"There is a Lamp" is still a work that faces the reality of today's countryside and explores the local soul of China and its painful transformation. Jia Pingwa's local series works? Gao Lao Zhuang, Missing the Wolf, Shaanxi Opera, Happiness, Ancient Furnace and At Most There are Lights contain all aspects of political, economic and cultural conflicts in rural areas of China under the background of modern transformation, and have an encyclopedic museum atmosphere. As far as his attention to the daily life in China is concerned, I personally think there is no second person.
It goes deep into the hearts of farmers, and its rich information, unpredictable human nature, intertwined grass-roots social and political life, family ethics and local ethics are all rich. Strictly speaking, from the beginning of Qin opera, Jia Pingwa consciously gave up the grand narrative structure and devoted himself to? Details? The way to show historical life, his perspective always likes to see the world from a grain of sand, a drop of water and a pinhole; Always write from the bottom of the people, and find information that is very important to our time from the smallest and most easily forgotten corner. This is similar to the butterfly effect. He flapped his wings in a small town in a valley in southern Shaanxi, but the radiation waves rippled in all directions. This is the characteristic of Jia Pingwa. "With light" has not left this function.
In Jia Pingwa's works, there are so many interesting things in a small woody cherry village. If the town government drives a carriage, it is shabby, but the trunk is big. Everything is in it, wobbling, but it's still walking. . The genre painting in Sakura Town is slowly unfolding, which is really fun, but it is not a negative gossip. It has its own connotation and turns it into nature. Sakura town was born with lice, and the black and white of lice led to the arrival of skin lice. When she came with a lamp, she tried to reform the bad habits of lice in the countryside, but it didn't work.
Sakura town has always abandoned cadres, and township cadres have had many accidents, but that's because cadres have shit under their asses. If you want to be capable, you have to live people into characters. For example, the local people became the deputy secretary-general of the provincial government at dawn and became a legend. It is said that this is related to the war to defend geomantic omen, prevent highway crossing and prevent tunnel excavation. Some people also say that because the two decrees under his eyes are particularly long, he is a big official and he belongs to the dragon. He has been holding a cigarette in his hand. That's called Yun Conglong. As soon as he left, the panda left, so he became a national treasure This kind of small talk is also very interesting.
Jia Pingwa's works, in limited time and space, describe the character's quality and connotation carefully and patiently. It is driven by a lot of details, and it has entered the interior of life by relying on details. And look at the arrangement of the rural experience video conference, how nervous and funny it is; Look at the shallowness, vanity, headstrong and power alienation of Vice Mayor Ma; Look at the struggle between two sand factories in Xueyuan. Two rural strongmen are fighting each other, and the mayor is riding a wooden horse, balancing and taking pains; Mr. Tang gave a coup, slippery and riding a wall.
These are all knowledge that can't be seen in the news. We used to say that Balzac showed us a realistic history of French society in his Human Comedy. Here, we might as well borrow it. Jia Pingwa also presented us with a realistic local China history with his voluminous novels, which provided us with many details in economics, sociology and custom history.
Jia Pingwa's picture is dynamic, and the rural areas and farmers in China are irretrievably in decline and disintegration, just as it is difficult for Shaanxi opera to integrate into modern life no matter how it is sung. From the perspective of socialization, disintegration is inevitable; From the perspective of humanistic inheritance, it is also sad. Jia Pingwa's works are potentially contradictory and tangled, and naturally have high aesthetic value because of their potential tragedy.
Some articles think that "with lights" is too messy. In fact, Jia Pingwa is characterized by chaos, which is also a kind of richness from another perspective. Some people say that his writing is not sharp, but in fact, he has a sharp edge. What do you mean? Cotton wrapped in iron? The awl is hidden in the cloth, and it doesn't shout loudly, but the problem it touches is profound.
Wang Housheng led the villagers to complain. In fact, it's no big deal, which affects some people's political achievements at most. But under some hints, he was pushed and beaten by the town government officials and developed into torture. The scene is tragic. But the secretary of this town seems to be more open-minded, saying that I can't guarantee democracy, but I want to maintain stability; He also said that I could not guarantee the rule of law. I want to make it clear. Its logic is chaotic. This is the darkness in a corner on the ground floor of China. The complaining farmer kicked him away like a stone. Can you say it is not sharp?
Compared with Jia Pingwa's previous works, There is an obvious idealistic tendency in A Lamp, which is mainly reflected in the right? Do you have a light? About the shaping of this character. The work mainly depicts her personality beauty and inner spiritual pursuit. As an individual, wearing a light will definitely not change many problems in reality. She is a weak force, but she can shine a little herself. The firefly array at the end of the work, like Buddha's light, is symbolic. Everyone's light can be merged into the hope of the nation.
This is very touching. There are two ways to describe a lamp. On the one hand, she has the ability to write with a lamp, can adapt to the secular world, and has the courage to take responsibility. In a catastrophic accident, although she was covered in blood, she was still shouting loudly not to let the murderer escape; On the other hand, she wrote that she was free from vulgarity. In an environment that can't change the reality, she can only pin her spirit and ideal on writing for Yuan. This image is unique, desolate, beautiful and sentimental.
Some critics believe that Jia Pingwa lacks sharp ideological edge, firm spiritual stance and clear value judgment compared with some writers who have made the humanistic declaration of "crashing into the building". I don't entirely agree with this view. I admire some writers who insist on humanistic spirit, but for literature, direct expression of ideas is not the most important. Just because some writers talk fiercely does not mean that the image world of their works is equally fierce.
Literature does not transform philosophical thoughts into images and narratives, but naturally conveys writers' thoughts and feelings through complex artistic images. In my opinion, Jia Pingwa is really one of the few writers in China who dare to face up to and try to explain this huge, strange, complicated, tangled and difficult-to-sort era. At present, the biggest problem for China writers is that they have lost the ability to grasp and interpret this era, so they can only abandon wholeness, focus on local interests, or be satisfied with typology.
Jia Pingwa is not a prophet, but his works have potential anxiety of the times, and he is at a loss, but he knows how to honestly start from the details and start from the bottom. He is faced with the problem of not naming names, or many people point out that he lacks ideological light, penetration, generalization and macro grasp, and stays in the matter itself, but he has never given up his strong pursuit of this era as a whole, which is very rare. Jia Pingwa is a person with transcendental pursuit, which is different from the plane simulation writing on the basis of facts. He has the mind to interpret the pursuit of our times, but at the same time he has no complete ability to interpret our times, which is also a tragic conflict.
When I watch the process of "With Lights", I often think of a problem: Jia Pingwa has written for so many years, nearly100000 words. What is the meaning of this writing? In other words, what is the value of his writing? Why is it necessary and indispensable for the times, or vice versa? Surrounded by fragmentation, Weibo and shallow reading, do people still have the patience to read his country stories? If not, is it his fault or the cause of the times? I think Jia Pingwa has been looking for nationalization writing in the world context, or China writing and localization writing in the world context. From his early youth writing, to February Apricot, to Hei's, to Tiangou, to impetuous, to Waste Capital, to Medical Record, to Gao Laozhuang and even to Lighting a Lamp, he is looking for the expression of China's experience.
He made great efforts in exploring China's writing methods or artistic forms, mainly in language, discourse, style and charm. In fact, Jia Pingwa's reference to the West is not obvious, mainly spiritual and philosophical. Everyone says "There is a Light" has changed a lot. In fact, there is another very important change, that is, the change of his language style. There are expressions of the so-called Han and Wei character, and there are short sentences that remind me of Shi Shuo Xin Yu, which are concise and concise.
Recently, I have seen more than once that there are a lot of fast and intensive news, and the existence of works like "Lights" is meaningless, which means problems about rural grassroots, such as petitioning, demolition, family planning, disaster relief and so on. It is often seen in newspapers, and everyone knows that it is very similar to the comprehensive management office's daily work with lights. According to this statement, the word 140 Weibo is enough. Articles are useless, and literary works are useless.
This involves the significance and value of today's literature. Now, watching the harem drama, Tibetan drama and martial arts transformation anti-Japanese drama on TV, I wonder why there are so few thrilling works focusing on contemporary life. I have also read many officialdom novels, and I don't want to belittle all officialdom novels.
But I still feel that, by contrast, I am reading under another high-level light. I feel that I am reading feelings, the complexity of human nature, the subtlety of emotions, the charm of life, the changeable world in the transition period, and the world outside my world. It can be said that it is the beauty of reading American literature and Chinese. This has entered the aesthetic circle of literature, and literature needs a humanistic connotation, which is by no means what literature news needs. Literature has the field of literature. Unfortunately, people often have no patience to enter the field of literature to recite and experience.
Some critics also believe that the countryside is disintegrating now, and in the process of modernization transformation, the soil as local literature is about to disappear, so local literature is also facing the dilemma of ending. It is certainly right to point out the predicament of local literature and call for new development, but this judgment is not in line with the reality of life, literary tradition and reality.
China's countryside is still vast, and as a big agricultural country, it still exists in reality; To say the least, even if China is like some industrial and commercial countries with no agriculture at all, China's local literature will still exist as a tradition, and seeking roots is still an inexhaustible pursuit.
It's hereditary and can't be removed. As long as the Chinese nation exists, the local spirit will not die out. However, its theme will change, the field will change, the spiritual composition of the characters will change, and the way of thinking and lifestyle will also change. This change is bound to be drastic, unprecedented and profound, with some kind of tragedy, but the local humanistic tradition as a spiritual home will not break and die out. Jia Pingwa is important today because he has attracted worldwide attention in expressing China's experience, because what he wrote is related to the trend and prospect of national spirit.
There are still some shortcomings in There are Lights. I especially don't like the setting that I always write to Yuan with a lamp. I think Yuan was too specific. Is he a big official? The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee makes people feel that the high spiritual level of Deng must be attached to a high official. Will it become a secular, vain and even naive thing? According to my ideal, the object of writing a letter with a lamp can be one? Gordo? , can be an unknown object, that is, an outlet of the soul.
She is bored to death every day. She keeps a diary every day, which is a good prose and emotional sustenance. Why does it have to be dawn? Second, although Jia Pingwa's "There is a Lamp" has changed a lot, the plot clues of "There is a Lamp" are definitely concentrated, the language is bright and concise, and the handling of character clues is simple and attractive, but the whole writing is still the same. A grain of sand? How to write. Jia Pingwa is fully equipped, didn't he just come from? A grain of sand? The ability to write does not have to be written in this way all the time, but can also be written from the upper level, such as the urban-rural fringe, and even bring in international factors.
This will have greater generality, which is only my personal fantasy. Third, Jia Pingwa has been pursuing a neutral, objective and realistic way in recent years, which is to let life present itself. The profundity of life itself is his pursuit, unlike some writers whose subjective pursuit is obvious, and the world is completely his subjective structure.
Balzac's writing is completely different from Kafka's. Kafka's Castle is not about the existence in reality, but my subjective description of the plight of modern people. I always feel that there should be a theme in Jia Pingwa's works, and a stronger theme should be presented. "There is a lamp" is an excellent work, but it still relies too much on life and its spiritual transcendence is not enough.
I recommend it carefully.