#首届书评创作大赛 #
Because I like Yu Hua's "Alive" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", so after the publication of "The Seventh Day", I read it for the first time, although "The Seventh Day" soon after its appearance caused a widespread controversy about the polarization of the public, there were insults and praises and mixed reputations, but "The Seventh Day" still sold well in the fierce and sharp scolding and landed on the first place on the list.
Zan's comments say:
"Yu Hua's 'The Seventh Day' writes about the sadness and kindness of Chinese..."
"The reason why netizens think that Yu Hua is just doing news clippings is because Yu Hua is writing about the daily life that we have turned a blind eye to, which is too real and touches on some things in our time that we are far from being able to explain clearly and unwilling to talk about."
The scolding comment said:
"The Seventh Day" is out of standard, it is a news skewer, the language is pale, the story is messy...
I remember that I spent about a week reading "The Seventh Day" intermittently, and anyway, people are already dead, and there seems to be no need to rush to know the result, because the result is the only one, and the only death is the result. But that week I had a feeling of depression and suffocation, and I couldn't relax my mood, and in the end I still couldn't let go of the cause of death of the characters in the book. So I decided to let myself end this depressed mood as soon as possible, and take a moment to finish reading the book in one breath and calm down. Although I have seen Yu Hua's cold and cold pen in "Alive" and prepared mentally, I was still shocked after reading the whole book, as if I had been hit by a heavy punch, and an invisible sense of despair made my chest suffocate...
"The Seventh Day" is still a story about small people, a warm and heart-wrenching story. The whole book unfolds with a strong atmosphere of sadness through the sights and memories of the protagonist, a dead soul named Yang Fei, in seven days. One story after another is so familiar, such as the abandonment of babies, suicide and kidney sales, violent demolition, men pretending to be women for prostitution, urban rats, etc., they are no longer the cold numbers in the news report, their lives and deaths are truthfully recorded.
In fact, whether it is "Alive", "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" or the later discredited "Brothers" and "The Seventh Day", Yu Hua is recording the stories of small people, one after another for no reason, a pile of innocent bloody cruel deaths, no unnecessary comments, no inducements or answers, all let many officials comment on their own, to feel, to reflect. The reason why many netizens think that "The Seventh Day" is a news string is because there is no network in the era of Fugui, Xu Sanguan and Song Fanping, and there is no overwhelming information, the news is closed, and the tragedies of many ordinary small people can only be reproduced in later literary works, so it will appear shocking and shocking. But in "The Seventh Day", Yang Fei, Wu Chao, and rat sisters are already in the sea of explosive network news, as long as there are mobile phones and computers that can go online, we can see all kinds of news information and gossip every day... Li Yuezhen, who died in a car accident, Li Qing fell into a scam and committed suicide because of Yang Fei's poverty and ran away, Rat Sister committed suicide because her boyfriend Wu Chao bought her a fake copycat version of the iPhone, and Wu Chao died to buy a cemetery for Rat Sister to sell kidneys to raise money... Aren't these tragedies often seen in the online media? We have become accustomed to seeing too many little people's love and hate, life and death, and we have really become strange and even insensitive. Even if it is a living fact in front of us, because we have seen too much and lost its freshness, although the facts have never changed, the tragedy has never changed, in fact, the biggest change is our own ears and eyes, the ears hear too much, the eyes see too much, so we can no longer be shocked and shocked.
And what impressed me most about "The Seventh Day" was Yang Fei's life. Yang Fei's mother went to the toilet when the train fast entered the station to give birth to Yang Fei, Yang Fei was thrown from the toilet to the railway, was picked up by Yang Jinbiao, a single railway worker who was only 21 years old, Yang Jinbiao regarded Yang Fei as his own, poured all his love, and when he was working, he also tied Yang Fei on his back, brewed milk powder and put it on his chest to feed Yang Fei. He was even able to judge from Xiao Yangfei's voice whether he was hungry, thirsty, and needed to change diapers. Because of Yang Fei's existence, he never married. When Yang Fei wanted to meet his biological parents, he took out all his savings to buy clothes for Yang Fei. In order for Yang Fei to have better job opportunities, he did not hesitate to support Yang Fei to work in northern cities. And when he learned that he had an incurable disease, he ran away from home in order not to involve Yang Fei... Reading this I was already moved to tears.
The seventh day tells the story of a being more desperate than hate and more cold than death! In "The Seventh Day", Yu Hua fictionalized a "place where there is no burial in the dead", so that those who can't afford to buy an urn and can't afford to buy a cemetery can come to the "place of death without burial" after death. There "the water is flowing, the grass is everywhere, the trees are luxuriant, and the trees are full of nucleated fruits", "there is no poverty or wealth, no sorrow or pain, no hatred or hatred ... There everyone dies equally. ”
He asked, "What is that place?" ”
I said, "There is no place to die." ”