Zhang Yiwei talked about the new work "The Sihe Ruyi": social media and human fireworks

The epidemic changes the life of ordinary people, which will also affect the literary ecology. When the sketch "what should be in novels", the writer can no longer avoid the huge influence of technology on daily life.

"The Sihe Ruyi" is the third novel published by I published in the People's Literature Publishing House, and it is also my 13th collection of my personal novels. I am an old author. The editor has positioned the propaganda plan as "a new generation novel of social media", which may be because in these twelve stories, I mentioned the elements of many Internet worlds, including e -commerce live broadcasts, barrage, emoticons, etc. It is the tool medium of emotional labor in the daily life of many urban youths.

Because of the "social media generation", many readers naturally thought of the three novels and film and television dramas of Ireland's post -90s writer Sally Rooney. On the one hand, she also used similar elements, on the other hand, "millennial generation" and The relationship between social media may be the appearance of contemporary readers who feel close. In fact, the youth dating software in Sally Rui's novels as an important narrative function is exactly the part of my story.

In 2019, I wrote an article in "Literature and Art Contention" magazine called "Machine and World Love". It was my ethical issue caused by the "machine" before the epidemic. I wrote a few novels on this topic at the time, and tried to contact the relationship between various machines and our lives. (Mobile phone voice robot), artificial dolls, etc. Emotional stories formed in our real life. Writers can ignore the machine and only talk about feelings, but the machine will still create new contradictions, new painful choices, and new spiritual experiences for human beings in their own way.

These stories have also been implemented in my recent creation. For example, "Cherry Tsing Yi" and "Banana Deer" in the past few years wrote the ethical problems of the nasal and stomach tubes. Dialogue (Siri may be the emotional companion of the heroine's lonely life). More attempts are reflected in the story of discrete themes. For example, "Drunk Taiping" wrote "mobile girlfriend" and "blind date girlfriend". "Sihe Ruyi" wrote a cross -border relationship that was difficult to maintain by mobile phone communication, and so on.

Zhang Yiwei's "Sihe Ruyi" real shot picture

Although the focus is not in the "social software" itself, our emotional life is sometimes dependent on social software, and sometimes doubts about the reliability of the machine, because the classification group established by the emotional life in the mobile phone sometimes remains in our true real Emotional course. For example, in "Golden Gold", the ex -boyfriend who encountered more than ten years of loss finally added WeChat, I don't know which group he was divided, and finally divided into the "family" group to facilitate shielding ... The technology is regulating our emotions. In life, forcing us to hand over the answer that there is no need to hand over. Through the brutal classification, we clarify that social relations are far and close. Sometimes this clarification will illuminate trauma. Some boundaries are the source of the story.

Another fiction "Double Words" may also inadvertently touch the topic of women's writing. It has also been selected for some women's writing annual options. The story is about Ms. An Li, who stayed in English. The theme of the study of doctoral dissertations is the lust and mobile phone use of the elderly disabled. After returning to Shanghai, this research becomes difficult to enlighten her family and friends. On the one hand, the scientific research of "non -rising or going" in colleges and universities, on the other hand, is undergoing the convenience of researching her female identity. Under the shelter of traditional families, she continues to withstand the pressure of studying life and real life. I think maybe it is because most of the contemporary readers are well educated, especially the increase in female researchers, and they will feel similar embarrassment in some details. At the beginning of my creation, I did not expect. Also involved the theme of women, as well as the hostess's story of the ink and cliffs, such as "Parasitic Grass" and "White Guanyin", and "Stepper Jiao" mentioned women's fertility dilemma.

I am a house girl. Although I was deliberately trained by education and teaching, I quickly adapted to the online office model during the epidemic. At the same time, the contradiction experience exposed in social media was sometimes helpless and embarrassing. I wrote this part of the idea as the novel "Ran Ran Yun". This story may also be the only social network that involves digital media -a radio audience and a radio anchor. The cornerstone of their friendship is the listener In fact, it is the descendants of the Sichuan branch. She will speak a Shanghai dialect, but there is no Shanghai hukou. Her understanding of the city in Shanghai was built by the anchor who was exaggerated in the digital media. Her identification with the city of Shanghai, based on complex and bumps, actually picked up the teeth in the void and the anchor who was happy in the barrage, and pulled back from the virtual world to real life. Family relationship.

This is also my own opinion. No one can escape the distress of life. Our distress comes from our origin and our trauma experience. Real life is so heavy, so that we can get a moment of joy in the virtual world. But only to meet contradictions, tangles, wolf, and pain is the source of emotional quality.

Article Source | Wen Wei report

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Zhang Yiwei, a young writer, a doctor of literature, an associate professor of Chinese Department of Fudan University, a master's tutor of creative writing.There are more than 20 works such as "Fine People's Feast", "Family Test" and "Prose Course".He has won the prose award of "Zijin · People's Literature Star", the "Shanghai Literature" Newcomer Award, the Hong Kong "Youth Literature Award" novel high -end champion, Taipei "Times Literature Award", and "Lianbao Literature Award""Wait.In 2021, he won the "Future Literature" award and the "Mao Dun Newcomer Award" nomination award.

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