Instantly, thousands of people were boiling. Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan is the first Chinese winner!
Mo Yan won the award, his personal strength was affirmed as one of them, and most importantly, Mo Yan ended the history of no Nobel Prize in Literature in the Chinese literary world in one fell swoop. For individuals and countries, it is of epoch-making significance.
Just when everyone was congratulating Mo Yan, Chen Danqing, a famous contemporary literary critic, went off the rails and said "strangely": "I haven't seen Mo Yan's things, but I know that his Nobel Prize in Literature has nothing to do with his works." ”
Sure enough, for a while, 10,000 people pointed the finger at Chen Danqing.
Some people say that he is jealous, some people say that he is a villain, and some people even pick up Chen Danqing's private life and make a lot of noise.
From a literal point of view, this sentence is indeed extremely inconsistent with the current situation that praised Mo Yan at that time, and even has negative attributes.
However, is this really the case? If it is true, why is Chen Danqing's remark? If it is not true, what is the truth of the matter?
Talking about his speech after Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in 2012, Chen Danqing said helplessly: "The media will really kill people. ”
There are two reasons why Chen Danqing feels this way.
First, many people, especially young people today, are not familiar with Mo Yan as a writer, and they know little about his works.
On the premise that they don't know Mo Yan and don't know his works, these people tout Mo Yan just for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Moreover, everyone has actually been fooled by the media.
It turns out that the world is just seeing what the media wants it to see.
Chen Danqing said that what he said that day was not the only thing, and other words were added later.
Helplessly, in order to gain popularity and gain traffic, unscrupulous media unilaterally took the quote out of context and put the most controversial sentence on the table.
In other words, what Chen Danqing said that day had nothing to do with the evaluation that the world thought.
In this case, why did the unscrupulous media "frame" Chen Danqing so much?
In fact, it is inseparable from Chen Danqing's own status in the contemporary literary world.
Chen Danqing was given the title of "contemporary Lu Xun" by his supporters because he dared to tell the truth, told the truth, and faced the root of social problems.
The reason why Chen Danqing went from "Chen Danqing" to "contemporary Lu Xun" is inseparable from his personal experience in the past few decades.
It is precisely because of his personal experience that his poisonous and sharp heart has also been formed.
Just as Chen Danqing never thought that he would be used as a gunman one day, Chen Danqing in the past never thought that he would cross over from the painting world to the literary world, let alone that there would be any relationship between him and Mo Yan.
At least until 2000, there was no relationship between the two men. The following is a brief introduction to the life experiences of these two people.
Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province in 1955.
In 1978, Mo Yan began to dabble in literary writing. Before that, Mo Yan had joined the army and also worked in a factory.
Before his novel "Red Sorghum Family" was adapted into a movie by Zhang Yimou, the public did not know much about Mo Yan, and many people even did not know the existence of Mo Yan as a writer.
In the final analysis, the nature of Mo Yan's work is not quite to most people's liking – of course, this is limited to China.
Compared with the unknown nationality in China, Mo Yan's works have been widely praised abroad, and he has also gained a large number of fans.
Because of Mo Yan's 20 years of experience in herding cattle, mowing grass, planting sorghum, and digging rivers in the countryside, his literary works mainly reflect rural life.
By writing about rural life, Mo Yan expresses the hard work and joy of rural laborers, and at the same time laments the numbness and ignorance of the common people.
Throughout Mo Yan's works, unbridled imagination and randomness are typical characteristics of his works.
Because of his unique writing technique of combining the surface and the inside, the virtual and the real, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 with "Frog".
It was this award that brought the previously unknown Mo Yan to the forefront.
Soon, Mo Yan's books in major bookstores were sold out, and Mo Yan himself had all kinds of interviews, and Mo Yan's life completely turned from loneliness to hustle and bustle.
Just when Mo Yan tried his best to return his life to calm and get rid of his aura with the words "disperse", Chen Danqing's sentence "I haven't seen Mo Yan's things, but I know that his Nobel Prize in Literature has nothing to do with his works" pushed it to the center of public opinion.
Chen Danqing is a contemporary literary critic and writer.
Different from the literary style of Mo Yan, Jia Pingwa and others in the nature of northern spirits, Chen Danqing's style is more calm and restrained, like tea, if you want to read and understand the meaning, you need to continue to taste it, and only then can you taste it carefully.
Chen Danqing has such a literary style, in addition to being related to him being an educated youth in Shanghai, it is also inseparable from his previous decades of experience.
Chen Danqing was born in Shanghai in 1953. Chen Danqing has a great talent for painting since he was a child, and has been working in the field of painting since then.
From 1970 to 1978, Chen Danqing settled in the countryside, during which he never lost his painting skills.
Constantly breaking the comfort zone, denying the achievements and regaining the new life are the principles that every successful person adheres to, and Chen Danqing is no exception.
With this ambition, in 1978, Chen Danqing was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
After entering the Central Academy of Fine Arts to receive professional painting training, Chen Danqing's painting ability has achieved a qualitative leap. While his painting ability has leaped forward, Chen Danqing's personality has also become more and more calm.
In this way, Chen Danqing, who has an "independent personality and can see the future from a perspective different from ordinary people", was born.
Ten years will eventually become a sword.
Because of his unique wisdom, in 1980, Chen Danqing created a group of epoch-making paintings "Tibetan Paintings".
"Tibet Paintings" is an oil painting, a total of seven paintings, Chen Danqing depicts the daily life of Tibetan civilians with a direct and decisive painting technique.
From the point of view of the painting itself, the "Tibetan Group of Paintings" far surpassed the oil painting techniques of the Soviet Union at that time.
From the point of view of creative ideas, Chen Danqing abandoned the mainstream theme painting ideas at that time, and from the perspective of practical significance, he put on paper all the daily lives of ordinary Tibetan civilians who were not heroes.
It is not difficult to see that realism, truthfulness and directness are the basic characteristics of Chen Danqing's paintings. And these characteristics are also the character characteristics of Chen Danqing himself.
Because of this heart, Chen Danqing later made countless choices that were extremely out of place in the eyes of ordinary people, but his own logic was self-consistent, and he also said many words that "offended people".
After the success of "Tibetan Paintings", Chen Danqing was able to stay at the school to teach. In 2000, Chen Danqing returned to China from the United States and worked at Tsinghua University as a professor of fine arts.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Danqing would gradually hide and concentrate on teaching, in 2004, Chen Danqing resolutely resigned. The reason is that the school's rigid and dogmatic education system makes it difficult for them to accept and is incompatible with the educational philosophy they uphold.
When the two can't be reconciled, he can only end up leaving the environment.
Resonance is the emotion that human beings need most. When a person dares to say what he wants to say but can't, people will strongly agree with the person's voice, as well as with the person himself.
Following the explosion of "Tibetan Group Paintings", Chen Danqing became popular again. Since then, Chen Danqing has still lived up to everyone's expectations.
When commenting on social events and other people's works, Chen Danqing can always find a unique point from a different perspective from ordinary people, and then express it concisely and concisely.
Because of this series of point-to-point evaluations, supporters gave him the name of "contemporary Lu Xun".
The title of "Contemporary Lu Xun" marks Chen Danqing's successful crossover from the painting world to the literary world.
After that, everyone gave a thumbs up to what Chen Danqing said, commented, and said.
At one time, Chen Danqing's words became the absolute truth.
As the saying goes, the more halos you have on your head, the greater the responsibility you bear, and the greater the effect you can cause. Some media outlets saw this opportunity and then took it out of context and fabricated facts that did not exist.
In fact, after Chen Danqing finished saying the sentence "I haven't seen Mo Yan's things, but I know that his Nobel Prize in Literature has nothing to do with his works", he also said, "It is the Nobel Committee that knows the current affairs."
Looking at the whole sentence, Chen Danqing focuses on the second half of the sentence.
Chen Danqing is talking about the fundamental reason why Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is a fact that Chen Danqing has not seen Mo Yan's works, and he also truthfully stated it.
Because I haven't seen it, I naturally can't evaluate the quality of his works, Chen Danqing is just expressing his objective reasons.
Because of this foundation, Chen Danqing said the fundamental reason for winning the Nobel Prize in his opinion.
In Chen Danqing's view, the reason why Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature is inseparable from China's increasingly advanced status and influence in the world.
The relationship between countries is essentially similar to the relationship between people. Worshipping high and stepping on low is a universal rule all over the world.
When you are weak and have no right to speak, others can bully you as much as they want.
Now that China is strong and its comprehensive strength has come up, those people will naturally be afraid of you. They will give the face that should be given, and the number of courtesies that should be given will not be less.
Take the Nobel Prize in Literature as an example, in modern times, we have some outstanding writers such as Lu Xun and Ba Jin, whose works still have a pivotal position in the world.
In the past, they were not seen by the Nobel Prize in Literature, perhaps because of the work itself, or for other reasons.
Despite our growing nation, we still don't have a Nobel laureate in literature.
Is it true that our literary works are still far from the world level?
Obviously, this is not the case.
With the blessing of the country's increasing comprehensive influence, Mo Yan's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature is, to a certain extent, an established fact.
What Chen Danqing said was that the Nobel Committee was aware of the current affairs, and it was precisely to show this.
Now that China is strong and its position is becoming more and more prominent, it is time to give China such an award.
Chen Danqing questioned the jury before the Nobel Prize.
Chen Danqing came to this conclusion from the perspective of the situation, and it has nothing to do with his denial of the excellence and readability of Mo Yan's works.
Chen Danqing uses a higher-level perspective.
When everyone was still circling in the circle where Mo Yan won the award, Chen Danqing had already jumped out of the circle, looked down on the whole situation from a higher perspective, and deduced the reason from the result, and then came to such a conclusion.
But unexpectedly, people with a heart cut Chen Danqing's evaluation at will, and threw the sentence that could arouse the public's lips the most on the table.
Of course, this is also Chen Danqing's words. No matter how great a writer in the world is, he is just expressing his side.
Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in addition to the factors of the times, more because of the practical significance conveyed by his works themselves.
After all, no matter what you say, the jury will not be able to award Mo Yan the Nobel Prize in Literature solely for the improvement of China's international status and the work itself.
The world is really hard, and everyone who is immersed in the suffering is concentrating on finding the answer to "let your heart be stable and clear".
Truth, or wisdom.
Writers are a profession that undertakes such a mission.
With the insight that is sensitive to ordinary people, they can tell the whole picture of the joys and sorrows of the world, and then through the analysis of them, they can come to a conclusion that is close to the truth or the truth itself.
After reading it, readers may find a new direction in their lives, or get out of their current puzzle.
Mo Yan's "Frog" is, to some extent, such a work.
"Frog" is based on the professional experience of the aunt of a rural obstetrician and gynecologist for more than 50 years, and highlights the contradictions and struggles of the aunt through the contradiction between the implementation of family planning and the welcome of new life.
On a deeper level, "Frog" reveals the true meaning that "the existence of life is essentially an irrational personal choice".
People yearn for freedom, but they are always trapped in various realities.
How to escape from these realities is a matter of personal choice. In the same way, personal choices place oneself in another reality. And so on and so forth, endlessly.
As a result, every life is infinitely entangled in ideals and pains until the end of life. This is still the case at the beginning of the next round of life.
Mo Yan uses "Frog" to reveal the background color of life, which is the same for the aunt in the novel, and the same is true for the world.
Similarly, Mo Yan also used "Frog" to give the protagonist various choices when facing difficulties.
The main idea is that even though there are all kinds of gloom and entanglements in life, each life still tries its best to hold the right to make independent choices in its own hands, strives to change its own environment, and moves towards an unknown new life in the process of continuous choice.
On the basis of realism, Mo Yan gave a methodology that transcends reality.
As long as the reader gains strength in it, the work is a success.
From this point of view, Mo Yan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature!
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