1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 233 The Evangelist

The 80-level performance class of Chinese opera has a high success rate. At least in Lin Weimin's opinion, there are many familiar faces, and there are also mixed wrists like Jiang Wen.

Lin Weimin came to support the students today, which made Jiang Wen a solid presence in the school. The school leaders and teachers were also very happy. When they invited Lin Weimin to dinner in the afternoon, they specially called a few students , including Jiang Wen.

There is no such thing as the so-called chaos in the later generations, that is, the teachers introduce a few students who they think have potential to Lin Weimin, so that they can get acquainted.

Lin Weimin, as a disciple of Mr. Taishan Beidouwan in the Chinese theater circle, has also achieved outstanding achievements in drama creation. It will definitely be beneficial for these students to get to know him.

Among these students, apart from Jiang Wen from the Acting Department, there were also a few 79-level students from the Directing Department.

People in later generations often mention the fifth-generation directors from the 78-level director department of Yanjing Film Academy, but few people mention the 79-level director department of Chinese opera.

This class also has a high success rate, but most of these people are active in the system and on the theater stage, so they are not well-known among the public.

For example, in the skit "Yang Bailao and Huang Shiren" copied by Lin Weimin, the original director role in the skit was played by Lou Naiming, a student from the Directing Department of the 79th grade. She was a cameo at the time and was the director herself.

There is also Wang Xiaoying, whose name is very similar to Wang Xiaoying, a classmate of the Institute of Literature, who is also a heavyweight in the domestic drama circle in later generations.

After eating a meal in a friendly manner, Lin Weimin finally walked out of the campus of Chinese opera.

Another weekend, Lin Weimin came to Yenching Normal University as scheduled.

Yanjing Normal University is located in Beitaipingzhuang. In the early 80s, there was no Third Ring Road.

The Yuanwanglou Hotel not far away is already considered a high-rise building, isolated there, and further north is the vegetable field.

Zhang Jianjun and two classmates deliberately stood at the door to meet Lin Weimin, and a few of them entered the campus. Compared with the campus of Zhongxi Opera located in the alley, the campus of Yenching Normal University is much wider, with students coming and going on the road, full of vigor.

"Mr. Lin, I invited you this time to give a speech to our Chinese Department. Unexpectedly, the news spread more and more widely. Not only students from our school, but also students from other schools came, so we We temporarily changed the location of the lecture to the school auditorium."

Zhang Jianjun explained to Lin Weimin on the road.

Zhang Jianjun and the others are students of the Chinese Department of Yanjing Normal University, and Lin Weimin was invited to give a speech in the name of the Chinese Department.

After making an appointment with Lin Weimin, when he returns to school, he must say hello to the department and publicize it to his classmates.

At this time, the links between the major universities in Yenching were very close. Some people heard that Lin Weimin was going to give a speech at Yenching Normal University, so they rushed here in groups of friends and companions.

In addition, the students from other departments in the school who heard the news crowded the lecture theater borrowed by Zhang Jianjun and the others in the early morning, and there was not even a place to step in the classroom.

Seeing that the classroom was already full, but more and more people came, Zhang Jianjun and the others had no choice but to find a way temporarily and borrow the school auditorium.

The auditorium of the Normal University is about the same size as the Capital Theatre, but the decoration is not as good as that of the theater. With the auditorium, the students who come to give speeches finally have a place to stay.

As soon as Lin Weimin entered the auditorium, a huge sound field enveloped him.

"How many people are here?" He couldn't help asking Zhang Jianjun.

Zhang Jianjun shook his head and said, "I haven't counted them. But our school auditorium can accommodate 500 people. Judging by the current situation, there must be more than 1000 people."

Lin Weimin saw that the auditorium was still filled with people, and he couldn't hold back a thousand people. This scene is a bit big!
The group of literature lovers in this era is too large.

All the way to the rostrum, a classmate who was familiar with Zhang Jianjun saw them leading a tall man with an outstanding temperament, but he didn't look like a student.

Immediately shouted to Zhang Jianjun: "Jianjun, is Teacher Lin beside you?"

"Yes!"

Zhang Jianjun only answered, and the students around Wu Yang seemed to explode.

After a while, Lin Weimin only felt the wave of people rushing towards him.

Weed!

Lin Weimin hurriedly ran towards the rostrum. Fortunately, he was very close to the rostrum at this time, and he ran to the rostrum in three steps at a time.

The wave of people formed by the students behind them was also surging at this time, and their voices were noisy.

"Everyone, don't squeeze! Don't squeeze!"

Zhang Jianjun and the others tried their best to maintain discipline, using their bodies as a human wall to block the surging crowd.

Seeing that the situation below was getting more and more chaotic, Lin Weimin didn't have time to walk up the side steps and climbed onto the rostrum.

Shouted loudly: "Students! I am Lin Weimin, everyone calm down! Don't move! Don't move!"

In the thousands-square-meter auditorium, there was a lot of voices. Lin Weimin's voice was not loud, but he stood on the stage and attracted the attention of many students. Everyone looked at Lin Weimin standing on the podium, from the students near the rostrum They started, and the noise gradually stopped, and the turbulent waves of people gradually calmed down.

Zhang Jianjun and others hurried up to the rostrum, and handed over to Lin Weimin the microphone that had already been connected.

"Hey, hello!" Lin Weimin tried the microphone, and the loud voice spread throughout the auditorium through the power amplifier, and the students in the auditorium finally fell silent.

"Students, hello everyone, I'm Lin Weimin! Hehe, I've felt everyone's enthusiasm just now, please sit down now. Students who don't have seats can squeeze with the people around them, and if they can't squeeze, they can sit on their laps. On, of course, I mean between the same sex."

There was a burst of laughter among the students below, the atmosphere in the auditorium became active, and the students began to sit down in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better, Lin Weimin took off the microphone and said to Zhang Jianjun, "There's no need for introductions and announcements, I'll just start."

Zhang Jianjun nodded. What happened just now broke him into a cold sweat. At this time, only Teacher Lin can command the turbulent students in the audience. The most important thing is safety.

After the communication, Lin Weimin saw that the students were almost seated, and the silence in the auditorium was restored. People came in from time to time at the door. He held the microphone in his hand and said, "Then I will start!"

"This time I was invited by our students from the Chinese Department of Yenching Normal University to come to your school to exchange ideas on literary creation with the students.

I didn't expect so many people to come today, and many of them may not be from the Chinese Department, so everyone just listened reluctantly. If you have any questions, you can raise your hands to ask questions after I finish speaking. "

After Lin Weimin finished speaking, he stopped to look at the many students below, everyone looked very serious.

"The content of my speech today is based on a few articles published in the first issue of "Contemporary" two months ago. Ma Yuan's "The Temptation of Gangdis" and Yu Hua's "Going Away" everyone Have you seen it all?"

Following Lin Weimin's question, the students below raised their arms in unison, looking like a lush forest at a glance.

"Okay, let's put it down, everyone, it seems that everyone is a loyal reader of "Contemporary"."

The students below laughed.

"Everyone who has read these two novels should be able to find that these two works are very different from the novels published in various publications today. I once mentioned a concept in the editor's note of this issue-the avant-garde Literature is used to describe their style. Many people may not understand and feel that I am playing tricks.

Including the article I published on the "Literary News" some time ago, everyone should have heard of it, there are both supporters and critics, and among the critics, there is a group of people who hold the view that they think that Ma Yuan and Yu Hua To be precise, it is Ma Yuan. What he writes cannot be called a novel at all. They are all four different images that I forced out in order to create an authoritative image for "Contemporary" and myself.

Many of the students present may also feel annoyed by falling into his narrative trap when they first read Ma Yuan's works.

I can understand all of these, and here today, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you what the so-called avant-garde literature really refers to. "

When Lin Weimin said this, there was a little noise from below.

In the first issue of "Contemporary" in 1983, He Yunlu's "New Star" was the most popular, followed by Ma Yuan's "The Temptation of Gangdise". Young people always have a surprisingly high acceptance of new things. Most people are just watching the excitement.

However, there are still many people who are disgusted with Ma Yuan's style of writing that emphasizes form and structure, thinking that he has broken away from the essence of literature and has become a kind of word game.

The traditional "novel view" is being challenged.

Lin Weimin ignored the noise from the audience, his expression was calm, and his tone of voice was unhurried.

"First of all, let's talk about what is meant by 'pioneering literature'?
The term "pioneering" is easy for everyone to understand, but what about the word "literature"?
To understand the meaning of this word, we need to analyze Ma Yuan's "The Temptation of Gangdise". After understanding this article, we also understand the characteristics of avant-garde literature and understand what I mean avant-garde literature.

In The Temptation of Gandis, it actually tells several seemingly disconnected stories.

One story tells the experience of an old writer, another tells the process of Lu Gao and Yao Liang watching the burial, and the last story tells the story of the Tibetan brothers Dundup and Dunyue.

The structure of the novel is very unique, several stories are not related, they are established separately and connected in series in the same novel.The clues of the story are also very unclear, and they often come and go suddenly.Events often have no definite time and place, or some omissions are made in the process or in the result.

Although Ma Yuan uses the way of storytelling to narrate, he does not have the background, exaggeration and structure of the stories in the usual novels. This creates a contrast between suspense and structure, and consciously creates a sense of loss to the reader's expectations. .

Ma Yuan is also very unique in his narrative style. He keeps changing the person, and the person represents the perspective, the behavior and feelings of the characters. When narrating Qiongbu, he used second-person indirect narration; when narrating the experience of Lu Gao and Yao Liang watching the sky|burial and the stories of the brothers Dunzhu and Dunyue, he used the method of positive narration.

This method avoids purely objective description and subjective expression to a large extent, and maintains a close and natural connection with readers, similar to a sense of mystery of hearsay. "

After analyzing "The Temptation of Gangdise", Lin Weimin saw the blank faces of many students in the audience.

Although there were many literature lovers in the 80s, most of them were conformity and superficial hobbies.

Most of the students in the audience are actually here to meet literary idols. Shouldn’t the idols be like those poets who come to the school to communicate? Are these grand propositions of the world?
Mr. Lin, you caught a novel for us to analyze. Are you really treating us as students of the Chinese department?
Lin Weimin had no intention of appearing in front of others. This time he came here at the invitation of the Chinese Department, and he talked about literary creation. He welcomes literary lovers to listen, but let him talk about seemingly lofty, but in fact, in order to cater to everyone. Empty and weak content is really unnecessary.

In the past two years, he has seen too many so-called writers and poets pretending to be on the university campus. Wherever he goes, students gather and worship him like gods. It may be cool to watch, but it is really unnecessary.

People who rely on literature to make a living, bring literature to the altar, and in the end they can only rely on other people's offerings to make a living, isn't it pitiful?

From the masses, to the masses.Wouldn't it be better to spread the jerky concepts and novel content widely, so that readers will gradually accept and love it?He came today for this purpose.

The concept of avant-garde literature is still unfamiliar to many literature lovers, and it will be of great benefit to the vast number of young creators to let everyone understand this style as soon as possible.

As the behind-the-scenes driving force behind the promotion of pioneering literary authors such as Ma Yuan and Yu Hua to the public, Mr. Lin feels that he has a duty-bound responsibility.

"After analyzing "The Temptation of Gangdise", I don't know if you have realized that avant-garde literature actually has several important characteristics.

First, his cultural expression is mostly a rebellion and dissolution of the old meaningful model, and the author's creation no longer has a clear theme orientation and sense of social responsibility.

The second is to subvert the old view of reality in terms of literary concepts. On the one hand, it abandons the pursuit of historical truth and the essence of history, and on the other hand, it abandons the true reflection of reality. The text only has the function of self-reference.

Third, it is reflected in the narrative game in terms of text features, which are more flat, and the structure is more scattered and broken. The disintegration of text meaning also leads to the disappearance of text depth mode, and the characters tend to be symbolic. Abandoning the symbolic meaning mode can Use parody, irony, and other writing strategies. "

After Lin Weimin finished speaking, many students in the audience were even more at a loss.

Many people have watched "The Temptation of Gangdise", but why do they feel that they and Mr. Lin are not watching the same thing?

Teacher Lin, at least you should take our feelings into consideration, okay?

Most people looked blank, but there are still a small number of students who really love literature and are willing to delve into it understand the concepts Lin Weimin said.

Avant-garde literature, so that's what happened!

　Third more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)