Listening to the Cold Rain is Yu Guangzhong's masterpiece of prose, just as Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is to Zhu Ziqing. When I first read Listening to Cold Rain, I couldn't help but be shocked: Can prose be written like this? If you read it carefully, you will put it down. Yu Guangzhong once joked:? Writing poetry with the right hand and occasionally writing prose with the left hand are by-products. ? But how many of these byproducts are second to none among contemporary prose writers? The poetic language full of jumping associations is the biggest feature of Listening to Cold Rain. The author used many overlapping sentences in the article.
At the beginning of the article, I described the rain vividly: sometimes it drips, sometimes it drips, and the sky is wet? Write the rain in one sentence. Then he jumped out of association and wrote:? Even in my dream, I seem to be holding an umbrella? This sentence laid the foundation for the whole article. Sad? Tone. Immediately, he boldly imagined that the whole history of China in China was just a black-and-white movie, and it was raining from beginning to end. At this time, I felt Yu Guangzhong's deep homesickness and patriotism. This article is like a long poem, full of amazing poetic images. Is it the rain written by the author? Black and white movie? But when? Song painting? But when? A drop of wet soul? But when? Gentle gray beauty? Wait a minute. With extraordinary talent and imagination, the author turns homesickness into various images, which are integrated with the author's life experience and spiritual journey. It can be said that love and rain are intertwined. Yu Guangzhong described the senses such as vision, hearing and smell of rain in poetic language. Between the lines, the charm of ancient poetry can be seen everywhere, such as? Shepherd boy pointing? ,? Sword gate drizzle acropolis light dust? ,? Jiangnan apricot blossom spring rain? .
Classical literature lovers always smile when they read this article. Readers who like modern styles will not be disappointed, such as? Is the rain licking the cold rain on your lips under the wet music? In short, many so-called modern poets have been ashamed. Language is the carrier of thought. How can you be a writer without music? Similarly, if you don't have profound thoughts, you can't be a writer. Yu Guangzhong perfectly integrated his thoughts into the language, as he himself said: an excellent essayist, when his thoughts and words meet, beauty is like salt sprinkled on a candle, which will emit sparks of seven colors. I often like to draw sentences when I am reading, but when I read Listening to Cold Rain, I can't pick up a sentence, because every sentence is so beautiful.
Ling Ke, a literary sojourner, said that Listening to the Cold Rain is directly composed of words, sounds, light and shadow, which are dense and intertwined. This may help us to increase our confidence in the expressive force of China's writing and modern literature, and we should also admit that this is a unique situation in the field of prose since the May 4th Movement. Comments are not flattering, but also profound and fair.
Random thoughts on Yu Guangzhong's prose II
& gt After reading Yu Guangzhong's essay Flowers and Birds, I immediately fell in love with this little parrot, and even regarded myself as the author, feeding the parrot and caring for its feathers. And ashamed of human cruelty.
Before I read it? Blue Baby bought it at the food market for six yuan. Of all my birds, it is the cleverest and cutest one. Now even if someone pays 6000 yuan, I won't give up. ? At that time, I deeply felt the author's love for Blue Baby, because Blue Baby is the cleverest and cutest. From where? Now, even if someone pays 6 thousand, I won't give up I wrote about the importance of blue baby to me. Parrots also have revenge and kindness. You are not good to him at ordinary times, and he will go back to bite you as long as he can come out. If you are kind to him, he will not only kiss your finger with his beak, but also let it go? Quelli? Share it with you. Before I read it? Between people, forbidding others to speak or forcing others to obey the word "thousand mouths" is mighty. Why bother to walk in front of animals? At that time, I felt the cruelty of human beings, violating human nature in order to make people speak. This all-encompassing world belongs to people, as well as flowers, birds, fish and insects. We can't destroy the world for selfish desires.
I think: We should protect every small creature in the world and stop hunting them. They have their own lives, and they also have their own parents like people. Don't let innocent lives die at your hands again!
Protecting animals means protecting ourselves. Let's take action to make contributions to the protection of animals and make life better!
Comments on Yu Guangzhong's Prose 3
The first essay "The Muse of the Left Hand" written by Yu Guangzhong, a famous writer in Taiwan Province Province, was first published in 1963, but what I am circulating at hand is the new edition reprinted by Taiwan Province Times Publishing Company1April 980. This book is hard to find in Chinese mainland, even in major libraries. 1993 went to Shenzhen in the summer vacation, visited the city library and found the original bookshelves of Hong Kong and Taiwan. There are only a few poor books, which is a great pity-a city without envy.
The profound cultural accumulation is just that the building is tall and beautiful, and it is also difficult to impress people. Sha passed through Hong Kong in the early 1990s and went to several second-hand bookshops to find this book. And the version I have seems to have qualified to be a rare one! The important original works published by famous writers in Hong Kong and Taiwan before 1990s can probably be viewed in this way in Chinese mainland.
Yu Guangzhong thinks that his occupation is writing poetry. This right hand kept burning incense and meditating on poetry. However, drinking Miluo River water alone is not enough. Gradually, take a rest for your right hand and let your left hand write some prose. ? It took eight years to write this book. Dew frost and cut thorns to make room for size? A small part.
With what? Itchy? (Kissing) Same? The muse of the left hand? (mainland translation? Muse? ), is indeed Yu Guangzhong's exact words. The origin of this title has long been an allusion in the literary history of Taiwan Province Province:? At that time, the title of "The Muse of the Left Hand" was quite strange to my friends and puzzled some readers. Actually, I use it? Left hand? This image is just a by-product, which implies self-modesty. What idioms are there? The left side door? How to say it in Taiwanese? Forehand? (Right?)? Handstand hand? (left), in English? Are there many left-handed people? Awkward? With what? Clumsy? Meaning. ? -only know the origin of its title, seems to have caught a glimpse of the author's skill and amazing pen.
Actually, what about Yu Shizhi? Wonderful hand? As Huang Weiliang, a Hong Kong writer, said, Yu Guangzhong should have four hands: his right hand writes poetry, his left hand attacks prose, and his third and fourth hands specialize in criticism and translation. When The Muse of the Left Hand was published, Yu had achieved fruitful results: four poems, three translated poems, one translated novel and one translated biography were published.
It is worth noting by experts in the history of literature that Yu's The Muse of the Left Hand took an intellectual road at first: talking about Eliot, commenting on Picasso, introducing Van Gogh and Angel, and praising Hu Shi. When the pen is opened, it sparkles. Followed by emotional and lyrical A Passage to Shicheng, The Story of first frost, Lake Tar and The Study? Book disasters, etc. , are all jaw-dropping essays.
It turns out that among the nine muses, there is no prose goddess. The emergence of the "left-handed muse" is really a dawn for the lonely and desolate China literary world in the 1950s and 1960s.
For example, regarding the relationship between Yu Guangzhong and the May 4th vernacular prose, Taiwan Province poet Yang Mu once said: Xu Zhimo's prose is free and romantic with the poet's pen. Su, He Qifang, Zhang Xiuya, Hu Pinqing, Chen,, etc. were all influenced by him. ? ("The origin of literature? China's modern prose) is very pertinent. However, this only summarizes Yu Guangzhong from one side. I think that if we really grasp its essence, Yu Guangzhong's prose has some characteristics of Qian Zhongshu's prose. It turns out that in The Muse of the Left Hand, he dedicated his readers to profound allusions and knowledge of poetry, painting and music, which is a unique sentence pattern and structure with flexibility and unique changes in the language of his prose. When reading Qian Zhongshu's prose, we often marvel at the difficulty and impenetrability of his allusion. Reading Yu Guangzhong's prose, we seem to see that he still pursues images and uses elegant allusions, but he is dense, intimate and approachable. His prose seems to have achieved the organic integration of interest, wisdom and learning.
Yu Guangzhong's view of prose has been seen in his books, and it seems that he should not take it lightly.
What the author hated most at that time was: Prose popular in the literary world is either winking at the Muse or making irresponsible remarks and gnashing their teeth. The idea of less than 1CC is actually 10 gallon. ? So, what kind of prose should I advocate?
The prose I expect should be vivid, colorful and bright; There should be the sweetness of a wooden flute, the rustling of a pot-shaped copper drum, the spectrum that rotates freely like a rainbow, and the flicker between the lines should have a fantastic light. When his thoughts and words meet, every time he sprinkles salt on a candle, seven colors of sparks will be emitted.
Looking at the development of contemporary cross-strait prose, it is rare to reach this level from the combination of theory and practice; Yu Guangzhong's first essay is a pioneer leading to this realm.
This can't help but remind people that some young essayists in Chinese mainland are purely emotional as soon as they get started, and they have become new romances, ignoring intellectuality and structure, and they can't get out of Zhu Ziqing all the time? Traces? Xu zhimo's? Cambridge? However, after dozens of articles are published, it is difficult to continue over and over again. The prose of many essayists in Chinese mainland is always lyrical. Without profound cultural value and conscious philosophical pursuit, it is difficult to find powerful schools like Lin Qingxuan and Dong Qiao, and Yu Guangzhong stood on a brand-new commanding height as soon as he got started. If you lack profound knowledge of the Chinese language, proficiency in one or several foreign languages, and sensibility to be an intellectual backbone, even though it may be amazing to write, it will be even more difficult to climb up to a certain level without the push of intellectuals.
There is another point in Yu Guangzhong's prose view that deserves our special attention.
What was advocated at the beginning of the May 4th New Literature Movement? Mei Wen? At that time, Yu Guangzhong was more sober than the "American literature" school after the mainland:
Modernism is between beauty and truth, preferring the latter. The great modern writers, whether Eliot or Auden, Hanmingwei or Faulkner, would rather present the unpleasant truth to readers than fabricate some whitewashed beauty, artificial elegance and disguised innocence.
In Yu Guangzhong's second essay collection Rain on the Palm, the author still insists that modern writers have the courage to face deformity and ugliness. They think that true ugliness is more attractive than false beauty. ?
I always feel that the value of Yu Guangzhong should not only be found in the literary category, but also be more open-minded If we say, the significance of Mr. Yin in the field of philosophy and thought in Taiwan Province Province lies in: he pretends to be a figure in the late May 4th Movement ―― just like many figures in the late May 4th Movement, he has no chance to enjoy the splendor of the May 4th Movement, but suffers from loneliness, desolation and disobedience; Yu Guangzhong creatively inherited the spirit of the May 4th New Literature and pushed the ontology of literature to a new height in loneliness, desolation and rebellion.
Prose is naturally a part of his conscious expression.
Mr. Wang thinks Yu's prose is better than his poems. I also think Yu's poems are not as good as love, and his prose enjoys the reputation of being the first in Taiwan Province Province.
The Muse of the Left Hand was a mistake!