Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
As a high-output writer, Jia Pingwo has published long stories every few years, and is known as a "model worker in the literary world". On May 10, the People's Literature Publishing House released Jia Pingwa's latest novel, The Record of Qinling. This is Jia Pingwa's first work named "Qinling" as Qinling, and it is also the 19th novel he has created since he began literary creation for half a century.
Jia Pingwo
Modern "Note Novels" That Break Through Stylistic Boundaries
This time, Jia Pingwo returned to the Qinling Mountains where he was born and grew up in Sisi, carrying the traditional cultural genes contained in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Liaozhai Zhiyi", leisurely channeling the things, personnel affairs, and historical events in the Qinling Mountains, and dedicating a chronicle of the grasses, trees, animals, villages, and characters of the Qinling Mountains and Rivers that have accumulated in his heart for many years.
The main content of "Qinling Chronicle" is nearly 60 stories, and it is written in an almost ancient handwriting style, writing about the astronomical geography of Qinling, villages, birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers, trees, and the details of life. Corresponding to the chaos and majesty of Qinling, the writer breaks through the boundaries of style and style, consciously inherits the tradition of classical Chinese texts, and has his own style in caring about interesting brushwork.
Jia Pingwa said that he did not want to write the novels and essays that are popular now, but wanted to break through the boundaries of style and write something different. He believes that novels can borrow prose brushwork, and why can't prose absorb the meaning of novels? As a result, a different note-style novel "Qinling Chronicle" was born.
"Notes on novels have been around since ancient times, and Lu Xun once roughly divided this kind of literature with more complicated content and free writing into two types: 'Zhiren' and 'Zhiwei'. "Qin Ling" has both. The writing seems to be a transcript of the actual visit, and the ability tends to be strange. In the micro-reading room, the traces of the changing circumstances of survival, the filtering and clarification of customs, and the details of life and the taste of life in the depths of the mountains are faintly visible. Shi Zhanjun, editor-in-chief of the "People's Literature" magazine, said this about the stylistic characteristics of "Qinling".
Qinling is the source of inspiration for Jia Ping's literary world
"Mr. Pingwo's hometown is in the meeting place between the north and the south, and this kind of spiritual beauty in the south and the roughness of the north have an impact on a writer's creative psychology, as well as a very subtle combination between the culture of the northwest region and the culture of the Central Plains and the south, which I think has formed a lot of Mr. Jia Pingwo's deep creative experience." The writer Mo Yan once said this about the influence of his hometown on Jia Pingwa's creation. Jia Pingwo is a native of Qinling — "I am a person from Qinling, born there, raised there, and has been working and writing in Xi'an City for more than 40 years, and Xi'an City is still under Qinling." ”
Looking back at previous works, from "Bingwa" to "Shangzhou Chulu", "Waxing Moon, Positive Moon", "Impetuous", and then to "White Night", "Qin Cavity", "Ancient Furnace", so that "Lao Sheng" and "Yamamoto", whether novels, essays, stories written by Jia Pingwa, all occurred in the north and south of Qinling in the sense of literary geography. "Qinling" has also been the foundation of Jia Pingwa's creation and the source of inspiration.
In the afterword to "The Chronicle of Qinling", Jia Pingwa said bluntly: "I laughed at myself, born in Qinling and grew up in Qinling, but I was just an ant in the fork of the Qinling ditch, constantly writing about Qinling, even if I had a big idea, I only wrote myself into a small tree in Qinling at the end."
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