Wang Shuo's new work "At the beginning · Chronicles": God's masterpiece is still noisy?

This is the Han Dynasty's "Centennial Loneliness"

Or is the poor version of "Remembrance Like the Year of the Water"?

It is a new "New Editor of Story"

Or the Beijing Dialogue's "Hadeliang Memoirs"?

Is this a god or noisy?

Without signing, Wang Shuo published a new novel, 14 years since the previous novel "Talking to Our Daughter". In the contemporary literary world, Wang Shuo is undoubtedly one of the most readers.

On August 12, the publisher released the news of the pre -sale day, and 100,000 copies were issued. On August 16th, the other 100,000 volumes were completed. The first printed 200,000 volumes, and 100,000 printed within a week, were beyond the expected publisher.

They are not unclear Wang Shuo's appeal, but the book named "At the beginning" looks really not easy to sell. It is 540,000 words. Although it is still a Beijing dialect that is full of lively paper, it even tells a life story of Emperor Hanwu, which is separated by the current era. This looks too much.

Wang Shuo's work "Initially · Chronicles". Photo/Interviewee provided

However, the appetite of the visitors was firmly hanging. A few hundred words of propaganda copywriting implies that this is an extraordinary masterpiece -this 540,000 words is just one of the four volumes. Taking the history of the history as the bottom, the knowledge of the Bodicon, the legend, the wild history, the astronomy, the geography, the weather, the medicine, the medicine, the mathematics, etc. not only use the Beijing dialect, but also integrate the Shanghai dialect, Shaanxi dialect, English, Turkish, network stalks, self -creation, self -creation, self -creation, self -creation, self -creation Dialects, imitation of pre -Qin ancient songs ...

Is this the "Centennial Solitude" of the Han Dynasty, or is it the poor version of "Remembrance Like Water"? Is it a long and thickened "New Story", or the Beijing dialect version of "Hadeliang Memoirs"? Is this a masterpiece, or is it noisy?

Before I got the book, a group of readers played five stars on Douban, looking forward to Wang Shuo "cure my spiritual internal consumption." Those who have read the book through trial reading in advance have published very high praise on the Internet. When the first reader saw the book, there was a strange atmosphere on the Internet: I didn't like it, but I didn't dare to scold. As there are more and more readers who see books, praise and bad reviews have risen alternately, and the bad reviews are more bold. Readers' dissatisfaction with the language style has overwhelmed the halo of the old writer.

Wang Shuo's new work is undoubtedly an important publishing incident this year, and it is also an intriguing cultural event.

From beginning to end, the writer himself has maintained a low -key. In the age of this old writer to appear on short videos, live broadcast rooms, and even open Douyin and public account, Wang Shuo, who was very good and invincible in the scolding war, seemed to be in a state of disconnection. There is only one preface of a new book on the Internet, but in the lines, a rare humility and politeness revealed.

For more than ten years, why did Wang Shuo write such a novel? How did he write it?

Novels written in mouth

"At first, I was six years ..." Some readers were "dismissed" by this beginning.

The beginning of "The beginning of the year" was written in the first person. This tone of the eloquence has laid the tone of the language experiment in the book. In the 540,000 -word long -distance text trip, readers must not only get used to the Beijing cavity, but also accept the name of Emperor Hanwu as "Ma Qian". In the 21st century online language, all "that" is written as "inside" ... sometimes it is necessary to realize some imagination to realize, such as "嗖" that Emperor Hanwu said, it turned out to be English "so".

Inner page of "At first · Chronicles". Photo/Interviewee provided

The manuscript was handed over to the editor, and the editor also took a lot of brain cells. One of the editors of this book is from the Northeast. They think that they can understand 89 % of Beijing dialects, but they still have to ask the old Beijingers in the editorial department to ask for advice from time to time. They still can't get the answer, so they ask the author. For example, what does "not 喛 什么" mean? Wang Shuo said that it was the sound of "Speak" in Beijing.

"He hopes to write in a purely mouth -language way, so that the real meteor writing of my mouth, what kind of sound of a word to send out, what the word is written when it is written. This is a very important style of this book Where is it? "Sun Teng, one of the responsible editors, told China News Weekly that the book avoids the use of polyphonic characters. When encountering polyphonic characters, it will be replaced by another word of the same voice. It is also for oral consideration. "He wants this novel to bring its own sound effects during reading. This is one of his goals."

This book has been written since 2007. It is mainly concentrated in spring and summer every year. Because of the coldness of Beijing, Wang Shuo's throat is uncomfortable, and he can't read it. Wang Shuo said in the preface that he was "the author who wrote speaking, and he had to go back and forth with speaking in the inspection of the text.

Language is a symbol of identity. As the saying goes, Emperor Hanwu faded down the emperor's halo. Emperor Hanwu and his ministers fucking the talked of the words of the hodgepodge and fighting against the Huns, just like a group of old grandfather sitting in an alley to talk about leisurely, Donglai and West, and he had no seriousness in the history. Wang Shuo is not writing a historical novel with the emperor as the main character, but is writing a novel of Wang Shuo, but it is just related to history.

There are still some small problems in this book, and Wang Shuo seems to be unable to do it. For example, the conversion of the person, the first person was written in the first person "I". By the 18th chapter, it suddenly converted into a third -person "upper" (borrowing the title of the emperor in historical books). In the subsequent narration, "I" and "Shang" appeared alternately, and even spoke in the same chapter. This is just a switch on the words, and there is no essential essence of the perspective. Wang Shuo also mentioned this treatment. He explained that because of the cumbersome research of historical details, and wanting to adopt a full -knowledge perspective, it is equal to himself. Therefore, using the first person, what you see is limited to his own side, and you can give less to less. However, "I did not expect that the historical landscape has its own profound and endless. Once you enter a particularly large body, some perspective cannot be covered. , Hundreds of thousands of words can not come back. Some characters are appalling, unpredictable, far exceeding what ordinary people want to control, and they are not allowed by the first person to have sympathy. First, the third person's mix of chapters, and even the first person was lost, and the third person was embarrassed. "

To be a narrative, this is also a question that the editor cannot go around. Sun Teng revealed that Wang Shuo's further explanation, "When he wrote 'me', he would put himself in more or less, and consider what Emperor Hanwu should think, what, and what he said with Wang Shuo's mentality. At that time, he had to keep a little distance from Emperor Hanwu. When Emperor Hanwu was in the witch and killed his son, what he thought, which was beyond Wang Shuo's imagination. It is a thing to do. "

The word "embarrassing" may imply Wang Shuo's dissatisfaction. However, for him, this may not be a big deal. The first and third -person named mixed, as early as "Seeming Beautiful", there is a "front subject". At that time, he hinted that this was to blur the fictional and true boundaries, so that this novel with memories did not look like memoirs. He pretended to say, "The first person and the third person are mixed. Dad is not a dad, the mother is not a mother, my friend is not a friend, I am not me, who wants to check with me three or six cases, I do not recognize it."

Wang Shuo (1993). Photo/Visual China

For "First", Wang Shuo hopes to stand in historical facts. "At first · Chronicles" is based on the old things contained in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", "Hanshu" and "Historical Records". , From the Hanshu, "There is no one in the huge details, and there is no compilation." The mastery of historical books has caused him to challenge him. "He also feels that the volume of this novel is very large with the space and time he expressed in his expression. If there is no problem to be strictly united, it may exceed any individual person who can grasp it. Said. "Sun Teng said," So he feels that there must be insufficient places, or places that are not written, but this is what this era has given him. "

From the perspective of scale, the whole picture of this novel is far more magnificent than the book that can be seen now. In fact, Wang Shuo wrote a 1.4 million words of novels, only for the convenience of publishing, it was divided into four volumes. The earliest published "The beginning of the year" was written in the sixth year of Emperor Hanwu's ascension. From the perspective of the plot, this is actually the last one, which is the last 5 million words of 1.4 million words. Where to cut a few knives from 1.4 million words, it was not within the consideration of Wang Shuo before the publication. During the writing process, it was only for the convenience and safety of preservation. He was afraid that the document would be broken or lost. When he wrote a certain length, he opened another document. "Some suddenly disconnected between two close -connected natural segments, so we have to make a roll again." Said Sun Teng.

"At the beginning of the year" finally chose to start from the sixth year of Emperor Hanwu's ascension, which was the result of the editor and author discussed for a long time. The more than 500,000 words wrote from the Emperor Hanwu's pro -government to the end of life. If the biography is normal, at least in the narrative is coherent. Wang Shuo said in the preface that this volume of text is the most smooth text, the best reading experience, and no ambiguity. Each volume chapter is relatively independent.

As for what the first three volumes look like, it is unknown. Judging from Wang Shuo's tone, the first three volumes seem to be more challenging. The editor revealed that unlike the loyalty of the fourth volume of historical materials, the first three volumes involved the content of more ancient times, the literature records sporadic and ethereal. , Highway novels for long -distance travel, speculative philosophical debate, and so on.

"We hope that in the past two years, readers will see a more wonderful world." Sun Teng said.

Why write "First"

Some people commented on "At first · Chronicles" "Touching Porcelain" "New Editor of Story". More than 20 years ago, Wang Shuo wrote a "I Look at Lu Xun", and asked Lu Xun to invite Lu Xun to the altar with a consistent deconstruction tone. He didn't have much good opinion of "Madman's Diary" and "A Q Togo". The favorite is indeed "New Story".

"The game of these games fully shows Lu Xun's talent and spiritual strength." Wang Shuo wrote, "Plus one, is his deep knowledge of old learning. This is not what anyone can write. The attitude of historical figures is really enough Yao Xueyi and Ling Jiefang, including Chen Jialin for half a year. "People can easily see the shadow of" New Story "from" The beginning of the year ". The fried noodles were written into the novel a hundred years ago. It was not a shocking creativity. Wang Shuo told the writer Zhi Zhi that writing this book was also influenced by Joseph Hayler's novel "God Know". "Knowing God" is a Chinese translation from 1988. It is based on the Bible, telling the story of David King's later years of reviewing his life. "The book" God Know "has read a lot of people, but then I have never heard which writer mentioned it." Zhi Yan told "China News Weekly", "I think he wrote the Emperor Hanwu in the first person, follow this This book has a little relationship. "

From last winter to March and April this year, Zhi Yan has been reading the trial version of "Initial", and has read all four rolls of novels. After the publishing of "At the beginning", he was also the first person to comment on the Internet. Some people said that he said goodbye to his friends. He specifically clarified that he had only one side with Wang Shuo before. Just talk about feelings as his readers. Reading this novel reminds him of the feeling of reading Wang Shuo in the 1980s and 1990s.

After reading the novel, Zhi Xun wanted to write an article and specifically talk about the reading of "First". He felt that reading this novel may be easier to enter Wang Shuo's world if he could catch two points. The first is Wang Shuo's lofty deconstruction. He always wants to pull the historical figures from the altar to the ground. He can still see Wang Shuo, who "reversed the upside -down values" that year. Secondly, why write in such a language? "What should Emperor Hanwu and the ministers say? To be honest, we don't know about it. In fact, it is not appropriate to let the Han Dynasty say anything. So you can also say what is right. Do they speak Mandarin? Based on Beijing Voice as the standard sound, the northern official dialect, it was promoted later. Speaking of Shaanxi dialect? Henan dialect? Now the ancestors of the Henan people of Shaanxi people are not there at all. It's not used. "

Wang Shuo had a 64th birthday not long ago, and his mood changed with his age, and he was no longer a childhood mentality. "He is very peaceful and relaxed now. He is stunned every day. There is no expectations for sales. He feels that it may be important. The important thing is to finish writing. What he wants to express is finished." Sun Teng said.

In Wang Shuo's writing resume, he can clearly see the traces of mental changes because he is unwilling to repeat himself. In 1984, he became famous for "Miss Empty". After several pen battles in the 1990s, he was labeled with "Xunzi Literature" and "Individual Households in the Literary". Essence At that time, his masterpiece was to use the teasing and reconciliation to the extreme "Stubborn Lord", "Destiny", "I am your father", "half of the sea water and half a flame". In the 1990s, he joined the film and television industry and succeeded. In 1999, he returned to the literary world with the novel "Looks Beautiful", and in 2008 "Talk to Our Daughter", the work at this stage is very different from before.

The change comes from the mental crisis. According to his own memories, in 1991, he wrote more than 1 million words of novels, movies, and TV scripts. The next year was caught in the writing crisis and mental crisis, and he had a lot of doubt about writing life and what he wrote. "That's a bit of understanding, like a hole on the socks, others can't see it, I know that the novel I have advertised is actually simplifying life." He said that he didn't want to repeat himself, and he had to repeat himself, so he wanted to repeat himself. Writing is to write a novel that is different from before, making money and writing wrapped in one piece, making him feel "quite twisted". For a long time, he completely forgot that writing is actually his hobby. The return after the spiritual crisis, "Looks Beautiful", is a memory of the past life. It is also a place where he grew up. He reflects on the creation of the previous stage, "The previous style of writing was slippery, which caused outsiders to be unhappy. This time it was lyrical articles."

After more than ten years, Wang Shuo turned again, apparently encountered new changes.

Zhi Yan analyzed the transformation of Wang Shuo with a concept of "corresponding objects". He felt that the "corresponding objects" written by Wang Shuo before were all his past life, but this "corresponding object" finally seemed not to be magnificent, so he escaped himself, so as to use him to escape himself, so as to get rid of himself, so as to get rid of himself, so that he was beyond himself. Grand history to do "corresponding objects". Faced with this "The beginning of the beginning", Wang Shuo himself said, "I find the current story, all my thoughts and feelings can be placed in. This structure is particularly suitable. I project it to ancient times and ancient times. ","

In the preface, Wang Shuo converged ambitions and humblely explained that choosing the story of Hanwu just happened to know how many people in him. Another reason is that he was actually a military fan when he was young. The tragic fate of Li Guang and Li Ling was stimulating to him. "It is completely different from the great hero routine I know. The small hobbies and small opinions from the times are enjoying it. "

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