Literature Review | Where is the people, where is the flash novels

Author: Cheng Siliang

Wen changes in the world, and the abolition is the sequence of time. In this era of mobile Internet culture and technology, literature is also undergoing profound changes. In the multi -way progress of literature, the flash novels (novels in 600 words) that adapt to the rhythm of contemporary life, communication methods, and reading needs, and they have emerged and become new members of the novel family.

The name of "Flash Novel" is translated from the English "Flash Fiction". "Flash Fiction" has a long history, and its historical origins can be traced back to Isso fables. Writers include Great writers such as Chekhov, O. Henry, and Kafka. In the history of Chinese literature, the myths and legends of the pre -Qin Dynasty, the "Search God" and "The New Words of the World" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the "Smile Lin Guangji" and "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" in the Qing Dynasty, etc. Figure. However, the concept of Chinese "Flash Novel" was explicitly proposed and advocated by fable writers Ma Changshan, Cheng Siliang, Yu Tu, etc. in 2007.

In the novel world of "long" wind, the novel is thinner into a lightning "flash novel", pursuing superb writing, and paying attention to the combination of literary, popular, and era.

In a clear comparison with professional writers created by the chief, medium and short stories, the author team of flash novels is popular. At present, China's flash novel authors are huge, with both old and young, all over the country and various industries.

Xie Lintao is the owner of a small old bookstore in Shenzhen. Zou Health is the department manager of a company in Guangdong. Xu Guojiang, 85, is a retired teacher of a middle school in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. Prosecutor, Lin Shuying is a police officer at Yantai Airport in Shandong. Ying Kun is a lawyer of a law firm in Beijing. Xu Xiuhong is a firefighter from a unit in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Lin is a peasant in a mountain village in Tuskawa Town, Turmut, Inner Mongolia. Wu Jizhong is a grass -roots township cadre in the Xinhuang Dai Autonomous County of Hunan. Different writers are different, and the number of flash novels uses my spare time to work, which can be described as "grassroots writers".

Flash novel authors have a distinctive era in terms of materials. They are close to the times, pay attention to the current real society, especially paying attention to life around them. By describe the meaningful "small" in daily life, the small and middle -aged, the micro -seeking love, reflecting the "micro -character", "micro -life", "micro -life" The emotion "micro -world", singing is true, good, beauty, whipped false and ugly, vividly reproduces the true existence and survival of all beings.

Wu Yuejian's military brigade, more than 20 years of military career, profoundly affected his flash novel creation. Based on the theme of the military, he expresses the touching military stories. He has reflected the style of contemporary soldiers in war, flood resistance, anti -drug rescue, border anti -drug, international peacekeeping, military and civilian fish and water feelings ...

Zuo Shihai has worked in workshop apprentices, teachers in middle school, newspapers and periodicals, post and telecommunications bureau and mobile companies' secrets. Various professional experiences, rich social experience and accumulation of life experience, in shape, the works show a colorful style: there are photos of the people in the market, the description of the anecdotes of rural areas, and the true feelings of red dust men and women. There is the warmth of the family affection, and the coldness of life ... flowers and one world, swaying.

Most of the Flash novels of the Dai writer Yang Shiying are interpreted from the little things around him. The fireworks are full of life. The lines are full of positive energy, like concentrated water droplets, reflecting the light of the sun. Wang Haoming's "Zhao Liu Series" Flash Novels, a total of 56 articles. Zhao Liu, a migrant worker who entered the city, as the protagonist, with a slightly heavy pen and ink to outline the bright and simple Zhao Liu, after breaking into the city like "Zha Mengzi" Life crisis. Liang Xianquan's "Zhen Four Series" flash novels, 74 works, are both independent and linked to each other. Treasure, the self -dedication of Zhen Si, a little person who lives at the bottom of society, reflects the various mutations of people's spiritual mutations after the serious materialization of life, and shapes the image of Zhen Si, a lively little person.

Flash novels are literary writing with thinness, paying attention to literary meaning, and pursuing superb writing. It is the meaning of its due meaning. Flash novels write good works in the length of 600 words. "Flash" is wonderful.

Limitation of beauty is because of challenging writing difficulty, making it full of special artistic charm.

The "Boy Series" flash novels created by Qin Figns in the "Selection of Little Fiction" have not only a distinctive era, but also rich in literature. The full text is less than 500 words, but it vividly describes some kind of normal of youth: passionate years and beautiful misunderstandings. The plot of the novel is lightly described, but the point is, but the truth is true, leaving the imaginative gaps; the turning point of the story naturally occurs with misunderstandings, which is surprising, and it seems that it is difficult to make people's intentions. All this is difficult to explain, and there is no need to explain. The small novel is small, the text is short and implicit, and it has been specifically reflected in "Boys who wrote love poems".

Yu Tu's exploration and innovation in the creation of Flash Novels are also eye -catching. His "Old Fool Series" flash novels, consisting of more than 50 series of stories that run through the role of "Lao Yu", have attracted the attention of the literary world. At the 2nd issue of "Beijing Literature" in 2020, it was the topic of "Lao Lao's Fool", which focused on the twelve questions of the "Lao Yu Series". These works are facing reality, the time and disadvantages of the needle, and the irony of the world. The intention is often blurred and versatile. In addition, it expands the aesthetic space and art tension of the work. As a literary critic Zhang Jinyi said: "For the world that can be seen from time to time in front of you, you can cleverly intercepted those horizontal sections to examine and give them unique art forms. Therefore, these works have these works. A sense of strange art that is often mentioned but rarely seen, and there is a kind of deep thought that always talks but less. "Yin Ru's flash novels pay attention to the novels of expressions. Her "Quietary" has won the first prize of the first "Guangming Daily" Weibo micro -novel contest. The judge Qiu Huadong praised: "" The Quietary Place "views the present world with the eyes of a child's undead. The narrative angle is very beautiful, and it is easy to think of Yu Hua's new work" The Seventh Day ". Literary skills are really rare. "

It not only continues the deep and short characteristics of Chinese literature traditions, but also has a distinctive popularity and the times. Especially in the past five years, the development trend of multi -faceted sudden progress: In 2016, a professional committee of the Flash Novels of the China Fable Literature Research Society was established. Under its leadership, it has effectively promoted the prosperity of flash novels across the country. Among the masters of the authors, there are many figures. Many well -known websites have opened flash novel sections or columns, and special websites such as Flash Novel Reading Network and Flash Novel Writers Forum have attracted countless flash novel enthusiasts. Paper media has continued to expand. Many newspapers such as the Ministry of Fiction Monthly "" Micro Novels Monthly News "and" Selection of Little Fiction "have set up flash novel columns or publishing flash novel works, and tens of thousands of works published each year; favored by the book publishing industry, dozens of publishing houses Launched nearly 200 flash novels such as "Focusing on the New Trends of Literature -Selection of Contemporary Flash Novels" and "Chinese Contemporary Flash Novels", some books have appeared on the list of Chinese hot books; more than 40 flash novels have been held throughout the country to hold more than 40 flash novels across the country. The essay contest; the special seminar of more than 50 flash novels such as the "Chinese Red Flash Novel Forum" was held; attracted the attention of experts and scholars, the "Literature News", "Chinese Young Writers", "Literature and Art Forum", "Chinese Art Time and Space "Chinese Literary and Artists", "World Chinese Literature Forum", "Huacheng", "Hunan Literature" and other newspapers have launched a batch of special articles for comments on flash novels ... Affected by the rise and popular of Chinese flash novels, overseas Chinese literature also set off flash novel creation Trends. Chinese writers, scholars, editors, etc. in Asia, America, Europe, and Oceania have devoted themselves to the promotion, creation and comments of flash novels.

Literary critic Xiao Jinghong believes: "Flash novels are very special. The Fa of Flash Novels comes from Western literature style. ‘Create a’ s Chinese flash novel world with a “grid”. This 'grid' is both a literary organization, a group of writers, or spreading. ... The world of flash novels is very special. It can be said that there are almost novels where there are people.

"China Youth Writers" August 23, 2022, 3rd edition

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