China News Service, Beijing, December 16 (Reporter Gao Kai) Unlike Wang Anyi’s Shanghai, Chen Danyan’s Shanghai, or Jin Yucheng’s Shanghai, the writer Cai Jun uses a large number of literary characters in his new work "Spring Night" The name and some landmarks of Shanghai are intertwined to construct another Shanghai of its own.
Cai Jun, who is expected to become China's "Keigo Higashino", has published more than 30 works such as "Endless Summer", "Tomb Beasts", "Murder Like Water Years", "The Longest Night" and "Heavenly Mystery". Demonstrated strong and unique narrative ability in Chinese, his works have been published in 14 million volumes and have been translated into more than ten languages including English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese.
Several works have been adapted into movies, TV series, and stage plays.
Cai Jun’s first semi-autobiographical "Spring Night" has renewed attention when it was launched recently. From a first-person perspective, the novel tells the history of the Chunshen factory where the father of "I" worked for half his life and two unsuccessful cases surrounding the factory.
For writer Cai Jun, who has tens of millions of Chinese readers around the world, "Spring Night" is a breakthrough in style.
Compared with Cai Jun's previous works, "Spring Night" contains more life experience and thoughts of the author.
In it, Cai Jun, with a calm optimism and open-mindedness, tells stories of deep and surging social care, portrays the cordial and true life of workers, and shows the sincerity and perseverance of workers and their descendants in the context of contemporary industrial society. Spiritual world.
Although the elements of reasoning and investigating are no longer the "protagonists" of the work, they are still perfectly integrated into the atmosphere of the work, creating a magical realism atmosphere that is also true and illusory.
In "Spring Night", Shanghai’s openness is fully demonstrated and full of appeal. Through the movement of characters, Cai Jun has allowed Shanghai to expand more. Cai Jun’s Shanghai is different from Wang Anyi’s. Shanghai, Chen Danyan's Shanghai, or Jin Yucheng's Shanghai.
He used the names of a large number of literary figures to interweave with some Shanghai landmarks to construct another Shanghai belonging to Cai Jun.
At the "Spring Night" press conference held a few days ago, Yang Qingxiang, vice dean and critic of the School of Liberal Arts of Renmin University of China, pointed out, "The Spring Night has written our contemporary experience, which is very important. Every generation has I hope my experience will last longer and cover more generations of people. In the entire contemporary narrative, Jia Pingwa’s experience, Mo Yan’s experience, the older generation, Shen Congwen’s experience, Zhang Ailing’s experience, and their writing will never stop. I want to cover the experience of other next generations. Writers and thinkers of each generation should have enough courage or responsibility to write their own experience and engrave it in, so that this writing is effective."
Yang Qingxiang said, “I can understand why Cai Jun writes history, why he writes the history of Shanghai, why he writes about Shanghai in a semi-autobiographical way, about the factory, about the relationship between the father’s generation and our generation. Relationship. We need to present this experience and our thinking, our irreplaceable sense of history, and form a dialogue with them, so in this sense, Cai Jun’s writing is not just contemporary writing, but also about Shanghai. A map of contemporary Chinese history writing."
He believes that Cai Jun presents a mixed writing in "Spring Night". This mixed writing is not only a modification of the level, but is precisely the contemporary history of China. The contemporary history of Shanghai is itself a mixed history. This kind of writing fits the logic of history itself and provides a new possibility for historical writing."
Yue Wen, an associate researcher of the Entrepreneurship Department of the Chinese Writers Association, said that the novel "Spring Night" is about the characters' unswerving pursuit of a sense of security and dignity. At the same time, there is also an optimistic and romantic thing.
She believes that Cai Jun overcomes the writer's narcissism and allows readers to see a sentimental and righteous protagonist.
"People expect Cai Jun to become China's'Keigo Higashino', but Cai Jun has his own characteristics, that is, his strong attention to social reality and humanistic feelings. He has added many thoughts about the world into the murder story. With temperature, depth, and sentiment, he has embarked on his own literary path."?
The well-known writer Chen Cun once commented on Cai Jun in this way, this time "Spring Night" will undoubtedly become the proof again.
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