According to Utopia, the publisher of Mu Xin's works, in addition to all the works published in Mu Xin at present, there are still a considerable number of notebooks and essays that have never been published, with an estimated number of more than one million words. Because Mu Xin usually doesn't indicate the year of writing, judging from the content and handwriting, a small part of it was written in the 1980s, and most of it was written in the 1990s and the new century until his death 20 1 1. These manuscripts are not divided into chapters, and there are few complete pages. The content is wide and varied, involving names, bills, books, catalogues, manuscripts, and occasionally sketching simple book designs, as well as his own cemetery. About half of the readers are familiar with haiku, random thoughts, old-style poems and free poems, and the rest are between miscellaneous notes, memos, narratives and memoirs, stopping while walking, as if telling themselves and writing for themselves. It's been five years since 20 17, and Mu Xin's manuscript has more than 800,000 words.
202 1 12 is the 10th anniversary of Mu Xin's death. Mu Xin's first manuscripts were written by Utopia &; Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore, published in advance under the name of "Mu Xin's Heritage" (a set of three volumes). Several volumes will be published every year in the future.
In the three volumes published, Mu Xin talked about Lu Xun, Tao Yuanming, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Cao Xueqin, Mozart, Dostoevsky, Cezanne and Ye Saining. Zhang Ailing, a modern writer in China, is often mentioned, and whenever she thinks of it, she will say a few words. Zhang is also a fan and an old hand: Zhang Ailing first tried to cry when she was 1943 and 16 years old. Later, Zhang Ailing became famous in Shanghai. "I was excited and happy when I saw it. I search for her works everywhere, and I recite good sentences, and I will recite them. " The love story between Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng is a case-solving in the literary circle. Mu Xin naturally has his own evaluation: "Hu Lancheng is a politician ... who gets direct benefits ... as long as he likes it, he can get it easily. Of course, it seems that he is very talented and emotional. " "The most noteworthy thing is that Zhang was rude to Hu later, and he was frozen. If you don't make a bad sound, you'll never look back. This is a high-spirited festival in love, and it is extremely expensive. Zhang Ailing won and won. "
"Muxin Manuscript" is a small format with a soft cover and a kraft paper cover, much like a manuscript. He knows people and talks about the world, with witty remarks. You can see at a glance that it is the kind of implicit words spoken in the most relaxed state. For example, he said that "naturally, mechanically, happiness is made by hand", "When we were young, we thought that braising in soy sauce was romanticism, steaming was classicism and frying was modernism, but now we think it is right", "Zhu Gekongming's Example touched countless readers, but failed to touch a Dou", "I like to spend a good time in silence" and "Literature is a literary work, and calligraphy is more dangerous. There is plenty of time in history ","It's really not surprising to be ungrateful, but it's the sincerity before ingratitude "and" I admire those martyrs who have lived a colorful life. Ji Kang has gone too far, which is not good. Tao Qian was so honest that he was in agony. Han Yu is sometimes like a middle school teacher and a class teacher. I don't think much, I like Liu Zongyuan. " Although the sentence is short, it is insightful and meaningful.
Mu Xin, whose real name is Sun Pu, was born in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. Graduated from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, 1982 moved to new york, and returned to his hometown Wuzhen in his later years. Works 13, including 6 kinds of essays and novels, Reflection of Colombia, Essays of Jumeika, Diary of Windsor Cemetery, Impromptu Trial, Journey of Flat Shoes, Bad Guests of Emerson's Family, and 6 kinds of poems, Three Trees in Spain, My Passion, Expression of the Book of Songs, Baron and Pseudo-Solomon. After his death, he compiled the Lecture Notes on the History of World Literature into a book, namely, Memoirs of Literature (that is, the notes of students attending classes in Chen Danqing) and Mu Xin Tan Muxin as supplements to Memoirs of Literature. Chen Danqing said that Mu Xin had a lot of personal words with him, and he didn't hide them. "When I asked him to write it down, he duh! I said this before, why write it! Now that the manuscript is in his eyes, he has written it, and there are still many. "
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