The literary era since 1979

Chapter 163 Our young general has finished speaking

The symposium lasted for an hour, and Hu Muqiao announced a ten-minute break.

The corridor gradually became noisy and lively.

Taking advantage of this break, people who needed to drink water drank water, those who needed to smoke smoked, and those who needed to go to the toilet went to the toilet.

Fang Yan was stretching when Wang Fu walked up to him.
"Mr. Feng and the others would like to invite you to come over."

A small room serving as a lounge was set up on the right corner of the podium, with a door leading to the backstage.

Fangyan knocked on the door and entered. Then I realized that this "they" included not only Feng Mu, but also Hu Muqiao and Liu Boyu...

Everyone looked over and asked the same question: why hasn't he spoken since the meeting started?

“My knowledge of military literature is still inadequate.”

Fang Yan smiled and said, "I want to hear other people's opinions first."

"Now that you've listened to what they said, what do you think?"

As the Minister of the Cultural Department of the General Political Department, Liu Boyu attaches great importance to the future development of military literature.

To put it in a euphemistic way, the dialect says: "I have learned a lot."

"To be honest, what's going on?"

Hu Muqiao cursed with a smile.

Fangyan pondered for a while, "It's all very good, but it's a little different from my understanding of the concept of military literature."

Hu Muqiao and Feng Mu looked at each other with great interest.

"I'll wait for a while and let Xiao Fang speak first."

Liu Boyu smiled and said, "Tell us what is the difference between your concept of military literature?"

Feng Mu looked at him expectantly, "Xiao Fang, this is pointing your finger at your general, are you sure about it?"

"You guys can't ask me to sign a military order, right?"

Dialects are well known.

The meaning of these people looking for me is obvious. It is undoubtedly General Fang. Step out!
"Hahaha, there's no need to issue any military orders."

In an instant, the house was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

………………

As soon as the ten minutes were up, people poured back into the conference hall.

"Now continue the meeting!"

Feng Mu cleared his throat and said, "Please raise your hands if you want to speak."

Among the crowd of people below the stage, one after another raised their hands, and Hu Muqiao, Liu Boyu and others took a quick look.

In sight, Fang Yan slowly raised his hand.

Zhang Zhonge and Zhang Shouren originally wanted to show up for the editorial department of October, but when they saw Fangyan's behavior, they smiled at each other.

My heart was at ease, and my hands were put down as well.

"Why don't they lift their hands?"

Zhu Wei saw some people around him who were about to raise their hands, paused, and then slowly put their hands back.

"Teacher Fang is about to speak."

Ma Wei was sitting in the aisle seat, just in time to hear Fang Yan. The "father of spy warfare" had been silent for the first half, but was finally going to speak. Many people wanted to hear what he was going to say.

"Cough cough."

Fangyan was called out and coughed tactically.

"I just heard many people talk about the direction, problems, and difficulties of military literature creation. However, I also noticed that some people said it was 'military literature', some said it was 'military literature', and some said it was 'war literature'. The three terms are always used interchangeably."

“But I think that military literature cannot be equated with war literature, just as military literature cannot be equated with war literature.”

“The key to liberating the mind is to unify the mind.”

"I think before discussing the breakthroughs and innovations in military literature in the new era, it is necessary to first clarify the concept of military literature, for example, to sort out the types of military literature."

Hey!
Everyone was shocked. Those who said "war literature" were all confused, and those who said "military literature" were also very surprised.

There is no doubt that dialect is defining military literature!
"What a nice little square."

"It's really true that if you don't say anything, it's shocking."

Feng Mu, Liu Boyu and others on the rostrum looked at each other.

Below the stage, Zhang Shouren and Zhang Zhonge were the first to take out their notebooks to take notes. Seeing this, the writers, editors and others around them also took out their pens and paper and listened attentively.

"One thread opens up a thousand eyes."

"Personally, I think military literature is the key."

"War literature, spy literature, military documentary, military literature, military history literature are the main themes."

Dialect seemed to be the incarnation of the ancient Greek god in charge of definitions. He spoke eloquently, allowing everyone to follow his thoughts and think about the concept of military literature in the new era and the differences between different types.

"rustle."

"Rustle." The only sounds in the room were General Fang's speech and the voices of everyone taking notes. No matter whether they were taking real notes or pretending, they all concentrated on writing.

"Someone just said that our generation of writers is too far away from gunfire and war. Where should military writing go in the future? I think the first direction is military literature."

Fangyan cited the examples of "New Soldier Ma Qiang" and "Anecdotes from the Western Front", which are military writings in war and peacetime.

"This is it! This is it!"

Li Cunbao's eyes were burning, and he had a vague feeling.

The speech in dialect has opened up the entire field in all directions, which is undoubtedly an unprecedented development and great enrichment.

Not only him, but all writers engaged in military literature feel that apart from war literature, military themes actually have such a vast sky and such an unprecedented blue ocean.

"The second direction is spy literature. Our spy work has never stopped in the past, present and future."

"The third direction..."

"The last direction is very different from what I just talked about. The perspectives of military life, spy warfare, the War of Resistance, and military history are all based on the past and present. So what about the future?"

Fangyan said seriously, "Is it possible to have a military science fiction novel that describes the future form of war?"

“This seems to be in the realm of science fiction, right?”

In the silence, someone suddenly raised his hand and asked a question.

"What I'm talking about is actually two types. One is pure science fiction military literature like what you said, which is wild and imaginative and transcends reality."

Fang Yan said: "One is to make reasonable speculations and creations on the concepts, tactics, equipment, etc. of future operations based on reality, such as the motorization and mechanization of troops."

I almost said the words informatization and intelligence.

"........."

Suddenly, everyone fell silent.

Military writers such as Wang Shuzeng have a deep understanding of this.

It is said that the Russians' 81st exercise demonstrated mechanization to the fullest. Although there is no news in the country, it seems that a military exercise was held in North China, which was also unprecedentedly large in scale.

It can be seen how tense the situation is!
The concept of "military science fiction" seems to be worthy of expansion and deepening!
“Is there anything you don’t understand?”

Fangyan glanced around.

"I have a question……"

Li Cunbao raised his hand. "You just said that military literature can get rid of the tedious descriptions of battles and campaigns and focus on character creation, creating characters with distinct personalities, multiple facets, and flesh and blood. Does this also include the dark side?"

"Gorky once said that literature is the study of human beings."

"It's about writing about people, about human nature. Literature creates characters to present the rich and complex human nature and life."

“Military literature is literature first and foremost. If a work only remembers that it is a military theme and forgets that it is literature, such a work of military literature will not be able to shock the readers’ hearts!”

Fangyan paused and took a sip of water.

"Fuck, that's awesome!"

Zhu Wei stared at him with longing in his heart.

"Stop it, write it down quickly. We can't get Teacher Fang's manuscript, but we must publish these theories of military literature creation in Youth Literature."

Ma Wei was startled and reminded quickly.

"Yeah."

Zhu Wei came back to his senses and took notes carefully.

"So is a hero with such flaws still a hero?"

An older writer frowned.

"Mr. Lu Xun once said that a soldier with flaws is still a soldier after all, and a perfect fly is just a fly."

“Heroes are never made overnight.”

"Everyone may know that the 'Fifty Evil Men' who invaded Seoul were previously the 'Sixty Bears' under Chiang Kai-shek."

Fang Yan said seriously: "Heroes also grow and transform slowly from ordinary people. I think military literature should have heroism and realism, but also be combined with romanticism and collectivism..."

“There is no order of learning, the one who is more accomplished is the teacher!”

Li Cunbao was suddenly enlightened and his eyes lit up.

Listening to Teacher Fang’s “Little Sunflower Class”, most people present benefited greatly. It was like using a suppository, and their previously constipated thinking suddenly became smoother and more comfortable.

If a large number of successful and novel military-themed works emerge in accordance with his ideas in the future, Mr. Fang will be the "enema" that breaks the bottleneck in the creation of military literature!
He is one of the pioneers of the new wave of military literature!

At this moment, an editor in the front row excitedly asked whether Fangyan had any new works on military literature recently.
As soon as these words were spoken, all the journal editors present became excited and stared at the fat piece of meat called dialects like hungry wolves.

Fangyan apologized and said that she had brought her husband and her own editor with her, so she would be doing the editor's work this time.

In full view of the public, he unceremoniously placed an advertisement for a call for articles in "October" magazine. Take a look, and you will find that any military literature writer who submits an article will have the opportunity to enjoy one-on-one guidance from Teacher Fang. Even the donkey in the production team said it was a good idea!

If you have any ideas, you can come to Teacher Fang’s small dark room at night.

Let’s get together late at night to talk about drama…and novels!

(End of this chapter)