Cover news reporter Xun Chao
On the afternoon of October 16, at the 2021 Tianfu Book Fair, a dialogue about literature attracted the attention of many readers. At the scene, two famous writers, Ah Lai and Li Er, shared their thoughts on literature around "how to respond to things", and also opened a skylight for readers to enter literature, which was loved by the audience.
At 4:30 p.m. on the same day, in the staircase classroom on the first floor of Wenxuan Books Jiufang Store, "How to Respond to Things - Li Er and Ah Lai's Dialogue on Literature" was officially opened under the introduction of the host. Since the theme is "how to respond to things", the dialogue between the two literary masters is of course inseparable from Li Er's long novel work "Brother Ying Wu".
"Ying Wu Brother" focuses on the preparation and establishment of the Institute of Confucianism of Jeju University and the greeting of the Confucian master Cheng Jishi to "fall leaves and return to the roots", with "Ying Wu Brother" as the axis figure, hooking up and down, touching left and right, and related people gradually appearing, depicting a colorful picture of contemporary society, especially the life of intellectuals, and won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award in 2019. At present, the work has announced the launch of film and television development, which is highly anticipated by the literary and film circles.
At this event, the host mentioned the reader's evaluation of "Ying Wu Brother" at the beginning, and even some negative doubts. For all kinds of critical voices, Li Er treats it with an open mind: "Today's literary criticism is different from the literary criticism we knew before. In the past, literary criticism was to express opinions after the work came out, and now literary criticism will go to the front end of writing, to the writer's writing activities, the process of writing, after the work comes out, he also has to comment on the work, so literary criticism has become a very self-aware writing. It is also a kind of writing, and in this case it seems normal for different readers to have all sorts of opinions about the book, including about myself. ”
So, what exactly is "should-be"? Li Er said: "Simply put, what should be done is how to deal with the world, deal with people, and deal with yourself. What kind of attitude do you maintain when dealing with the world. "He used human thinking as a material to create 'Brother Ying Wu'." And in A, "The novel should respond to the characters, and the novel should respond to the things." The characters are in the world, and the world is made up of things. Knowledge is also an experience gained from thinking, and once solidified, it actually exists as a thing. This 'should', I think's 'should' is more important through thinking, through writing responses. This is my understanding of 'yingwu' and I personally like this novel very much. ”
In response to some "can't understand" voices, Li Er has his own opinion, "Sometimes the author and the reader's expectations of a book are different, and the writer is actually particularly worried that the book is written too smoothly." The writer is always willing to let the story have a lot of attractions on both sides of the main line, there are ponds, there are rockeries, each rockery has a story, there are caves under the rockeries, there are stories inside the caves, all kinds of stories, to make the reader feel interesting, and then stay here for a short time. Writers are actually very taboo to write very normally, and novels are undoubtedly storytelling, but certainly not just storytelling. "Therefore, even if there are all kinds of comments, even some very ugly sounds, Li Er will not deliberately explain." I didn't explain, because I knew that since there was a discussion, it was necessary to allow different points of view to come in. ”
Alai also said: "Reading is to improve, not that you let people with knowledge genealogies come down, saying that you have to understand, you have to let university professors speak at the level of junior high school students, this is not OK." Books are about elevating people, not that you bring people down, but that you bring people up. If you don't understand it, read it again, and if you don't understand it, read it again. You think it's a bit difficult to read, but it's a good book for me, and sometimes when I'm not happy, I turn it over. This book also has the advantage that the story is not so strong, it looks good! Send a paragraph you look at a paragraph, here is full of wisdom. That kind of great openness of knowledge, I myself like very much. I don't believe that you can read it in one breath, and you can turn to a certain page at any time to start reading, which is very interesting. ”
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