Jia Pingwa's novels
Based on the contemporary life of an ancient historical and cultural capital, the novel "The Wasted Capital" tells the daily life of the writer Zhuang Zhidie, the idle scholar Gong Jingyuan, the painter Wang Ximian and the artist Ruan, and shows all kinds of "Wasted Capital" landscapes in Xijing. Tang Waner was humiliated in Tongguan, married the disabled mayor's son, Niu Yueqing divorced, Zhong Editor died of cancer, A Can avoided it, Huiming miscarried, and lost the movie lawsuit. Finally, Zhuang Zhidie only set foot on the southbound train, and the ending of the novel was full of pain and loneliness that could not find a way out.
Focusing on a village in southern Shaanxi, Shaanxi Opera tells the relationship between farmers and literati and their living conditions. Through the eyes of a "madman" named Yin Sheng, I wrote my deep concern and sympathy for the heavy burden of farmers and the loss of rural culture.
With dignified brushwork, the work interprets the 20-year history of rural areas in China, and shows great and profound changes in rural values and traditional patterns. It is an epic of contemporary rural areas in China.
The story of "Ancient Furnace" takes place in a village called "Ancient Furnace" in Shaanxi, which is a remote, closed and traditional place, but since the winter of 1965, the tranquility here has been turbulent. Under the catalysis of various factors, almost everyone in Gulu village was forced to take part in a massive movement. Time has been developing until the spring of 1967. A village with beautiful mountains and rivers, in the illusory and concrete interests of "politics", has evolved into a ruin full of suspicion, confrontation and the combination of fists and feet. The author showed us the historical track of the "Cultural Revolution" at the grassroots level in China at that time with real life details and seamless Shaanxi customs, which was a vivid portrayal of the rural areas in China at that time.
The first novel, Impetuousness, takes the emotional experience of rural youth Jin Suo and Xiao Shui as the main line, and describes the problems in the early days of reform and opening up, as well as the impetuous state of the whole society and the emptiness under the impetuous surface.
The novel White Night is based on the life of a nobody named Yelang. Write about his living state, his desire to be impacted by reality, and his subconscious struggle. Write about his friends and people, big and small, who go online. Their frustration, happiness, bullying or helping each other seem to have magical opportunities among these ordinary people. Maybe this is our life, and opportunities are everywhere. In the middle of the story, there are reincarnation from the dead, strange paper-cut old ladies, and ghost keys that imply yin and yang. In particular, the Book of Manglietia Plays Songs, mixed with ecstasy, vividly shows reality and magic, mind and beast, truth and enlightenment, glory and loneliness. What this novel reveals is that the helplessness and gloom of the night lurks in the clear breath of the day. People like "night" yearn for a perfect life like "white", which is called "white night".
Happy, another novel that pays attention to farmers' living conditions after land change. This book tells the story of a migrant worker named Liu, whose son is called Liu Qu, who works in a city. Father and son give people coal and collect waste in the city. Life is hard but full of energy, which is quite inspiring to quasi-urban people who are rich in economy but poor in spirit. Just when Pepsi-Cola tiles cracked and the flashy society changed, farmer Liu Xian sold one of his kidneys to the city dwellers, and then came to the city to collect waste with his fellow villager Five Blessingg ... The appearance of prostitute Meng Yichun not only attracted the state of everything in the city, but also brought him an unexpected fate ... Jia Pingwa, with his consistent compassion, always opened a chaotic or trembling city picture calmly.
Miss Wolf is Jia Pingwa's masterpiece at the end of the last century, which has rich implications and is known as the "Hunter's Notes" of Shangzhou Edition in China. From a unique perspective, the novel tells the bizarre experience of a hunter, a reporter and a rotten head taking photos in Shangzhou and archiving the remaining fifteen wolves. The flood of blood, Jin Xiangyu's Shenzhou, the trail of wolves, the horror of ancient battlefields, the illusion of journalists, the wandering of animal souls, and the waiting events of Ganoderma lucidum make readers feel incredible, showing the author's unruly brushwork and rich imagination.
Autobiographical
I am a Farmer, which describes the writer's experiences before he was 20 years old, including family, growth, suffering, first love and suffering. The history of a generation born in the countryside in the 1950s is full of dramatic and rather strange legends.