Zhang, a famous writer in Taiwan Province, was born in 1957 and his ancestral home is Jinan. Classical poetry, mainly novels. Each of his works adopts a new narrative style and constantly breaks through himself. He is regarded as one of the best novelists in contemporary Taiwan Province Province and even the Chinese-speaking world. He is the author of Chicken Feather Map, Four Happiness and Worrying about the Country, Zhang's Literary Views, The Colonel's Novel No One Has Written, The Violent Group of the City-State, etc., and he knows several words.
In early winter, Zhang, a famous Taiwan Province writer, appeared in Chengdu. I visited the bookstore, visited Wen Shu Academy, gave a speech on "Li Bai and Wenchuang" in Fangfang Bookstore, and then left quietly. I didn't have time to visit Jiangyou Qinglian, Li Bai's hometown, and left a sentence in Chengdu: "It doesn't matter where Li Baisheng is, and there is no need to argue about where he belongs. What matters is his poetry and cultural innovation spirit. "
Zhang's Li Datang White is divided into four parts, with about one million words. The Journey of Youth is the first book, which was published at the beginning of last year and sold well for some time. 20 14 12 13 reporter interviewed Zhang in Chengdu, trying to get to know this "most talented and funny writer in Taiwan Province province".
Writing about Li Bai-I don't show off my skills, which is necessary for writing.
Reporter: Many people, like me, are too tired to read "Bai Qinglv". Why write such a novel?
Zhang: If you say it's hard to read, I think it's hard to read. I have been writing novels for 40 years, and I have been writing all kinds of novels since I was 7 years old. Science fiction, history, martial arts, legends, stories and legends are all changed into fake academic papers and fake news reports, but these novels are all based on stories, and the writing is based on the ins and outs of the stories. From the age of 40, I felt that every time I wrote a novel, I had to open the definition of the novel a little, just a little. "Li Datang White" is an attempt to open the usual form, telling a short story, interspersed with a historical background annotation, telling a short story, and adding historical background annotation ... There are more annotations than the text, so it is a bit difficult to read. However, some things make me feel at ease. For example, the son of singer Emil Wakin Chau has been studying in American schools since he was a child. He finished it and wanted to discuss it with his father, but Emil Wakin Chau didn't finish it. In this way, children with growing backgrounds understand and the instructions are not so difficult to read.
I want to present a picture of Li Bai in the social background of the Tang Dynasty. To restore history, we must go back to the past. For example, most of the dialogues in the book try to restore the way of speaking in the Tang Dynasty, which is also the reason why many people are not easy to understand. I don't mean to show off my skills. It's a necessity for writing, and I won't deliberately embarrass readers.
Reporter: You designed a theme of "Li Bai and Wen Chuang" in your speech at Chengdu Fangdian Bookstore. Why?
Zhang: Li Bai is the most famous poet in the history of China, and he is also the most misunderstood poet. I think Li Bai is a product of that social background, and at the same time he has made breakthrough efforts under that background. For example, in Li Bai's poems, few really conform to the law, which is the need of cultural creativity.
For example, in connection with Chengdu, "Every family will come to draw pictures in 90 days" is a sentence in Li Bai's "Ten Poems on a Westward Journey to Nanjing". In fact, only four of the songs in 10 are in full compliance with the rules. Others, if submitted, will be circled and a folded symbol will be drawn as homework for the teacher. No! Look at the complete works of Li Taibai again and find irregular poems. Eighty-nine percent are. At the same time, Du Fu wrote more than 100 seven-meter poems, and he had accurate meter.
In addition to being unrestrained, I feel more subversive. Li Bai was born in a merchant family. At that time, the merchant family's social status was not high, so Li Bai rebelled for a reason. He needs a breakthrough to show his helplessness. In Li Bai's time, it was easy for a person who honed his poetry from an early age to break the law, but it must be intentional to break the law, which led to a bodhisattva-level person: the forest was boundless, the fog was boundless, and the cold mountain was bleak. When the color enters a tall building, someone upstairs is worried.
In addition, the breakthrough is to meet the needs of music. In order to create a new musical form, Li Bai deliberately subverted the requirements of metrical style. Today, this is cultural creativity. At this point, we don't know him very well, which is why I want to write in white.
Writing about Li Bai-a writer, like a bank card, has a limit.
Reporter: when it comes to serious literature, it is constantly marginalized; Speaking of physical bookstores, there is a sigh. How to treat the change of "reading"? Can you recommend some good books to everyone?
Zhang: The ebb of serious literature began in Taiwan Province 10 years ago. Serious writers and literature, literature that can withstand all kinds of aesthetics are basically gone. Now Giddens Ko and Ten Knives are popular. "Giddens Ko" is a writer of online literature in Taiwan Province, also known as the literary machine.
As for the physical bookstore, there is no need to be so nervous. When people talk about this topic every day, bookstores will definitely still be there. I'm afraid that one day no one will say anything, and the bookstore may disappear. Two years ago, every family in Taiwan Province Province began to buy Mo Yan, even if they didn't understand it, they had to buy a thin book, so the topic was very important, at least making people realize the importance of books. The Book of Rites says: "Good questioners, such as tapping wood: the first one is easy, and then the procedure ... Being kind to questioners is like ringing a bell: the small one will ring, and the big one will ring ..." So, I neither recommend books to people, nor evaluate contemporary works, because I often haven't read them, so how can I tell others?
Reporter: Do you consider yourself one of the symbols of Taiwan Province literature?
Zhang: When there is a blog, as long as I make a sharp comment on public affairs, it will become TV news that night and newspaper news the next day. Later, I made a rule for myself: I would not participate in literary criticism, textbook selection, annual selection and literary subsidies, and I would try not to participate in public activities of more than three writers.
I know you put forward a lot of requirements for Mo Yan, but a writer and a bank card are the same. They are limited and cannot carry too much. My communication with writers is reading their books. Of course, there will be a private meeting, but it will not pull the mountain. If I am a cultural symbol and have my own hill, this hill is empty.
[Reporter's Note] In Savage
Zhang has two TV programs, one is talk show, interviewing guests, and the topics are science, astronomy, transportation, agriculture, publishing, music, or abstract topics. The other is storytelling: I said that I wrote Violent Groups in the polis and Bai, and I also said that I didn't say anything before I planned to retire, such as History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Water Margin, The Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dream of Red Mansions.
He also co-wrote the songs in The Barbarian with Emil Wakin Chau. Ask him how to evaluate pop music. How to evaluate singers such as Jay Chou? He avoided answering: everyone is exploring the elegance and vulgarity of all kinds of music, and vulgarity is desperately drilling into vulgarity and becoming vulgar; Ya, too, is too elegant to know what to say. I always want to go back to a great civilization scene. Faced with the rapid demand of the public, writers have neither the will nor the ability to be themselves. At the end of the chat, Zhang was still wanting more. He clicked on the mobile phone network and found the song he collaborated with Emil Wakin Chau ―― in Barbarian. Listen and sing along with your own words:
Dirt is everywhere in the wind;
There are families everywhere, laughing at the door, drinking tobacco, drinking tea.
Look carefully, it's true, green silk, satin and HongLing flowers.
……
What is the most lethal? Maybe this is called life.
Everyone looks the same, red silk, satin and green silk.
Just passing by, don't be sad.
Just passing by, don't be sad.
"This song can be said to be my self-summary in this world. My attitude towards songs and people in today's world is under the trend of rapid progress and striving for various interests. " He said.