China News Service, April 23, Wire Title: World Book Day: "High Cold" Literature Embraces Talk Show "Fire" Out of Circle
Author Wang Ji
On April 23, the final video of "2021 World Book Day · Literary Talk Show Contest" was broadcast online.
The literary and artistic youths stepped on the talk show stage to reveal the secrets of the literary circle, and quickly “out of the circle” on social media, sparking heated discussions.
"What did Teacher Yu Hua do to me?!" Li Zhuang, a young literary critic and young poet, issued a "soul torture" to "Whether Yu Hua's new work "Wencheng" is purely literary", "to borrow a famous sentence from Neruda My poem, what Teacher Yu Hua did to me is what I did to the cherry tree in spring. It was you who pulled me on the boat of literature. What is going on now, do you want to jump off the boat? It’s nothing more than teaching the composition for the college entrance examination. Why did you switch to writing cool texts?"
The scene of "2021 World Book Day · Literary Talk Show Contest".
Photo courtesy of the event organizer
After a smile, Li Zhuang returned to "decent" and understood the meaning of this "Tucao": cool, not a sin; boring, boring, perfunctory, routine, these are sins.
"We did read a lot of precious things from the book "Wencheng", such as love, warmth, and belief. Some people may think that these things are very'cheap', but is there really no shortage of'cheap' things today? What are the things that are not cheap and good enough that our so-called pure literature provides today? Perhaps these are the things that we should really reflect on."
Liu Daxian, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who has won the Lu Xun Prize for Literature, used "convex lens and concave lens" to interpret the "poem and distance" of literature.
"One day for my birthday, I decided to buy a cake called'Proust's Memories', and I took a look at it-how different from the glass cabinet, it feels a bit smaller. It turns out that the glass of the cabinet is a little The lens enlarges the cake. At that time, I suddenly realized that literature is a convex lens. Life needs literature. It comes from life and is higher than life. This is realism."
"The ancient traditional craft of story writing is still a hard-core skill for contemporary survival. It uses Internet'black language' to talk about empowerment-delivering texts to the film and television industry, writing scripts for game companies, drafting audio programs, and giving "Sprink some seasonings" on live broadcast..." Media person "Xu Mitao" believes that "World Book Day" is here, and the main contradiction at this stage is not "read too much", but "will it be read".
There is a way to the mountain of books, you must first find the right way; there is no end to learning, don't "get on the thief ship."
"Rather than entangled in the usefulness or uselessness of literature, the key depends on whether you are nourished, learned to distinguish, no longer be superstitious and blindly follow, and do not deliberately belittle it."
"2021 World Book Day · Literary Talk Show Contest" final judge.
Photo courtesy of the event organizer
Someone once asked Borges "What is the use of literature?" the famous writer said angrily: "No one would ask, what is the use of the call of a canary or the colorful clouds at sunset!"
According to Yongxin, the chief programmer of Harvest magazine, literature needs to move forward. Combining talk shows with literature is a very bold and imaginative idea that can enhance and enhance the influence of literature.
"Literary talk show is a new attempt and new exploration for literature to be close to life and into the public. It enriches the language and art form, expands the types of literary expressions, and also enhances the connotation of the talk show." Full-time Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Shanghai Writers Association Ma Wenyun expressed that he hopes to train a young literary critic team through literary talk shows, enhance the affinity and appeal of language and art, so that readers and the public have a new understanding of literary creation and criticism, literary publishing and reading, and further promote the whole people. read.
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