Lin Wenxi
Focus on literature, but not stop at literature, brave cross-border, deep interpretation. Shanghai beauty crossover writer Xiao He, with a pen to open the door to complex human nature and mysterious professions. She has an extremely deep perception of typical forms of art, such as literature, music, painting and fashion design. Her diversified creative qualities make her novel works have unlimited interpretation space and enduring vitality.
Compared with the flat and direct narrative that floods the literary world today, Xiaohe's narrative is relaxed in terms of technique and content, neither over-presenting techniques and ignoring the importance of content; nor deliberately piling up plots to make the narrative bland. No wonder Mr. Ye Xin, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, also praised: "She wrote quite attentively, passionately and poetically."
Doctors dissect people's bodies, writers dissect people's souls. As a prolific school of contemporary Shanghai female writers, Xiaohe has published many masterpieces such as "Cinderella", "Shadow Accompanies", "Lips and Teeth Dependent", "Qingcheng Love", "Rebirth 2019" and so on. Published in 2014, Yi Yi perfectly continues her creative philosophy, with fashion designers and male obstetricians and gynecologists as the main characters, writing about love, family affection, humanity and art across China and Italy.
The heroine of the novel is simple and beautiful, as her name suggests, both inside and outside, and has achieved extraordinary feats in costume design. She is like Tolstoy's Anna, sometimes melancholy and serious, sometimes looking forward to brilliance, sometimes childish and naïve, sometimes unfathomable, in the soft heart, there is a poetic realm. This Shanghai girl with a slightly father-loving plot experienced great pain and loss after her father remarried. "The respected father disappeared. That night, I came out from under my father's leafy tree. The big boy Wei Keke, whose voice and look were similar to Park Shu's, filled the gap in Jian Yiyi's emotional world, but he also embarked on a road of no return. Jane's stepmother was killed in her home by a man known as "Xiao Yang". Jian Guoan, who understood the truth, carried everything and became a prisoner of the order. Jane traveled to Italy and became the honorable Lady David. Memories of her father and first love are sealed to death, but they will still suddenly jump out and torture her at some inadvertent moment.
"The thoughts came suddenly, like a gray pigeon flying past, or a lonely lamb that had stopped in the grass on a distant hillside. Missing is like a lengthy train, accompanied by a roaring roar that hurts the heart, but it will disappear in the distance, in the overlapping changes of various lights and shadows. ”
Wei Keke died unexpectedly of a drug overdose. Losing mrs. David's glorious identity, Jane returned to Beijing in a daze. At this point, enter the narrative of the second relationship. The two narrative units that seem to be separated are actually closely related. Xi Muyang, a young and promising and charming male obstetrician and gynecology doctor, turned out to be Xiao Yang. Love breaks through everything and happens. Jian Yiyi falls in love with Xi Muyang and finds her long-lost sister Quiet. The intricate relationships, the murderous truths that gradually surface, push everyone to the brink of collapse.
"I died among those who died. I was reborn in the bubble that floated up at sea. ”
Jane's beautiful heart is struggling all the time. She longs for affection without any impurities, without any utilitarian love... Yet everything always suddenly becomes embarrassing and maddening. Despite her dependence on and expectation of her father, husband, and lover, she chose to bravely walk out of the castle and face the wind and rain and darkness. Such a name, such a heart, can not help but remind the reader of Charlotte. Brontë's Jane. love. Women's quest for self-worth and meaning, like a symphony of high and low, reverberates for a long time...
Whether it is the meticulous portrayal of fashion designer Jian Yiyi or the fascinating depiction of Xi Muyang, a male doctor in obstetrics and gynecology, the writer Xiaohe always tells us in detail that her story is beyond doubt. Xi Muyang, as a super symbol in the entire novel, opens the door to the mysterious world for the reader. Male obstetricians and gynecologists are distinct beings, the third category of people besides men and women. He was colder and more tender than all the doctors, and had more understanding of life. When all these characteristics descend on a young and handsome man, he will naturally be cloaked in a starry coat. In Xi Muyang's view, a woman's body and literature are connected, ghostly and magical, and have a profound artistic conception. The charm given by the profession is at its peak with the blessing of handsome appearance, so that Jane is quiet, Jane is beautiful, Yu Is... Any woman who met him fell in love uncontrollably. Xi Muyang's gaze seems to be a familiar scalpel, stripping away the woman's reservedness and calmness, and letting love turn out. Obviously, the great profession of a doctor has become an invincible catalyst for love.
The image of "male doctor in obstetrics and gynecology" frequently appears in the stories of writer Xiao He. Male doctors in obstetrics and gynecology have read countless people and have insight into women's bodies. What are the charming qualities of the women he admires from the bottom of his heart? This is what Xiao He has been trying to present in his creation. This mystery is scattered like fireworks in her literary kingdom, such as "Cinderella", "Rebirth 2019" and so on. Become the unique charm of the work.
Is death the fault of family affection, or is it the fault of love? In "Yi Yi", Wei Keke is dead, his stepmother Xue'er is dead, Jian Guoan is dead, David is dead, Xi Muyang is dead... Although the end of every life is inevitably a sad song, this death that should not happen still makes us sigh. There will be discord in life, but the tragedy that can be prevented can not happen.
The language of Xiaohe is long, fluent, figurative, sensual and delicate, like a babbling river under the moon. She can not only use long sentences to express rich information, but also skillfully use short sentences to create unexpected special effects. "Wei Keke is dead." This is the shortest sentence in the whole novel. It appears repeatedly in the fourth chapter, short and concise, unadorned, and highlighting the facts. The original romantic dream was relived, because of the tragic fact of death, it instantly became cone-hearted and heavy. This short sentence, like a dagger falling from the sky on a rainy night, shredded love and shredded dreams, hitting the reader's heart.
Obviously, it is a cruel murder, or an accidental death, but the reader will not have a creepy feeling from beginning to end, but instead, a powerful impact, with a heavy and sad rhythm to pull the door of the heart. We have to think about human nature. Whether in reality or in fiction, the truest human nature must be flawed. The widowed Jian Yiyi and her former lover Wei Keke reunite in Paris; Xi Muyang, who is a brother-in-law, falls out of control in love with Jian Yiyi; the impoverished Wei Keke desperately takes a risk in order to save her terminally ill mother, prompting Xi Muyang to kill Jian Yiyi's hated stepmother, causing Jian Muyang to become a scapegoat and imprisoned; the consortium Qianjin Yuyu is jealous and loses her mind, unscrupulously, causing a car accident, and causing The foster daughter of the Yu family to lose her legs... In the story, almost no one is completely innocent, but if you put yourself in the shoes of anyone, it seems that no one is guilty. Human nature, with the original inadequacy, under the test of family affection, love, career, and life, continues to grow, and after the stripping of blood again and again, it ushers in beauty. Tears and joy, pain and ease together make up the long and short story of the world.
I have to say that Jane Quiet, who is long overdue in the narrative of the novel, is the most distressing character besides Jane. For love, innocently she lost her legs in a deliberately artificial car accident and became your mermaid-like quiet existence. Only the sister who is connected by blood can understand the secret language of her soul: a mermaid's obsessive song of sorrow, accompanied by starlight and waves, gentle and melodious.
In the sensitive and emotional world of the writer Xiaohe, everything is figurative, and everything is reflected and blended with each other. Just like the huge painting of Impressionism, at first glance the fog is hazy, and the color and luster spread casually, and under close inspection, the texture outline suddenly appears. For example, the "silver bracelet" that appears repeatedly in the story, "a silver bracelet he wears on his wrist, so striking, like an abrupt sign, falls in the vast and endless night sky." Another example, Shanghai and Paris, reality and dreams, Xiao he wrote: "The breath of Paris began to fill the city of Shencheng, between a certain roundabout, above the glitz of red wine and greenery, Paris became a new shadow of the moon, the shadow of my destiny that I could not shake." ”
Everything around me is changing. The light turned into darkness, the day disappeared between the lips and teeth, and only the cold rain kept falling in the mind of the season. I asked about a musty and decaying breath, floating on the surface of the lake in late autumn, like some intertwined dove's face, covered with blood-stained dead leaves, and condensed in front of me like a disease.
The writer Xiao He writes stories with the ultimate devotion to human nature and art. She is like a meticulous designer, using words to closely sew up the cracks of time. Life is an unknown, a Goldbach conjecture, a puzzle that will never find the end of the puzzle. Every minute, we are dying and being born. I thought deeply, hoping that everyone could read Xiao He's story. Footprints, sounds, present and future... She leads us in our search for the mystery. Just like the song "Santa Lucia" that constantly appears in the story, there are always people who hold torches in their hands and cut through thorns, leading us to work hard and persevere to find the true meaning of love.
For many years, the pen has not stopped working, and the writer Xiaohe has sung for people and all the beauty in the world...