Although "Flying Close to the Ground" is a collection of reviews, its significance is obviously not limited to the discussion of the creation of individual writers. Its attempt to construct the history of armed police literature is very obvious. There are many models for writing literary history, such as the writer theory model, stylistic history model, thematic history model, mixed history model, etc. The writer theory model is the most commonly used and basic way of writing literary history. 》It takes this form. The value of this historical writing model is that it best reflects the historian's personal characteristics, and the comments on writers and works reflect literary insights and aesthetic feelings. The historical positioning of writers and works is also the basic premise for constructing literary history.
The aesthetic perception reflected in Beiqiao's precise artistic comments in the book is also worthy of praise. The careful reading of the text and the impressionistic comments are very valuable in the current literary criticism. The theoretical worship and theoretical anxiety permeating current literary criticism, as well as the neglect of careful reading of works, are to many extents far away from the original purpose of literary criticism. However, these articles by Beiqiao are closest to the essence of literary criticism, focusing on works. As the center, we peel off the cocoons and go deep layer by layer, carefully presenting the artistic characteristics of the work and the creative characteristics of the writer. For example, in the article "Pure Sunshine in the Home of the Soul", his comments on Cao Yuxiang are quite wonderful, "Cao Yuxiang's narrative strategy is positioned at the original ecological reproduction of life, using realistic techniques to carefully caress the world and all living things in the field of vision. The scenery of growing up and the details of life are clearly restored due to his carefulness and emotion, which are both refined and undistorted. The touches and fragments of life are imprinted on his soul due to his thoughtfulness and sensitivity. Cao Yuxiang clearly has this ability to describe daily life in poetic language and deal with worldly affairs with poetic thinking. "With his condensed and smooth aesthetics and true and textured life narration", this comment not only grasps the aesthetic characteristics of the poet's creation, but this kind of text also identifies with poetry, fully displaying the delicacy and beauty of literary criticism. . This time Beiqiao is interpreting Qingbang’s novels. Firstly, Qingbang’s novels are worth studying (in contemporary times, there are only a handful of writers who pay attention to the art of short stories like Qingbang). Secondly, Beiqiao chooses a unique angle—— He did not attempt to make a comprehensive value judgment on Qingbang's novels, but chose one of them to sort out and analyze in detail. He read the works and even discussed the facts without talking about anything else. This way, he stayed away from the danger of bragging. .
I wonder how many critics there are like Bei Qiao who have the patience to read texts? He moved forward step by step in Qingbang's literary world, not letting go of every sentence, word, and detail of Qingbang's novels easily, telling us the novel completely, interpreting and us. He started from the beginning and worked his way down, talking about these texts, reading them, talking about them, and pointing out them. Sometimes I actually have the thought: I might as well not read Qingbang’s novels. At the same time, he told me that I had a stronger desire to read Qingbang's novels.
I think this criticism is a valid criticism. As a male writer and critic, Beiqiao wrote a collection of prose reviews "Liu Qingbang's Daughter's Kingdom" and published it.
Bei Qiao and Liu Qingbang met in the hometown of their souls, picked up the fragments of childhood memories, and used the stories of women's physical and spiritual growth to overlap and shine at the origin of human nature, and jointly built a story far away from the city. The luxurious, simple and bright rural "daughter country". With poetic language and multi-dimensional perspectives, it expands the literary space for exploring the meaning of women's existence from the "grassroots" of local folk, and tells the story of the "roots of kindness" of human nature and love in the countryside. Because there is the nourishment and richness of the local soil.
This collection of prose reviews is a collection of essays by Bei Qiao that combines narrative and commentary, using multiple perspectives to reshape the images of more than 50 rural women written by Liu Qingbang and present their lives in distant places. The most vivid memory in the countryside. Through scenes of women's rural survival, this beautiful memory is sharpened into a gallery of female images, and the group portraits with distinctive personalities are left to the history of contemporary women's literature. It’s gratifying! It uses women as the subject to explore the source of "maternal love" and the pain of nirvana, to express the double disaster of women after they are far away from homeland physically and mentally. It’s thought-provoking! This kind of approach is also rare among male writers. In fact, all of Beiqiao's novels can be called "Once Upon a Time in Zhuwan Village". In his novels, I saw many familiar figures, such as Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, Xiao Hong, Su Tong, Mo Yan, Chi Zijian... these may be obvious or obvious The dark shadows seemed to be a microcosm of rural China, becoming clearer and clearer. Finally, they overlapped together - I saw a real Beiqiao, a child, teenager, young man, and soldier who came out of Zhuwan Village. , literary practitioners, have gone all the way to the literary circles in the capital, and to literary publications of all sizes across the country. However, reading his novels, I feel that he has never left the Zhuwan Village where he was born and raised. To paraphrase Wen Yiduo's lyrics, "You still keep the soul in my heart."
It should be said that this is the tone of Beiqiao's novels. Zhujiawan is like a training ground for human nature, a gathering place of desires, and a habitat for the soul.
In terms of the grasp of the structure and the rendering of the charm, I prefer his short stories, which are familiar and calm. They are more exquisite because of their shortness. They seem to mix the elegance and clarity of poetry with the subtlety and lightness of prose.
This is Beiqiao's world. He hopes to communicate with nature with his still childlike innocence. He did it, so he is happy. Bei Qiao used millions of words to tell and describe the life of ordinary armed police soldiers with great patience and detail. His writing ethics must be related to this proverb. In my imagination, this proverb truly describes Beiqiao's deep inner and emotional pain, which is difficult to recover from despite the vicissitudes of life. This proverb later transformed into a poetic image, which overlapped with Beiqiao's life and soul, calling him on the road to literature. The "Camp Series" of hundreds of thousands of words on the one hand explains the connotation of this proverb, and on the other hand soothes Bei Qiao's unyielding pain deep in his soul. The life of a former grassroots armed policeman must be unforgettable and even unforgettable for Bei Qiao. This is the basis, or source, for Bei Qiao to write the above-mentioned works. Beiqiao wants to use a series of works to restore the lives of ordinary soldiers, resurrect their simple youth, and testify to their past "existence". Bei Qiao, who wrote the "Camp Series", did not stay in his perceptual imagination. He obviously metaphysically elevated and summarized this proverb, so this proverb became the core idea, or soul, of his works.
Beiqiao's narration and description are calm and patient, and also plain and profound; you may even feel that he is a little clumsy in his quietness and a little tragic in his loneliness. He is like a loyal and forbearing gardener. Year after year, we guard the silent camp, witness the "existence" of military life, and watch over the spiritual home of professional soldiers. Holderlin said that literature testifies to "existence". "Existence" is the spiritual boundary of literature, and "existence" is also the eternal motif of literature. Great literature has always described, explained and analyzed the basic existence of human beings - this is its fundamental value. It is in this sense that the works of the "Barracks Series" bear witness to Beiqiao's persistent efforts to explore the normalcy of military life, and also reflect Beiqiao's firm counterattack against the "novelty-seeking" trend of military literature in the new century. It also demonstrates Beiqiao's In this way, we construct and interpret the literary aspirations of the military camp subculture.
I believe that the value and significance of the "Camp Series" works will be highlighted as the reality of "existence" continues to become more complex and severe. Perhaps, on such a literary path that leads directly to the narrow gate of the spirit, Bei Qiao still has to travel far alone; but I can vaguely feel a trace of determination and pride from his back. After all, for a literary explorer and pilgrim, , being on the road is a great happiness. Beiqiao's prose-style "Words from the Camp" participated in the army's literary awards. With its unique perspective and witty interpretation, it won unanimous praise from the judges and won the Chinese People's Liberation Army Literary Award that year. At that time, I admired Beiqiao's uniqueness. People often say that life in the military camp is very rich, with endless characters and endless topics. What Beiqiao did can be seen as a very convincing footnote. What I didn't expect was that he didn't stop after winning the award. He was still as diligent and diligent as ever. A few years later, he released "Soldiers of the World", which focused on the company and talked about grassroots officers and soldiers.
What deeply moved me was that while some writers were less interested in military life, or were increasingly emotionally distant from grassroots officers and soldiers, Beiqiao always focused on the company, and Speak of those lovely grassroots officers and soldiers with unchanging feelings and great enthusiasm. This is very commendable and should be praised. Dare to use this wording method that has the least story and plot (at this point, Beiqiao may be the furthest along) to compose a work, which shows the author's confidence and familiarity with life in the military camp. It seems to be the most extraordinary thing in ordinary life, but it is easy but difficult to achieve. Without long-term experience, accumulation and playfulness of military camp (police camp) life, how could you dare to use such a very loose writing style, how could you be so creative and write?
As the author said, "The camp is like a river, and words full of military flavor are like fishes of all kinds swimming and jumping." The strict regulations of the military camp and the unique vitality of youth activated these fish and made them jump out of the water, but they were not allowed to move too much and jump to the shore. This is what the author is clearly aware of. Therefore, people who lack understanding and attention to military camp life may have some difficulties in interpreting it. For those who can identify with it, "Barracks Words" has the understanding and comfort of "Qian Magu scratching an itch".