A monument to the literature of Contemporary
A literary history narrated by a magazine
Chen Zhongzhong, "White Deer Plain"
The novel "White Deer Plain" was published in The 6th Issue of Contemporary Magazine in 1992 and the 1st Issue of 1993, and after the one-shot edition was launched by the People's Literature Publishing House in June 1993, it was highly praised by the reading circles, critics and readers, and was called a "secret history of the nation" and "a milestone in contemporary Chinese literature", and won the Mao Dun Literature Award in 1997. In the past three decades, various versions have been sold for a long time, translated into many languages, and adapted into plays, movies, TV series and other forms of wide circulation. The author, Mr. Chen Zhongzhong (1942-2016), has a long history with Contemporary magazine, and his first novella, "Early Summer", was published in "Contemporary", and he once wrote with great affection: "The repeated revision of "Early Summer" and the smooth publication of "White Deer Plain" constitute a reasonable process... "Contemporary" has made me successful in the stage exploration of my writing. ”
"Shirakahara" Manuscript
The outstanding impression of "White Deer Plain" is: dignified. The whole writing is deep and condensed, smooth and rigorous. In terms of the thickness of the life content and the strength of thought, it can be described as a masterpiece, and its art is as fine as a tapestry.
- Zhu Zhai
Cover of the first edition of White Deer Plain
"White Deer Plain" is a holistic world, a world of self-sufficiency, a world of fullness and abundance, and a world of contemplating the soul of our nation. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mirror of the national soul. For a novel, whether it is panoramic and epic does not depend on how big the external scene it shows, how long the time span is, and how wide the clues are involved, but mainly on whether it itself condenses a huge life, whether it conceals the inner rhythm of life, whether its blood, tendons, bones and even the entire body have a strong and radiant force. It is precisely with this solemn and thick style that "White Deer Plain" ranks among the outstanding novels of the mainland's contemporary era.
- Radar