In 1980s, avant-garde literature (including novels and dramas) headed by misty poetry undertook the mission of ideological enlightenment. Prose seems to be slow, only responsible for explanation. No, it has quietly made great efforts to break away from the inertia of the past, such as the model of Yang Shuo and Qin Mu, and began to enrich. It finds the right direction, and richness is the greatest advantage of this style.
The market economy in 1990s forced avant-garde poems and novels with lofty thoughts to ebb gradually, but prose did this without hesitation, but stood up, or more accurately, dared to bend down and approached readers with a low posture. Prose, like water, can be elegant and vulgar; You can go to Chun Xue or Bali; It can be a fast food or a Manchu-Chinese banquet.
Looking back on the prose in the 1990s, can you really say yes? Ten thousand kinds of frost fight for freedom? . With the arrival of Xi Murong, Sanmao and other Hong Kong and Taiwan female writers, prose became popular and even walked out of a market-oriented road. So Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities took the lead in writing by mainland women writers? Little women's prose? Girlfriend, Liaoning Youth, Reader, Youth Digest and other youth, women and life periodicals with huge circulation have greatly crushed the market influence of literary periodicals and produced many authors. Youth and beauty? (I was one of the representative writers at that time), to some extent, for the new century? After 80? The upsurge of youth literature has made a sound, that is, young readers of any era are eager to have their own? A generation of literature . As a result, our prose has been sought after by many imitators, forming a trend of cultural prose. Accompanied by historical prose, many young and middle-aged writers try to talk about history and prose in the form of prose. The literati prose represented by Wang Zengqi and Yu Guangzhong wins with leisure or romance; Scholars' prose, represented by Zhang Zhongxing and Ji Xianlin, not only won the respect of the world with profound knowledge, but also with broad-minded realm; Zhou, who studies philosophy, also embraces young readers with fresh philosophical prose.
Due to the development of popular newspapers and even bestsellers, those generations of teenagers grew up reading prose. The whole cultural world is producing essays with different origins and styles, and the pure literary world is naturally unwilling to lag behind. Novelists such as Zhang Chengzhi and Han Shaogong are all writing essays, forming a series of novelists' essays; Yu Jian, Nishikawa, Zhou Tao and other poets are also writing prose, forming a series of poets' prose; Many critics, such as Wu Liang, also write prose or write comments in the language and style of prose, especially women writers such as Tie Ning, Zhang Kangkang and Chi Zijian. Female prose? Comparative literature and art.
All these things, even all things that have not been commented, have formed the well-known prose fever in the 1990s. In my impression, as far as literature is concerned, the 1990s is an era of prose and prose.
Why was the original half-shot prose more popular than novels and poems in the 1990s? Facing the market economy, the acceptance of prose in concept is low. Pure literature? 、? Vanguard literature? Bound by this concept, we can seek the road of commercialization with curiosity and enthusiasm, and it is indeed easier to get the reward of fame and fortune. Meet the requirements and demands of the media (newspapers, periodicals and books) for culture and literature at the fastest speed. Prose goes into battle lightly, without too much ideological burden, or, prose has never been afraid of the secular, nor does it avoid the secular. It has a cooperative attitude with the secular, because it doesn't need to go to the ivory tower to hide from the rain. Therefore, among many literary styles, the prose circle first presents a diversified pattern.