New Talk | "Everything about Farewell": We can't do everything

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"Everything about Farewell" was written in early 2020. It was completed at the end of 2021. The life about Li Bai and his father Li Zhongcheng who grew up in the town from 1985-2019. The story began to leave home by his mother Bai Shuzhen who had never said goodbye. Since then, Li Bai will face farewell in life. In this novel, he wants to test the intensity of language, pay attention to semantics, and explores the limit. He also hopes to write a good -looking story and has the ambition to rebuild the early style.

"Everything about Farewell"

Road

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House published in April 2022

On the cover of "Everything to Farewell", a woman wearing a swimsuit and swimming hat is diving. The background is a map of the Antarctic continent. "It originally meant how you can explain it." When communicating, the road said.

On the road: we can't do everything

Reporter: Wang Yang

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Since you want to overturn, you have to find it in place

Chinese Writers Network: What is the creative process of "Everything about Farewell"? In the impression, did you talk about the result of many years?

Road: The novel was written in 2020. Usually, for me, how many years of accumulation of accumulation is not much of great significance, and the basic ideas starting from writing. But now everyone will be used to how many years they have accumulated. In fact, a novel has been implemented from this idea to the specific implementation. If many years in the middle, my consciousness will change with the time of the author. There is a shell of the remaining story. In this case, from the beginning of 2020, to the winter of 2021, it has been written for almost two years, 230,000 words, and it is not written. After writing for a long time, it will make me feel a little distorted, and entangle two cold and heat with the group in the novel.

Chinese Writers Network: Many of "Everything About Farewell" is an element familiar to your old readers: the growth of the south, town, and teenagers. Some people think that the characteristics of some of your early works have returned to the "road" style. What do you think of this evaluation?

Inside the road: It overthrew the concepts in some early works (literary level rather than morality), but it was not done in a format. If you change a format, it is easy to do, and it will be said to be surpassed. But now that you want to overthrow, you have to find it in place. The first is the change of language style. The spoken narrative of "Balren Babylon" is now converted into a complicated sentence pattern, and the second is the kind of dedicated innocent boy who doesn't want to write.

In fact, I have never written a small town in the past. They are all industrial -level cities with a million population. The ecology is different (some large cities readers may seem the same). However, this time I decided to write a small town, county town, and county -level city -level transition process in accordance with the previous misunderstandings. It is also the background of the times. The teenager has also grown to middle age. I hope that young men will not have a diaphragm and an elderly person.

Chinese Writers Network: Every new work is a new beginning for writers. What challenges are there in the process of creating this new work (self -set or encounter in the creative process)?

Road: This novel started with a third person. The more I wrote, the more boring. Later, the first person of the protagonist was opened to intersperate in the form of psychological activities or confession. Because the timeline is too long, the relationship between the characters in each stage is symbolic. In the end, he did not seem to be the other party, but handled himself. He explained the world's way and novels to explain himself, which was a bit split. This is the level of discourse. The performance level is that the story is a bit difficult to write. It requires "good -looking" and dramatic, rather than emphasizing concepts and writing techniques. There are always few good -looking stories, and excessive dramaticization can easily make the story unable to collect.

Writer's road

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I have farewell again and again, but there is no chance to make up for the start

Chinese Writer Network: When he was young, his mother ran away from home. His father failed in love. He seemed to set some kinds of tone for Li Bai's life. Can you apply that popular statement? Li Bai "healing his childhood with his life"?

In the road: It seems not that simple, he also tried to heal his father, but in the end he did not do it. Under the hidden metaphor of "unable to cure his father", he knew that he could not heal. The point is, what do he need to be cured? His identity is also a writer. For those who write novels, what childhood trauma is originally a close -up close -up, they are not secret at all. Later, even ordinary people knew what PTSD was. Is a trauma that has long been known by everyone? Maybe that kind of "knowing" is intolerable. And "unbearable everyone's knowledge" in turn became one of his trauma structures.

Chinese Writers Network: Writer Li Bairen is middle -aged, why has "farewell"? In the writer's road, why did you think of everything about farewell at this time?

Road: This farewell comes from the beginning of the novel, and his mother disappeared in a way of "don't say goodbye". This confirmed start is actually not convincing, but in reality, it can also be found. Its weakness is that although the protagonist has gone through farewell, he did not get a chance to make up for the start. Until the end of the novel, what he could do was to say goodbye to his father in the sense of soul, and Azheimer's disease means that they will have a long ceremony.

As for me, there are many materials on the hand, most of which are others. If they have to dismantle it alone, it is weak, but I want to see what level it is to. After all, it is a long story. In the future, I may not write this kind of syntax novel, so I wrote it now. Chinese Writer Network: Love is important for Li Bai and his father Li Zhongcheng, but they can always not succeed in love. Li Bai's relationship with his life is impressive. There are first love and exposure. There are playmates from small to large, and there are literary confidants in the literary circle. In summary, Li Bai keeps looking for and farewell to just love? What does "everything" include?

On the road: I want to use a big word, he is looking for and farewell (and being kicked off) is "self", but Li Bai himself may not agree, because this concept is too heavy. Our "self" is just a product in the eyes of a psychologist. Now it can be classified to log in to a website and answer a few questions. In his opinion, this contemporary misconduct is similar to Zhou Gong's dreams, but from one metaphor to another, it will not return things to the original position, unless he really believes in this set. In the novel, the words of Nietzsche are quoted. This permanent suspension is just temporary comfort. Things are just upside down: the metaphor of a flash of thought is permanent suspension (humans will never lack words), and the long life is temporary comfort (will eventually part or or Older). What this novel is handled is the separation or merger between the two.

I think that everything is just a finger, it seems to mean that we can't do everything.

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He finished the story at the level of his willingness "

Chinese Writers Network: Li Bai's writer's identity reminds me of a word that a writer once said that the idea is that everyone is reading a text carefully when reviewing their past experience. The writer Li Bai in the book also wrote a work about the past. Can it be regarded as a "detailed reading" that has been completed by creation. The entire novel is a personal history?

On the road: yes, but this careful reading cannot be scrutinized and full of rebellion. This is a common talk. Indeed, every writer is writing this kind of rebellion, and he is also doing "carefully reading" by individuals. I hope that there can be some differences in the performance level.

Chinese Writers Network: In a 2020 interview, you mentioned that you are writing a "weird character biography novel", which is this "Everything about Farewell". What are the main aspects of its "weird"?

In the road: It was said earlier. At first I thought I wrote their father and son. Later, I found that the protagonist would jump out and speak, and to dominate the direction of the novel. I used to imagine that he should be able to see Bai Shuzhen again, or a very five thunderous things have changed his life trajectory. It stands to reason that with my brushwork, it can still be designed, but in the end it has not happened. He finished the story at his own willingness.

Chinese Writers Network: Although the memories of Li Bai's father and son in the novel are fragmented and there are some kind of absurdity, the whole reveals a kind of affection. When we look back, we will highlight some kind of lyric meaning. Intersection

On the road: It seems to be determined by the language of this novel. In the last part, Li Bai asked Fang Wei. People in the world have various cheap phases. Is lyrics a cheap phase? In fact, what he wants to ask is whether the lyric is vulgar. It depends on the situation. In novels, in reality, what we highlights is lyric itself (not afraid of excessive), or is it just a sense of vulgarity (afraid that the realm is too low)?

Chinese Writers Network: But the works are full of self -deprecation, teasing and humor. This is a means of balance and resolving "farewell".

On the road: This is the case. The humor in this novel is deliberately lowered. It can be said to be "low -level". Of course, I admit that there are a lot of spiritual things in the world, but in daily life, we do not discuss the problem that. Then, in the novel (instead of life), what can be saved by this low level. Or, in daily life, what kind of low level will be intake and amplified by novels. In a dialogue, when the characters have not read, they just rely on text and feel the sense of feeling. Once, there is no film and television montage. It is easy to be confused if people read. People identify a movie role and often use the name of the actors, because people can't remember so many role names, but there are no actors to help readers in the novel to help readers remember. All these, in fact, I mean: the teasing in this novel is balanced and teasing itself. It is sometimes humorous and sometimes low -level.

Chinese Writer Network: The zoo is also mentioned many times in commenting and creative talks. The lion bites is terrifying, especially when the end is returned to the zoo again, like a metaphor of a certain life. Does it mean?

In the road: I think he regrets it after jumping down. He was awake and asked himself: "Why isn't it a guy I hate?" The question is, a person like him who refused to be explained and did not recognize the shadow of childhood shadows. In fact, the whole article seemed to jump into Xiongshan. Just at the end, he found a reason for himself for a little female cat. He didn't care about the price of this target and was willing to pay for it. The result may be that he went to newspapers and became social news. In the past period, if anyone does it, he will be laughed or sighed. This ending was written in 2021. I think that the huge and dangerous thing is explicit, just like we face the epidemic. It was just that Li Bai hadn't entered, and he was still not serious, but he would get better. This is a time that must be responsible for yourself. Chinese Writer Network: The end of the old set -the next creative plan?

Road: I want to write some novels, because the semantic problems of the novels are already higher than the storyline in my hands. I mean that the semantics is what we want to discuss forever, but it has a sense of limit to me. Because I wrote this book, I was actually nostalgic for some people, as if I had nothing to do every day, and I missed my ex -girlfriend. The novel in the middle article should be able to return to the framework of the plot. There are also two planned articles, which may start writing next year.

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