Since the publication of the novel, "White Deer Plain", it has caused widespread controversy in the literary world, with mixed reviews. But I have to admit that "White Deer Plain" is a classic of contemporary literature with profound significance, and it is an epic work that can represent a new height of reflection literature. Every reader who reads it can always be stirred up in the heart, but the unique charm of the attraction is constant. **White Deer Plain,
As a realist work, "White Deer Plain" has a similar feeling to the magical realist literary masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
The biggest similarity is that both books describe the rise and fall of several generations of a family. But this is only the surface, behind the family is the secret history of a nation. "White Deer Plain" is a reflection on the history and culture of the nation, and the author is pursuing the roots of personality with morality as the core of the pursuit of culture, which is also related to the special political environment in China at that time. Not to mention, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a monumental work that reproduces the historical and social picture of Latin America.
Starting from the subtleties, "White Deer Plain": "He saw a white thing, completely like a white stone on the beach, cool in the palm of his hand." Heiwa threw the rock candy into her mouth, stood still and didn't dare to move, what a wonderful feeling!The incomparable sweetness of the taste made him tremble, and he burst into tears. ”
This is the description of Heiwa's first eating rock candy in chapter 5, which I think is similar to the feeling of José Arcatio Buendía seeing and touching ice for the first time in chapter 1 of One Hundred Years of Solitude, as follows: "I had to pluck up the courage to mutter: 'This is the biggest diamond ever.'" His heart was filled with the fear and joy of experiencing the mystery that he could not express in words. ”
I don't dare to guess what rock candy and ice cubes mean, it's just my own feelings. Perhaps it was the introduction of new things into the traditional society that impacted their lives. They still explain new things with what they already know, only to be surprised to find that they are completely different. What we see as ordinary things in modern times is little known at the time, so it may seem ironic to us, but they see it as something extremely serious, extremely precious, and even able to change the world.
The above is my rough comparison of the two books, and it is difficult to express myself in a few words. Chinese literature has been largely influenced by foreign literature, and has derived a national version of the classics.
Returning to "White Deer Plain", with the lives of ordinary people in Guanzhong in northern Shaanxi as the main line, portrays Chinese with distinct images. The fate of the characters is a vertical line, and the evolution of society is a horizontal line, and the relationship between the two is the relationship between flesh and blood. And each plot reflects the character and fate of the characters involved, the combination of the central clue and the plot is perfectly appropriate, the plot spreads on the big clue, and the clue is based on the plot to form the skeleton. Complement each other.
The rise and fall of traditional culture is the spiritual subject of this book, which constitutes a three-dimensional axis, and the three ends are social history, characters, and cultural spirit, which constitute the time and space of the work, and unfold a magnificent and profound realistic picture that is closely related to the soul of our nation. A masterpiece is no longer enough to describe this book.
It also caused me to reflect on literary creation. Perhaps, an excellent ** will not be just because of the bizarre and moving storyline, so that there is only a skeleton and no flesh and blood, which seems empty and not long-lasting. Nor is it the floweriness of the language, which will only lead to aesthetic fatigue of reading. I once read several works by a well-known author, and found that the words were repeated over and over again in just a few sentences, and there was nothing new about it. But it can't just be about the perception of history and thinking about life, which is no different from the inspirational books on the market.
Express the inner voice, feel, hear, and think about life and history, and use literary strokes to approach and describe. This is what we lack, we have been repressed in a stereotyped template for too long, and we write articles without spirituality. Mr. Lu Xun has a sentence that touches me deeply: "This has never been, is it right?"""White Deer Plain" makes me feel as if I see a nimble white deer jumping on the field, it turns out that literature is higher than life.
Then end with a passage in "White Deer Plain":
There are many things in the world that cannot be spoken, even though they are clearly seen.