Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 592 Communication in Summer Camp

Writers Village hosts summer camps, of course not just for eating, drinking and having fun.

The communication between writers and editors is the most important thing, but the Writers’ Village does not hold such serious things as forums, and often invites everyone to gather somewhere in the form of literary and art salons to exchange ideas and experiences in creation.

Sometimes it is in the movie screening room, sometimes in the lake house, sometimes in the tree house on the big tree, and sometimes in the communication area of ​​the book city.

Such an eclectic form not only makes writers feel fresh, but also feels incomparable freedom, which is the environment that creators should have.

The first batch of foreign residents of the Writer Village, Ma Yuan and others, also participated in this summer camp. This is their preferential treatment as villagers of the Writer Village.

But it's nothing to them, isn't that what they live in the writer's village every day?
So they can't empathize with the feelings of people like Wang Anyi, but they can understand that when they first came, they would be amazed and happy. live.

The summer camp not only had writers and editors interacting with each other, but also a group of "thick-skinned" participants, that is, the editors of the "Vegetable Garden" magazine headed by Li Tuo.

Rome was not built in a day. As a magazine that has just been published and is only issued semi-publicly, it is not easy for "The Vegetable Garden" to obtain enough manuscripts.

So the editors could only brazenly harass the writers in the park, and Ma Yuan and others were troubled.

The writers who came to participate in the summer camp this time did not escape their evil hands, and they gloated.

The editors of "Vegetable Garden" also have a simple idea. They are all here. Are you polite if you don't write something?
In addition to the mutual communication between writers and editors, the summer camp also had to have heavyweight guests to attend the camp, and this task fell on He Ping's head gloriously.

Who let him idle!
The main reason is that the Writers Village has just opened, and the relationship with many well-known and established writers is not close enough. Li Tuo plans to ask the magazine to help with one or two heavyweight guests for the next autumn camp.

He Ping's official appearance was at the end of the summer camp. He also made an appearance during the welcome before, but only exchanged a few words with everyone.

At the end of last year, He Ping successfully won the Mao Dun Literature Award for the second time with his novel "Xu Sanguan", becoming the first writer in the short history of the Mao Dun Literature Award to win this honor.

The circle of writers generally believes that this record is estimated to be maintained for many years, because few people can achieve such vigorous creativity as He Ping in the past few years, "Fu Gui", "Lu Deshui", "Jia Hui", "Xu Sanguan" , "Red Sorghum", not only high-yield, but also scary in quality.

He even won the Mao Dun Literature Award twice for his "Fugui" and "Xu Sanguan". In the past ten years, there has never been such a powerful figure in the domestic literary world. This is a man who is destined to be written into the history of contemporary Chinese literature. man.

It is a pity that He Ping has not published any new works in the past two years, which not only makes many writers in the circle feel sorry, but also makes readers and book fans feel disappointed.

But the paradox is that there is no news about He Ping in the literary world, but he can often be seen in the economic pages of newspapers.

Yesterday was "leading the villagers to get rich", today it was "attending township entrepreneurs' symposium", and tomorrow it was "helping the cultural industry".

This made a small group of enthusiastic book fans feel indignant, and wrote a letter to the editorial department of "People's Literature" to advise He Ping, "Don't be obsessed with Tao Zhu's way, you should devote yourself to the great literary cause and create greater glories."

There are even more excessive book fans who directly use their professional advantages to contribute articles to newspapers, criticizing He Ping's depravity.

"He Ping's downfall is a harbinger of the decline of the contemporary Chinese literary world. The economic reform and opening up have enriched the people's material life, but made the people's spiritual life go astray.

Those who look at money and study missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs...

Various phenomena in society are telling us that the cultural cause of this country is going downhill, blah blah..."

He Ping sometimes admires this group of people. On the surface, he is saddened by his lack of professionalism, but in fact they attack the reform and opening up openly and secretly.

He will definitely not act in accordance with the ideas of this group of people.

Such questions were also raised by young writers in the writer's village summer camp.

After He Ping, as the guest speaker, shared his experience on the direction of contemporary Chinese literature creation, it was time for exchanges and discussions.

Someone stood up and asked him.

"Mr. He, your works were very prolific in the past few years, and you won the second Mao Dun Literature Award last year. Including the time of "Fu Gui", this is the second time you have won the Mao Dun Literature Award. But we We all know that you haven't had any new works in the past two or three years, and we also know that you are still busy with other industries, so I want to know if you have just closed your pen?"

He Ping guessed that someone would ask such a question, and was not surprised. He replied calmly: "Thanks to the great kindness of the award committee, I won the Mao Dun Literature Award for the second time, the crown of Chinese novels. .

The matter of sealing the pen you mentioned just now definitely does not exist.It's just that I have too many things at hand in the past few years, and I can't concentrate on writing, so I can only stop for two years.

For new works, I'm afraid I have to wait a while, and I will definitely have the opportunity to meet you in the future. "

After answering this question, someone stood up again, "Teacher He, you just shared with us that the literary creation in the 80s was root-seeking and confession, and that it was just a short-term trend. In the 90s, domestic literary creation will inevitably enter the The era of 'personalized writing'. We all know that several of your most famous works, such as "Fugui", "Xu Sanguan", "Jiahui" and so on, also have this style. Have you considered your own writing style in the future? Towards? As you said, will your writing style gradually become marginalized in the 90s?"

He Ping laughed when he heard the words, and waved his hand to the questioner, "Sit down first, we are not teachers teaching students today, everyone communicates on an equal footing, if you do this, I feel that it is not okay for me to answer informally at all."

The people below laughed.

He Ping thought for a while, and then said: "The era is an ongoing history, and each of us cannot escape the obstacles of the era and history. This is inevitable. I don't know if you have noticed a phenomenon, but the enthusiasm of the readers is still the same as before. ?"

Everyone thought about it, it seems that the scenes of queuing up to buy have become less and less.

Someone spoke his mind.

(End of this chapter)