China News Service, Kunming, December 23rd (Reporter Hu Yuanhang) What is a pioneer and what is a tradition?

Has avant-garde literature declined?

On the 23rd, the "Five Elephants Going Northward" Five Writers Seminar and "For a New Novel" Pioneer Literature Forum of Dayi College of Literature, co-sponsored by Dayi College of Literature and China Writers Network, kicked off on the "Cloud", setting off a "Pioneer Hurricane".

　　Avant-garde literature is a magnificent chapter in the Chinese literary and ideological circles.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, a group of young writers with exploratory spirits, including Ma Yuan, Yu Hua, Ge Fei, Su Tong, etc., broke the traditional narrative method and opened the prelude to Chinese avant-garde literature with unique writing, contributing to China’s Literature opened up a new direction of development.

To this day, avant-garde literature continues to develop.

　　The symposium invited six well-known domestic literary critics, He Shaojun, Geng Zhanchun, Yang Qingxiang, Cong Zhichen, Zhang Dinghao, and Ma Bing, to discuss Zhao Lanzhen, He Kaixuan, Yan Qianhai, Xuequn, The works of Kou Hui and other writers and the development of avant-garde literature will be cross-discussed.

The picture is a screenshot of the forum site.

Photo courtesy of Dayi College of Literature

　　Qiu Huadong, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association and a famous writer, said that the purpose of holding the "Five Elephants Going Northward" event is to find greater possibilities and more space for writers who insist on "pioneering writing", and hopes that this event will bring together more writers , forming a cluster effect and creating a new literary landscape.

　　"Literature needs not to gather together, and needs to turn its back on the literary world." Chen Peng, chairman of the Kunming Writers Association and dean of Dayi College of Literature, believes that literature cannot lose its pioneering nature.

Some kind of evasion and evasion of mainstream writers by pioneer writers can be regarded as a defense of the dignity of Chinese writing.

　　Writer Kou Hui said that his personal creation has undergone changes from world literature to Chinese classical literature, but he has always maintained a sense of rebellion and subversion.

He believes that the so-called avant-garde is not only manifested in form and content, but also should be ideological and strongly revolutionary, so that it has infinite power.

　　Cong Zhichen, an associate professor at Peking University, pointed out that experiments in avant-garde novels should not stop at the exploration of obvious forms such as structure and perspective, but should also include the exploration of language expression, so as to find a natural but poetic language expression way, empowering the novel.

He also said that "Pioneer" is a concept that is constantly moving forward.

The more it resembles the pioneers of the past, the less it may be. The more traces of imitation can be seen, the less pioneers it is.

　　Yang Qingxiang, a professor at Renmin University of China and deputy dean of the Faculty of Arts, pointed out that many people think that avant-garde literature has collapsed after the 1990s, but he believes that Chinese avant-garde literature has not come to an end, and many writers are still insisting on "pioneering writing" .

This is very beneficial to the construction and operation of the entire cultural ecology.

　　On the afternoon of the same day, Dayi Academy of Literature and China Writers.com continued to convene writers and critics around the theme of "for a new novel", and "what and how to write about the so-called tradition" and "from modern to post-modern"? " and other topics to discuss.

　　Dayi Academy of Literature is a non-negligible folk literature institution in the Chinese literary world. It has built a closed loop of development from book publishing, Dayi writers, literary activities, awards, international writing camps and youth writing camps to writers’ seminars. The pioneering spirit of "literariness", "profoundness" and "exploration" has united a group of "pioneering writing" writers and excavated a group of excellent contemporary texts.

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