How does contemporary literature express nostalgia? Imagination and writing experience alone are not enough
2021-12-31
In recent years, with the development of new rural construction, local has provided writers with a new and broad literary writing space. How does the new era literature write about the countryside? How to refresh the traditional theme of "nostalgia"? On December 24, the first issue of "October · vitality Ouhai" everybody literature forum was held online. Ai Wei, Liang Hong, Qiao ye, Wang October, Yang Qingxiang, Liu Daxian, Xu Chenliang, Shen Nian, Liu Ting, Su Cangsang, sun lianghao, Dongjun, green tea, Zhou Jimin, Gu he and other nearly 20 writers, scholars and literary critics from all over the country expressed their views and golden sentences frequently with the theme of "my nostalgia is different from you: literary expression of Rural Revitalization in the new era". The online literature forum was also broadcast live on the Internet through multiple platforms, with a total viewing volume of more than 250000 people. There are some writing inertia and aesthetic fatigue in local themes As the moderator of this online forum, Ji Yaya, deputy editor in chief of October magazine and literary critic, put forward a series of questions worth pondering. She mentioned that local writing and rural construction have always been important contents of Chinese literature and social practice. After entering 2000, especially in recent years, the situation has changed. One is the so-called spatial displacement from countryside to city in literature. From the perspective of current publication and publication, the proportion of rural theme works is obviously decreasing, and even if there are, they are often concentrated in non fictional works. The other is that some writing inertia and aesthetic fatigue have appeared in the existing local themes, and the emotional expression of "rural depression" is common in the works. What is the real countryside like, and what changes are taking place in the organizational form, production mode, cultural mode, communication mode and emotional mode of the countryside? Who is going deep into the scene and front line of local writing? Combined with the practice of rural revitalization, how can literature write a new chapter of Rural Revitalization? How can the current experience refresh the traditional theme of "nostalgia"? Among them, how should the writer's subjectivity and individual characteristics be reflected? A group of essayists in Zhejiang build their own Jiangnan on paper Ai Wei, a writer and chairman of Zhejiang Writers Association, shared that for him, "nostalgia" is Chinese culture and a dream of Red Mansions. In his opinion, since the 1990s, the Chinese people have begun to realize our own life and tradition. He believes that today's Chinese writers will understand this, and they will also have better literary expression about the countryside. For example, a large number of essayists in Zhejiang have built their own Jiangnan on paper. Critic Liu Daxian is currently in Beichuan. He has visited many grass-roots villages in recent years. The countryside he saw with his eyes is two worlds from the countryside in literary works. "Great changes are taking place in the current countryside". From this, he felt that "the current literary expression has a strong lag. Whether from concept to emotion, or from aesthetics to form, it is completely divorced from the contemporary countryside." Liang Hong, a famous writer and professor of "Liangzhuang" series, has a deep experience of rural reform. She said that she didn't write Liangzhuang because of "nostalgia", but regarded Liangzhuang as a kind of current writing, which is still in progress, that is, the current village. It is certainly not enough to rely on experience and imagination to write today's countryside The book reviewer is from Wenzhou. For various reasons, he has not returned to Wenzhou for three years. For him, reading is a way to ease his homesickness. On the same day, he also listed a variety of books about Wenzhou. Wang October, President and editor in chief of works magazine, said that today too many writers are still continuing the tradition of previous writers. "Many of our writers do not know the countryside, the farmers, what the farmers are experiencing, or what the farmers are thinking. The farmers they write are either Lu Xun style, Shen Congwen style, Jia Pingwa style and Mo Yan style." He believes that today's rural changes are earth shaking and changing with each passing day, which not only refers to the beauty of rural construction, but also lies in the great changes in people's cognition of tradition. Another question is, can today's writers construct some new local intentions and new rural aesthetics? This is a direction that local literature writing can strive for. Shen Nian, vice chairman of Hunan Writers' Association and writer, said that the evolution of "nostalgia" to today has actually become a cultural complex and people's emotion of nostalgia for the countryside. In the past two or three years, Shen Nian has focused on visiting some villages in southern Hunan and sorted out the process of poverty alleviation and key construction in these villages. He believes that only when he really walks on the road will he see the major event of poverty alleviation in rural China and have a new understanding and conviction of it. In chengwangxiang, it is certainly not enough to rely on past experience to imagine and write today's countryside. Walking on the earth is more courageous and sincere than sitting in the study. Can today's authors write about the growing and current reality? Xu Chenliang, executive editor of contemporary magazine, mentioned the problem of updating the knowledge structure. At the same time, he paid special attention to whether today's authors can write the growing and current reality. In addition, can writers in cities go deep into rural life? For example, an article by Zhang Ning, a professor of Beijing Normal University, Ba Jinying calls, wrote particularly interesting new characters. Su Cangsang, a writer who just launched his new book on paper this year, talked about his observation and experience through several theme words such as "sightseeing" and "observation", "useless" and "useful". She hopes to "use words stained with soil and temperature to express the beauty of mountains and rivers, scenery, especially the beauty of labor and the beauty of the people of China's excellent traditional culture." At the new book press conference, she also invited several protagonists to attend, and their speeches were "shining". From this, she thought, "the theme of Rural Revitalization is very grand and complex. It is not only rich in economic life in the traditional sense, but also rich in spirit for contemporary farmers." Poet Gu he said that he has been to many beautiful new villages in recent years. We can see that the "ingenuity" of the builders is the continuation of the Chinese cultural tradition and the understanding of the philosophical thought of the unity of heaven and man, which well reflects the awakening of ecological and cultural consciousness in the hearts of the grass-roots people. A few years ago, he completed the long non fictional poem biography of Zhouzhuang in more than a month. He paid more attention to and tried to write the past, present and future destiny of many individuals living in Zhouzhuang. (outlook new era)
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