not only read the ancient style, its design is also unique.
The designer changed his manuscript several times and deeply understood the content of the novel.
The whole set of books of three books, "Peach Blossoms on the Face of Man", "Mountains and Rivers into Dreams", and "Spring in jiangnan", the covers are put together, which is exactly a complete phoenix, which alludes to the image of the phoenix ice flower in the book.
The cover uses a simple touch of yunxuan paper, which is a unique wrinkled feeling, which complements the ripples of the river and is very elegant.
The inner seal is made of simple mountains and rivers, which run through the whole process, quiet and long.
The paper used in the inner text is also extremely elaborate, the feel is particularly comfortable, and it is soft in the hand, and the pages are slightly yellowed when spread out, with non-elegant words, so that reading has a unique charm.
This set of "Jiangnan Trilogy" is exquisitely collected, reading it yourself is an elegant enjoyment, sending friends is a chic beauty, and it is also very suitable for collection.
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Good books are worth reading and reading again, and I hope that Ge Fei's "Jiangnan Trilogy" will take you through the love and life of the land of China for a hundred years.
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