After reading "Fang Siqi's Paradise of First Love" these days, I first admired Lin Yihan's exquisite and artistic writing, then regretted her withering life, and was indignant at the criminal behavior of her perpetrator. . Lin Yihan's death has once again brought the topic of "sexual assault" into focus. Her last wish was "May there be no more Fang Siqi in the world", but we have to admit that "sexual assaults" are still happening.
The novel is adapted from Lin Yihan’s personal experience. It tells the story of Fang Siqi, a junior high school student who was sexually assaulted by her teacher Li Guohua for many years and eventually went crazy. In the novel, Li Guohua is a Chinese language teacher and an intellectual who quotes sentences from "A Dream of Red Mansions" when describing sadistic scenes.
After Li Guohua sexually assaulted Fang Siqi for the first time, he said to her:
This reminds me of what the protagonist in "Shame" said when he tried to seduce a female student. The words they used were exactly the same.
Unlike the first-person narrator in "Lolita" or "Shame", Li Guohua is a controversial figure. On the contrary, Li Guohua is an absolute villain, so readers often wear colored glasses when reading his language. But from another perspective, we have to admit that when we look at his language alone, it is beautiful. When your lover says to you, "Your beauty does not belong to you, it only belongs to me." Such words are so beautiful! But Li Guohua took advantage of this and filled his value system that was originally full of cracks with clever words to make the victims obediently walk into his building.
Lin Yihan said in an interview before his death that Li Guohua had a prototype in real life, and this prototype also had a prototype. The prototype of this prototype was Hu Lancheng. When Hu Lancheng abused Xiao Zhou and betrayed Zhang Ailing, he could still use prose to excuse himself. Lin Yihan couldn't help asking himself: "A person who truly believes in Chinese, how could he betray this vast context that has lasted for more than five thousand years?" And tradition?" When Lin Yihan learned that her favorite Nobel Prize winner Naipaul actually beat his wife, her worldview collapsed. Shouldn't poetry express true feelings and sincerity? She further asked, "Is art essentially about clever words and persuasions?"
"Beijing News Book Review Weekly" once published such a push: Taiwanese writer Lin Yihan was sexually assaulted, is literature an accomplice? ?
In the article, the author answered bluntly: Art does contain elements of rhetoric. However, art should be guided by correct philosophy, otherwise art will be just pure rhetoric.
In Li Guohua's words, he deliberately confused the two completely different concepts of "animal desire" and "love". The young Fang Siqi thought: I must fall in love with the teacher, so that it will be normal for me to do these things with him. I have to fall in love with him, otherwise it will be too painful. So she decided to "be together" with the teacher.
At this point, we have seen the terrible characteristics of language and literature: once there is no truth and goodness, no matter how beautiful the words are, they will become an accomplice to evil. Just like when poetry is not guided by correct philosophy, it becomes sanctimonious and glib. Lin Yihan is committed to reaching artistic heights and has her own aesthetics. She believes that form and content are inseparable. As André Gide said: “Performance and being are inseparable.
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