[Old Shelf Nagging Book - "I Am Your Father"]

Wang Shuo always hangs "I am a hooligan, who am I afraid of?"

It is as if, if a person lies down on his own, others will not be able to knock him down again, so that he can be regarded as "standing" in an invincible position.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Wang Shuo was a "literary hooligan" with the same name as Wang Xiaobo, probably because his writing was full of bitter irony and untimely insights, and he should probably be evaluated as full of "critical spirit" by now. The difference is that the former is highly literary in fiction, while the latter is essay.

Wang Shuo writes things, rich in vocabulary, metaphors and analogies are used well, and witty aphorisms are repeated, which can make the sesame mung bean affairs of the small people in the city ups and downs and interesting.

It is not very suitable for my taste at all, and from time to time I like to make whole long sentences, like practicing the application of vocabulary, and stuffing a good sentence into a crowded place, resembling a European long sentence, which is strange to read.

"I Am Your Father" has two protagonists, one is the divorced father Ma Linsheng, a bookstore clerk, emotionally rich, active in thinking, sensitive and inferior and self-pitying, and the other is his son Ma Rui, fifteen or sixteen years old, half a sized son, not deeply involved in the world and young and old, in a period of rebellion with some independent thinking ability.

Ma Linsheng prides himself on being enlightened, to get rid of the hypocritical and polite, indifferent and estranged mode of getting along between father and son, and to be honest and equal friends with Ma Rui.

The result was quite a failure. The son thinks he is not serious, he blames the son for not respecting himself, and he has wronged himself as a thief.

The original intention of writing this kind of novel should not be to educate, but the parent-child mode is indeed a subject.

Before the child reaches adulthood, most of the people they rely on are their parents, who do not have the skills to make a living for the time being, and they do not understand the rules, and when they encounter headaches and brain fever, or share something, the parents have the responsibility to teach and have the obligation to come forward.

After all, they have no choice in coming into this world. Regardless of this, barbaric stocking is a great irresponsibility.

However, since birth, the child is already a person, with his own moods and sorrows, all kinds of emotions, self-esteem, social needs, and the people, things, and things they experience have been significantly different from their parents, and they are regarded as appendages, and even the capital that shows off and compares is too disrespectful to their independent status, too feudal and patriarchal.

Children are not like us, both as parents of children, but also as children's parents, do not understand the good intentions, normal, need more patience and tolerance, who dares to say that they have not misunderstood children?

Being both a parent of a child and a friend of a child is beautiful to say, but it is difficult to do, and it is a lifelong lesson.