Since 2006, with the recommendation of Chen Danqing, Mu Xin's works have been able to meet mainland readers one after another, and the reading circle even called 2006 "Muxin Year". On 201165438+February 2 1, Mu Xin died in wuzhen. 100 many young readers came from all over the world to express their grief.
At the end of 20 12, on the occasion of the first anniversary of Mu Xin's death, Chen Danqing made public his lecture notes 18 years ago, entered five notes he gave lectures in new york into the computer one by one, and handed them over to Guangxi Normal University Press, and published a 1000-page Memoirs of Literature. Recently, the publishing house launched a special issue of Mu Xin Memorial, which is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. Some newspapers also published Mu Xin's works, focusing on him. Some media called Mu Xin a "forgotten literary master".
At the same time, some scholars think that Mu Xin's influence is purely the result of Chen Danqing's wishful thinking, and the literary value of his works is not as high as mentioned, and even think that his writing is "sour". What is Mu Xin's literary value? Why are we talking about Mu Xin today? What are we talking about when we talk about wooden hearts?
The evaluation of Mu Xin is too high now.
Yangcheng Evening News: According to Chen Danqing, Mr. Mu Xin started writing in the 1940s and 1950s, and resumed intensive writing in the 1980s and 1990s. He said that Mu Xin "may be the only literary writer in our time who completely linked China's classical tradition with the May 4th tradition". Do you agree with this statement?
Zhang Ning: In terms of literary value, I think the evaluation of Mu Xin is too high now. Chen Danqing's evaluation of Mu Xin should be bounded. Only from the perspective of language, you can say so. However, it is entirely possible for another author to have both classical and modern vocabulary and knowledge in his works. The integration of classical knowledge elements into modern and contemporary things is from the perspective of words and vocabulary. However, from a literary point of view, Mu Xin's writing is definitely not as high as "connecting the preceding with the following". "Literature" has its own requirements, and "language" is only the direct form of "literature". The expressive force of language is important, but the relationship among language structure, narrative structure and meaning system is an important measure of literary evaluation. Mu Xin is a painter. He has a good knowledge of literature, history and philosophy, but this is not necessarily related to literature. It can't be said that his humanistic quality is good, but his literary creation is good.