The reporter learned that the famous writer and media person Miao Wei's novel "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" was recently published by the People's Literature Publishing House. This is a series of sad stories behind the prosperity, but also a spiritual picture book for contemporary urban men and women. In the era of consumption, the life of the urban middle class is strange: radio hosts, screenwriters, psychologists, university professors, company owners, law firm partners... Each protagonist has money, leisure, culture and taste, and his appearance is bright and beautiful, but the restlessness and uneasiness on the back of the soul, those mental illnesses or eccentricities, the fragile body or life force, the shaky emotional relationship, and the identity status that may be zeroed out in an instant, seem to be the fate that they are difficult to escape.
Starting from the relationship between marriage and love, Miao Wei analyzes the desire and emptiness, persistence and escape of the contemporary urban middle class. This is after "Letter to Da Zhuang", Miao Wei returns to Master Miao, and then communicates with adults in a long novel, and he evokes what we have lost in our hearts and what we once thought we would have in our hearts in a unique tone.
Miao Wei
"Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Story" is a novel that is slightly absurd, but makes the absurd seem reasonable, just like the city we are in. The most absurd thing in the city is often the emotional story. The actual situation of the individual, the change of mental state, and the reconstruction of interpersonal relationships all affect the pattern of love and marriage, and touch people's most sensitive nerves. Miao Wei grasped this point, he put people into emotional relationships to test, those normal people magnified vulnerability, emptiness, anxiety, cynicism, decency, resentment, eccentricity, contrivance, together constitute another life. There are moments that everyone can experience, but it is a life that everyone cannot see through.
Writer Shi Yifeng believes that "Miao Wei's novels always have a unique atmosphere, and this kind of uniqueness comes from daily life." Being able to provide readers with another pair of eyes to see life is a valuable contribution of writers in this era. "As a senior media person, Miao Wei has a deep understanding of many aspects of society, and in the novel, he freely goes deep into the fabric of the times, and at the same time has macro cognition and refinement. Insight is the key to the novel's success.
Miao Wei writes about his latest life, but in an almost retro tone. Zhu Wei, a veteran media person, once commented, "Miao Wei has a very typical 90s literary interest imprint, he likes the playfulness of simplicity and wit, and does not like the heaviness of reading." Miao Wei's novel has a special atmosphere, it is both fresh and sharp, but also exquisite and elegant, two almost opposite textures blend with each other, if you must choose a word to describe, it is probably "literature and art". When "literature and art" in our time are mixed with more and more hypocrisy and nothingness, Miao Wei restored it to its original meaning. For the protagonists of "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories", literature and art are an attitude, they face trivial and mediocre lives, but they always try to grasp something mentally.
For the writer Miao Wei, literature and art are a quality. Reading Miao Wei's novel, "You can always trust Miao Wei's rhythm and sense of language, and his ability to always sketch the right picture." Translator and writer Huang Yuning described the reading experience of the book this way, "Concise, smooth, should not hesitate where there should be no pause, and then, like carrying a foot, a certain part of your body, solid and solid." Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
Source: Purple Cow News