China News Service Client, Beijing, May 10 (Reporter Shangguanyun) Writer Wang Meng, this is a name familiar to readers. People who have read his works seriously are easily attracted by the accumulation of knowledge and sense of humor.
In real life, Wang Meng is indeed known as "old-aged teenager", trendy and interesting, and new works are often published after the eighties. At the end of April this year, he published the latest novel "Laughing Wind", writing about life and marriage and family, still close to reality.
How to maintain strong creative power? Not long ago, Wang Meng shared a secret in an exclusive interview with the reporter of China New Network (WeChat public number: cns2012): maintain a warm attitude to life. Always hope, live better and write better.
Writer Wang Meng. Photo courtesy of interviewees
The family of a "stubborn author"
At the end of the 1950s, on a spring night, poor farmer high school student Fu Dacheng inadvertently heard a ray of sweet laughter from the wind and wrote a poem "The Wind of Laugh" "Happy life" starts here.
Because of this poem, Fu Dacheng naturally embarked on the path of literature. After going through arranged marriages, extramarital affairs, divorce, remarriage and divorce ... until his old age, he almost tasted the sweet and bitter world.
The story line is not complicated. The era described in the novel spans 60 years, condenses the characteristics and social atmosphere of different periods, and through Fu Dacheng's two marriage experiences, it reveals the shock of the thought, emotion and destiny of a generation brought by the changes of the times.
"I know more than one story of struggling to get rid of the legacy of arranged marriages, winning a fierce battle, and still unsuccessful in the end." Wang Meng described the reason for his writing in this way.
In his eyes, writing history through personal stories, the special destiny of marriage and family, plots of love and hatred, writing about geography, writing about life, writing about society, writing about values, outlook on life, and the collision and integration of the world view, this is literature, and it is also "The Dream of Red Mansions" "To the tradition of" La Traviata "and" Anna Karenina "," This is the home of the author. "
"The life of a book depends on the present and the long-term"
Initially, after "Laughing Wind" was written, it was published in well-known magazines such as "People's Literature", "Fiction Selection" and "Fiction Monthly News". The first sentence of the "People's Literature" volume also specifically mentioned that this work is "a novel with apparently long-length capacity".
Wang Meng's novel "Laughing Wind". Author Publishing
Therefore, Wang Meng spent another two months to add nearly 50,000 words to the novel. "This is the first time in the history of my writing. My new novella completely fascinated me."
"The more repairs, the more hair, and it's crazy and hotter than when I wrote the middle manuscript in the summer, so it has become the new work of 130,000 words." He is very satisfied with the new book. "It is one I like very much. Write Be enthralled, intoxicated, cells jump, nerves. "
The title of the full-length version of "Laughing Wind" has not been modified. He said that he has a series of three-word titles: "Eye of the Night", "Dream of the Sea", etc. "Also, I like the episode of the Soviet movie" Captain Grant's Children ":" Happy Wind. " Sweet white. You will like it too, I think. "
"The life of the book depends on the present and the long-term." Wang Meng is not too worried about whether "Laughing Wind" is popular with young readers. He devotes more energy to polishing characters and language, "I want to write first, and I love what I write.
Keep a warm life attitude
For Wang Meng, writing is indeed an important keyword in life.
Writer Wang Meng. Photo courtesy of interviewees
Since writing "Long Live the Youth" in the autumn of 1953, Wang Meng published a 50-volume collection of works in more than sixty years. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have been popular all over the world. Awards.
In 2019, he won the national honorary title of "People's Artist".
Some writers jokingly said that writing novels is a young man's business. When they get old, they think of writing novels as annoying. But in Wang Meng's place, there is no such situation at all: he still keeps his writing frequency after 80 years old.
The 1st issue of "Shanghai Literature" in 2019 published his "Mediterranean Fantasy", the 1st issue of "People's Literature" in 2019 published his "Life and Death", and this year "Laughing Wind" was published again.
Many people were surprised by his vigorous creativity. Wang Meng thinks this is natural, "Love life, love home country, love the world, love literature, love language, love every grass and every flower, every bird, love you and me, of course, more she was."
"Keep a warm life attitude. Always hope, live better and write better." He said humorously.
"Youth sense" of senior teenagers
From "Long Live Youth" to "Activity Changing Human Form", to "Laughing Wind" ... The dense parallel language, the sense of humor between the lines, people often read a few pages to recognize this is Wang Meng's text: knowledge It is informative and interesting.
Data picture: The picture shows the famous writer Wang Meng speaking at the meeting. China News Service issued Luo Yunfei photo
This is probably because Wang Meng is a very trendy and interesting person in his life: willing to look at WeChat during leisure, walk in the sun, participate in some popular talk shows or cultural programs, and can also happily talk with young guests When talking together, there is no barrier to communication.
The famous writer Tie Ning sent him a comment: Wang Meng is an old teenager, because he is always interested in all kinds of things in life, and he is eager to try. It really does not look like an old man.
"Exercise, keep working, write five hours a day, walk ninety minutes, and sing forty-five minutes." This is how he lives. When asked about his life during the epidemic, Wang Meng thought about it and added another, "Watch TV for three hours."
He is always full of love and passion for creation. "Look at the world, life, and people with a learning attitude, an appreciation attitude, and a caring attitude." As for how to maintain the "youth sense", this is the experience that Wang Meng has summed up. (Finish)