Chapter 200 "Bright Sword" is a high-level revolutionary war-themed novel
The newspaper published a total of six articles about Xiao Fei.
The first article is Zhang Mingyuan, president of the Hexi Provincial Academy, "The Xiao Fei Phenomenon Worth Pondering". In this article, Zhang Mingyuan carefully analyzes the creative style of Xiao Fei's two novels and essays.
Zhang Mingyuan believes that Xiao Fei's creations are realistic from the textual level, but there is an indelible romantic temperament in his works.
His writing is mature, and no matter how you look at it, you can't see the taste of youth.
Zhang Mingyuan sighed: such a young man from the grass and the wilderness, his vision is unimaginably broad, his works are magnificent, and the social problems touched on are deep and thought-provoking.
Zhang Mingyuan also said in the article that he couldn't think of any more appropriate reason to explain Xiao Fei's phenomenon except for the genius of Tianzhong.
A genius like Xiao Fei, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, is only this one. All the other young geniuses who became famous lost their luster in front of him.
Zhang Mingyuan also commented on Xiao Fei's "Bright Sword".
He believes that this novel, in terms of ideological depth, is inferior to "The Fish Walking on Land".
But "Bright Sword" has a characteristic, that is: it is very well written, easy to read, the sense of picture is very strong, the characters jump on the paper, lifelike, and it is heartwarming to read, which makes people can't bear to release the volume.
Zhang Mingyuan said that before reading "Bright Sword", he was not optimistic about Xiao Fei's new full-length work in a short period of time.
In particular, Xiao Fei wants to write about the theme of the revolutionary war.
If you don't have enough experience accumulation and insufficient information to grasp this kind of theme, it is difficult to write well and write with a taste!
Zhang Mingyuan said that he hesitated again and again before he mustered up the courage to read "Bright Sword".
He was worried that the book would ruin his good impression of this talented boy.
However, after reading it, he was impressed.
The plot of this book is too gripping.
He read it almost in one sitting.
After reading it. Cover the book and think deeply.
Zhang Mingyuan said that his comment on "Bright Sword" at that time was like this:
First, this is an unprecedented and extremely innovative revolutionary war novel.
Second, the novel portrays a series of vivid heroic images. These heroes are not the kind of heroes who are infinitely elevated with the usual gasping for heroism, but heroes who are complex heroes and contradictions, but whose images are still tall and brilliant!
Third, he restored the style of that war era, and his description of war scenes is an epic description, in the novel. The spirit of the bright sword shines brightly.
But after a period of repeated thinking, Zhang Mingyuan said that his evaluation of Liangjian has changed greatly.
He said in the article that the bright sword is also flawed, and the flaw is not small.
The first one, the ideology of "Bright Sword" is not enough, the battle is beautiful enough, and the character portrayal is very successful, but other than that, he has no depth of thought. For example. There are not many reflections on war and in-depth excavation of human nature in this book.
Zhang Mingyuan believes that this flaw may be limited by the author's experience.
Second, the commercial flavor of "Bright Sword" is very strong, and the sex is slightly discounted.
The beautiful storytelling, atmospheric war layout, and wonderful battle descriptions of "Bright Sword" are all a guarantee of its commercial success.
Zhang Mingyuan said that the taste of business is strong. In fact, it is not a bad thing, the book is easy to read, attractive to readers, and sells well. I don't know how many writers dream of it.
What he regrets is that the embodiment of value is mostly reflected in the ideology of the work, if the ideology can go up, then the work will be more perfect.
Xiao Fei smiled bitterly when he saw this.
The long-standing comments of everyone's vision are really not ordinary!
The original "Bright Sword" was only turned upside down during the Cultural Revolution, and the second half of the original work was tragic. If the first half of the book is bright and joyful, the second half of the book becomes gray and desolate.
Li Yunlong's struggle against that era of civil strife was a manifestation of his indomitable revolutionary spirit, but this shocking struggle could only end in tragedy.
The ideology is mainly reflected in the second half of the original work.
And Xiao Fei's "Bright Sword" only selected the first half of the work, that is, the first 16 chapters, and the same as the TV series version of Bright Sword, it all came to an abrupt end after the title was awarded at the founding of the People's Republic of China.
But when Xiao Fei was writing, he actually expanded a lot of plots, most of which came from the Bright Sword TV series, which expanded and enriched the details of some stories in the novel a lot.
This change adds to the novel's sense of imagery.
In addition to Zhang Mingyuan's comment, Dai Houying also wrote a comment, but the angle from which she wrote was Xiao Fei.
"The Classmate Xiao Fei I Know".
This is the title of Dai Houying's comment.
Dai Houying recalled the process of getting to know Xiao Fei and spoke highly of Xiao Fei's personality: he is enthusiastic, he is shy, he values love and righteousness, he is brave, he is sincere, and he has unparalleled self-motivation.
Although his talent is wild and wild, it is a natural jade, not mixed with the slightest worldly atmosphere.
His narration is spontaneous, but it has a gripping power, which makes people involuntarily read it, and every word goes straight to people's hearts.
Dai Houying commented on Xiao Fei's "Fish Walking on Land", the theme is "escape", but it shows a return to human nature, the protagonist Li Xianwei has been trying to break free from the shackles of fate, but he finally finds that the shackles are imposed on him by himself, and only by letting go can he obtain them.
Dai Houying commented on Xiao Fei's "Bright Sword": This is a rare revolutionary war novel, its writing is innovative, its story is full of revolutionary romanticism, it is very easy to read, it makes people's blood boil when it is read, and if it is made into a TV series, it must be very exciting.
The editor of Harvest Cheng also wrote a review about "Bright Sword".
Editor Cheng jokingly said that he was very angry that Xiao Fei did not vote for "Harvest" for such a good work, but chose to go directly to the publishing route.
Cheng editor commented: "Bright Sword" is a very man's masterpiece, it has created a group of flesh-and-blood good men image, although the plot in it has a lot of slightly bloody places to discuss, but it is very easy to read, it can make our blood boil, and then produce some heroic feelings, breed a little bit of something called "national pride", which is enough.
Editor Cheng said that a 19-year-old child first wrote an epic "Fish Walking on Land", and then was able to write a "Bright Sword" with a very different style and theme, which is rare in world history.
As the first editor to discover Xiao Fei, Liu Zelai was also invited to publish an article in the "Newspaper": "On the Artistic Style of Xiao Fei's Rural Essays", which analyzed and commented on Xiao Fei's series of essays published in the "Central Plains Evening News".
In addition to the articles of the above four people, the newspaper also selected two free contributions.
The title of the author's commentary signed "Liu Pojun" is as follows: "Discussing with Xiao Fei ".
This caught Xiao Fei's attention.
The author's mailing address is attached below the article, which shows that Liu Pojun is a 96-level student in the history department of Peking University.
Isn't the class of 96 just a freshman who has just been admitted to college this year?
Xiao Fei carefully read this contrarian article. found that this classmate Liu confused the difference between history and fiction, and carefully picked out the battle stories in "Bright Sword" one by one, and sat down with the historical facts in real history, and concluded that many of the stories told in "Bright Sword" are distorted and contrary to historical facts.
Xiao Feixin said, big brother, I wrote a novel, not a documentary, even if there are some exaggerations in the plot, it's nothing, right?
Liu Pojun from the Department of History of Peking University? Maybe you can still be classmates next year, right? (To be continued.) )