Li Yiming "On the Road" | Literary and beautiful jade in life "bitter travel"

"On the Road" Author: Li Yiming Publishing House: Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House

Book introduction

"On the Road" is a self -selected collection of prose. The works included in the book are prose created and published in recent years. These essays reflect the author's life experience, literary concepts, value pursuit, and the good memories of the past and life are imprinted in prose. The author uses an open prose vision, a tension, and a peaceful humanistic book to write real life, allowing readers to understand life, perceive life, and illuminate the barrenness of life from the perspective of growth, ideals, hometown and other perspectives. In the form of essays of prose, the whole book allows people who experience the worldly waves to taste all kinds of life tastes. In ordinary trivial life, they can also feel the joy of life, and talk about the mixed flavors of life, joy and sorrow.

"On the Road" self -preface

Text/Li Yiming

Those years, those people, those places, those things ...

Write these words with a sense of retrospective, and suddenly made a sigh of "the stars of the stars" in my heart.

Thirty -six years ago, the short -haired -headed college students had not yet set foot on the society, and the road of life was suddenly changed. He had determined to stay in school. native land. Empty Huai was a four -seaside. He was in a bleak mood that afternoon, and walked out of the school gate without reluctance. Suddenly thought of the "Contemporary Novel" magazine near the "Bayi Jiaotong Bridge" station. What is the set of prose manuscripts cast a month ago? So he decided to explore. It was a golden age of literature in the golden age of literature. A manuscript received by a publication can be packed with several sacks every day. His thousands of dense and naive characters are in the manuscript of Rushan. Who will notice it. Pushing open the light yellow door of the editorial department, he suddenly felt the Tang Dynasty, and then felt embarrassed and weak. He touched his head, stunned, and opened a editor behind the first table on the left side of the door: "Teacher, I'm a mountain teacher ..." A face with glasses from high paper stacked Light out.

Many years later, when he recalled the scene at the time, he would still be excited. The editor of "Glasses" listened to his self -introduction and work topic, and suddenly stood up and reached out to him: "Great! I'm looking for you!" Come lightly, turned around and said, "Your prose is well written! I read all three works, it is very delicious!" At that time, a ray of sunset shot from the west window, and the "glasses" headed on the head of the "glasses". The pure white hair came out of the black hair and was tilted straight, exuding clear silver light in the light dust. His heart was pounding, a little breath, his face began to have a fever, I don't know what to say, swallowed a spit, and blurted out, but it was: "Teacher, which one can be published?" , Patted his shoulder and said, "All three are sent!"

Since then, "glasses", editor of his prose debut, director of the editorial department of the "Poetry and Prose of Contemporary Novels", later became the deputy editor and editor -in -chief of the magazine, and became the leader of his writing. That day, when he floated into the building where the magazine was dreaming like a dream, and the moment he crowded the bus, his heart suddenly settled, but in the noisy carriage, there was no peace and calm in his heart.

"My people can't stay in Jinan, my name will be circulated in Jinan!"

When he was sitting back to his hometown long -distance car to drive out of the Jinan city boundary, a voice shouted in his heart.

Dear officials, forgive this youth madness, who is not young?

After so many years, I still remember all the details of that afternoon, which was often surprised by the impact of accidental thoughts on a person's life. Although life is an inevitable trajectory, it is bound to be in many accidents. On that day, if I did not go to the editorial department of Contemporary Novels because of the occasional thoughts, maybe I will since then, and I have no chance to literature.

So far, I still love prose, Binzhou, Yantai, Jinghua, no matter how tired the work is, how complicated my life, I will still pick up the pen, spread the paper, or turn on the computer, mobile phone, on the plane, on the high -speed rail, or even even At the dinner table, a flash of thoughts, an impulse to emotion, a sudden understanding of the mind, recorded the perception of nature, the thinking of life, and the world's insight. Only in the face of the heart, let the pen tube connect with the blood vessels, make the emotions fall from the eyebrows to the pen, and flow the feelings from the heart to the paper. I have said that literature is my way of existence, my life. This may be affectionate in the hearing of others; my talents and wisdom seem to be not worthy of it. But who does not have a distance between beliefs and goals? This distance is even so long.

Over the years, I have written hundreds of works, but I have been lazy to sort out. I always feel that there are not a few satisfactory ones, and I lack the confidence of concentrating "showing the public". "Show the public" is sometimes synonymous with "ugly", so he is scattered there. Thanks to Ms. Wang Yan, without her sincere encouragement, there would be no birth of this small book.

"On the Road" is the title of my prose. Ms. Wang Yan suggested that this is the title of the book, a dial to awaken me. "On the road", isn't it a spiritual intention of generations of young people and even human beings on the earth? The journey of Chinese modern and contemporary intellectuals is full of hardships, hope, and vision. In order to seek truth, they are difficult to travel. The ideals of the country and the people, the fearless mission and solemn responsibility in their hearts; the goal of studying the change makes their steps brisk and firm. Farewell to the closed villages, rushing towards the open city; getting rid of the conservative shackles, jumping into the free world; waving a barren life, and running towards a wealthy dream ... All of this is full of heart. However, at the beginning, they might not realize that this road was also a spiritual "inverse travel" and the "bitter travel" of life. The outside world has warmth and indifference; the road to the future is more open -minded and more gully. They often fall into the mental difficulties, the confusion of thought, the embarrassment of life, and the ideal dilemma. Joy and sorrow, joy and worry, joy and sadness, combination and separation ... thousands of emotions, smooth and adversity, success and failure, setbacks and lifts, confusion and demand ... how many experiences. All this, once the furnace of poetry and thought, has the possibility of crystallization as literary beauty. The works selected into this collection are roughly three lines of "on the road". The first is the growth line of growth. There is a journey of studying from elementary school, junior high school, high school to college and doctoral degree. The second is the social line, which is written in the land that has been gone, the people they meet, the experience and the insights from it. The third is the cultural line. From a landscape, a custom, and an incident, a period of history is found, seeking a value, shaping a spirit, and in the memory of history, the writing of personnel, and the exploration of cultural symbols Among the value evaluation and criticism.

For prose writing, I have always believed that it should be the author's freedom rather than a cricket. Individuals rather than groups, real rather than false, pay attention to life instead of seeing things, not seeing things, aesthetic rather than utilitarian, not utilitarian, not utilitarian. Grasp, experience and inquiry about the world. Compared with other style, prose writing is the most direct, free, and free complaint and expression of the author's personal life experience. It is not only full of the author's deep experience and disclosure of the object world such as nature and human society, but also the true "autobiography" of the author's mind. If the novel is compared to the "crosswood" in Borhes's pen, and poetry is compared to "three thousand years ago, the amazing lightning", then prose is closer to the human mind that humans face the earth.

I admire the prose of "having me", "Lord True" and "from self -self". "I have me" is the characteristics of prose and style. Zhou Zuoren emphasized that prose must "speak of his own will" and "show his own body"; Li Subo believes that the characteristics of prose lies in "the author's most authentic self -expression and vitality, with the author's unique body appearance." Pursuing "me" in writing requires prose writing to prevent public experience, public languages, and express personality, characteristic, creative experience. "Lord True" is the style ethics of prose, and it is a tacit understanding between prose readers and authors for a long time. Didro said, "Anything is not true"; Wittgenstein also pointed out, "About writing, you can't write things that are more real than yourself." If the prose is true, we must be alert to fallen into nothingness, false, and hypocrisy, depict the real objective world, and express the real life experience. Of course, the Lord really does not mean a diversified creation in refusing the new changes and prose creative methods. "From self" is the ultra -prose. Hu Shi once said, "Freedom, in ancient Chinese, means‘ because of yourself ’, that is, it’ s not because of the external force, it is ‘he is the master’. ” "From self" means that prose writers should adhere to their independent character, through the presentation of free internal quality and the creation of free appearance, in the unrestrained flow of mind, obtain the suspension of secular significance, reach the exams and internal mental structures of the world or the inner spiritual structure. Alert, answer big questions about humans.

The brushwork is not, and the heart is looking forward.

And go on the road again!

About the Author

Li Yiming

A native of Boxing County, Shandong Province, a doctor of literature, a professor, a professor, a writer, and a literary critic. He has served as Deputy Dean and Member of the Party Committee, Deputy Dean and Executive Deputy Dean of the Lu Xun Academy of Culture. He has served as the Mao Dun Literature Award and Lu Xun Literature Award. Published eight works including "Chinese Modern Travel Notes Collection" and "Literary Critics as a Life", published more than 700 essays and literary review works. He has won the first prose of prose in the first prize of the literary creation of college students in Shandong Province in 1985, won important awards such as the Bingxin Prose Award Prose Award, and the honorary title of the top ten young prose artists in Shandong Province.

Source: Chinese Writers Network

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