Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 635

Xu Zechen sat in Yudong's office for a long time. In summer, he took out a notebook from his backpack after he finished drinking the hot tea in the cup.

The book looks old, and it must have been turned over a lot, so the corners are already hairy.

"Teacher Yu, here are some reflections I wrote when I was studying. Please give me your advice."

"Is it?"

Yu Dong smiled and took the notebook in his hand.

First, I flipped through it roughly. Xu Zechen should have other notebooks. This one has already been written, and the last page is full.

Seeing the word Xu Zechen, Yu Dong raised his eyebrows.

This kid is not very old, but his brushwork is quite sophisticated.

The writing is quite scribbled, but it's not that kind of random scribble, and some rules can be seen in the middle. Xu Zechen should have been exposed to calligraphy in normal times.

"Do you usually write?" Yu Dong asked.

Xu Zechen naturally understood what Yu Dong meant by "writing". He nodded and replied, "I've been playing with my grandfather since I was a child, and I've been playing tricks in class. I heard that Teacher Yu is very good at this."

"I'm also writing for fun."

Yu Dong replied casually, and then carefully read what Xu Zechen wrote.

The first article in this book is about "Xu Sanguan's Tale of Selling Blood". Although Xu Zechen said that he wrote it as a reflection after reading it, the content is quite professional.

This article mainly starts from the repetitive narrative of "Xu Sanguan's Tale of a Blood Seller", and analyzes the artistic narrative art of "Xu Sanguan's Tale of a Blood Seller".

After reading the first article, Yu Dong didn't show any special expression.

To be honest, Yu Dong was a little disappointed after reading this article.

It's not that this article is poorly written. In fact, if the person in front of him is just a student who has just finished his second year at Huaiyin Normal University, then it seems to Yu Dong that he can write something like this.

But he is Xu Zechen.

At least in Yu Dong’s opinion, this shouldn’t be something that a person who plans to study for a master’s degree in the Chinese Department of Yanda University should write.

Although Yu Dong knew that writing novels had little to do with academic research, he would still be disappointed to see such a thing written by a talented writer with several major literary awards in the future.

First of all, the repeated narrative of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" has been talked about by academic researchers over and over again in the past few years, and there is nothing new about it. However, these things written by Xu Zechen are no different from those written by others, and the analysis No one else has figured it out yet.

Secondly, Xu Zechen still lacks a lot of things in terms of academic research, and his knowledge is not wide enough. Some places that should be studied in depth always stop abruptly and float on the surface.

For example, Xu Zechen mentioned in the article that Yu Hua’s repetitive narrative technique was influenced by Western literature, and Hemingway was also mentioned, but when it comes to Hemingway, he has no way to analyze in depth which novels by Hemingway use this technique. This is Because he didn't read enough.

Yu Dong didn't need to look it up, he could think of some places in "Mountains Like White Elephants" and "Farewell to Arms" with a random thought, there are repetitions of words and phrases, duplication of characters and plots, and intertextuality. The three levels of sex structure and so on use repetition means, and it is still used repeatedly.

Especially "Farewell to Arms", such a well-known work, Xu Zechen should not have contacted it.

Yu Dong was not in a hurry to comment, and flipped through a few more articles.

I read a total of four articles, and some of them were not bad, but they were still far from meeting Yu Dong's expectations.

At this level, if he wants to graduate from the Chinese Department of Yanda University, Xu Zechen will have to work hard later.

Yu Dong closed the notebook, pondered for a while, then looked at Xu Zechen, who was restless, and said slowly, "It's okay."

When he heard the three words "not bad", Xu Zechen felt a strong sense of frustration in his heart. Of course, he could hear the meaning of these three words.

Also, is very general.

To be honest, when Xu Zechen took out his notebook, he hoped to be praised by Yu Dong, and he also felt that he should be praised.

Before that, he had received too many praises in literature. In Huaiyin Normal University, some of their teachers even told him that his attainments in literature were not as good as Xu Zechen.

He wrote his first novel in his sophomore year of high school, and since then he has determined to become a writer, and then he entered the Chinese Department.

During the summer vacation last year, he successfully published an essay and received a manuscript fee of more than ten yuan, and he became a little famous in their Huaiyin Normal School.

Later, he successfully passed the exam and got a place in the Chinese Department of Jinling University, which made him more confident, thinking that he was a genius, but today he only got the word "okay" from Yudong.

To be honest, he was a little dissatisfied.

Yu Dong could see that Xu Zechen was disappointed, and reopened his notebook with a smile, "Your current reading volume is not enough to support you to conduct in-depth literary research, such as this first article..."

In today's era when the Internet is not yet well-developed, the amount of reading can be seen directly from the things written.

The reason why Yu Dong mentioned the amount of reading is because this thing is very important.

The importance of the amount of reading is needless to say for learning, but for literary creation, the amount of reading is also particularly important.

Some people like to say that Yu Hua and Mo Yan are not highly educated and don't study much, and they both like to tease that they don't study much.

But this is not the case. In Jinyi, only Yu Dong can match the amount of reading these two people have.Especially Mo Yan, whenever he talked about a certain writer, no matter whether he was Chinese or foreign, he was always able to catch up.

The two of them just don't know those professional terms, and they have already seen those writing techniques, writing skills, and writing genres in their works.

For a writer, they don't need to know what these things are called, they just need to know when these things are useful.

For example, Yu Hua's "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood", the repetitive narrative method used in it, he himself may not have known what a repetitive narrative method is before, but because he has read Hemingway, he feels that writing in this way can express Whatever he wants to express, that's fine.

Yu Dong disassembled what Xu Zechen wrote one by one, and then found out the problems for Xu Zechen one by one.

This is ten minutes.

During these ten minutes, Xu Zechen nodded the whole time, and didn't say anything other than "um" and "ah".

Xu Zechen has also listened to some scholars' lectures, but this is the first time he has experienced such one-on-one tutoring.

This feeling is really amazing. Although these problems are all his, he still feels excited, and even has a feeling of "morning and evening death".

This face-to-face and close contact made Xu Zechen feel that the gap between himself and the literary masters was farther than his hometown to the Yellow Sea.

In fact, Xu Zechen's hometown is not far from the Yellow Sea, only a hundred kilometers away, but he has never seen the Yellow Sea since he was a child, and even for a long time, he didn't know that the sea they were leaning against was the Yellow Sea, so in his feeling, Huang Hai is far away from him.

Just now when Yu Dong said that he didn't read enough, he was still a little unconvinced, but when he saw Yu Dong's relaxed appearance when he talked about ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classics, he instantly felt that he had read too few books.

Much of what Yu Dong said, Xu Zechen hadn't even heard of it, let alone understood it.

　Three shifts tomorrow—should

　　
　
(End of this chapter)