Zhang Jie's "Heavy Wings", "Wordless", "Mao Dun Literature Award" Elite Spectrum Series 9
(The Mao Dun Literature Prize is one of the highest honors in China.) The Mao Dun Literature Prize was founded in 1981 and is sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association.
The Mao Dun Literature Prize is selected every four years, and the works participating in the competition are novels with a word count of more than 130,000 words. Before 2011, the prize money of the Mao Dun Literature Award was 50,000 yuan, and since 2011, the prize money of the Mao Dun Literature Award has been 500,000 yuan, which is the highest prize money in China.
Up to 2019, the Mao Dun Literature Award has been held for ten sessions, with a total of 49 writers and 49 works winning awards.
Here, we will introduce the award-winning writers and works of the past to share with the readers. / Editor)
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Editor/ Dedication
Zhang Jie, born in Beijing in 1937, is a member of the Communist Party of China and a contemporary writer who graduated from Chinese Min University. Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, Vice Chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, and Member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1985, the novel "Heavy Wings" won the second Mao Dun Literature Award.
In 2005, the novel "No Words" won the 6th Mao Dun Literature Award.
Zhang Jie is the only writer to win the Mao Dun Literature Award twice so far.
Zhang Jie was born in Fushun, Liaoning Province, and lost his father at an early age, taking his mother's surname. When I was in elementary and middle school, I loved music and literature. He began his literary career in 1978.
In 1960, he graduated from the Department of Planning and Statistics of Chinese University and went to work in the Ministry of First Machinery Industry. The following year, he joined the China Writers Association.
In 1982, he joined the China Center of the International PEN Association and accompanied the delegation of Chinese writers to the United States to participate in the first Sino-US Writers Conference. He is the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association.
In 1992, he was elected as an honorary academician of the American Academy of Literature and Art, a member of the China Branch of the International PEN Association, a member of the 4th, 5th and 6th Plenary Committees of the Chinese Writers Association, and an honorary member of the 7th. Enjoy special government allowances. He is currently a national first-class writer, a writer with special contributions granted by the State Council, a vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, a vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Zhang Jie's creations with the themes of "people" and "love" often arouse controversy in the literary world. She constantly expands the way of artistic expression, the works explore the human spiritual world with strong emotional brushstrokes, delicate and deep, elegant and mellow, deep and subtle in the early stage, good at using the combination of lyrical narrative and philosophical discussion to depict the inner world of the characters; in the middle period, with the judgment of ugliness as the benchmark, using ridicule and irony to create a variety of surreal text landscapes, an expression of the experience of the absurdity of the world; recently turned to bland and detached, from the intense focus on reality to the attention to the inner emotional perception, showing another aesthetic style.
Zhang Jie's major works include: the novel "Only One Sun", "No Word", "Four Dogs Waiting to Be Fed", "Selected Novel Scripts of Zhang Jie", the novel prose collection "Love, Cannot Be Forgotten", the travelogue literature collection "On That Green Meadow", "Travels Outside the Territory", the short story collection "Ark", "Emerald", "Zhang Jieji", "Shanghuo", the essay collection "A Chinese Woman in Europe", "You Are My Soul Friend", "Lan Shan Collection", the short and medium prose poetry collection "Selected Contemporary Chinese Writers", The long essay "The Person Who Hurt Me the Most In the World Went", the essay collection "Why Did I Start", "No Word My Heart", the novel collection "Come a Little Onion, Come a Little Garlic, Come a Little Sesame Salt", the long essay collection "International Literary Award Winner Self-Selected Library", "Zhang Jie's Collected Writings" (4 volumes), etc., travelogue photography essay "Stray Old Dog".
Some of his works have been translated into English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, Russian and other foreign languages. His essay "My Four Seasons" was selected for the middle school Chinese textbook, and the SuJiao edition was compulsory one.
Zhang Jie's work won the 1989 International Literary Prize in Malapardi, Italy. "Children from the Forest", "Who Lives Better", and "The Conditions Are Not Ripe" won the National Outstanding Short Story Award in 1978 (the first session), 1979 and 1983 respectively. "Emerald" won the National Award for Outstanding Novella from 1983 to 1984. "No Word" also won the Second Lao She Literature Award, the Third Beijing Literature and Art Award, the Novel Selection Award 2001-2002 Excellent Novel Award, the Sixth National Book Award, and the Second Women's Literature Award.
Zhang Jie's novel "Heavy Wings" takes the turn of the 1970s and 1980s a "fierce war" between China's senior leaders, the directors of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, around the reform of the economic management system, as the main line, and shows from top to bottom the rectification and reform of the ministry, the Shuguang Automobile Manufacturing Plant and its grass-roots teams.
From the world outlook of the characters to the methodology, the political relations between the characters to the marriage and family relations, from the political and economic fields to various problems in the fields of philosophy, ethics, folklore, literature and art, etc., at the same time, it also takes into account the emerging situation of rural economic system reform.
In such a sweeping artistic depiction, the novel successfully portrays Zheng Ziyun, vice minister of heavy industry, Chen Yongming, director of Shuguang Automobile Factory, and his opponents, and Tian Shoucheng, minister of heavy industry, revealing the philosophical theme of "pain when cicadas degenerate".
Based on his feelings and understanding of the reality of life and the process of reform, the author depicts the tragic and magnificent struggle waged by Zheng Ziyun, Chen Yongming, and others for rectification and reform, focusing on showing their offensive and resistance, leaping and being frustrated, rejoicing and indignation, revealing that they not only do not compromise with direct opposites, but also dare to hold high the banner of new standards in the encirclement of old habits and old concepts, and have the spirit of never returning to their righteousness and forging ahead.
In particular, Zheng Ziyun, an early figure of a reformer and politician with a plump personality that appeared in the literature of the new period, is a backbone figure in contemporary China. As an outstanding high-level leading cadre, Zheng Ziyun has both a high degree of Marxist theoretical cultivation and rich experience in social practice; although he is old and sick, his strong sense of social responsibility and sense of distress have driven him to bravely plunge into the torrent of reform, and strive to start with the reform of political and ideological work and explore a new road for enterprise management. The novel places him in a fierce contest with the opposite character, Tian Shoucheng, and in the violent collision of new and old consciousnesses, revealing his "restless" personality and tired and lonely heart, and narrating his tragic struggle process.
The opposition between Tian Shoucheng and Zheng Ziyun has a strong color of political struggle. He has been in the official field for a long time, scheming and calculating, good at manipulating power, and accustomed to seeing the wind and making the rudder. He not only looked at Zheng Ziyun's reform efforts to conform to the trend of the times, but also deliberately looked for forks and loopholes, and did not enter without getting in; Zheng Ziyun, who carefully maintained his body and waited for many illnesses, not to fight and collapse himself; he unscrupulously wanted to "get down" Zheng Ziyun's qualifications as deputies to the Twelfth National Congress, because with his political sense of smell, Zheng Ziyun would become an "outlaw" among the "reform faction." This "fierce battle" between the two government ministers before the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China is actually a microcosm of the contest between the two social forces that hindered reform and advocated reform in our country at that time.
Zhang Jie's second novel "No Words", which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, consisted of three parts. The work takes the life experience of female writer Wu Wei as the main line, telling her two marriage changes and the love marriage of four generations of women in her ancestors.
The story begins with the tragic situation of Wu Wei, who was admitted to a mental hospital after divorce, and Hu Bingchen's return to the old good, and traces the enmity between Hu Bingchen, Wu Wei and Bai Fan. Bai Fan was a comrade-in-arms of Hu Bingzhen during the revolutionary years, and the two later organized a family and gave birth to a daughter, Furong. Wu Wei, a sophomore who is always as pure as a sophomore, was with Hu Bingchen, who was in distress during the decade of the "Cultural Revolution", and finally walked together after a long tug-of-war. However, everything is always unsatisfactory, and Hu Bingchen, who is well versed in social feelings, still forces Wu Wei to divorce him for his own future, urgently rebuilds his love nest with Bai Fan, and says that Wu Wei has been stranded abroad for a long time, married a rich foreigner, and dumped himself. Faced with naked betrayal and slander, Wu Wei went mad and finally committed suicide in the wakefulness of remembering only his mother and daughter.
Another clue in the novel is the love marriage of four generations of ancestral women who have a close relationship with Wu Wei. The grandmother of the first generation of Wu Wei, Mo He, was born in a well-off family of "lively, chickens, ducks, geese and dogs, you call us to call", and was a standard boudoir lady who did not go out of the door and did not go out of the second door. However, the grandmother who obeyed the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker, married into a vulgar rural family, and her life was lonely and miserable. In an era when women were seen as tools for succession, endless labor and constant childbearing constituted the whole meaning of my grandmother's life. For her, or the women of her time, the only way to resist abuse was to return to her mother's house, where MoHe ended up dying in childbirth.
Ye Lianzi, the mother of the second generation of Wu Wei, lived in the years of "marrying a han and marrying a han, dressing and eating", and entrusted her life to Gu Qiushui, a soldier of the Northeast Army who was even difficult to support herself, and became a victim of the concept from the beginning to the end. In the years of war, wu wei, who has gone through vicissitudes and hardships, has raised her only daughter Wu Wei. The heartache and painful experiences of the two generations of ancestors cast a great shadow on Wu Wei's heart, affecting her concept of love and marriage.
The third generation of Wu Wei was born during the Japanese invasion of China, and the most memorable thing in his childhood was that he was thrown out by his father like a nasty thing, and almost fell to his death. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wu Wei had the privilege of attending university and receiving an education. However, during the Cultural Revolution, her ex-husband Han Mulin went around exposing and publicizing her illegitimate son, branding a "red letter" on her forehead that marked shame, and this "red word" was also burned on the faces of her mother and daughter Chan Yue. The hardships and hardships of life did not overwhelm Wu Wei, and in her loneliness she picked up a pen to create and gradually became a writer. Life is always torturous, and Wu Wei, who has just calmed down, knows and falls in love with Hu Bingzhen, who is more than twenty years older than himself. For this unconventional love, she paid the price of a lifetime, and finally fell short.
The two daughters of the fourth generation Wu Wei, Chan Yue and Feng Dan, were born in the 1960s. Zen Yue does not believe in love, believing that "there is no real love in the world", "love is a life that will eventually produce measles", claiming that "I will never love like you (referring to Wu Wei)", and finally crossing the ocean to find personal value. Illegitimate daughter Fontaine went to the other extreme, had a successful career, but insisted on celibacy for a lifetime, never married and had children, and did not have a normal family life.
Zhang Jie began to create "No Words" in 1989, which was torn down and restarted in 1994, and after 1998, it was changed over and over again, word by word, and this change was another two or three years. In order to write "No Words", she interviewed and collected various materials that were more than two feet thick. For a small detail, she repeatedly traveled by train to a remote prototype village and town in search of a unique artistic feel. Countless days and nights in front of the computer in the past twelve years have been spent more than ten hours deliberating on words, and the manuscript has changed from thin to thick, from thick to thin, and finally it is necessary to compress the four parts and more than one million words that have been written into the last three parts and more than eight hundred thousand words.
On September 23, 2019, Zhang Jie's novel "Heavy Wings" was selected into the "New China 70 Years and 70 Novels Collection".