Chapter 072: Yu Hua
A few days later, Jia Youwei received a phone call from Tang Weiwei asking him to meet her Weiwei bookstore. He originally thought that the other party would give up after being hit by his daughter in front of him.
After all, today's children generally complain, give up, and slump whenever they encounter setbacks and difficulties. Tang Weiwei didn't even show that the two sides didn't get along with each other, which is enough to show that she is still quite tough in her heart.
It seems that after a period of self-psychological adjustment, she was finally able to come out of her frustration and return to her former self.
Jia Youwei arrived at Weiwei Bookstore about ten minutes early according to the time agreed with each other, no sooner or later. As soon as he stepped in, he saw Tang Weiwei already sitting on a rotating chair in front of the bar waiting for him.
"Bring me a bottle of Evian mineral water. Tang Weiwei saw him walk in, put down the book in his hand and said to the little girl in the bar.
Jia Youwei sat directly on her right, and saw that the book she put down was Yu Hua's "Alive".
"What, you like Yu Hua too?" Tang noticed his eyes slightly and said with a smile.
Jia Youwei took the book in his hand and opened it casually, but he didn't look at the lead words on the paper, and told the truth: "When I was a student, I was fascinated by Yu Hua's works for a while.
Now, I am not interested in his work at all. To be precise, since reading his latest novel "The Seventh Day", I have decided to give up reading his works again. It's just so badly written.
Some writers get better and better the more they write, and the worse they write. After a lapse of seven years, Yu Hua actually wrote a work like "The Seventh Day".
The writing style of his novels remains the same, and there are always cheesy tear-jerking touching bridges, funny bridges with black humor techniques, and critical bridges of reality. He is becoming more and more kitsch. Yu Hua is finished. ”
"What do you think of 'Alive'?" Tang asked with a smile as he turned the rotating chair under his ass slightly, then turned sideways to face him.
Jia Youwei closed the book in his hand and said: "When Yu Hua is mentioned, nine times out of ten he will talk about his "Alive", which has reached the level that can be described as a necessity for pretending.
In all fairness, when he was still young, writing such a work was indeed a bright spot for everyone, bringing a glimmer of hope and hope.
When I was a student, I still remember the feeling of watching his "Alive", first of all, the connection of the opening part is still not good, like mixing sand in the rice.
This is not only the case in his first novel, "Shouting in the Drizzle", his third novel, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", but also in his fourth novel, "Brothers".
Although the fifth-step novel "The Seventh Day" has improved, the overall quality is outrageously poor. It has reached the point of patchwork, and such works are still selling well in the market.
This is probably a reference to the commercial success of "Brothers", which led him to write what he wanted to say in order to cater to his readers.
Secondly, many children say that watching "Alive" is very depressing, desperate, and shocking, but it gives me the feeling that I am not at all as calm as the first time I watched Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Rashomon", and the feeling that the sky suddenly darkened when I watched Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Human Disqualification".
Of course, Yu Hua and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Osamu Dazai are still very far away. After all, Ryunosuke Akutagawa is one of the three great writers of the island country, and Osamu Dazai is one of the three great writers at the pinnacle of post-war literature in the island country. The influence of these two on Asian literature is very similar, and they also have a certain contribution to world literature.
As one of the representatives of critical realism among contemporary writers, Yu Hua still has a good side, he can write forward, not at all like many writers who hover in the memories of that special decade and cannot extricate themselves. Otherwise, it is still before liberation, just like the first part of "Alive".
Thirdly, Yu Hua's writing is characteristic. Mo Yan's writing has the characteristics of vulgar words in the countryside, **,** and so on.
In the end, as Yu Hua himself said, there are too many temptations at the moment. My understanding is that the writer himself has money, so he has forgotten his original intention.
Literary artistic creation or something has become unimportant at all, after all, the sales of books are good, and then adapted into film and television dramas, making money is the king. ”
Jia Youwei picked up the cup of Evian mineral water in front of him that was poured into the little sister in the bar and drank half a cup, and then slowly put it down. He was still unsatisfied and then said: "If I remember correctly, Yu Hua's "Alive" was adapted into a movie, or directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Ge You and Gong Li, and still alive award.
As for his "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", it was sold to South Korea, and it was also filmed into a movie. In the original work, Xu Sanguan sold blood for money in order to save his eldest son who was not his own, which caused him to faint and was rescued again.
Later, how his eldest son was saved by no money was not explained. If the content of the novel does not explain the cause and effect clearly, it is a big taboo. ”
Suddenly he felt his mouth dry again, picked up the glass again, and drank the remaining half of the mineral water in the cup. Slowly, I put it back in place.
Jia Youwei drooped his head and couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "I think of a bridge in the second half of "Brothers", that is, Li Guangtou, who has successfully started a business, has been highly concerned by various media from the beginning.
As time went on, things cooled down to the point where they were no longer being dealt with by the media. So, he wanted to be noticed again, so he held a virgin beauty contest and designed to circle a group of D silks.
In the preliminary stage, one by one, D Silk commented on the women who participated in the election, and scored something, as if they had mastered their fate, but in fact, they had long been disgusted and hated by them.
In the final stage, the ten women had already slept with the judges. At the same time, there is also a small episode in the middle, that is, someone came to sell artificial ***.
The domestic one is called Meng Jiangnu, and the imported one is called Joan of Arc, and I also deliberately did an experiment in the small restaurant on how to puncture it. And in the end, a woman who gave birth to a child and a woman who slept comfortably with Li bald head won the championship. ”
"I'm also a virgin. 100% genuine natural, original, definitely not man-made. Otherwise, how about we go open a room and give it a try?" Tang Weiwei put his left hand on his cheek, looked at him with silky eyes, and smiled sweetly.