The styles of these two writers are indistinguishable. When it comes to personal preference, of course it’s Wang Xiaobo. Wang Xiaobo's ideological essays had a great influence on me and a generation of people. His novels are unmatched by Shi Tiesheng's novels. Wang Xiaobo has a broad vision and profound thinking. But Shi Tiesheng's works place more emphasis on emotion and narrative. In the work "The Golden Age" by the famous writer Wang Xiaobo, the protagonist Wang Er has a classic self-description. "I was 21 years old at that time. In the golden age of my life, I had many extravagant wishes. I wanted to love, to eat, and to become half a bright cloud in the sky in an instant."
This is the truest desire secretly surging in the hearts of that generation of young people in the 1970s when material was scarce, as Wang Xiaobo told the protagonist. In the same timeline outside the book, there is also a 21-year-old young man who is in his prime and is about to usher in the golden age of life. However, a disease that caught him off guard broke his life. This sick young man wanted to die many times. On the hospital bed, in a wheelchair, and in the dark, he stared into the abyss again and again, trying to escape from this world. But eventually, he learned to look up at the sun. This unfortunate young man who was seriously ill was 21-year-old Shi Tiesheng.
Shi Tiesheng, born in Beijing in 1951, is a well-known essayist and writer in China. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and has served as vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association and vice chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. Shi Tiesheng shocked and moved me at first, all from this section. When I was young, I couldn't imagine that a person lost his legs at the most arrogant age. After all, how many nights of struggle and pain would he have to endure in order to continue to live? What kind of mentality and resolution does a person have to have before losing his legs? Coming out of the shadows?
Xu Xiao recalled that half a century ago, Chinese literature was very dull. At that time, almost all foreign literary works that people had access to came from the Soviet Union, with only a few mainstream works such as "Golden Avenue", "Song of Ouyang Hai", and "Plain Guerrilla". But at that time, a group of pioneering young people began to try to express their thoughts in words and explore the spiritual direction in literary works. Early "cultural salons" or "underground literature" emerged. Under political pressure, this group of young people share their knowledge, knowledge and ideas.
They formed a poetry club to discuss poetry, music and novels. Poetry became the most important literary form in the 1960s and 1970s because it has a small number of words, can easily express emotions, and is suitable for communication. The Beidao we are familiar with, Shizhi was a poet of that period.