Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 862: "Long Live Youth" or "Triple Door"

Lei Xuecheng specifically called Fang Minghua to explain.

"Minghua, to be honest, I didn't expect this result. I thought customers would choose some popular books, such as Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain", Yu Hua's "To Live", Jia Pingwa's "Wasteland", etc."

"Or choose Zhang Ping's "Choice", Alai's "Dust Settles", Wang Anyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", etc., which won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Prize last year. However, more than 70% of the readers in the questionnaires I collected chose "Triple Door"!"

Fang Minghua didn't care.

"Let's just talk about Triple Door. Although this book is not a classic, it is also a phenomenal work with certain literary value, so let's talk about it."

"Okay then, I'll post the preview."

"Row."

Since Fang Minghua has decided to tell the story of "Triple Door", he has to make certain preparations.

"Triple Door" is, to some extent, an autobiographical novel by Han Han. Through the perspective of the young Lin Yuxiang, it reveals to readers the real life of a high school student, displays the various contradictions and problems in parent-child relationships, teacher-student relationships, and classmate relationships, and embodies student-style thinking, confusion, and dreams.

For this reason, Fang Minghua reread "The Triple Door".

Today is Saturday, the weather is not very good, it is gloomy. After lunch and a short rest, Fang Minghua drove away from home to Bianjia Village.

The car stopped not far from the bookstore. Fang Minghua walked over and entered the bookstore. He found that the bookstore, which was deserted the last time he came, suddenly had a lot more people and he couldn't even squeeze in.

Lei Xuecheng hurriedly made way for Fang Minghua and accompanied him up to the second floor, saying, "I didn't expect so many people to come today. The upstairs is full, and those below didn't get a seat."

When Fang Minghua went up to the second floor, he saw that all the seats were occupied, most of them young people, and everyone looked at him eagerly.

Fang Minghua thought of the people downstairs and said, "How about this, in order to allow more people to participate in the discussion, everyone can move their chairs to make more space, and I can stand with everyone. Just leave a small stool for me to put my teacup on."

"it is good"

So everyone started to collect the chairs, and the shop assistants downstairs hurried up to help move the extra chairs down, and more readers came up.

Fang Minghua came forward and saw only a small blackboard and a small stool next to him.

Without too much nonsense, Fang Minghua gave a simple opening speech and then stood up and began to speak.

"I think most of you have read the novel Triple Door, so I won't go into the details. I will focus on my opinion of the novel and its pros and cons."

"First of all, I would like to ask everyone, does anyone know where the name of this novel "Triple Door" came from?"

“I know!” A thin young man with glasses, who looked like a college student and had acne all over his face raised his hand and said, “The title of this book should come from the line ‘The Doctrine of the Mean’ in The Book of Rites: ‘There are three levels of rule in governing the world, and there will be few mistakes.’ The three levels refer to “etiquette”, “system” and “textual examination”.

"That's right." Fang Minghua nodded, then looked at the young man and asked, "Are you a Chinese major?"

"Yes, I am a student of Chinese Language and Literature at Xi'an University, and I am a junior this year."

"Well, the level of Western University students is really high, because I am also a graduate of Western University."

Hearing Fang Minghua's words, everyone laughed and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.

“From the title of the book, we can see that the author put a lot of effort into it. Although this name may cause ordinary readers to mistake it for “three kinds of exams, three doors” and cause ambiguity, this name also has its advantages. It can improve the quality of the book. If you write a book in the future, you should also learn from this.”

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Everyone present burst into laughter again.

"Let me ask another question. Have you read "Long Live Youth" written by Wang Meng?" Fang Minghua asked again.

"Seen!"

The number of respondents this time was much smaller than last time.

"If you haven't read it, you can go read it. For those who have read it, which one do you think is more moving, "Long Live Youth" or "Triple Door"? " "Triple Door"!"

Most people present answered this way, but there were still some people shouting: "Long Live Youth!"

She is a pretty girl with a ponytail.

Fang Minghua glanced at her and replied, "Then you must have lived a very happy life, living in the sunshine and rain since childhood."

Everyone present burst into laughter again. The girl felt a little embarrassed and her face turned red.

"I didn't mean to tease this girl." Fang Minghua smiled and continued, "Wang Meng's "Long Live Youth" describes the passionate youth life of a group of high school girls in the early 50s. They have ideals, enthusiasm, and are positive and optimistic about life."

"You didn't experience the 50s, and neither did I, but I cannot deny that era was like that, full of vigor and vitality, just like the early s that I experienced."

"But you are different. The author, Han Han, was born in the 1980s, and only became sensible in the mid-to-late 1990s. This era has undergone tremendous changes, with society undergoing drastic changes. The pressure of money, interpersonal relationships, and exams described in the book are also what you have experienced to varying degrees, so you can resonate with it when you read it, right?"

"Correct!"

"This is called 'sense of immersion' in literary writing." Fang Minghua turned around and wrote three big words on the blackboard.

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"Of course, today I am not talking about writing, but about this book. Now I will focus on the following aspects to appreciate this book with you."

"His artistic characteristics, first of all, are the gloomy atmosphere: none of the students, teachers, and parents in the book can be considered positive characters. The campus life, extracurricular life, people's thoughts and mentalities described in the book, etc., do not have any shining highlights. It can be said that the entire work is shrouded in the invisible pressure of exams and scores, which is suffocating and uneasy."

"Second, ironic language. Han Han plays a lot of word games with readers in Triple Door, and it is not limited to Chinese. For example: "Girl friend, if you read the first letter of each word quickly, it will be G, F (brother-in-law), etc. This actually borrows from the newly emerging Internet language. Do you chat online?"

"chat!"

Again in unison.

"My suggestion is that you should learn more about the Internet and not just chat and pick up girls all the time, or have online romances or something like that. Be careful not to be exposed to the public!"

Everyone laughed again.

“Third, the “wandering-returning” model”

Of course, this novel also has many problems.

The satire is not strong enough, the logic is not sound, there are too many metaphors, and there are problems with the writing style.

"Some people say that Han Han's novel is a bit like Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged. If you say Han Han imitated it, I agree, because there is Wang Shuo's Death After High Addict between the two."

For two whole hours, Fang Minghua spoke and interacted with readers, and bursts of laughter could be heard from time to time throughout the venue.

"Okay, that's all for today's 'Let's Talk'. Thank you everyone." Fang Minghua said with a smile at last.

"Teacher Fang, wait a minute." The pretty girl suddenly took out a book from her schoolbag and held it high.

"Teacher Fang, I also like this book very much. Can you talk about it next time?"

After saying that, the girl squeezed to the front and handed over the book in her hand.

Fang Minghua took it and took a look.

Hey, hey.
"How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams"!
It’s not Sanmao’s "Collection of Essays" but Guo Xiaosi’s novel!

It's plagiarized work.

(End of this chapter)