Sleep empty
Among the well-known Chinese writers, Baby Anne must be a presence that cannot be ignored. She wrote online in 1998 and became a hit in 2000 when she published "Farewell to Vianne". At that time, she was only 24 years old, which could be described as a young fame.
She belongs to the first generation of Chinese Internet celebrity writers, leading the thinking of many 80 years and post-90s people, and many people like to imitate the dress of her heroine.
As soon as Anne's book was published, it sold tens of millions of copies, which was called a phenomenon. But she herself rarely appeared, did not participate in the signing party, did not promote. Even if she occasionally attends small meet-ups, she must ask that no photographs be taken and that her phone be turned off.
When the vast majority of authors are trying to do their best to market, Anne does the opposite, keeping her usual mysterious low profile. But it did not affect her popularity, and the novel that was released in January this year, "Summer Valley" immediately entered the first place in the best-seller list.
Baby Anne, 1974, formerly known as Li Jie, a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, worked in a bank before writing full-time. After the first book was published, she decided to resign, her family wanted stability, and her ideas were strongly opposed by her parents. Anne still went to Shanghai alone to work, working for a website company, and continued to write in her spare time.
Subsequently, he successively published "August Weiyang", "The Other Shore Flower", "Rose Island", "Two or Three Things", "Sober Record" and so on.
In 2007, she gave birth to a daughter with a nice name, "Grace". She never mentioned her husband positively, but there was a metaphor in the last part of "Su Nian Jin Shi", the male protagonist is a Buddhist who is 15 years older than her, met at a poetry meeting arranged by a friend, loves to read, is very good to her, and has his own farm and garden on the outskirts of Beijing.
In recent years, Baby Anne's Microblogs have been posted on her travels, reading, meditation, and silhouettes of her daughter, a very beautiful little girl, and netizens speculate that she may have long been divorced.
It is good to have enough love for someone like Anne, maybe marriage is dispensable for her, and there are few people in her spiritual world who can really read it.
In 2014, when it was published, it was renamed Qingshan, followed by "Moon Boy Du River" and "Shamo Valley". She likes the word "Qing", and the heroine of "Spring Feast" is called "Qingchang". There is a person named Qingzhao in "Lotus".
In "Sleeping Space", it is mentioned that when she was 26 years old, she was alone in Shanghai, and her father took her driver to Shanghai to see her. Another point, since I was a child, my mother did not have any training for me in such things as washing dishes and cooking. From here, I guessed that Annie's baby origin is not bad, compared to many post-70s around me.
I first knew Baby Anne in a magazine, didn't like the name, and paid attention to her again and again. It's not like I saw Xue Xiaochan's article in "Reader", so I was eager to go to the old book stall to find her book, wanting to know more about this author.
Then a few literary friends I met in the space in 2013 mentioned that my favorite writers all had Baby Anne, which made me curious about her.
Remember that there is a passage in the book: Reading Anne's books is like stepping into the depths of your own soul. Her words are permeated with a gorgeous sadness, full of love disillusionment, forbearance, the pain of youth and the prosperity of the world, and this deep and shallow sadness also just caters to the hidden pain belonging to this era. Baby Anne's book has given me solace and redemption to my young heart. Her words are irreplaceable, like a person's birthmark.
I suddenly wanted to see what moving story this female writer had written.
Because of these thoughts, I finished reading six of her early books. Her Lotus is known as the pinnacle of her work, but it gives me the feeling of how her style of writing is so depressed and decadent that reading her books is not at all happy.
I feel that her heroines are good at work, usually have long hair like seaweed, like to wear cotton shoes barefoot, love to smoke, like to drink ice water, rebellion, run away, wandering, abortion, love after love, never stable and good life.
Such a girl is like a flame, and whoever falls in love will definitely be burned. They are full of emotions, self-reliant, full of personality, defy the rules and regulations of the world, and they will hurt themselves and others. I think that the man of traditional thinking will probably be far away from such a girl.
In her collection of essays, she knows that Anne herself loves to smoke, drink, get tattoos, and other things that most girls don't want to do, and lives wantonly.
She said tattoos are about training herself not to hallucinate on the flesh.
Last year, some students sent me books including Baby Anne's "Moon Boy Du River", "Never Had It", "Sleeping Void", reading her words again, less decadent than before, giving people a sense of tranquility and peace, and the words are durable.
In "Moon Boy Du River", there are some essays of Anne herself, like inspiration paragraphs on the circle of friends or sticky notes. About life, walking, daughters, reading and writing and so on. She also often goes to some mountain temples and takes her children there for summer vacations.
The same is true of the book "Sleeping Void", which is not a standard prose essay writing method, and there is no chapter logic. Our traditional prose emphasizes that the form is scattered, philosophical prose, scene writing prose, narrative, lyrical prose, the theme is clear.
Looking at Baby Anne's collection of essays subverts our previous consciousness, we don't know which category she wrote. She really writes casually and casually.
The four chapters of a book, each chapter is a sentence in the picture below, three or five sentences combined, the upper and lower paragraphs are not at all expressing the same theme, that is, her inner monologue, self-talk.
Her collection of essays is in paragraphs
But her words are very deep and beautiful, and they need to be read repeatedly.
Anne said that she writes without any circle genre, without reference to her peers, she is willful writing. She did not join the Writers' Association, nor did she intersect with any insiders. It is true that Baby Anne's writing style does not have a similar author in China.
I talk to my friends in the WeChat small group, people become famous is good, how to do it is reasonable, her writing style is to create a new genre.
In "The Golden Age", Baby Anne said: I write novels like prose, and prose is like novels, which may be the people who erase the boundaries of my views because I personally tend to pay attention to them. Many words are written at the end, but only for such emptiness and self-sufficiency.
She emphasizes that she is bent on writing, subjective emotional expression, inner monologue. She uses special words, there are always a few words on each page that strike directly into people's hearts, there are many golden sentences, and she always wants to take a book to excerpt, which may be her charm.
Books by writers like Ding Limei, Lin Qingxuan, Bing Xin, Bi Shumin and others can be read by students, and how to write like Anne allows children to learn. She has a special presence in the literary world.
She Weibo more than 10 million fans, public accounts hundreds of thousands of fans, but never accept advertising, she does not have to be so, she is a writer on the rich list, tens of millions of royalties income, no need to do anything else to support the dream of writing. Can cling to her purity and purity.
She just has to live the way she likes, travel, meditate, record, photograph, and her diary of insights can be collected into books. Her photographic photographs can be published in a photo album, and there are a huge number of iron fans who must buy them every time, which is her success.
How many writers in China still live in embarrassment even if they have published more than a dozen books, and not many authors can live a life of simplicity on royalties.
In "Sleeping Space", Anne said: An author produces three books a year, or three years to produce a book is afraid of not long, the best rhythm is to produce one book a year. Since 2000, she has averaged one book a year, and this book is a bestseller and has endured for a long time.
She doesn't need to work hard to get thousands of words a day like an online author, nor does she have to publish n platforms like a self-media author to get weak traffic. Anne herself was a huge IP, and each of her books was well-papered and hardcover.
Last year, I saw an article mentioning that it was the publisher Lu Jinbo who gave Annie Baby and Han Han 2 million each to build it. Intentionally keeping her mysterious.
No matter how true it is, the legend of Baby Anne cannot be copied, the Internet is vast, and there are many writers. There is no anne baby after Baby Anne, and now an author sells tens of thousands of books, which are called best-selling authors.
In the future, it will only become more and more difficult for newcomer authors, and paper books will only be collected by hardcore fans to buy signature editions, just like collecting stamps. There is too much content information that is available for free on a mobile phone today.
Baby Anne's success naturally has her reasons for success, she has insisted on writing for 20 years, accumulated a large number of loyal readers, and followed her all the way to growth. There are opportunities of the times, there are personal efforts.
Just like Qiong Yao's "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" that year created a crowded alley, the highest rating in history, and no one has surpassed it so far.
Dozens of her novels have all been made into television, and now many people scold Qiong Yao's novels that cannot withstand scrutiny at all, they are all ruined three views, and if they debut now, they will not be able to catch fire at all. But she has influenced a generation, even several generations, and we have really been sad and tearful in her story...
Times are changing and we are growing. But you don't have to rush to deny your former self, just like the person you once loved, at that stage you were all sincere.
Baby Anne wrote about the lives of some people on the fringes of the city, their inner loneliness, wandering, desolate, and untamed. Let them see another self deep inside.
The most important thing is that Anne caught up with the booming period of the Internet, and the first to eat crabs is naturally the biggest beneficiary. There is also her unique language expression and outstanding talent, the so-called time and place are favorable.
If of all the authors I know, who is closest to Anne is a purple.
I said to her yesterday: You and Baby Anne are really like this, they all write this kind of deep-hearted text. Sometimes it's like talking to yourself, quiet and addictive. You all love Buddha, love incense, love solitude, ego, maverick, isolated. Keep your distance from business and be unsure of outside opinion.
She said: We started too late, if we continue to write in the student age, it will be great, I once won the first prize in the composition competition in middle school, and the talent and talent need to be persevered, and I also need to be appreciated by Bole.
People who tend to be farther away from business, but in the end they achieve great success in business, and eventually they will get everything that people envy in the world.
Su Nian Jinshi
Share some of the text from Baby Anne's Sleeping Void
1. After some years, I will go with you to live in a sparsely populated town under the mountain. Climb to the top of the mountain in the early morning and go down to the market to buy vegetables and fruits. Cooking and cleaning. Read a book in the afternoon. Drink and chat under the apricot blossom trees in the evening until the moonlight and dew cool. In the dream, walking to the empty valley where the rocky anchovy fern is luxuriant, the birds are crisp and crisp, and they sleep tired under the trees together. When I woke up, I was young and you were not old.
2. Literature and the person who made it are one, and each has its own boundaries, and the writer cannot live in the way of words, nor can he write in the way of life. Therefore, writing is a profession that requires specialized skills, it is not a pure expression of self-comparison, but an expression of withdrawal and cohesion.
3. I tend to enjoy, communicate, communicate, connect, be unintentional and clumsy in communication, and never try to disobey or force myself. If the karma is ripe, people who are farther away will meet. When we should be together, we will always be together, and it is not enough to climb, but we should patiently cultivate and water the seeds that grow in our hearts and let it blossom and bear fruit.
4. If you have ever done something for someone else, don't remind the other person afterwards to remember your efforts. If someone has shared their weakness with you out of trust, don't attack the other person afterwards to prove that you are strong. This is all a noble act.
5. The bad thing is not to die, but not to be beautiful. Not being beautiful means not being strong, not being real, and not being consistent. Life has never been exhausted and liberated.
6. In the vast world of human beings, we silently exist like weeds, but each hides unfathomable stories.
7. Forgiveness is not ignorance, but containment. A smile that means subtlety. It can only be their own responsibility.
8. People in the world are divided into several categories. Some people like to make gestures to tame the world and ignore their own reality. Some people want to bind their hearts, realizing that the world is not real except for death.
9. May you exist in this world as you really are, and feel happy. There is a place of accommodation from this world and from within, self-beneficial and beneficial to others.
10. Words originally belonged to man's handling and perfection of his own life. The speech of tiny human beings is insignificant, and the written works created by mortals are also flawed. An author who writes a text is ultimately only related to his own life, repeatedly invading the river of rebirth, and seeing the shadow of the illusory world in the broken mirror.
Her daughter, Enyang