The writer is good at looking at the small, depicting the human situation in the secular society, and constructing absurd worlds in the novel. In the words of book reviewer Kakurakura, the 18 short stories included in his collection of novels, "The Sky Strikes a White Line", although the content is different, are the same hidden emotions and human reverberations under the "coat" of absurdity.
Text / Snow Sakura
For some writers, the short story is a pause or breath, a kind of spiritual remediation. For writers, the short story is a springboard for the soul and a dig into life. His latest collection of short stories, "The Sky Strikes a White Line", is a sincere work that traverses absurd realities and explores the truth of the soul. The book contains a total of 18 short stories, and although the content is different, they all share the same hidden emotions and human reverberations under the "cloak" of absurdity.
A White Line Across the Sky: A Selection of Short Stories from East to West
Stuff / Author
Guangxi Normal University Press
The German philosopher Jaspers once said, "Man thinks more than he knows about himself." From the short story "Life Without Language", the novel "Tampered Life" and "Echo" to this collection of novels, his novel narrative has become more and more sophisticated, whether it is the disease narrative focusing on the disabled group, or the black humor of the little character Wang Changzhi, and the double dilemma of the policewoman Ran Dongdong, all of which are secretly combined with a deeply hidden "grass snake gray line", that is, the ability to reverse the inner and reveal the truth of the soul world. Things do their best just to make people believe in something again, so that they can look back at their hearts and love this steaming life itself.
The first novel "Flying Around" revolves around secular family affairs, when his mother was critically ill, his son Yao Jian, who was far away in the United States, flew back to China, but was charged with unplugging his mother's oxygen tube by his relatives. nephew Yao Jiujiu, wife Luo Li and son Yao Wang, old classmate Zhang Wentui, and former lover Bai Xiaojuan, the relationship network of the characters is not complicated. Things reflect cultural differences and the deep complexities of human nature through different people's attitudes towards Yao Jian, in Bai Xiaojuan's words, "I'm not sure you'll pull out her oxygen tube, but at least you have the idea of pulling out her oxygen tube." Between the mother's illness and "flying around" lies a moral and ethical test. Faced with the dilemma of filial piety and work, at the end, Yao Jian dreamed that her mother clarified that "I pulled out the oxygen tube myself", like a silent thunder, which exploded in everyone's hearts. The absurdity and weirdness of reality are always beyond our imagination, and the planet of the novel written by the East and West is overgrown with weeds and vines, and the wild power is full of it, which can always grab people's hearts.
Writer stuff
The novel of the same title, "The Sky Strikes a White Line", is a story about waiting and searching. After his wife Liu Lizhou ran away from home, Du Ba and his son Du Yuanfang embarked on a journey to find their family. The three of them always pass by, the cycle repeats, and cause and effect reincarnate. Finally, the mother and son met at home. The author highlights the unbearable weight of reality with nothingness, brokenness, and sadness, and indirectly explains that life is meaningless, and that the white line crossed by the sky is meaningful. Coincidentally, "Our Father", "What I Saw When I Squatted", and "You Don't Know How Beautiful She Is", the layout of the plot is generally similar, the author is like a Sherlock Holmes master to solve the case, following the clues of human nature in the chicken and dog fragments and helplessness, and deciphering the code of the human heart.
Stuff has said that there are three kinds of beauty in the short story, and it can grab you in a limited space, which is the first, the second is freedom, and the third is transcendence. Obviously, the third beauty is the highest realm, which is difficult for ordinary people to reach, and only by completing the author's self-transcendence can it be possible to complete the transcendence of the novel. In my opinion, transcendence is poetry, fragmentary Zhuangzi, and the Zen of snow in a silver bowl. Short stories such as "Don't Talk About Zhuang Tianhai", "Hang the Corners of Your Mouth", "Antonym Building", "Double Lao Zhao", and "Several Uses of Banknotes" all well interpret the author's attempts or explorations in self-transcendence, and his spiritual high standards can be seen from the title alone. He enters the "pyramid" of life in the form of novels, detours, metaphors, exaggerations, and ironies, all in order to find the "greatest common divisor" of reality, restore the truth itself in an extreme narrative way, reason with meticulous logic, make daily life strange, and turn out the folds of the world's human hearts for people to see, which plays the dual effect of awakening and enlightenment.
Dongxi is especially good at portraying all kinds of characters, such as Zhang Wu in the pigsty, Li Guo, a professor of linguistics, Lian Lian from drowning, Fan Jianguo, director of the grain institute, Zhang Shengyue, screenwriter, and Wang Changran, a villager...... The characters are different, but the main tone is sadness - as the stuff says, "The character is a small piece of the author's heart, which is fermented and amplified and finally becomes a living character." They slowly become the author's neighbors, relatives, and even the author himself. In a way, the author is able to thoroughly integrate into the novel through the characters. It is not difficult to see that the creation or conception of novel characters is never a fantasy, but a way to reshape oneself through the creation of characters, the result of the synthesis of experience, experience, and imagination. It can also be said that the characters of the novel grow in the author's heart, and when the thoughts are formed, he will naturally fall to the ground.
Language is destiny, and the uniqueness of the language of the East and West lies in the style of "writing without writing", which is simple and simple, full of vitality, containing the poetic core of love and the aesthetics of pursuing nature, and the openness and possibility of language are also the undefined nature of the novel itself, giving people multiple revelations at the spiritual level.
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