Criticism ｜ Can northern people write the story of the south?

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For the original text, see August 14, 2022 "Yangcheng Evening News" A6 wide -angle version of "Cantonese Criticism" column

Written yourself, and pull away from the character in the book

Wei Qiang, a writer who was originally from Shaanxi, settled in Shunde, Guangdong in the early 1990s. His recently published "Dafeng Lai Yi" is a novel that pays tribute to reform and opening up and a new generation of entrepreneurs. The prototype of the characters in the book has Wei Qiang himself, and a group of Shunde entrepreneurs. It is the pursuit of this work.

In the creation of novels, autobiography has an advantage. Because of the autobiography nature, the feelings in the work will be particularly full, and the descriptions of characters and the details of life will be particularly detailed and vivid. This is because the writer has a 100 % full investment in creation. "Recalling the Year of the Water" tells about the life of the Golden Age of Paris, which is particularly consistent with the temperament of the writer Prince. The narrative is full of musical soothing and sensitivity. The scenes and details make people feel vividly.

"Dafeng Lai Yi" also brings me another thinking. There are no narcissism and personal temperament rendering in this work without autobiography. In the process of creative preparations and creation, the writer maintained a certain rationality. The author not only wrote himself, but also pulled himself away from the character in the book. He is not only written for the people around him, but also to write for a generation, for generations of entrepreneur pioneers, and write for the Shunde who dare to be the world.

Regarding the relationship between creation and reality, or the commonly referred to, the critic Xu Zidong said: "You interfere with life, and life must interfere with you." He means that the climate of the times is different, and the writers are different. Writers of the writers are different. Writers are writers. Therefore, you will adjust your writing strategy. Wei Qiang is not a professional writer, but this work has made me see that his creation is mature, and the fiery life of southern culture, reform and opening up "intervention" and influence on him.

In my long -term reading, I have doubts: Can the northern people write a good southern story? Can the writers who do not understand the economy write well? Then, I read that Chen Jiming wrote Chaoshan Culture, Yang Liguang wrote a Cantonese business, and read the industrial story of Wei Qiang's writing in the Bay Area, so I felt that my concerns were superfluous. Different cultural backgrounds may bring a writer's cognitive and emotional differences, but where is his thinking point and what he wants to express and what he wants to express, this is important.

Wei Qiang grew up in the north, and lived in Shunde for nearly thirty years. This work let us see his emotions of this land and his creation of a writer who has deep intervention, deep thinking and deep feelings about reform and opening up, as a writer creation of reform and opening up. Responsibility and value pursuit.

There are fine observations of life details

There is no doubt that this is a realist work. The writer describes as accurate and detailed descriptions as possible for his life as much as possible. He has a detailed observation of the details of life, such as the factory workshop and other real scenes. In these simple and realistic depictions, we felt the hot industrial atmosphere of the Shunde appliance industry, and even seemed to smell the metal flavor, decoration, seafood and old fire soup from factories, companies, restaurants and stalls.

At the same time, the writer adopted the narrative structure close to naturalism in the narrative. There is a main line of Tan Zhiyuan's life. In the process of the main line narrative, "two flowers bloom, each table", tells Tang Xiaotian, Sun Baoding, Yao Yuting, Zhang Yan, and other colors of the stories of various characters, after telling, returning to the main line, sometimes slightly stern, more naturally. He made us trust in the process of reading, and then resonated.

Maybe to some readers, this work lacks design and tailoring in narrative. While telling the history of the struggle between Tan Zhiyuan and others, the writer also tells the dark side and human black holes that occurred by various desires chased by various desires. From the perspective of positive observation, I saw Wei Qiang's description of the life of all levels of social reality, and felt that his writing principles were consistent with the writing principles of Marinnovsky, an important founder of anthropology. Marinovsky advocates writing everything as soon as possible, because we never know whether the writing things will be useful in the future. In this sense, if this work has the opportunity to adapt film and television in the future, everything written by the writer may be useful. Because film and television works are more three -dimensional, they need more density stories, and more living materials.

In addition, this work also allows us to see the writers' efforts to express the local humanities of Shunde. For example, the history of the Tan family, the various customs and atmospheres of the Spring Festival in Tanjia Village in Baihe Town, the thousands of people's banquets, competition lights, and so on. They all write carefully and interesting.

Of course, the structure and narrative rhythm of the novels need to be controlled during the creative process. There is a degree of control, Zhang Youchi, and writing calmly. It is a state of mature writer. In addition to thinking in structure and narrative methods, the work is still a little bit of insufficient. It is in the storytelling. From time to time, it will be separated from the scenes and fun of the novel. The image of the protagonist has shown a simple and bland trend at the end of the novel, and there is a large situation that is too hard in the future. The weakness at the end of the novel reflects the writer's grasp and thinking about Tan Zhiyuan's future, and it is not mature.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Responsible editor | Wu Xiaopong School Division | Li Hongyu

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