Since he left his hometown as a soldier, his hometown has been lying on his shoulders and in his heart. In fact, the hometown is no longer on the earth, only lurking in our hearts, and always participating in our daily lives. Hometown, after all, is the birthmark of life.
The so-called social life is mostly related to the camp, or the camp is also like a different hometown. After all, my youth was spent in the camp, and my writing started from within the camp gate. Then, it is an open social life. We keep moving forward, but it's interesting to look at the footprints behind us from time to time.
Literature is not only a copy of life, but also another time and space, and it also contains all life. The most wonderful thing about literature is that whether we love it or not, like it or not, whether we like it or not, whether there is substantive writing or not, literature is in our lives.
In this way, there is what I understand as "three lives.".
Well, this collection of essays is called "Three Lives are Lucky."
Three lives are blessed
Author: North Joe
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
April 2022
Before and after, there have also been more than ten books, including novels, novel collections, prose collections, poetry collections, and review collections, but the prose collection "Three Lives Are Lucky" really has its own special features.
Writing reviews is walking in the works of others and harvesting the lives of others.
Writing novels is telling other people's stories, of course, including telling other people's stories in disguise, telling their own lives.
Writing poetry is mostly about hiding real experiences and letting lyricism and imagery be the protagonists. It seems that "I" are everywhere, but in fact, the real "me" appears suddenly, even ambiguously or falsely.
Writing prose, authenticity, is naturally the first to bear the brunt of it, and it is also a basic point of strength.
Unlike my previous collections of essays, "Three Lives are Lucky" is an unplanned, systematic writing, which is an independent flow from life. Therefore, the passages in the book are fragments of life that I have inadvertently picked up. Writing, in the real sense, becomes writing about me. In other words, this kind of writing has become the most simple way to write yourself.
For example, I've written a lot of novels and essays about military service, but basically I've been a narrator and an observer. In "Three Lives are Lucky", there are several of the most direct writings on our military life.
For example, there are some articles, most of which were originally published in the afterword or creation of the book, but in fact, they are not pure creative talks, nor pure writing experiences, but seem to be a combination of the two, a state in which literature and life are intertwined.
Hometown, for me, family affection is naturally the heaviest part, so I often write about my parents.
Introduction to the content of "Three Lives are Lucky":
"Three Lives are Lucky" is a series of books in the "Essays of a Novelist".
Writer BeiQiao dabbled in novels, essays, poetry, reviews, before devoting himself to literature, he entered the military camp, worked as a journalist, and even engaged in photography, rich experience is the source of Beiqiao's creation, but also created his article gentle and inclusive temperament. His prose is obsessed with writing the secrets of personal growth. The writing dilutes the thickness, and the lightening of life cannot hide the wisdom of life that jumps in the text. The scenes of life he depicts always hit the depths of your memory, vivid enough to make you taste it for a long time and smile. Read his articles, such as reuniting with old friends, activating the common memories of the past in three words, and then savoring his years of absence.
Mao Dun Literature Award winner Mr. Li Er's recommendation:
North Joe's prose, obsessed with writing the secrets of personal growth. Immersed in the rivers of life, he himself is not only the waves and whirlpools, but also the curved channels, the bushes of reefs, and the schools of fish swimming against the water. So, he wrote not only his own secrets, but also our secrets.
From the beginning of writing to this day, writing has always been the main focus of my amateur life. Because I love literature, I chose the Chinese Writers Association when I changed careers; because I loved literature, literature and life became each other, and then became a whole; because I loved literature, I feared literature more and more.
"Three Lives of Luck" is divided into three series: looking for a lost heartbeat, unwanted warmth, and watching the moon and eating mooncakes, corresponding to literature, hometown and daily life, respectively. The three are inseparable from each other and depend on each other. If there is a difference, it seems to me that everything is under the gaze of the hometown; everything will go into literature, and everything will participate in daily life. At least, I am.
The articles included in "Three Lives are Lucky" have continued from the first words of my writing to the present, which also clearly defines my mark on the way in writing. Not all, but not quite a few.
In this way, it seems to make the content of the book more clear.
Thanks to Henan Literature and Art Publishing House!
Thank you Teacher Chen Jing!
Thanks Mr. Li Er!
Come from afar
Author: North Joe
Taibai Literary and Art Publishing House
December 2021
The "Tao" of "Coming from Afar" refers to the time and space distance, historical wind and dust, and even more refers to the unique landscape ecology, living conditions and humanistic spirit of the western plateau. Therefore, the author, the plateau and the reader have formed each other's distant paths, and will construct another way of emotion, aesthetic way and humanistic way.
Bei Qiao, a native of Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, is a writer, critic and poet. He has published more than 10 literary criticism monographs such as "Dating Novel", long novel "Recruit", novel collection "The Sky Is Going to Rain", essay collection "Coming from Afar", and poetry collection "Lintan's Pond". He has won the 10th People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Award, the 11th All-Army Literary and Art Outstanding Works Award, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 9th Armed Police Literary and Art Awards, the 9th Long March Literary and Art Award, the 8th Yellow River Literature Award, the 3rd Sanmao Prose Award, the 1st Lin Yutang Prose Award, the 3rd Haiyan Poetry Award, the 4th Liu Zhang Poetry Award, etc. He currently lives in Beijing.