When Mo Yan was in elementary school, his homeroom teacher's surname was Yu, and he was nicknamed "Teacher Wolf", and he spoke a numbing local Mandarin. The reason why Mr. Wolf has this nickname is because he is too ruthless to his students. He attended classes every day, holding a two-meter-long ash whip in his left hand and a slingshot in his right hand, which he whipped up close and flicked at a distance, so that the students were terrified when they heard his name.
Once, Mo Yan and a few friends went to the river to take a bath, but when they returned to school, they were caught by the wolf teacher. Teacher Wolf made them stand in a row and then scratched each of them with his fingernails. All the students who took the shower had white marks on their arms. Teacher Wolf asked them to stand in the scorching sun and expose them, saying that it was to "dry the oil". It didn't take long for the students to faint one by one.
Another time, Mo Yan said the wrong word, and was tied to the foot of the bed at the back of the classroom by Teacher Wolf, and then Teacher Wolf stood on the podium and hit Mo Yan with a slingshot on his navel, Mo Yan shouted for help in pain, but Teacher Wolf was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
Another time, Mo Yan lost a bet with his classmates, and ended up drinking a whole bottle of black and blue ink. When Mr. Wolf saw it, he said sarcastically: "Guan Moye, you have become a great intellectual, and you have a belly of ink." ”
In the face of Teacher Wolf's various punishments, Mo Yan was really fed up, so he decided to change the situation. He found that Mr. Wolf had two rabbits in the classroom, so he got up early every day to pull weeds from the rabbits. After more than half a year of careful care, the two rabbits gave birth to a litter of baby rabbits. Mo Yan went to the market with the little rabbit in his arms, sold it for ten yuan, and then handed the money to Teacher Wolf. Teacher Wolf saw Qian Ming's eyes, and his attitude towards Mo Yan changed greatly.
Teacher Wolf is very fond of reading, and has a rich collection of books at home, reading books whether he is eating or sleeping. After Mo Yan and Teacher Wolf became friends, Teacher Wolf often lent Mo Yan his collection of books to read. Mo Yan didn't dare to take the book home because his father beat him worse than Teacher Wolf.
I had to read a book in the haystack, but I was bitten by mosquitoes and ants and got red spots everywhere. After Teacher Wolf found out, he went to Mo Yan's house to make a home visit and affirmed the benefits of the child's reading. Mo Yan's father nodded yes after hearing this, and no longer interfered with Mo Yan's reading.
Teacher Wolf told Mo Yan that writing mainly relies on "editing". All literary works are made up by writers and are fictional. As long as you make it up well enough, someone will like it. This sentence had a great influence on Mo Yan's later creations.
The reason why Mo Yan became a world-famous writer and won the Nobel Prize in Literature was mainly due to his talent for weaving various unique stories. He likes to conceive a story over and over again, with new changes each time he writes it.
Many years later, Mo Yan had achieved so much that he decided to return to his hometown to visit his teacher, Mr. Wolf. Teacher Wolf told him, "Everyone else has taught you to write essays, but I haven't." Mo Yan replied, "You have taught me, only you have taught me, and no one else has taught me." Teacher Wolf said, "I don't have any other requirements, just show me your book."
Mo Yan's most fascinating book is Life and Death Fatigue, which he claims was awarded by the Nobel Prize in Literature jury because he saw it. If he can leave behind two masterpieces, then "Fatigue of Life and Death" must be among them.
"Fatigue of Life and Death" tells the story of a landlord's reincarnation experience, transforming into donkeys, cows, pigs, dogs, monkeys and other animals, and finally reincarnating into a giant baby born with incurable diseases.
Through the perspective of different animals, this novel observes and tastes the great changes in China's rural society over the past 50 years.
Fatigue of Life and Death is Mo Yan's tribute to the great tradition of classical Chinese Zhanghui novels and folklore, depicting the peasants' praises and lamentations for the extreme tenacity of life.
The work is a masterpiece of magical realism, which is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, skillfully interweaving fantasy and reality, and successfully achieving an artistic breakthrough in realism.
Combining the folklore of the six reincarnations with the classical novel chapter round, Fatigue of Life and Death explores the relationship between man and spirit, life and death, suffering and compassion.
Mo Yan presents an interesting modern Chinese version of The Metamorphosis in a magical and realistic way, and the writing is powerful enough to represent the outstanding achievements of contemporary Chinese fiction.
The title of the book "Fatigue of Life and Death" comes from a sentence in the Buddhist scriptures: "Fatigue of life and death begins with greed, less desire and inaction, and physical and mental freedom." ”
If you are interested in this book, you may wish to read the new preface and inscription written by Mo Yan, as well as comic images, character relationship diagrams and original illustrations.
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