The Great Era of Rebirth: 1993

  Chapter 190, Interview with People's Literature (Subscribe!)

  Tao Ge nodded, without doubt.

   She carefully selected 16 books just now, and carefully read a section of each book with a page number with notes, and found that those reading insights were not written casually.

   But each article has a deep textual foundation, and each article has a deep meaning.

   Glancing at the book wall again, Tao Ge suddenly admired the young man.

   Before I came, I thought he might be the kind of extremely gifted genius.

   But after actually touching it, I realized that behind the great talent is hard work and solidity.

   Zhang Xuan poured her a cup of tea.

  Tao Ge took the teacup and took a sip, put down the cup, raised his right wrist, looked at his watch, and asked Zhang Xuan:

"are you ready?"

   Zhang Xuan smiled and nodded, without answering, with a relaxed expression on his face.

   Seeing this, Tao Ge also sat on the opposite chair, took over the assistant's document and flipped through the pages, and then spoke to Zhang with a smile:

   "I hope this interview is a time roaming with friends.

   Today we are going to talk about your creation, and talk about the changes in your creative mentality and life in the longer creative cycle than a novel.

   Your book writes about suffering, about what this land has experienced. But I'm still more interested, how do you "ruthlessly" let your characters face those hardships? "

   Zhang Xuan smiled, then withdrew his expression and said solemnly:

   "My life was suffering. I was crawling and rolling in suffering. I don't think there is anything that can't be faced with suffering. On the contrary, only after suffering can I taste the sweetness of the world.

In the novel   The Sound of the Wind, I mainly want to write about the struggle between people and suffering, and to remember the struggles of those martyrs during the period of great change.

   When one day a group of people is not afraid of suffering, a country is not afraid of suffering, and even when they can get close to suffering, this group of people and this country are very powerful. "

   Tao Ge laughed and gave an expression of admiration, and then officially started today's interview.

  Tao Ge said, "Let's start talking about the outside of "Wind Sound", shall we?"

   Zhang Xuan nodded: "Okay, there is indeed a lot of interesting talk about "Wind Sound"."

   Tao Ge asked: "I understand that you used the pseudonym "March" to publish an article on Zhiyin and Youth Digest for a year.

   Then you suddenly voted "Wind Sound" for People's Literature. The brushwork structure and style of writing before and after are very different. Is there a secret connection between the two? "

  Grandma a bear!

   I knew that these bad things could not be hidden from anyone, and I knew they would be revealed...

   Inwardly depressed, Zhang Xuan replied calmly on the surface:

   "You also learned this afternoon that my previous life was unsatisfactory, and the tens of thousands of yuan in foreign debt even put my family into dire straits.

   At that time, in order to make a living and to change the predicament of eating sweet potato rice, I tried to contribute to Zhiyin and Youth Digest, but I didn't expect that I would vote for one and one vote. "

   Speaking of this, Zhang Xuanqing couldn't help but smile and continued:

   "Don't mention it, it was because of the repeated votes that I discovered that I have a talent for writing.

   Later, things got better, and I found that it was not difficult to only contribute to Zhiyin and Youth Digest, and I even felt that it was a bit of a waste of time.

   So I came up with an idea, why not write something profound?

   Then he stumbled onto the road.

   Every day, I started to supplement the books on military espionage and began to write rumors, wanting to see if I had this material. "

   Tao Ge said with a smile: "The fact is that you wrote it out, confirming that you are the material."

   Zhang Xuan nodded and said, "I also think I have a talent for writing.

   This kind of talent is mainly reflected in the ability to find the direction and endure suffering, and can spend one night thinking about a sentence, a plot, and a story.

  I strive for perfection, even to the point of being obsessed. Sometimes, for a single sentence and an idea, I will even start all over again and start from scratch, so that I spend a lot of time and accumulate many versions of scraps. "

   Tao Ge asked: "How many editions have you revised? Are those scraps still there?"

   Zhang Xuan said: "A scrap manuscript is also a manuscript, this is also my hard work, naturally."

   Tao Ge asked, "Can I take a look?"

   Zhang Xuan said: "Of course you can. I know people like you. If you don't show it to you, you will definitely not give up."

   said, the two of them smiled tacitly.

   Zhang Xuan opened the drawer and made room.

  Tao Ge looked at the three drawers full of manuscripts and the stacks of handwritten manuscripts, and his head was dizzy, and he was very shocked!

   She counted.

Edition.

  Two editions.

   three editions.

  …

  …

   Thirteenth Edition.

   A total of thirteen modified versions.

  Tao Ge started to pick up some of them and read them, looking at the meticulous and beautiful pen characters, and the changes in different content in different versions before and after, she was more and more surprised.

   At a certain moment, I saw her hand move and asked the photographer to take a close-up of the drawer.

  Tao Ge sighed: "This is the most precious treasure. It is worthwhile to see this scene."

   Then she turned her head and asked Zhang Xuan: "It took you a lot of time and effort to write about the wind."

Zhang Xuan was quiet for a few seconds, and then said in a deep voice, "Yes, I spent a lot of energy, in order to write about the wind, I only slept two hours a day for the past year, and I persisted until the chickens crowing every day. What does the upper village look like?"

   Hearing this, Tao Ge looked at this too young face, and looked at these eyes filled with depth and vicissitudes, his heart trembled suddenly, full of admiration.

   After taking the close-up, they returned to their positions.

   Tao Ge asked: "Why did you think of writing about wind and espionage, and where did your original inspiration come from?"

   He was well prepared for these questions.

   Zhang Xuan got up and picked up a book from the shelf and said:

   "At that time, I was reading a collection of short stories by Borges, translated by Mr. Wang Yangle. There was a novel "The Garden of Crossing Paths", which is now translated as "The Garden of Forking Paths".

   This is a spy novel, telling the story of how a German spy during the European War passed a piece of information to his boss when he was hunted by a British spy.

   At that time, I couldn't calm down for a long time after reading it, and my heart was touched. Thinking of the hardships my country has experienced, and the stories told by the veterans in the village, I seem to have caught something, so I decided to write it. "

  Tao Ge said: "I have studied your novels, and I often evoke the relationship between you and Borges, but I didn't expect that behind your novels there really is a "ghost" of Borges.

   This may find the key to your novel's uniqueness. Next time we have a chance, we can talk about this issue. "

   Zhang Xuan spread his hands: "Actually, it's nothing, we can talk now. Have you read the "Bible"?"

  Tao Ge replied: "When I was studying at Oxford University, I borrowed it from a friend to read it."

   Zhang Xuan said: "Although I am not a Christian, I have read the "Bible" once, and I understand the stories in it.

   The four Gospels of the Bible: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It tells the story of the life of a man, Jesus.

  The four Gospels are different from each other, with similarities and differences, which both conflict and fill in the gaps, which gave me the inspiration to create "Wind Sound".

   "The sound of the wind is" three things are said. I D said, GD said, the author said. Therefore, the source of talking about a lot of things is not in the "Rashomon", but in the Bible. I also created the outline structure because of inspiration. "

Tao Ge asked: "If you don't say that no one can see these intricate writing secrets, it also reminds so-called professional readers, including me, to restore and reproduce a writer's personal writing history or writing logic. Do not rely solely on superficial information such as the time and publication of the work.

  The writing of a writer is a rather long process of growth from getting inspiration to the end.

   At the same time, I found that the writing process of "Wind Sound" is actually retelling the same story over and over again. You seem to enjoy this kind of happiness? "

Zhang Xuan replied: "I like to write a story upside down. All good novels are revised, and I am superstitious about this. "Wind Sound" is also pondered over and over again, but the process is not happy at all, but full of challenges. "

Tao Ge asked: "You are good at grasping the readers' minds, setting the light and darkness of the novel world, and then transforming yourself to appear as a witness who freely haunts the world of light and darkness, and speaks out about the stumble in the darkness, and obtains a package of darkness. It is the most reliable "herald" of the "darkness" of the world. For the world we live in, are those illuminated parts really that reliable?"

   Zhang Xuan said: "I am not an optimist. I am afraid of the dark, brutal human nature, and I am eager to expose it."

Tao Ge asked: I see a very stable structure in "The Sound of the Wind": facing the same past event, different parties have different "memories", readers should first listen to the "Dongfeng" recalled by Pan Lao, and then listen to Gu Xiao. The "westerly wind" recalled by the dream, and finally across time to feel the "quiet wind" narrated by "I".

   This is a very postmodern style of pluralism. The logic behind it is to admit that the truth is infinite, and the historical memory that can be recorded is only a "small truth".

   In other words, it identifies memory as a social activity, and revises the "standard image" of those memories through memories that are within each individual's differences.

   You mentioned earlier the "illumination" of the wind by the Four Gospels. In fact, it's hard to say nowadays who discovered who first, postmodernism and "biblical" narratives, they seem to come at us at the same time.

   Today, when avant-garde narratives are gradually withdrawing, we seem to be more inclined to regard the kind of postmodernism brought about by deconstruction as a kind of relativism, and believe that there is a truth behind postmodernism.

   Having said so much, what I want to know is the triple narrative of "East Wind", "West Wind" and "Quiet Wind". What kind of situation do you think such a confrontational narrative structure brings the truth of history or the truth of literature? "

   Zhang Xuan replied: "You should know that the real life is actually filled with too much unreal and absurd.

   is even more absurd than fiction.

   And the novel has the privilege of fiction, but is deprived of the least power of the unreal. The cumbersome eavesdropping equipment in "Wind Sound" must not be replaced by a pinhole probe, and the bamboo forest in the yard cannot be replaced by a coconut forest, otherwise it will be false.

  Any distorted object or anomalous detail in a novel can be fatal, because giving it the privilege of fiction is to have high fidelity and prevent falsehood. So, Hemingway said, he doesn't allow any untruth to come into his novels. "

   Tao Ge agrees with this point of view and asks when the topic changes:

   "Let's talk about the publication of "Wind Sound", it seems to have won a first place. You must know that people's literature did not publish novels before, so why did you submit it to a magazine that did not publish long stories?"

   Zhang Xuan felt dizzy, why didn't he pay attention to this?

   But it doesn’t matter, flickering we are also talented, who wouldn’t?

So he replied with a helpless smile: "You know my family background, you know that I am also a student, and I don't have much knowledge and connections on the road of literature. I have heard people's literature, and I also believe in the quality of my works. quality."

   Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan paused and revealed himself: "Actually, you don't know, I have been waiting for news since I sent the manuscript to you People's Literature.

  Wait on the left, wait on the right, more than 20 days have passed, and I was very impatient at that time, thinking that the manuscript would sink into the sea.

  How do you know that your people's literature still does not publish long novels?

   Honestly, if I had known this, I might not have dared to vote. Now think about it, sometimes ignorance is a blessing. "

   Hearing him making fun of himself, Tao Ge laughed out loud.

   Even the photographer and assistant grinned.

   Tao Ge smiled and said, "Fortunately, you voted for People's Literature, otherwise we would have missed such an excellent work."

   Zhang Xuan said: "Thank you."

   Tao Ge asked: "The "Wind Sound" will be serialized soon, and will be published in physical form in April next year. Do you have anything to say about it? Do you have any expectations?"

   Zhang Xuan straightened his body and said, "I hope "The Sound of the Wind" will become a bestseller, even better than this year's popular "White Deer Plain" and "Waste City"."

  Tao Ge widened his eyes and asked tightly, "You mean, "The Sound of the Wind" is better than "Bailuyuan" and "Abandoned Capital"?"

Hey!

   This **** has been merciful all night, and finally set up a set.

   This is to start a war?

   However, Zhang Xuan and his life were fearless, not afraid of going to war, not afraid of scolding famous writers in the air.

  From the point of view of marketing: if you want your book to be well-known, and if you want to quickly open up the market, this step is really indispensable.

  The fragrance of wine is also afraid of the deep alley.

  Compared with Lao Chen and Lao Jia now, he is a nobody.

   scold, scold, what are you afraid of?

   The more scolded, the greater the fame of the old man, and the better the book sold.

   As for recruiting hackers?

  It doesn't matter, even if you don't scold them now, when you become famous in the future, in a circle, newcomers will still be suppressed by old people.

   This is a law, and no one can escape it.

   is a matter of time, so what is there to be afraid of?

   Saying it again, scolding and scolding can be regarded as paving the way for the "hidden" of the next novel.

   Facing Tao Ge's expectations and Tao Ge's aggressive eyes, Zhang Xuan pondered for a while and said:

   "I have seen Bailuyuan and Waste Capital, they are very well written, and they are very good works."

   said, the old man's words changed.

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