Cao Wenxuan: "Dragonfly Eyes" creation talk

Wen/Cao Wenxuan

"Dragonfly Eyes" is undoubtedly an important book in my personal creation history.

More than thirty years ago, a chance, I came into contact with this rare story. I will see it with it as the best moment in my life. It is the God of God -the God of Destiny and let me meet it. At the beginning, as soon as I came into contact with it, I already knew its preciousness, and the word "Value Liancheng" sounded in my heart. I know what he met as a person who writes a story, a writer. But even after "squeezing" the memory of the story of the story, I still did not have the idea of ​​getting it quickly to the text.

I am a person who likes to treasure stories, and the stories that can be encountered in my heart will be deeply treasured in my heart. Hidden, for more than thirty years, he refused to let it out. Emotionally, it is reluctant (the feeling is very similar to a father who does not want his beloved daughter to marry), and I know rationally that a writer must learn to collect the story. This is a ability -treasured skills. The benefits of treasures are: That story is not a piece of jade -jade is jade, decades, or even hundreds of years later, it is still the jade, but the story will grow on the vast memories of the field. The sunshine of the years, the experience of experience, and the nectar of knowledge will be shined silently to nourish it. It has been growing, like a tree, gradually becoming leafy until the shade. In more than thirty years, sometimes I think of it -when I think of it, I will open the door of memory to see it. It is more accurate to watch it. I found that my viewing gaze is gradually raising from flattening, and changing to look up, and constantly raising up. I know that the tree is growing. I know that one day, it will grow into towering trees. Finally, one day, this tree is no longer a tree, but from plants to animals. This robust animal is no longer on the field of memory. It is going to a wider world, and no fence can no longer stop it. Sleeping, yawning, continuing to sleep, jumping up, full of energy and spirit, it must go out of the door of memory, under the day of light. "Put it out, go to the big world!" I obeyed this sound from the heaven.

So it became "Dragonfly Eye".

"Dragonfly Eye" is a treasure, an oval bead. In the novel, there are only two. But I know that it is not two now. A volume of "Dragonfly Eyes" is one. How many people will it reproduce? I don't think anyone can say this.

The word "collection" is "precipitation". Recalling the treasures of more than thirty years, calm down, I found that it was not that the story was changing, but that I was changing. My thoughts are changing, my aesthetics are changing, my taste is changing, my emotions and emotions are changing, and my eyes are changing. And all these "changes" are in a more reliable and mature direction. At that time, many plots and details that made me impulsive, when I passed the situation, no longer made me impulsive, but belonged to the bland; and the plot and details that were not in my heart and felt insignificant were approaching my eyes. Some original insights were disintegrated, and new insights were generated. I feel that the ability to write and control the entire story is enhanced every day, guilty of being weakened by the power of new life, and it is full of confidence. Comparing before and after, I think the understanding and grasp of this story yesterday, with the understanding and grasp of this story today, is very different.

Perhaps my response to the story is slow, maybe my "thought deeply". My usual state is: it is difficult to get a story and immediately turn it into text. I wrote for so many years, and I rarely got a story just in the morning, and immediately converted it into text at night. Usually, I am not good at writing the following, but I am good at writing. But I think it is a realist writer and a writer with a strong spirit of realism. Realism does not mean writing what happened this morning and what I heard this morning.

Stories like "Dragonfly Eyes", I can only take a dignified writing posture and write in a solemn tone. In fact, my writing is basically such a posture, such a tone. I am not good at nor like it -even said that I do n’t like the writing tone of the smooth tone of the oily cavity. I have written some interesting words, such as the "My Son Pickup" series, "Stupid Donkey" series, and "Meng Meng Bird" series, but I understand such a pen as a harmonious or humorous. In fact, I have always liked harmony and humor. This kind of love is also reflected in the dignified works such as "Grass House", "Bronze Flowers" and "Fire Print". But I put this kind of harmonious and humor into the realm of "wisdom". In terms of writing, I may even appreciate the writing of the eighteenth century, nineteenth century, and early twentieth century. At that time, the writer was dignified, and the tone was solemn. Whether it is Hugo, Balzac, Tolstoy, Shawlohov, whether it is Lu Xun or Shen Congwen, their posture and tone are the same. Even with irony, the posture is dignified, and the tone is solemn. In "The Virgin of Paris", in "Gao Old", in "War and Peace", in "The Restaurant", in "Scream" and "彷", in "Border City", we can Recall their posture and tone. However, with the surging and flooding of modernist thoughts, this attitude and tone were left out until they were laughed and rejected. Mocile, as if there is no evil or ridiculous in the whole world, it is not worthy of face to face with a dignified posture, and does not apply for a solemn tone narrative. At that time, when Mr. Zhu Guangqian distinguished Western aesthetics and Chinese aesthetics, he said that Western aesthetics pursued "lofty" and Chinese aesthetics pursued "beautiful". Nowadays, whether it is lofty or beautiful, it almost disappears; both Chinese literature or Western literature is unified to the cold, sighing and hopeless harmony. The lofty and beautiful yellow flowers are beautiful. The world we live in it is relentlessly denied. There is no justice in this world, no kindness, no beauty, and some are only insidious, boring, sluggish, flies, dogs, perverts ... However, is this world really completely like this? In fact, there are always bright sunshine above our heads; in many times, the moonlight is charming, and there are always night songs in the starry sky that sounds in the distance; love is ubiquitous, and the great mother love and father's love often flows in our hearts. In autumn, it is even more colorful; and when the winter comes, the snow -capped world makes people feel pure and calm ... In fact, those writers who refuse to be dignified and solemn, they have always enjoyed the far more than ordinary people that the world has given them far more ordinary. The benefits of the people. Drinking coffee or wine, freely control the text, honor, and money in a comfortable space. They often have everything. But they were "profound" of that virtual, filtering all the beautiful things in the world, leaving only a bunch of black dregs. Then, began to be desperate. If they say that the dignified and solemnity of literature is false, will their posture be honest?

I don't believe that my dignified posture is in a solemn tone to tell the story of "Dragonfly Eyes", it must not be deep -even if it is really impossible, I don't want to change this posture and tone.

To be a smart person, a writer must be a smart writer. It wasn't that he was really smart, but he thought he was smart. Think like this -must be thinking that. Thinking like this, maybe he would really be smart.

I think that this cleverness is first manifested in what he knows what he is regarded as his writing resource, and knowing which land he is standing on the land -gave birth to his land. Ignoring, forgetting, and even rejecting this land is stupid, not smart, and not smart. Because that land was in the transition of the stars, he had already created his spirit, his interest. Ignoring it, forgetting it, and rejecting it will make him have nothing, and even lead to the death of literary life. The key is that this land is growing up to 24 hours a day -unique story of human society -unique quality, unique ways, evolution methods, and unique to ending methods. I saw this resource -Wang Yanghai -like resources. Often, I will be ecstatic to choose one of the big stories. I know what the story will bring me -bring glory, bring happiness, and bring attention from the world.

But only those who are firmly based on this land are still the smartest people. The smartest person is standing firmly in this land, but his eyes pass through the rolling smoke clouds to look at the place where the world is connected and overlooking the vast world outside the national monument. The eyes are always farther than the feet, and the soul can go further. This person, a person who is willing to achieve literature, knows the principle of literary life. This is: the land where he raises him is the eternal resource of his writing, and the problem he thinks is the world; China's theme is human. He wants to see the basic state of human survival from the Chinese story that cannot be created by imagination. He wants to see the basic human nature of the ages from the joy and sorrow of the Chinese, and he always hopes to provide readers with a good human foundation with his words.

I have always wanted to be such a smart person, and "Dragonfly Eyes" may fully show my sincerity.

Edit: Liu Qihan

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