Exclusive 丨 Write Writing Novels -Examination of the Eighth Lu Xun Literature Award writer Sonan Cailang

Sonan Cai Rang

In 2018, at the 34th Gaoyan Class of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature, I met the writer Sonan. At that time, the number of works that Suonan Caicheng did not have a lot of works, and the creative results were far from the most prominent in the class. But he has a kind of impressiveness. His skin is dark, cheerful and kind, and smiles bright all day. After reading Sonan's novels and understanding his life, he gradually understood his broad.

Soon Cai asked me to talk to me in Qinghai. On the vast grassland, herders Suonan rushed to hundreds of sheep, from sunrise to sunset, year after year. Although we are our peers and live in the same era, we seem to be in two very different worlds. When he told me that when I was in the sheep, I encountered a wild wolf at night. What I felt was the anxiety of fear and how to escape quickly. Protect the flocks behind them. Sonan Cai's grassland is completely different from the romantic imagination of romanticism in our minds. It is a solid heat and cold wind, and even life threats that appear at any time. I think, as the "post -80s", the difference between me and Sonan can represent a certain break between our generations: on the one hand, a stable and peaceful urban life, and in a complete education education. The rationalism of growing up and shaping in the system; on the other hand, is the natural world of rough and true, which is the personal experience that gradually accumulates in the living reality. Among the young writers, there are many people in the former. We are accustomed to those delicate brushwork, keen feelings, and perfect writing skills, but the "core" of these works is often weak and empty. Soon is almost the opposite of this writing. His novels are full of rough, almost primitive sense of power. In this sense, Sonan's writing and his writing have a precious heterogeneity in itself.

It is such a heterogeneous nature that the novels of Sonan Caicheng stood out in the literary world. In 2020, Sonan Cai's middle novel "On the Wastel" was published in the 5th issue of "Harvest" magazine. After the 2020 "List of Literature"; then, he won the "Star of" Zhongshan "Star, Bronze Sunflower Children's Literature Award, and Chinese Young Writers Award. In the 8th Lu Xun Literature Award, "The Wastel" won the Novel Award. The young writer born in 1985, this Mongolian herdsman who accompanied the earth with the earth, became the first writer to win the Lu Xun Literature Award in Qinghai Province.

The following is an exclusive interview with Sonan.

Xingchao: First of all, Congratulations to Sonan won the Eighth Lu Xun Literature Award. In fact, before this award, your novel "The Wastel" has had a significant impact in the literary world. For you personally, this work should be an important milestone?

Sonan Cairang: Thank you Xingchao. After the release of "The Wilderness", many readers have been appreciated, and they have also won several awards such as the Chinese Young Writers Award and the "Star of" Zhongshan ". Essence This work, as you said, is a breakthrough in my, and a staged result of my writing for more than ten years. After this work, my writing cannot be said to have a high level, but it has indeed changed significantly.

Xingchao: It is said that the novel "The Wastel" has experienced a long polishing. Can you share how this work is done and how is it done step by step?

Sunan Cailang: This novel originated from my real experience. One winter many years ago, I followed a few adults in our village to go to the ranch in the mountains. The closed day of more than two months was my "wasteland" experience. When I started writing, this experience appeared naturally, and with the desire to express. I think this is the kind of storytelling. I finished writing the novel shortly after writing, and then the process of rewriting and modification. Two or three years during this period, this novel disappeared into my mind, and I forgot to have such a work. When I remembered it again, it was time to rewrite the case, and it had reached 2018. I think the completion of this work is the best training for me, especially if I patiently gets excellent refinement. I think that the writers who can modify the work more than ten times are at least a qualified writer.

Xingchao: I still remember that you once talked about your daily life as a herdsman, it sounds so free and open, but it is also accompanied by huge hard work, danger and loneliness. Under what circumstances did you start writing?

Sunan Cailang: After I came out of the school to grant it, I was extremely boring and boring to torture me enough. At this time, the emergence of books saved me. I love to read from watching martial arts novels. For a few years, I am indulged in the martial arts world and unable to extricate myself, let go of my imagination, and build my own martial arts world.这种无拘无束的幻想营造了特别好的想象的土壤与空间，所以当我开始接触严肃文学作品，开始了解到这个世界上还有那么多伟大的作品的时候，当我阅读这些作品的时候，给The impact I brought is unparalleled. The strange thing is that I actually had the urge to write in the worship reading of these great works. There is an impulse for newborn calves to not be afraid of tigers. I started literary creation with a fearless posture. Xingchao: In your novels, I can always feel enthusiastic and vigorous vitality, and at the same time there is a kind of cold and tragic. I think this is probably the unique texture brought by your special life experience. For you, what is the relationship between nomadic life and literary life?

Sunan Cailang: From the perspective of creation, nomadic life is very suitable for my literary creation. When writing and environment are in a state of integrated blind date, the author will naturally integrate in. I think this is writing. The best state. But this is not to how much life is in line with the creation. There is no place to rush. This is not the case. In fact, any kind of life and another life are cooperative, so there is a balance point. Nomadic life is no exception. For example, the most practical situation is that I will have no time to write for many days, and then I will have a long time because I go to play, playing wild, my mentality has changed a little, and I ca n’t collect it for a while. Such a situation takes more days to adjust, and then adapt to the quietness of writing. Especially because of our customs and environment, we may have more drinking. Many times I have to participate, and my body is actually not suitable for drinking often. I have to slowly drink for three days. Time has been wasted like this. When you suddenly find that you have not sat down and write well for a long time, you will feel that the interference of life is so powerful, but you have to compromise this.

Xingchao: Your novel has shaped a large number of contemporary herdsmen in the process of urbanization. In addition to "The Wasteland", "Texas Store", "Hot Water Store", "Tarlan's Store", "Chasing", "The Sunshine of Qingbad" It is also reflected in the work. The herdsmen in your pen are different from the traditional herdsmen. Although they continue the character, value and living habits of the nomadic people, they have encountered the reality of modernization and urbanization at the same time. Therefore, they have the mark of the transformation of the times. What do you think of the herdsmen and their fate?

Sunan Cailang: There are two types of division here. The most direct is the young generation of the "post -80s" and "post -90s" representatives and the old generation of the "50th" and "post -60s" representative. The living habits, values, and traditional character of the old generation are in the transformation of modernization. In fact, there is no great change. The so -called changes are just on the surface. There is a kind of attempt to curious. It will turn it into a normal life. They are more stubborn, a very stubborn thing, and in my opinion, it is also good to retain those things. But the younger generation is different, especially the popularity of the Internet. In a great sense, modern young herdsmen and young people in the Mainland are not much different. They are all online generations. people. Anyone who does not meet their ideas will be abandoned and boldly abandoned, and they will not have any burden for it. This is a very obvious change. But older generations, they also have some different views when they are young, and they also have opinions on the customs and traditions that have been passed down, but few people resist, fight, and deny. In fact, their psychological depths are still lacking confidence in the things they insist on, so they will be loyal to traditional teaching and teachings after some invalid resistance. And the new generation of herdsmen will not be like this. They will have strong confidence in anything that they have views. This confidence will cause them to insist on one thing and insist that they will do it without hesitation. Their starting point values, their starting point values, their starting point values. They will never think about more right or wrong about their past and future, as well as those so -called consequences. Or decisive, or the grass rate, they treat their own destiny, not like the old generation, to form a fixed framework early, and then live in it with peace of mind. For young people, in the future, it is full of unknown and opportunities. In the face of an era of fully expanding, there is infinite living law, nothing is impossible.

Xingchao: "Hassan's Island" is more special in your creation. The novel writes the story of the Mongolian teenager Dan Zeng and his little lamb friend Hassan. As a children's literary work, "Hassan's Island" is more light imagination, and the overall tone is more bright. You wrote on the title page of the book, "The daughter who gave me is talented and Sirina." Is there any different mood when writing for children?

Sunan Cailang: The writing of this work is actually a kind of unconvinced challenge. Before, I also wrote a children's novel called "Little Wrangler". My daughter reads three points of criticism: The first story is not attractive, the second text is not humorous enough, and the third reading is not smooth enough. I bet with her and wrote another one to let her see, and then I had this "Hassan's Island". I spent some thoughts in writing this novel. In terms of content, language, imagination, structure and other aspects, children's reading preferences are considered. I think this is not a bad compromise. Children's reading is the most direct, true and most real and most real and most real and most realistic The original reading experience will not have a more complicated feeling. After I finished it, it was printed to show her daughter. She spent a whole day finished reading from beginning to end, and then said that the child of this work could be read, as if she could represent all the children, but I believe her. Xingchao: Many critics value the "heterogeneity" of your novels, and believe that your experience and works are very different from most writers, and it also provides some inspiration for contemporary literature. What do you think of this problem?

Sunan Caiba: From my perspective, the writers who have an island life experience and the works of farming life are also heterogeneous for me. My living environment and regionality have caused this so -called heterogeneity, which is not something I personally pursued. But I think this should actually be said to be a style, because in most of my reading experience, foreign works account for an absolute number, and then I live in ethnic minorities. The people around them are more about various ethnic language languages. Their creation of me, the structure of my literary foundation, and the things I have written have formed a large style of style. Some writers are different.

Xingchao: After winning the Lu Xun Literature Award, have any changes in your life? What are the writing plans in the next step?

Sunan Cai Rang: There are too many things after winning, making me very uncomfortable. With this personality, I don't think there will be a time to this life. What I want most is to be able to write quietly and down -to -earth, and live honestly and seriously. At present, I am writing a novel, part of the writing plan, when it is completed, it is far away.

Content source: Literature and Art News on September 21, 2022

WeChat editor: Lu Yimeng

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