Proust's famous questionnaire can be directly switched to the "Sun Ganlu Questionnaire"——
Favorite profession? Go to love.
Your favorite flower? all.
Your favorite bird? swallow.
Who do you most want to be? Myself.
——The fragment of Sun Ganlu in Mao Jian's eyes a few years ago once again echoed in the scene of today's "old friends party" of Duoyun Academy and Drama Shop. Sun Ganlu, Professor Luo Gang of East China Normal University, Writer Mao Jian, and Associate Professor xiang Jingwei of East China Normal University talked about the recent literary criticism and poetry collection "I Heard the Voice of the Suburbs Again: Poetry and Thoughts" and the essay collection "Two Sides of the Coin of Time", published by East China Normal University Press and Shanghai People's Publishing House Century Wenjing, which recorded Sun Ganlu's life and thinking for more than 30 years.
In Mao Jian's view, "Proust of China" is not only a coincidence that the two people lived on the same day, but also because of a certain similarity in literary temperament - "there, a needle sews time with clean water", which is the beginning of the "Letter of The Messenger", although it is a quotation poem, it also explains the place and materials prepared when the young Sun Ganlu began to write, and even those who only know the title of the book and the title of the volume of "In Search of The Lost Time" can see that "there", "time" and "water" constitute the core concept of Proust. Of course, this is not a literary tribute to Sun Ganlu, it is more like the reincarnation of Proust...
At the event site, Mao Jian described Sun Ganlu as the "Four Great Inventors" - he invented strangeness, love, time and space and Shanghai. "First of all, it is strange, and I have read it many times, even if I look at the same book, every time I look at it, it is like reading it again." Many words become more and more abstract as they read, as if summoning the things of life to the spiritual level; then there is love, the words are romantic, and love is implanted in the city; a kind of edge of time and space is created, and the words are built on the edge; and finally the city, he summons a Shanghai in literature. ”
Some voices believe that in the "fast era" of acceleration, Sun Ganlu is still the "slow pioneer". His writing bears witness to the passage of time in the city of Shanghai, regaining its slow elegance.
"I Hear the Voice of the Suburbs Again" shows the poetic side of Sun Ganlu's novelist, tracing literary criticism and poetry creation since the 1980s, and the language is avant-garde, poetic, and dreamlike. He was fascinated by the golden age of reading, and was fascinated by the language of proust, Salinger, Carver, Naipaul, Echo and other writers, looking for video, music and literary polyphony in the films of Antonioni, Kieslowski, Angelopoulos, Ang Lee, Andwen Jiang and other directors.
"Two Sides of the Coin of Time" is divided into three series, the first series of "Breath of the Soul" has a total of more than 30 short articles, from glasses, washing machines, telephones, to sleep, exercise, walking, talking about the trivialities of daily life, from time to time flashing humor; the second series of "The Era I Lost" looks back at the memory of the 1980s, containing the author's deep thinking on literature, art and creation; the third series "Shanghai Flowing Water" fixes the gaze on Shanghai, recording a person and a city in the flow of time.
Xiang Jing described that these two books can be said to be somewhat of a note by Shanghai Literary and Art Publishing, "Many of them evaluate films, literary works, and contemplation of art, and have not been worn down by time." Following his reading and watching the notes, you can still recall the way of memory to summon the future. ”
Just like the theme of this sharing meeting" "Shanghai time of a suburban poet", Sun Ganlu is also willing to compare herself to "suburban poet", this seemingly "marginal" wandering, in his view, is also a kind of "slow" - as if the radio channel is slightly deflected, the original sound can be heard, but vague, accompanied by the murmur of current. As he says in the book, "I hope that my book will evoke a desire to read and collect, to make a intimate awareness of the inner connection with the wider world, and even in a crevice in this age of imagery, we are happy to see ourselves in a veiled and contemplative image." ”
"From the context of the two works, Sun Ganlu tried to explore the heterogeneity of language, I have always regarded "Shanghai Flowing Water" as a novel, which is no longer the language of "Visiting Dreams" and "Breathing", but how did the change happen? It is precisely the new questions left to us to do the study of literary history. Luo Gang used the "alchemy of language" to describe Sun Ganlu's various explorations in the precipitation of words. He further elaborated on the breakthrough in language in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, "If the first breakthrough was the May Fourth New Culture Movement, which advocated vernacular literature; then the second time was in the 1980s, returning to a poetic, vivid, non-European language, absorbing the strengths of Modern Western translated literature, while having a sense of literary and cultural consciousness." ”
Author: Xu Yang Intern Wu Yiyang
Image source: Publisher
Edit: Jiang Fang