Speaking of Wang Xiaobo, in the second half of the last century, his reputation can be said to be known to everyone. Even his wife, Li Yinhe, once declared: "If Xiaobo does not die, or the Chinese who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the earliest is him." And Wang Xiaobo's novel "The Golden Age" is regarded as the most outstanding masterpiece of this strange master.
In terms of how to evaluate "The Golden Age", the cultural community has been mixed. For example, Li Jing wrote in the preface to The Golden Age:
The lover is as happy as he is, and the disgusted one shakes his head. The person who has always loved and abandoned himself feels that the chess is high and yesterday is not today. Wang Er's readers, there is no intermediate state. ”
"Golden Age" is not long, only about 50,000 words, which is a small novella. Judging from the content, this novel can be described as a deviant to the extreme, and was once banned by the mainland. Because there is too much pornography in the book, Wang Xiaobo's articles and books have been rejected again and again.
There have been some enthusiastic people who have tried to publish Wang Xiaobo's works, but they have not been able to do so. Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe once held the manuscript and rushed to the publishing house many times, but they all went away with joy and returned with disappointment. Zhao Jieping, the veteran editor of Huaxia Publishing House, took advantage of the editor-in-chief's absence to play a time difference to make the domestic version of "Golden Age" come out. But afterwards, she also suffered severe accusations from the leadership, exhausted, and seriously ill.
In desperation, "The Golden Age" had to be published in Hong Kong. However, for the sake of the Hong Kong publishing house, "Golden Age" was defined as an erotic novel, and was named "The History of Wang Er's Wind and Currents", which was included in the "Wind and Moon Series"...
After hearing about this, although Wang Xiaobo took the remuneration, he was also very unhappy. You know, "Golden Age" is the best work in Wang Xiaobo's mind. He even said himself: "'The Golden Age' is his favorite, the best work in his mind." ”
So, how out of the ordinary is the depiction of "The Golden Age" that it has long been banned. Please follow in my footsteps and enter Wang Xiaobo's spiritual world.
This novel mainly tells the absurd "great friendship" of Wang Er, a rural local gangster, and Chen Qingyang, a female intellectual.
Chen Qingyang was an intellectual who was sent to the countryside as a doctor. She is tall and tall, with a good face, and is the embodiment of truth and beauty. She knew nothing about the world. But she was also an intellectual. Intellectuals love entanglement.
In the village, Chen Qingyang's beauty is very abrupt, so the people in the village call it "broken shoes". Chen Qingyang felt very uncomfortable about this. She doesn't really discriminate against "broken shoes" and is not ashamed of the title. She was just confused about it, like a horse that could never be called a dog. "Everyone calls it that, and Chen Qingyang doesn't know who he is."
In order to prove his existence, Chen Qingyang decided to seek verification from the "social person", the village troll Wang Ii: "I am not a broken shoe."
However, Wang Er said bluntly: "He has no ability to prove whether Chen Qingyang is a broken shoe." Because he is a local hooligan who has no right to speak. Only the right to speak will use "proof" similar to legal evidence.
Therefore, Wang Er suggested that since Chen Qingyang does not discriminate against "broken shoes" and does not like to be called "broken shoes", then he should really be a "broken shoe", so that the name and not are one?
When Chen Qingyang heard it, he felt that Wang Er's suggestion was very reasonable. So the two "had a great friendship" and realized the great harmony of life. Later, it was rumored in the village that Wang Er and Chen Qingyang "broke the shoes". As a result, no one in the village said that Chen Qingyang was a broken shoe.
Later, Wang Er and Chen Qingyang "had three great friendships." And Chen Qingyang is also more and more responsible for Wang Er's feelings, and she can't tell whether she loves Wang Er or "friendship".
Once, the two of them opened up the wilderness on the back mountain, and Wang Er took advantage of Chen Qingyang's deep sleep and kissed her navel. "She couldn't sustain herself at that moment." Compared to the simple harmonious act, kissing the navel is something that couples do. In Chen Qingyang's heart, this is a sublimation from "friendship" to "love".
Later, in Qingping Mountain, the "friendship" between Wang Er and Chen Qingyang reached a climax. "The white clouds in the sky are hurried, and there are only two of us in the mountains." Wang Er carried Chen Qingyang on his shoulders, and Chen Qingyang slapped him twice on the buttocks. And it was these two slaps that made Chen Qingyang completely fall in love with Wang Er.
Because the spanking thing obviously goes beyond the "great friendship" between friends. Because ordinary friends will never spank each other. This is an intimate punishment between couples. Although Wang Er did not admit it in his mouth, he actually fell in love with Chen Qingyang in his heart. The reason why Wang Er did not admit this was because he was inferior and felt that he was not worthy of Chen Qingyang. Wang Er and Chen Qingyang both hid their love in their hearts, and their relationship ended because they returned to the city.
20 years later, Chen Qingyang and Wang Er reunited. Chen Qingyang confessed that he had once loved Wang Er and let him kiss his lips for the first time. Chen Qingyang became the vice president of a hospital in Shanghai, single but had a sophomore daughter (most likely Wang'er's); Wang Er also had his own family. The two are destined to have no fate. In the end, Chen Qingyang left by train, and the two never met again.
What exactly does Wang Xiaobo want to express in "The Golden Age"? The Golden Age depicts a period of non-sexuality in which not only sexual behavior is not recognized, but even the existence of sex itself is not recognized. Wang Er and Chen Qingyang's behavior looks absurd, but in fact they are the most normal people in a group of crazy people.
In the book, though, there are a lot of sexual depictions. But the sex described by Wang Xiaobo has shed the dirt imposed on him by his descendants and has become frank, like Adam and Eve who have not yet eaten the forbidden fruit. "Golden Age" is a yellow book, it is clearly written about reality, satirizing the absurd and crazy society of that year.
Wang Xiaobo was not recognized during his lifetime, but after his death, he was canonized as a god. Gao Xiaosong said he was "China's Kafka", Feng Tang said he was Wang Xiaobo's dog, and Lu Yu was his donkey. As soon as his "Golden Age" was published, it became a bestseller in the society at that time, and luoyang paper was expensive for a while.
When I was a child, I used to read "The Golden Age" as a little yellow book. But as I grew up, I read Wang Xiaobo's helplessness. As he wrote in the text:
"I was twenty-one years old that day, in the golden age of my life. I have a lot of extravagant hopes. I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to turn into a half-light and half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant. ”
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