I have two major regrets in my life: first, I can't find someone as wonderful as Li Ao to be my friend; second, I can't sit downstage and listen to Li Ao's wonderful speech. No one in the first five hundred years was able to surpass me, and no one in the last five hundred years could surpass me. In the past fifty years and five hundred years, the top three Chinese write vernacular texts have been Li Ao, Li Ao, and Li Ao. --Li Ao
Dare to do, dare to say, dare to be.
Li Ao's madness is well known, but his madness is not a plain and unprovoked madness, but a arrogance and arrogance, to what extent is he talented? Both Hu Shi and Qian Mu wanted to take Li Ao as an apprentice.
After being imprisoned twice, but still wild and unruly, many times relying on himself to win the people he "scolded", after the second imprisonment, the prison director greeted the cell boss in the trumpet: "Don't bully Li Ao too much." The cell boss replied, "We have read his books, heard about his affairs, and our hearts are tight with admiration, don't you say that I am afraid that you are secretly making a bad thing, let go of a hundred hearts."
But Li Ao has always been more and more frustrated and courageous, and within four hours of his release from prison, Li Ao quickly published an essay, "There is no black prison in the world that sits in vain." After this, there were two riots in the prison where he was being held, and Li Ao unceremoniously believed that this was his own credit and was very satisfied.
Tell a few small things about Li Ao's life.
Once, when Li Ao was interviewed, some people compared him to Wang Shuo: "You and Wang Shuo are very similar, and they all love to scold people." After Hearing this, li ao was not angry in his heart, and could Wang Shuo compare with him Li Ao?
So Li Ao replied with great contempt: "Can Wang Shuo compare with me?" I scolded people who could get me in jail. Later, someone told Wang Shuo this, and Wang Shuo replied unhurriedly: "I also dare to scold the person who let him go to prison, does he dare to scold the person who can let me go to prison?"
Once Li Ao gave a speech, after the speech was carried out in accordance with the usual practice of question and answering, suddenly an anonymous note was sent to the lecture table, and after opening it, three words were written on it - "Wang Baguo". Others must have ignored this situation and continued to ask questions after throwing it away, but Li Ao was not willing to eat this dumb loss, so he picked up this note, read out the content aloud, and then laughed and said: Others have asked questions without signatures, and this gentleman only signed his name and forgot to ask questions.
In addition to Li Ao's criticism of the people, he also dared to evaluate the ancients, such as Lao Tzu's famous sentence "Do not go out of the house, know the world." Li Ao confidently said that Lao Tzu was bragging, and in the Spring and Autumn Period when information exchange was inconvenient, it was impossible to know the world without leaving home, but today's Li Ao is enough to know the world without leaving home.
Leaving aside whether Li Ao is too crazy, but his confidence comes from the group books in his belly, "If I want to see the person I admire the most, just look in the mirror." Li Ao said proudly.
In the show "Li Ao Sees the World", Cai Kangyong and the female host asked Li Ao: "I cried for you, why is the Nobel Prize you only nominated, there is no way to win."
Li Ao replied: "Because it is too easy to nominate for the Nobel Prize, it is too difficult to win the prize."
Wu Zongxian: "Is it"?
Li Ao: "Many people said nobel prize nominations, I blushed when I heard it, why?" Because it's easy to be nominated. ”
Wu Zongxian: "Is it easy?"
Li Ao: "Professors of language departments at any university can recommend you and send you to the Nobel Prize, even if it is a nomination."
Wu Zongxian: "Is there a lot of people who will nominate?"
Li Ao: "Yes, as long as any university professor nominates Wu Zongxian, of course you have to have a book, send it to Sweden, and register a case to be nominated."
Li Ao: "Because it is too easy to nominate two words, but it is difficult to be shortlisted, and of course it is even more difficult to win the award, why?" Because you have to betray your homeland, you have a chance to win the prize. ”
Wu Zongxian: "Why did you betray your motherland"?
Li Ao: "You see, except for the book "Quiet Don River" written by Soviet writers who praise the Soviet Union, everything else is to oppose their own motherland, and now it is popular to betray your motherland, and these foreigners are happy."
Wu Zongxian: "Is the Nobel Prize the biggest challenge in your life?"
Li Ao: "I love my motherland very much, and the Nobel Prize is now unfair, this title is in the hands of foreigners, such as the Olympic Games application, Beijing is applying, Paris is also applying, but this century Paris has been held twice, the third time he will grab with you, but China is not the sick man of East Asia! Chinese won so many gold medals, but did not give Beijing a single chance, fortunately Beijing got this opportunity, which tells us that in general, it is still unfair."
From Li Ao's point of view, it is not very far away to be nominated for the Nobel Prize, but if you want to be shortlisted or even win, at the moment when Western countries have the right to speak, the author must sell his motherland in order to get the favor of the judges to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he is not willing to do so, which is the fundamental reason for not being able to win the award.
Li Ao, with his book "Beijing Fayuan Temple", is considered to be a popular Nobel Prize, and in the book, he extremely cleverly borrowed the mouths of historical figures to discuss issues such as home country, Shi Yin, life and death, people and me, cause and effect, entry and exit, loyalty and adultery, etc. Tan Sitong shouted: "There is a heart to kill thieves, there is no ability to return to heaven, death is what it is, and it is fast and fast." The first drop of blood was spilled for the ideal and the homeland, the ancient temples in the book were intertwined with the enthusiasm of historical figures, and the fate was intertwined in the times, sitting at the desk and being in the world, but it was also as if walking through the bells of the ancient temple, experiencing the stories of those times.
A book review in the Douban score said: "At the beginning of the novel, the thousand-year-old temple Fayuan Temple, when the lilac blossoms, Kang Youwei appeared, he was young, full of ambition, wanted to meet Guangxu and implement the change; at the end of the novel, Kang Youwei in the twilight years came to the Fayuan Temple again, after half a lifetime, the failure of the Hundred Days Restoration has gone away, and Tan Si and the six gentlemen of The Peng Shu have long sacrificed their lives to become benevolent."
The level of "Beijing Fayuan Temple" is very high, so it ignited the expectations and expectations of the Chinese people, and it is rumored that Li Ao Prize will win the Nobel Prize in one fell swoop with this book. In the afterword, Li Ao recounted some of the days in prison, and at the same time conceived the outline of the book, the prototype of the manuscript was completed in the prison of Room Eight in about 1971, "Room Eight is two large, a quarter of the toilet, sink and a quarter of the "desk" erected by the broken door panel are deducted, and the remaining space is a person who eats, drinks, and sleeps all day, all activities, all here." Although the prison door is set up, it is often closed, meals, drinking water, daily necessities, sending letters, taking out garbage... They all pass through a 30*15 cm hole at the junction of the wall and the ground; through the high window, there is a gray wall and slaughter. In the haze of years and years, I conceived several novels, one of which was "Beijing Fayuan Temple". Since writing was forbidden in the black jail, I had to sketch out the plot of the book in case I was released from prison. ”
Li Ao also stressed in the afterword that "Beijing Fayuan Temple" is not a "secret history of the Qing Palace" type of text, let alone a technical novel, the plot is secondary to the environment, more is the collision and friction of the ideas of historical figures in the book, in these collisions and exchanges, they express their own views and ideas, but there is not much preaching meaning in it, and the quotations in the book and the breadth of thought are incomprehensible to people like you and me who lack knowledge.
When arguing about whether "Beijing Fayuan Temple" can win the prize, the Chinese people's entanglement in this matter has also reached its peak, and the reason why the Nobel Prize is worshipped is because of the credibility and authority of the Nobel Prize in the eyes of the public, no matter how the previous response of a work, if the award is undoubtedly crowned. So Yu Hua said: "There is no need to be too obsessed with the Nobel Prize in Literature." Why can't we produce great writers who will put the Nobel Prize in Literature to shame? ”
The reason is very simple, to some extent, the Nobel Prize in Literature is more conservative, leaving aside the artistic value of the work itself, there are many additional factors in it, and this will also have a huge impact on whether the work can be awarded. Coupled with the differences between Eastern and Western civilizations and different positions, many excellent works in the East are not wonderful when read by Westerners, and the differences in cultural backgrounds lead to many works not being appreciated, if the translation is not wonderful enough, the quality of the works is inevitable.
The view of the Nobel Prize, we can only see it as the icing on the cake, and by no means is the must and necessary to send charcoal in the snow, even if it does not matter, like the text of this semi-public welfare and semi-artistic things, by no means a prize can measure its value, since Mo Yan won the award, the domestic enthusiasm for the Nobel Prize in Literature has also decreased a lot, because this is a process from scratch, after the fire of pursuit is extinguished, it can not be considered that the award-winning Mo Yan, is because of the deliberate pandering to the West, in the Nobel Prize judgment, There are indeed many additional factors, but in the final analysis, the root is the literary attainment of the work, and judging from the interpretation of Mo Yan's works by all kinds, whether it is artistic or storytelling, Mo Yan's works are by no means inferior to the traditional masters of The Promise literary general.