"British Patient" author of Weng Dajie's homeland: Tell Sri Lanka's pain in the novel

Cover reporter Zhang Jie intern Zheng Hao

As an important part of the humanistic spirit, literature is not only a deep and specific manifestation of the human heart, but also the cornerstone of human civilization. Especially those literary classics can provide us with a lively picture and context of life. Recently, the changes in Sri Lanka's situation have attracted worldwide attention. Many people think of a person: Weng Dajie, a Canadian novelist born in Sri Lanka.

Weng Dajie's novels are very powerful, including war, love, affection, identity, especially about the exploration of the past. The dual identity of the poet and the novelist gave Weng Dajie's deep rhythm and aesthetics in writing. Such beauty can not be damaged even translated. The cruelty of reality with poetry is also an important reason why readers all over the world find resonance in his works. Especially his novel "Anil's Ghost" is a background of a background that once happened in Sri Lanka.

"British Patients" novels and movies have become classic

Nobel Prize winner Shihei Yixiong is his fan

Speaking of Weng Dajie, we must first say his most well -known work "British Patient". In 1992, the novel won the most important literary award in the English world in English. In 1996, Anthony Ming Gera adapted it into a movie of the same name, starring Ralph Fins and Juliet Binos, and achieved great success. It is also very good. The name of the original author Weng Dajie is well known to more people all over the world.

On July 8, 2018, the "Goldbuck Award" issued to commemorate the 50 -year founding of the Booker Award was announced in London: "British Patients", which was awarded the "Best Works of the Booker Award for half a century". The weight of the Goldbock Award. At the Goldback Awards, the 2017 Nobel Prize winner Shi Hei Yixiong had a literary conversation with Weng Dajie, which attracted much attention.

Many readers in the literature industry know that Shihei Yixiong is a fan of Weng Dajie. In 2019, Weng Dajie's "Time Light" Chinese version is sealed on the waist. The propaganda that can be seen is "Nobel Prize winner Shihei Yixiong reads a book that can be memorized." Shihei Yixiong loves Weng Dajie and his works very much. It is said that Shihei Yixiong reads "Time Light" to the degree of details in the book. "Wars Light" is still the trauma that the war is difficult to heal.

Poetic style and broken narrative structure

Express the sadness and comfort of the justice and the deserted heart map of the homeland

If it is said that in "British Patients", Weng Dajie created a hazy poetic "soul pastoral" that was gradually away from the war with a beautiful and lyrical pen that was gradually away from the war. "London bombardment" is also far away, so his other work "Anil's Ghost" is much more heavy.

This is a novel with the Sri Lanka's civil strife. In the novel, in a calm country, due to brutal civil war and racism overnight, it was divided and slaughtered by the bloody denomination forces. Anne, a forensic expert entrusted by an international organization, returned to his homeland Sri Lanka to investigate the casualties of innocent civilians in the internal chaos. An "sailor" who was deliberately transferred to the nature reserve became an opportunity to reveal the truth of the brutal war. In the process of exploring the "sailor" identity and cause of death with the government assigned archeologist Celas, in addition to the ubiquitous shadow and blood stains of the war, she gradually came into contact with the wounds of the war in the life of the war in everyone's life.

Weng Dajie was holding a hidden pain in the tragedy of his homeland. It took many years to collect historical data collection, and even involved the research of related archeology and forensic medicine in the book. The book continues his poetic style and broken narrative structure. In the memory of the protagonist and the layers of life, the sorrow and comfort of the justice and the deserted spiritual picture of the territory of the land. Through the individual stories engraved in the background of beautiful landscapes and brutal nature, he presents the essence of a person, a country, and its history.

Undverted novel creation traditional routine

Line with complex background background

In addition to the outstanding themes, Weng Dajie's superb writing skills also sighed readers again: In Weng Da's works, the foreseeable boundaries are suspicious: poetry, or prose? Fact, or fiction? Real, imagine? He wrote in memory, history, dreams, and imagination. In fact, Weng Dajie's novels are highly praised, that is, he is good at breaking the obstacles to his literary genre, and incorporating poetry, notes, biography, medical files, medical history records, news reports, etc. The traditional routine presented to readers a "non -fiction" literary scene.

They all say that the text is like it. Weng Dajie's superb integration of literary genre is also reminiscent of his complicated background. Weng Dajer was born in a wealthy farmer family in Sri Lanka in 1943. He was blood on the blood of Dutch, Sanghara, and Tamil. He spent carefree childhood in his father's big tea garden. Parents were divorced when they were seven years old. At the age of eleven, he boarded the cruise ship to the British alone to rely on his mother. At the age of nineteen, he went to Canada to vote for his brother and settled in Ottawa.

In China, Weng Dajie's novels have a group of loyal fan readers, and many works including "British Patients" have been translated into Chinese. In recent years, Weng Dajie's translated works include "The Ghost of Anil" (2016, People's Literature Publishing House) and "Light of War" (2019, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House). Among them, the best -selling writer and translator Tao Lixia served as the Chinese translator of "Anil's Ghost". In an article entitled "Writing is the way we possess this world", Tao Lixia mentioned that she had collected many versions of "British Patients", but had no interest in Weng Dajie's information. "I only remember that Weng Dajie's initial impression was that there was a parentheses in front of his name in the book, which read Canada, but I determined that the charming charm of his work by virtue can not come from this north that can only be reminiscent of the maple leaf. American countries. After many years, when the translator of "Anil's Ghosts" held a new book exchange meeting, I carefully checked Weng Dajie's life, and at the same time unbuttoned the question that had been hanging in my heart for many years: how to grow up: Only the author can depict a world without the border line, shape so many prodigal sons, restore the suffering with poetry, and allow many pains in life to shine with broken glass but can cut people's glory. "

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