"Shouting Mountain Ying" book cover Courtesy of Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Beijing, 27 Oct (China News Service) -- The famous writer Wang Yuewen's latest work, "Shouting Mountain Ying," was recently launched by the Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House. In the book, the writer combs through his 31-year literary creation process and explains his understanding of literature and human nature, "The publication of the essay collection "Shouting Mountain Ying" may allow readers and friends who like me to have more understanding of my works and about me. ”
Why is the new book called "Shouting Mountain Ying"?
Wang Yuewen explained: "The entrance to my old house is a mountain flat land, which is still quite open; it is surrounded by towering peaks and deep mountains. The countrymen walk alone on mountain roads, or work in the mountains, and when they are lonely, they shout a few times, and the echo rises and falls with the mountains, that is, shouts the mountain response. The countryman with an empty heart closed his eyes and shouted about the mountain, and he could hear the appearance of the mountain from the shouting mountain. My literary writing, why not shout shanying? Literature is the lonely thing that lonely people do. The people and things I have written about, the time and space, the reality and the void, the truth and the illusion, are all echoes of the world. Through the echoes of my words, I may be able to see what the world looks like. ”
"Shouting Mountain Ying" is divided into three parts: "My Literary Hometown", "My Literary Creation" and "My Literary Review", with 5 appendice literary criticism articles. In "My Literary Hometown", Wang Yuewen wrote from the history and culture, customs and customs of his hometown of Pupu and the stories of family relatives, and strived to explore the relationship between his life experience and literary creation; "My Literary Creation" reviewed the creation process of many of His works in the past 31 years of Wang Yuewen's literary creation, and truly recorded his mental journey before and after the creation and publication of his works; in "My Literary Review", Wang Yuewen purposefully explained his understanding of novel creation and examined his gains and losses in the process of literary creation.
Wang Yuewen, a famous writer, courtesy of Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
After 31 years of hard work, what is the source of inspiration for creation?
Wang Yuewen said in "My Literary Creation": "I just love literature and write about the life I am most familiar with. I have been soaked in red dust for a long time, heard and witnessed, and seen and experienced with my own eyes, and my chest often stirred with compassion and sorrow. If I were a painter, I might have sprinkled a lot of shocking colors on the canvas; if I were a singer, I might have sung long songs along the way; but I was a writer, and I would write novels. Regarding the writer's mission, he confessed: "I have not thought about any mission and responsibility, at most it is only out of the writer's instinct." ”
From "Chinese Painting" to "Great Qing Xiangguo", from "Flooding Water" to "The First Year of the Love Calendar", Wang Yuewen's novel works continue to meet the readers' multi-level aesthetic experience. And how does he define a good novel?
In the section "My Literary Review," Wang Yuewen writes: "The good novel in my mind, first of all, is true, even more real than reality. The so-called 'more real than reality' seems to be logical, it refers to the writer's refinement and removal of reality, showing an essential truth. There is certainly a good side to this truth, but it cannot avoid the cruel and dark side. The conscience of the novelist is that he cannot turn his face in the face of the truth. ”
How do you see the ever-changing labels on yourself?
Wang Yuewen also gave a response in the book. "Some people read "Chinese Painting" and say that I am an official novelist; some people read "The Great Qing Xiangguo" and say that I have transformed into a historical novel; some people read "The First Year of the Love Calendar" and say that I have transformed into an urban novel; I have written many rural novels like "Man Shui". I never admit that I have a so-called transformation, which only shows that I have created a variety of subjects. However, the process of writing is also the process of growing up as a writer. ”
Wu Yiqin, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, believes that in the contemporary Chinese literary scene, Wang Yuewen is a writer with an extremely unique style, and he writes with rich experience and profound insight into life, compassion and social responsibility.
Li Jianjun, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a doctoral supervisor, once commented that Wang Yuewen's cultural character has a lot of "Chu madness"; his refusal to bow his eyebrows to the powerful and powerful, his hot hand and clever writing corruption, and his increasingly frustrated and sharp character have something to do with the tradition of "Xiangchu fanatics." (End)
Source: China News Network