Photo by Ma Yuan ZhongXin at the conversation site
Beijing, November 19(Xinhua) Title: Ma Yuantui's new work "Huang Tang Family" was "squeezed" by Yu Hua's strength
Journalist Ying Ni
"Ma Yuan has always maintained one of the biggest advantages, that is, childishness." As a "friend who does not know how many years", the famous writer Yu Hua commented "without any cover", and the scene immediately burst into laughter.
At the dialogue meeting of Ma Yuan's new book "Huang Tang Family" on the 18th, Yu Huaqiang performed a scene of sympathy for each other. Despite this, he constantly exposed ma yuan's "black history".
Ma Yuan, a pioneer writer who has been dormant for a long time, has launched a new work that can be called a "ukiyo-e" of contemporary Chinese social life, and social issues such as "touching porcelain", food safety, the tide of fake divorce, and the talent show in the entertainment industry appear one by one in the book, which can be described as very close to the present.
The protagonist of the book is called Huang Tang, and in Ma Yuan's view, he wants to write a metaphysical trilogy: the first is called "Entanglement", the second part is called "Absurd", and the third step is called "Funny". The "absurd" harmonic is Huang Tang, so the protagonist was given this name, and the title of the book is naturally called "Huang Tang Family".
This sense of absurdity stems from Ma Yuan's feeling that the current world is particularly strange compared to the childhood world, and everything deviates from its original appearance, especially the values deviate very badly. "Before, we thought that the road, the bridge, and these things should be as eternal as the sun, moon, and stars, but now we can't help but hear where the road collapsed and the bridge collapsed; before we saw the old man fall, we instinctively went to help up, and now we walk away in a half circle; I just think there is something wrong with this world." 」
After the publication of "Huang Tang Family", some people thought that it was more like a news skewer than a novel. Yu Hua scoffed at this. "I read the book carefully, and although the book has more than 300 pages, it gives me the feeling that it is no more than 200 pages. "Huang Tang Family", very good-looking! After reading it, I felt that this is a book that can only be written by the old jianghu, a book that can be written by people who have experienced a lot. ”
Ma Yuan defended his "news string" and is different from the list, "We write novels that are concerned with verticality, put into history, maybe after 30 years, 300 years, readers will feel quite fresh when they look at it." Yu Hua did not think much of Ma Yuan's defense, "We don't know how many years of friends, Ma Yuan has always maintained one of his virtues, that is, childishness." I just listened to him for half a day, defending his book, I think Ma Yuanzhen, 65 years old, or has not changed, why do you take care of them? Your house has not been built yet, you will go back in a few days, and once the house is built, nothing will matter to you. ”
Photo by Yu Hua and Zhong Xin at the scene of the conversation
In fact, due to the detection of lung cancer in 2008 and unwilling to lie in the hospital bed for routine treatment, Ma Yuan has long moved to the mountains of Yunnan to live, he described that after choosing to live in the mountains, it was particularly different from before, one is the urgency of time, the other is that this serious illness has turned himself into a thinker, "full of enthusiasm for the unchanging world (on the mountain), endlessly reminiscing and observing, this process will have a particularly good imagination." ”
Beijing, Hainan, Tibet, Shenyang, Shanghai... Ma Yuan opened a company, engaged in real estate, made documentaries, and even served as the head of the university Chinese department, until he suddenly disappeared in front of everyone's eyes and went to the mountains to recuperate. In Yu Hua's words, Ma Yuan's life has been ups and downs and uncertain over the years, and when old friends meet and mention Ma Yuan, everyone does not know where he is.
"In fact, over the years I have heard a lot of voices lamenting that Ma Yuan did not write something and tossed around. But my feeling after reading this book is that there is no life that is a pity, there is no life that is not worth it, all life is full of wealth, but you go to mine or not to mine. Yu Hua said that there used to be an old saying called "ten years of cultivation into a person, ten years of cultivation can not become a river and lake."
In his view, Ma Yuan's previous works such as "Fiction" and "The Temptation of Ganges" are similar to those written by people, and books such as "The Huangtang Family" are written by a jianghu. "I'm not saying that jianghu people are necessarily stronger than lifting people, or that lifting people must be stronger than jianghu people, and our society needs to lift people and also need jianghu people."
When asked why he had returned to his old career of writing novels 20 years later, Ma Yuan bluntly said that this profession was the best profession on the planet. Because we imitate God, dozens of lives appear in the story of Yu Hua and me. "Imagine if the earth were a jar, 7 billion people in this jar, 7 billion clams chirping in it, and the people who tease the clams would be very happy to see this jar so colorful." 」
Sure enough, Ma Yuan's infantile illness was committed again... (End)