Try to write the Chinese style - Interview with writer Jia
in Jia's memory, his father only once off the tears.
the Cultural Revolution, when teachers were labeled as counter-revolutionaries father, expelled from the village labor reform public have been sent back, that day Jia is working in the field, listening to people say that my father back, to quickly go out into the and ran home. His father saw him cry, and said: I harm my baby, I harm my baby!
this scene, engraved in the hearts of Jia. The passage of time does not dilute the slightest dull moment in history, but with the older, more and more deeply and to speak out. 44 years later, finally fermented 640,000 word novel today,
he shot the story, back to the beautiful landscapes, domestic animals thriving village is extremely poor occlusion, by dog urine moss called ugly, weird, self-esteem, innocent children's eyes, see 20th century That 60's largest political movement, to see when the wind blowing, all the vegetation is how the swing and lodging? This is his very intention of a work by modifying the three draft, rewrite each draft is word by word, writing around 200 million words words, with more than 300 sticks of bad pen, and he appreciated that this 300 Supporting pen
no resentment, no anger, that was spectacular trajectory described in Jia calm, there is a heavy sense of slow, but also absurd dramatic. But the catastrophe in which the interpretation of history, a deep dissection of human nature, but also everywhere.
study reported: This is a must be seen to slow down to read the works. When you are writing, taking into account the reader can accept it?
Jia: fast pace of life does not require the fast rhythm of literary works, and sometimes the contrary, the need to slow things, quiet things. The so-called fast-paced, there is no time to read the entire paragraph long, but since it is novel, of course, impossible to read an essay so convenient as the ancients said, May be seen a lot of TV series, soap operas can not see the kind of habit to read novels Yeah. In the writing process, I generally do not consider the market, the reader, these words may not sound good listening, but I think writers not only to adapt to the reader, but also to transform readers, for readers to follow you to read, if you always go to cater to the reader, you the reader a taste of finished and changed, always keep up with readers. I have another reason is that I can sell some paintings, the economy can protect the life, writing a little on the large degree of freedom in full accordance with my own ideas to write. I think that I and readers are in an era of a society, I view the world, the feeling of life will be like them, and also believe that they can come to read. Can not be all like, but there are always some people like it.
Reading Weekly: What motivates your writing pen to paper
Jia: I have always wanted to write this history. Family tragedies unforgettable impact on me, like wiping is also not erase. This is a movement, such as World War II, as in the history of mankind is not around the past. Since I went through that campaign, and I am almost 60 years old, the Cultural Revolution I was twelve-year-old, years younger than I know some people probably vague, the smallest on the whole do not know, I should write writing, this is responsibility and destiny it. I have been concerned about the contemporary works of contemporary life are written, finished, Passed so many years during the Cultural Revolution, what are precipitated, and many issues are worthy of reflection, my interest is in the fire of the Cultural Revolution, though not raised at the grassroots level, but why the fire that grass-roots level to burning out? I am familiar with the grassroots, I think the grassroots level of the soil should be the most important and best performance of the novel. I write novels, not memoirs, not reportage, fiction and is interested in humanity.
study reported: write this history, what you have done to prepare?
Jia: When I was twelve-year-old, although not the main groups of sports, but can be said to onlookers, the whole process to understand, but also suffered family tragedies in the sport, combat and suffering endured, both Facts and emotionally from the memories. All the circumstances and details of the book are then occurred. In addition to search their memories, I also find a lot of people understand the situation, many in the local information archives search. Almost all the places in China during the Cultural Revolution, everyone involved and participating, people are too poor to rich people moderate to strong with the hard people of poverty, coupled with the complex relationship between man and man in rural areas, the backlog of things too much, people would accustomed to the movement and was in motion, the evil of human nature to focus on the outbreak. Cultural Revolution, there may be political line in the upper struggle at the grassroots level, we can say there is no politics, into a personal grudge.
study reported: in retrospect, the Cultural Revolution had on how you personally affected? Now write that history, how do you mind?
Jia: the Cultural Revolution changed my fate, shattered dream I was in college, I only up to two days, did not read the first two days, and later by his father's Do not soldiers, not recruitment, private teachers do not, acting teachers do not. This makes my character changed, due to requirements Thirteen-year-old when I experienced a life prematurely hardship and inconstancy of human relationships. But everything has two sides, it is also the living conditions of that time to develop my ability to indulge in fantasy, the ability to withstand Yan Liang life, which has become my future as a writer of the capital. Now write that history, it passed four or five years, I have nearly 60 years, many questions went from the major aspects, we can say, I am calm, is the patient, and to the people how live rich, live freely, to live dignified, society should rely on to maintain, and how to get along with people.
study reported: protagonist
Jia: is there. Dog urine is a twelve-year-old children of moss, I was also twelve-year-old, I know that kids this age experience in the Cultural Revolution in the knowledge and ideas. Of course, the dog urine moss characters in the novel, after all, he focused a lot of people's stories.
study reported that: a unique identity, how is this form?
Jia: The wording may be more suitable for me. I have been writing of contemporary life, textual want to try Chinese style, combining both in fact very difficult, very difficult to reflect modern life, such as painting the same. This requires of life must be familiar with and master the details of life, pay attention to rhythm, to write full flavor. Essays can be written, six or seven hundred thousand words long written down lingering flavor is not easy to do. The wording from the Often say, Write something young, passionate, sharp edge outward some, older, may precipitate some, are in real life to write the real life experience with a personal thing, do not pay attention to technique, and can not afford transforms the , no law, and just want a homely words, just a plain out. Guren Jiang several stages,
study reported: this change, only age and experience the difference? There is nothing to do with imagination?
Jia: In fact, with the life of any wording related to living conditions with the relevant, with the view of the relevant literature. And there is no age imagination, imagination is the wisdom of the performance. Wisdom in daily life can be through the accumulation of things. I am writing this line is also engaged in thirty years, written a long time to write the most afraid of oil, and slide get out of ruts. If only slightly after the age of 50 know some things to write novels, but age is big, bad energy, life is really sad, and often there is no tooth cake, the cake did not have teeth. Human life can not do a few things, want to break, they can only move forward little by little, it was in a little bit of fun on the breakthrough.
study reported that: you have a sense of crisis it?
Jia: has been very strong. Out on the literary world is too cruel, a period of ten years, every time there are so many good writers read their works, you do not feel like a breakthrough does not.
study reported that: good work you have in mind is what? Is there a general standard?
Jia: good work can be diverse, I personally think that if one works out, people will not write the book read to produce the idea he could write, and who will write the book read, they have such a novel idea that he can not write, then this works just fine. Standards to see how a titration, the county has county standards, such as to meet the old, always can not get the provincial level. Province on the provincial standards, such as satisfaction with provincial standards and old, which is a provincial level. We look at some of the domestic film and television work, I feel good, quite a stir in the country Yeah, but when I saw some foreign dish, do not meet those of the country. Literature as well. Enough capacity, then say nothing, you can not ah this awareness. Unfortunately, this sense I came too late, and so understand something about the age of five-year-old post.
study reported: in the past, Now it seems weak, as the Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association President, how would you rate the author of Shaanxi groups?
Jia: Shaanxi, the number 80 after 90 after a lot of writers, in the whole country is not affected, and this is a fact. Writers work was writing for the writer to create an environment to help them solve some writing conditions, like a tree, water, pesticides, tillage same. However, the tree can grow into giant trees, but depend on the tree itself. The ancients said: flowers and be subject to the mountain god of Mary, a tree Not a dirt training. But I will say is that writing a new batch of people in Shaanxi are temporarily not form a large impact, they is very good, maybe when the emission is coming to a winter pen.
reporter's notes
, another expensive painting and calligraphy works enough to make him simply to keep writing, writer Jia still occasionally have a sense of desolation. But many times, he was glad that they are not old.
pay Jia finished last May, He said, no published works, the heart, panic, and published also excited. This is the same feeling and young. He said:
interpret this statement as the entry point Jia creation. All his works are looking for social events and personalities in the heart of the relationship between real life and spiritual life to explore the relationship, until now, Jia still used every year to the most developed and most impoverished areas where ����. The reason why the new name for He said that the Cultural Revolution, but also a person, a village, a country, a nation's history, through a village to write the whole of China is the biggest meaning.
Shujin Yu
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