"The best literary publications are the ones that connect with the widest possible audience. ”
Writers need to go out a little bit and let more people see it. ”
Does literature really go to the heart of the **?”
At the beginning of December, the "9th Zhongshan National Young Writers PEN Conference" and the "7th Yangtze Critics Forum" were held simultaneously in two adjacent conference rooms.
In one room sat young writers Ye Xinyun, Tian Lingyun, Liu Kang, Li Chao, Yang Biwei, Zou Shengnian, Chen Xiaoshou, Chen Guohua, Wu Qihong, Zhou Yuyang, Zhou Wanjing, Zhao Hanqing, Li Lu, Gu Wenyan, Jiao Dian, Xue Chaowei, and in the other room sat Deng Xiaoyan, Zhu Yu, Liu Yueyue, Liu Xinyue, Liu Shiyu, Li Songrui, Li Haipeng, Yang Yi, Zhang Boshi, Chen Si, Zhou Qi, Zhan Yubing, Zhong Yuan, Jiang Xiao, He Jiayu, Gu Yijun, Cheng Yang, Fan Yingchun, Huo Yan and other young critics.
Most of them are post-85s and post-90s, which can be described as a concentrated appearance of cutting-edge forces in the current literary scene. Interestingly, although this group of writers and critics were not in the same conference room, they all talked about the "out of the circle" and "breaking the circle" of literature in the new media era, which invisibly realized a "dialogue between young writers and young critics".
Works by young writers.
Readers never turn down serious literature.
During the PEN event, the organizers arranged several online readers' meetings with young writers. Writers come to the live broadcast room to tell their stories and answer readers' questions.
During the live broadcast, I signed the book and answered some questions from readers. Lilu found that the readers who came to the live broadcast room were not just "joining in the fun", but really had some reading experience, or rather, they were real literature lovers.
Post-95 writer Jiao Dian has just published a new ** collection "Peacock Bodhi", and also found that the readership of this book is very active, and you can see more than thousands of messages when you click in every day, and the readers in it are not chatting nonsense, but are sharing their thoughts on the text very seriously, and some analysis even makes Jiao Dian feel that it exceeds what he imagined when he wrote.
We used to say that serious literature is not good, but then I found out that it was not. Readers never reject serious literature, it is serious literature that rejects readers. So I think writers need to go out a little bit and let more people see it. Jiao Dian said.
The 9th Zhongshan National Young Writers PEN Club. Surging News reporter Luo Xin.
A distant echo of a historical proposition.
Now we talk about 'out of the circle' and 'breaking the circle', which is a distant echo of a historical proposition. ”
Chen Si, an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that everyone still wants to go back to the 1980s, a very beautiful and romantic era, and an era when literature has the right to speak. At that time, literature could dominate the people's imagination of the world, just like Huang Yaping liked Gogarin in "Life", because Gogarin looked very much like Paul Kochagin in "How Steel is Made", or like Julien Sohail in "Red and Black".
Before "out of the circle" and "breaking the circle", there were also terms such as "cross-border" and "transition", all of which made Gu Yijun, a lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communication of Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, feel deep anxiety in the literary world. "For many literary practitioners, we need to use these terms to try to return to the historical stage where literature once had a sensational effect, such as the May Fourth period, such as the 1980s, when literature could have a sensational effect. ”
However, Gu Yijun believes that the so-called ** era of literature may be an abnormal era. Instead of worrying about whether literature is out of the circle, it is better to admit the niche and independence of literature, and understand that it is precisely the niche and marginality of literature that makes it not easily dissolved for the times, so that it will not provide meaningless jokes for the capital flop, "In this sense, it is not the most important thing to get out of the circle or break the circle, the most important thing is to do things in our circle well." ”
IC data. If the number of clicks is high, is it out of the circle?
Huo Yan, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "out of the circle" is a good thing, but the real effect needs to be tested. "The anxiety of 'going out of the circle' and 'breaking the circle' has led us to have a digital mindset in our literary creation and literary activities—millions, tens of millions, and even hundreds of millions. But in the current algorithm, as long as you click on it, even if you look at it and turn it off, it will be counted in the number. In this process, does literature really go to the heart of the **?No one mentioned it. ”
Fan Yingchun, a lecturer at Peking University's Literature Xi Institute, said that sometimes being out of the circle may bring a moment of freshness and excitement, but the lack of depth and shallow concepts are more serious problems.
Liu Yueyue, a lecturer at the School of Literature at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also believes that the so-called Internet celebrity effect is not considered to be out of the circle, "For me, the out of the circle of literature should be a change, a change in discourse and concepts." ”
Liu Shiyu, an assistant researcher in the creative research department of the Chinese Writers Association, thought of a story about sheep. Tie a sheep to a stake with a rope 9 meters long, can the sheep eat the lawn 10 meters away?When it comes to the topic of "out of the circle" in ** literature, he often thinks about whether we are the ones who tie the sheep or the sheep that are tethered.
Today, I tweeted a comment on WeChat, and the lower left corner shows the number of readers, which may be dozens or thousands. But if you think about it, maybe the only one who really looks from the beginning to the end is me, except for the editing teacher. We all say that when the circle is broken, the 'circle' shrinks to infinitesimal size, and it becomes a 'point', standing on the 'point', am I in the circle or outside the circle?'Circles' don't really exist. Today, when we say that literature should be wonderful, the subject matter should be rich, and criticism should have cross-border concepts, these are actually their own business, and whether everyone should be shrouded in literature is too big for us to think about writers and critics. ”
The 7th Yangtze ** Year Critics Forum The Paper reporter Luo Xin pictured.
The theoretical anxieties of young critics.
In addition to being out of the circle, young critics feel a kind of theoretical anxiety in their own practice. Liu Shiyu's last sentence made the young critics present smile: "What I said above does not involve any theory, but if there is an academic journal to ask for a manuscript, I will definitely have to add twenty or thirty notes to be sure, this is my theoretical anxiety today." ”
According to Zhan Yubing, a young associate researcher in the Department of Chinese at Fudan University, the theoretical anxiety of literature also lies in whether literature can produce knowledge on its own, and whether such knowledge is effective, whether it gives more criticism possibilities in the face of more complex contemporary creative fields, and whether it breaks the scope of existing research. "I think genre is a valid concept that can be proposed, and such a concept is also a breaking circle, and this breaking circle is very interesting. ”
Jiang Xiao, a lecturer at Beijing Normal University's School of Liberal Arts, said that no matter what kind of perspective is reflected, the final solution basically includes returning to literature itself. "As the subject of criticism, we should have a complete heart. When a person attains inner wholeness or inner truth, he can unleash the true aesthetic power. ”
Albert Einstein explained the universe with an equation, and I think the best theories also have a great poetry that overwhelms everything, helping us to clarify the complex world, so that we can still see things clearly and firmly in the chaos, in many moments of confusion. He Jiayu, assistant researcher of the Creation Research Department of the Chinese Writers Association, said.
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