Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 807 Enlightened Fang Ya
"Do you mind if I ask you why there are no female characters in Lord of the Flies?" Fang Ya asked.

Zhang Zhong shook his head, "I don't mind, but I'm afraid I can't answer your question. In fact, the lack of female characters in this book is not deliberately designed, but it just happened naturally when it was written."

"So, the reason why there are no female characters in this book is actually caused by your subconscious mind?"

"you can say it this way."

"I saw your interview at the Goncourt Literature Prize. You mentioned sentimentalism. Of course, I know you don't know what sentimentalism is. What I'm curious about is that you really paid attention to sentimentalism. Is it?" Fang Ya asked.

"I understand a little bit." Zhang Chong replied.

Speaking of sentimentalism, Zhang Zhong has a better understanding of related works on earth, and Rousseau's "New Heloise" and Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" are more impressive.

Of Rousseau's works, Zhang Zhong has actually read only three of them, apart from "New Heloise", they are "Confessions" and "Emile".

As for Rousseau's "The Social Contract", Zhang Zhong only read a little bit.

He himself was not too fond of Rousseau, especially when he read "The Confessions" back then, it made him feel very uncomfortable. It was more like justification than confession.

Compared with Ji Xianlin's "Tsinghua Garden Diary", "Confessions" is obviously lacking in sincerity, and it is both right and wrong.

As for Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther", it is a well-known work, and it became famous far and wide because some people committed suicide after reading this book.

When Zhang Zhong read this book, he didn't have any thoughts of suicide. After all, the times are different, the age of reading the book is different, and the experience is also different.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "New Heloise" are both masterpieces of sentimentalism, but they are on earth.

The sentimentalism on Starfish is mainly based on the British writer Roddy, whose masterpieces "The Boy at the Alley" and "Crowder the Busy Man" both embody strong sentimentalism.

Sentimentalism advocates sensibility, ignores reason, advocates using emotion to restrain and replace rationality, and focuses on describing inner activities.

After so many years, in today's materialistic and extremely rich era, sentimentalism is also very popular.

Some literary youths advertise themselves as advocating romanticism, but in fact what they love is sentimentalism.

To express the sentimentalism revived in three words, it is "I am miserable".

To express it in four words, it is "self-pity and self-pity".

I am so miserable, we common people are so miserable, the rich are ruthless for the sake of being rich, my heart is full of resentment, I feel that the world is unfair, you have to sympathize with me, sympathizing with me is sympathizing with yourself.

Zhang Zhong did not mean to belittle sentimentalism, but different literary consciousnesses have their special significance in different times. Sentimentalism is no different from moaning without illness in the present.

But at that time, it was a rebellion against the cold rationalism and dead classicism of the aristocracy.

For example, heliocentric theory.

Now if you want to tell people that the sun is the center of the universe, many people will definitely think you are an idiot.

But if you told people in the fifteenth century that the sun was the center of the universe and that starfish revolved around it, you were a great man.

"When it comes to sentimentalism, you don't seem to be interested?" Seeing that Zhang Zhong lacked interest, Fang Ya asked.

"I'm different from you. I don't engage in academic research. All literary genres and literary concepts are for me to learn from. If I can't learn from them, I put them aside. I don't think about their relationship and origin. "

Fang Ya smiled and said, "You are too modest. I have read the "Literary Diary" you wrote, and I have also watched some videos of your lectures. If you say that you have no research on literary theory, then those of us who are academics People who study it are just messing around."

In fact, Fang Ya wanted to ask Zhang Zhong's opinion on scar literature, but he didn't ask in the end.

And the reason why he wanted to ask this question was because the relationship between Zhang Zhong and Li Siqi had never been very good, but he also had a very close relationship with Wang Yi.

Fang Ya wanted to know the internal reasons for the formation of this relationship between characters.

But after thinking about it, it seems a bit wishful thinking to try to explore the deep meaning of the writers' literary works from this relationship between characters.

If this is also useful, they don't do other things to do academic research, and just go to the gossip in the literary circle every day.

……

Zhang Zhong and Fang Ya sat outside the courtyard of Qingluo Xiaozhu until the sun went down, and Xu Yuhan and Pengpeng who ran out to play also came back.

Pengpeng also held a painting in her hand, which was her sketch from life today.

Zhang Zhong held the work in his hand, and a big rock was drawn on it. The composition is simple, but the light and shadow are well done.

In the past few years, Pengpeng has made rapid progress, and has become very proficient in mastering color, light and shadow.

Fang Ya looked at the painting and said, "Unexpectedly, at such a young age, Peng Peng's level is very high."

Zhang Chong said with a smile, "Teacher Fang is not only engaged in academic research, but also pays attention to art?"

"Not to mention paying attention." Fang Ya waved his hand and said, "But occasionally I will look at it. My grandson also draws, but the level is worrying. Compared with Pengpeng, it is much worse."

"Let Sun also study art?"

"It's not learning, it's just a hobby. The little bastard is not sure. He said he wanted to learn the harmonica a few days ago. My son bought him a harmonica, and he got tired of playing it in two days. Now he said he wanted to learn the accordion. , his father didn't give it to him at the moment, and he was in a mood for two days."

"It seems that Ling Sun has a talent for music."

"Bullshit musical talent, he argues about learning any musical instrument every day, and learns everything for 3 minutes. But he plays football well, and he didn't bother about learning. He was just playing anyway, and he even made a name for himself. Less prize. I think, in two years, if he really wants to play football, we will let him go." Fang Ya said.

"Teacher Fang is open-minded."

Parents in China have a lot of expectations for their children's hobbies. Some interests are good and they hope to develop a skill, but some interests are good. They hope they are just hobbies.

For example, in various sports, especially football, domestic parents may agree with their children to play football, but most of them are unwilling to let them develop in the direction of professional players.

And some parents even want to deprive them of this hobby, thinking that playing football is purely for fun, which affects learning and is easy to get injured.

So Fang Ya said that he supported his grandson in this direction, and Zhang Zhong admired him very much.

Thinking about it in his own shoes, if Pengpeng said he wanted to become a professional player, Zhang Zhong would not agree so openly.

(End of this chapter)