"Publishing fever" and "reading fever", why everyone loves Wang Zengqi
In the recently published new book, a name appears frequently.
At the beginning of May, a total of 20 volumes of "Wang Zengqi Collection" was officially published; in mid-June, the third edition of "Wang Zengqi Complete Works", which came out one year, was printed for a total of 12,000 copies; the "Wang Zengqi Classics" series is being planned at 7 Launched at the "Wang Zengqi Theme Book Exhibition" of Jiangsu Book Fair in January......
This year is the 100th birthday of contemporary writer Mr. Wang Zengqi. Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, some academic seminars and commemorative activities have to press the pause button, but various forms of Wang Zengqi's works, calligraphy and painting collections, and commentaries are still published one after another. In the publishing field, "Wang Zengqi fever" has always been.
The second "Wang Zengqi Complete Works" comes out
"Not all writers are worthy of his complete works."
In an online commemorative event in March this year, Guo Juan, the project host of "Wang Zengqi's Complete Works" and editor of People's Literature Publishing House, described the editing process of "Wang Zengqi's Complete Works". She spent two hours unable to tell the story. Because this book series is 8 years.
"Wang Zengqi's Complete Works" is a collection of texts written by Wang Zengqi in his lifetime. It includes all of Wang Zengqi's literary works and daily documents such as letters, epigraphs, etc. in 12 volumes, more than 4 million words.
In 1998, "Wang Zengqi Complete Works" published by Beijing Normal University Press was Wang Zengqi's first complete works. After more than 20 years, People's Literature Publishing House reworked "Wang Zengqi Complete Works", which was both a publishing activity and an academic activity. Guo Juan had participated in the revised edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" in 2005. From the beginning, the project team set high requirements-"Edit "Wang Zengqi Complete Works" to "Lu Xun Complete Works", try to achieve the same height."
How to spend 8 years? Sun Yu, Ji Hongzhen and other Wang Zengqi research experts are invited to open an editing meeting to solicit lost and lost letters from the society and compare different versions of the text. In 8 years, more than 4 million words were hard-won, and good news came one after another: novels such as "White Pine Syrup" in the 1940s were found; in 2018, the long-lost 1962 mimeographed version of "Xicui" appeared... …
What has been gained in 8 years? Guo Juan has counted 28 novels, 25 of which were created during the period of the Republic of China. There are more than 100 new articles in essays, 7 new dramas, 293 letter volumes, and poems from Beijing Normal University. 88 songs were expanded to more than 250 songs in the Humanities and Social Sciences edition.
On the occasion of Wang Zengqi’s 100th birthday, another collection of works of interest is the "Wang Zengqi Collection" published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. The chief editor is Wang Zengqi's son and writer Wang Lang. What is "Don't Set"? According to editor Li Jianxin, in the 1990s, Mr. Wang Zengqi named Shen Congwen's works collection "Shen Congwen Collection". Before his death, Shen Congwen wanted to print a set of pocket booklets, not just how beautiful and beautiful, as long as it was simple and generous, easy to collect and carry, Easy to read. "Wang Zengqi Farewell Collection" is the purpose of inheriting "Shen Congwen Farewell Collection". "While honoring Mr. Wang, pay tribute to Mr. Shen."
"As long as the content related to Wang Lao is posted, there is always someone asking if there is news in "Wang Zengqi's Complete Works"?" In 8 years, readers' expectations made Guo Juan very memorable.
"Wang Lao, I will never forget it, but there will always be repercussions." A reader commented on Douban in the month when "Wang Zengqi's Complete Works" was published.
From "writing quietly" to constantly reprinting
"He never thought that his work would become a popular subject for publishing." Wang Lang said that his father once said, "I write quietly, you read quietly." He would never think that he would become a one. "Best-selling author".
The reporter learned from the Chinese version of the library that in 2019, there are more than 80 in-page cataloging data for books related to Wang Zengqi's theme, and more than 50 in 2020. One of the most popular works in Wang Zengqi's works is "Earthly Trees". According to incomplete statistics, from 2005 to the present, "Earth's Grass" has published 18 versions. Guo Juan said that the popularity of Wang Zengqi's works has been going on for many years, and this year's 100th birthday should have reached a peak.
Behind the "publication fever" is the "reading fever". Wang Zengqi's daughter Wang Zhao told reporters that in the past five or six years, he has clearly felt more and more readers of his father. After the rise of social networks, many "Wang Fan" groups have been discovered. In addition, in recent years, Wang Zengqi's works have been frequently selected as student textbooks, so there are more young readers.
"He has received so much attention now, and he may not like it himself." Wang Zhao said that around 2018, there are many publishing organizations that have consulted works authorized, "It seems like a wind." Wang Chao found that there are many versions in the book market at present, and there has been a phenomenon of unevenness.
What worries Wang Lang and Wang Chao most is the chicken soup-like titles like "Life is but a bowl of red dust." Some family members only found out after the publication that the title was not Wang Zengqi's original words. Wang Chao noticed that even the quotes of Wang Zengqi quoted by regular magazines were false. She believed that the current publishing fever was "somewhat overdone", so in recent years, many publishing authorizations have been rejected.
"After the death of two contemporary writers, the books have been continuously reprinted and published. I don’t know how many books are published. One is Wang Zengqi and the other is Wang Xiaobo." Scholar Sun Yu said that Mr. Wang’s books are still selling well. A writer who took the test.
Reasons to miss Wang Zengqi
On June 12, the scene of Chaoyang Park, Beijing Book Market. Young writer Hou Lei faced a live broadcast and showed a yellowed "Literature Magazine" (Volume 2). He specifically chose to introduce "Beijing School Literature" and Wang Zengqi to Wang Zengqi on the occasion of Wang Zengqi's 100th birthday. Beijing.
Like Hou Lei, during this time, many people described their reasons for missing Wang Zengqi.
"He is a person who loves life and a person who loves his mother tongue." Sun Yu said that after the publication of Mr. Wang's "Ordinance" in 1980, and later "Da Nao Jiu" and other works came out, let the reading world, especially like us at that time Young people, they are very surprised to read, "Fictions can still be written like this! Thoughts can also be expressed like this! Prose also has such a style! We were very shocked at the time."
"Why Wang Zengqi is a'through-through' writer. From him, we can see most of the history of Chinese literature in the twentieth century." Yang Zao, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said at the commemorative event that Wang Zengqi's Chinese and China The story is different from any Chinese or Chinese story written by any writer. "I am a very superficial and nonsense conclusion, but this is the reason I miss Wang Zengqi."
Wang Lang said that Wang Zengqi has written a poem, two of which are "writing is very diligent, send Xiao Wen on earth", "Send Wen on earth" is a background of his works, especially works after the age of 60.
There are many tags on the writer Wang Zengqi: the last Beijing-style novelist, the last scholar-bureaucrat in China, and a Chinese-style lyrical humanitarian... Putting down all kinds of tags, reading Wang Zengqi’s fever today is the result of the literary interaction between the writer and the reader, just as Wang Zengqi I said: "A novel is written by the author and the reader. The author writes and the reader reads, and the creation process is completed."
(Reporter Chen Xue)