Chapter 685: Magic Realism
This time, Shen Long aimed at Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum". He still broke his promise. He said before that he would not wait for Zhang Yimou to collect wool by himself, but now he wants to dig materials from his movies.
"Red Sorghum" does not have a lot of words in it, a total of about 130,000 words. In terms of length, it can be counted as a novel, but it is much shorter than the one planned by Shen Long. It can be read in a month or two. Done.
He didn't intend to copy all of it. "Red Sorghum" is a story that happened in Gaomi, Shandong, and he had never been to Gaomi. A dam was built on the river and tens of thousands of catties of sorghum were irrigated.
The rest of the plots will also be rewritten according to reality, such as those related to the anti-Japanese war. In the impression of many people, the Japanese devils seem to have never attacked northern Shaanxi on a large scale, but this is not the case. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese devils have repeatedly The attack on the Yellow Plains did not stop until 1940 when the guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines basically cut off the supply line for the Japanese army to attack the Yellow Plains.
However, the situation in northern Shaanxi is definitely not as serious as that in Gaomi, so some plots in the book cannot be copied as they are, and the living customs and idiomatic spoken language in Gaomi are quite different from those in northern Shaanxi, so these also need to be revised.
Shen Long chose this novel not only because of its great reputation and the fact that it was adapted into a film by Zhang Yimou, but also because of deeper considerations. If you want to make a fortune in the literary world, you need not only a good story, a good writing style, but also the best It can also innovate in the literary mode, and "Red Sorghum" perfectly meets this demand.
This is the same as a film director. If he wants to leave his name in film history, he must not only consider commercial achievements, but also artistic achievements. It is best to make breakthroughs in film language and shooting techniques.
After the 1980s, especially after the Colombian writer García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature next year, magical realism gradually became popular in China, and such works as "White Deer Plain", "Ancient Furnace", "Red Sorghum" were born. ", "Dust Settled" and a large number of outstanding magical realism works have far-reaching influence.
At the same time, Jia Pingwa, Chen Zhongshi, Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Ge Fei, Alai and other writers became well-known figures in the literary world and established their own banners.
The reason is that, apart from the fact that Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which caused a huge repercussions around the world for magic realism, Chinese writers who have just started looking at the world again cannot miss it. Magic realism and Chinese history and reality are also Natural coincidence has the soil for the birth of this literary theme.
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China is a big country of fantasy novels. From "Shan Hai Jing" to Strange Novels of the Six Dynasties to "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", it can be said to be vast. Writers of all dynasties have continuously introduced this theme. It can be said that it is not uncommon, and both the author and the readers are extremely familiar with this subject matter.
Secondly, the South American countryside described by Marquez is quite similar to the hometowns of Mo Yan’s Gaomi and Jia Pingwa’s hometown of Shangzhou—the hometowns where these Chinese writers grew up. In the transitional stage of industrialized society, this kind of magical and mysterious color is similar, and the practical problems encountered are also similar.
Therefore, when magical realism novels entered China, Chinese writers were immediately moved by them. They found a way to express their emotions. created his own magical realism literature.
It is now more than a year before Marquez won the Nobel Prize,
If you can come up with such a work at this time, after a period of controversy and fermentation, when Marquez officially wins the award, it will definitely bring you a huge reputation. Isn't that what happened?
As for the reason, it is easy to explain. Although Marquez won the award next year, his works have been translated into Chinese a few years ago, but due to his reputation, they have not been widely spread for the time being. Shen Long once wrote in the Huangyuan Library I have read his novels.
By the way, these translations are naturally not authorized by Marquez, so when Marquez came to China in the future, he was very angry when he saw his novels in bookstores. China will not be authorized to publish its own novels, especially One Hundred Years of Solitude.
However, in 2010, the Chinese publishing industry also became rich, and they reorganized a group to discuss copyright with Marquez. The book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" alone paid Marquez a one-time royalty of 1.2 million U.S. dollars, which was more than normal. The market price of royalties has more than doubled, and Marquez decisively swallowed what he said.
Officially authorized domestic publishing houses to publish his works, so that classic works such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" can finally meet domestic readers. I don't know if he will say something really sweet when he receives the check.
In fact, I can’t blame the Chinese publishing industry for this. At that time, China’s economy was backward and it did not join international copyright organizations. At that time, even a penny of foreign exchange was very precious, and there was no money to buy the copyrights of books by foreign authors.
Shen Long took out the manuscript paper from the drawer, carefully stroked his thoughts, and then began to rewrite. Lines of neat pen characters appeared on the manuscript paper:
On the ninth day of the eighth month of the ancient calendar in 1939, my father, a bandit, was a little over fourteen years old; he followed the team of the legendary hero Commander Yu Zhanao, who later became famous all over the world, across the Yellow River to ambush the Japanese motorcade. Ao, send them to the village.
Commander Yu said, "Stand still." Grandma stood still, and grandma said to my father, "Douguan, listen to your godfather." The hot scent coming out of the jacket made him suddenly feel chilly. He fought and his stomach rumbled for a while. Commander Yu patted his father's head and said, "Let's go, do it."
...Wrote more than 3,000 words in one breath, feeling that it was getting late, so Shen Long read the manuscript carefully, corrected a few omissions, and then washed up and went to bed to rest.
After waking up in the morning, Shen Long went to the Dongguan Bridge again. The project at the old place was over. He had to find a new place to find a job. Shen Long had already figured out where to go, so when other contractors came to recruit workers, he was lazy. Sitting on the ground until his target appeared, he got up and squeezed past.