Chapter 325: "Waste Capital"
After more than two years of study and exercise, Gewen's current writing is even praised by old gentlemen such as Ba Lao and Bingxin, which can be clearly felt from the short essays he wrote. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Govine also did not lack novel brains and ideas, and the experience of later generations made his insights and ideas different from those of this era. His first popular short story after crossing over was published in "Folk Literature", and since then he has been working hard, writing some interesting short stories from time to time.
In the field of literary creation, perhaps the only thing that Govin lacks now is the layout and technique of the novel. This can be seen in his novels "The Da Vinci Code", "Soldier Assault" and "Bright Sword".
These novels are all recreated by Govin after referring to some literary works he has read in his previous life, and they all have prototypes and foundations.
It's hard to say which of Gowen's version of the novel is higher or lower than the original work of his previous life, but even if Gowen writes better than blue, this is always a stain and a shortcoming, which is a thorn in Gowen's heart.
When will he no longer be bound by the memories and impressions of his previous life, and really rely on his own ability to create a mature novel, when will he really pat his chest and say that he is a real great writer.
And this is not only Ba Lao's expectation, but also one of his own long-cherished wishes and dreams.
So Govin looked at the words on the manuscript paper in front of him, took the pen and pulled it, and made a decision.
What I lack is the control of the layout of the novel, so I have to make up for my shortcomings and start with exercises in this area.
This creation is a great opportunity.
Govin crossed out the passages of several novels such as "On the Mountain and Love on the Mountain" and "The Golden Age", and circled "White Deer Plain" and "Waste Capital" with a heavy pen.
Then "White Deer Plain" was also eliminated by Gowen.
On the one hand, this novel does not quite match the theme that Govin wants to write this time, and on the other hand, the structure and layout of the book are flat and stable, and do not play a role in exercising.
Jia Pingwa's "Waste Capital" is different, not to mention that there are many descriptions of sex in the novel, this novel is based on Zhuang Zhidie's emotional entanglement with several women, and Ruan Zhifei and other celebrities interspersed with narration as auxiliary lines, depicting a series of distinctive female characters such as Tang Waner, Liu Yue, Niu Yueqing, etc.
More importantly, "Waste Capital" can be said to be the first work after the founding of the People's Republic of China to return to the tradition of Chinese novels before the "May Fourth", and at the same time, it is a successful convergence of the aesthetics of classical Chinese novels and modern thought. The novel adopts the classical Chinese grass gray snake line technique, and integrates the Western stream of consciousness and spiritual temperament, combining Chinese and Western, and also creating a new language, which is rare in the history of literature.
In the 80s, with the invasion of Western ideology and culture, many people opened and closed their mouths with a broken English accent, and even took foreign culture as fashionable, desperately trying to clear up the history and culture of China. Many writers also pursued Western art excessively, and the avant-garde and experimental schools were rampant, and the aesthetics of classical Chinese literature were abandoned by them, and as a result, they made themselves unconventional and nondescript.
After the May Fourth Movement, there was a fault in the tradition of classical Chinese novels, and modern and contemporary Chinese novels were largely produced on the basis of Westernized novels after the May Fourth Movement.
Ge Wen is trying to use "Waste Capital" to let everyone know the value and significance of classical Chinese aesthetics.
Moreover, there are both realism and non-realism in "Waste Capital", the two complement each other and blend into one furnace, not only integrating tradition and modernity in the chest, the infiltration of Chinese and Western aesthetics, but also the integration of various things that already exist in Chinese reality, which seems to be a hodgepodge, but in fact it is meticulous and realistic.
Govin feels that "Waste Capital" is the best example for him to exercise his layout ability and writing skills.
The only thing that worries him is that when he read "Waste Capital" in his previous life, he went to the title of this book as a "yellow" novel, and he did not study it in depth, only a general impression. When he found out that the book actually did not have too many explicit descriptions, and the "delete xx words here" in the original version was just a bluff played by the author Jia Pingwa, Govin threw this excellent novel aside, so he also missed the opportunity to learn.
However, this is also just right, just so that Ge Wen is not limited to Jia Pingwa's original work, fully mobilizes his writing level and ability, and creates his own "Waste Capital".
And the reason why he chose "Waste Capital" is that he also likes one thing, this novel can be said to have cross-era predictive significance or forward-looking.
Jia Pingwa began to work on "Waste Capital" in 1992, which was completed in the 90s and can still be called a mirror and a true portrayal of real society until the 21st century.
I don't know if it's amazing or sad.
Then, let's write "Waste Capital"!
Govin tore out the page full of words and laid out an outline on the blank paper.
The original version of "Waste Capital" is based on the contemporary life of Xi'an, the ancient capital with a long history and culture, and describes the daily life of the "four celebrities" of the "idle prose writer" Zhuang Zhidie, the calligrapher Gong Jingyuan, the painter Wang Ximian and the artist Ruan Zhifei, showing the condensed landscape of the "waste capital" in Xijing.
Jia Pingwa takes the emotional entanglement between Zhuang Zhidie and several women as the main line, and uses Ruan Zhifei and other celebrities interspersed with narration as the auxiliary line, and the shade of pen and ink is appropriate. Among many women, Tang Waner, Liu Yue, and Niu Yueqing have created the most successful and favorite characters for him. In these spiritual, emotionally intelligent and classical tragic characters, his supreme aesthetic ideals are embodied.
Govin did not plan to write "Waste Capital" exactly according to Jia Pingwa's ideas, he wanted to add his own ideas.
I am not familiar with Xi'an, so I changed the background to Beijing.
is still the living life of the "four celebrities", but it shows the cultural landscape of this era.
If you want to write "sex", you have to write "waste", but it won't all be "sex" and "waste".
In Jia Pingwa's "Waste Capital", the degeneration of the four major literati is written, which is actually symbolizing the overall degeneration of intellectuals.
Govin did not plan to degrade all four of these four literati.
Calligrapher Gong Jingyuan was addicted to gambling, imprisoned many times, notorious and finally committed suicide, and his son was addicted to drugs and finally went crazy.
This ending should be kept.
Gong Jingyuan was reduced from an artist to a "craftsman" because of gambling. The calligraphy and painting that made his life were gone, he lost the backbone of being a human being, he was imprisoned many times, the pressure of the world, the incompetence of his son, the hopelessness of his descendants, and the despair of reality made him have to die. His crazy actions before his death, every one of them was to fight for face, and the last splash of ink on the wall was the last masterpiece of his life. Finally, it is also quite useful to use rice paper to cover the body, he is interested in art, destroyed in art, and finally accompanied by pen and ink rice paper, full of warm humanistic care.
It's also a metaphor.
A large part of Gong Jingyuan's death stemmed from his character, based on the fragility and sorrow of the literati, life was thinner than paper.
Artist Ruan Zhifei does not engage in literati creation, and runs a dance hall and earns a lot of money. Someone injured his eyes, so he underwent surgery to replace the dog's eyes. He was the most innovative of the four great literati, and he continued to forge ahead after the catastrophe. He advocated pragmatism, kept opening up and moving forward, and had a bright future.
Therefore, Ruan Zhifei is not a literati, not an artist, he is just a businessman with the hat of a "literati".
This should also be kept.
At the end of 84, in the courtyard, Gowen knew that some of the people who often appeared in the courtyard had left Beijing, left the literary world, the literary and artistic circles, and went to the south and Hainan to pan for gold.
Writer Zhuang Zhidie, the first of the four literati, has a bumper harvest of reputation and money, and has become the idol of many people. After more than ten years of hard work, he finally succeeded, and then after success, he fell into even greater trouble, the exhaustion of creative emotions, excessive praise, money, women, and vanity were seduced everywhere, and he was once again bound as a public figure.
As the book says: You are no longer your own Zhuang Butterfly, you are the Zhuang Butterfly of Xijing. He is bound by greater responsibilities and obligations, his humanity and desires have been suppressed, and the whole book embodies his inner repression and non-stop release, constantly going back and forth, tormenting his spirit. He had to be pushed by desire and reality, constantly becoming philistine, cunning, sleek, and greedy in the face of reality, and such a self struggled with the kindness, sensibility, purity, and romance in his heart, and in the end he was still powerless.
Society has killed a writer and a Zhuang Zhidie. He had an affair with four women, transformed them, gave them new life, and ultimately ruined them.
This should also be retained.
This is an admonition to intellectuals, to literati and writers, and it is also an introspection.
Painter Wang Ximian, this character appears in the original book very little, he is a painter with superb painting skills, but he resells fake paintings and is in trouble, he is sick with hepatitis B and has no heirs.
This needs to be changed!
Jia Pingwa's original work depicts a large group of distinct characters, and it is not enough to count a pair of hands with just broken fingers, and there is no problem if these characters play mahjong and get together on seven or eight tables.
But these dozen or twenty people in the book disperse one by one in the second half of the novel, and the dead are dead, the crazy are crazy, or the family wealth is scattered, or the life is reversed, one by one is reasonable. To the protagonist Zhuang Zhidie's family is ruined, discredited, and insane, and the word "waste" jumps on the paper.
The 400,000 words of the original work are read slowly, and they are full of a sense of helplessness that is as heavy as lead, giving people a feeling of sadness and even despair, and making people feel a kind of pain and loneliness that cannot find a way out.
The "Waste Capital" written by myself should be written about sex, exercise ability, and be a prophecy and warning, but it must not make readers despair, and it must give readers hope and dreams!
Therefore, the painter Wang Ximian wants to appear as a light, a torch, and a dream in the novel.
He will appear as a real literati and intellectual!
It is precisely because the painter Wang Ximian has very few scenes in the novel that he is able to do this.
Therefore, it is true that the painter Wang Ximian is a painter with superb painting skills, but he will not resell fake paintings, will not suffer from hepatitis B, and will not have no heirs.
Gewen wants to write that he pursues the truth, goodness and beauty of art, is crazy about painting, has family conflicts but will reconcile, has children and daughters, breaks out of the cocoon and is reborn, when Zhuang Zhidie finally steps on the southbound train in a gray way, the painter Wang Ximian will succeed and realize his ideals.
Govin wants the reader to see the glimmer of hope in the midst of disappointment and even despair.
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This plot is a plot that the rebel has been looking forward to writing.
It is to write that the protagonist dedicates himself to his dreams, knowing that the mountain has the feeling that the tiger is biased towards the tiger mountain, I hope everyone will like it (I am worried about the future of the protagonist, and the story has already been considered).
There is also a reward of 100 yuan from the low-key conspirators of the book friends, thank you!
After the release of the last chapter, he received a lot of tips, which surprised the rebels.
I don't know if you like the private goods of the previous chapter or the excerpt of the novel, the local tyrants can squeak in the book review area, and the traitors have to meet the requirements of the local tyrants at the risk of being blocked, as long as the local tyrants are willing to expose their thighs for the rebels to hug. (*^__^*)
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…… (To be continued.) )