Greater unknowns and challenges lie ahead
2022 is coming to an end. The days of chaos and disorder seem to be over. We are about to usher in a long-lost normality, but the uneasiness, confusion and helplessness we have experienced have not disappeared. Greater unknowns and challenges lie ahead. .
However, the biggest lesson of “uncertainty” for us is to hold on to those people and things that can still be sure and confirmed. As a result, Shan Du planned this New Year’s Eve round table for the new book , and continued to talk about life, literature, and people. The dialogue and encounter between people, and the capture and imagination of unknown life in literature are still the best answers we can find in today’s world.
Huang Yuning × Mao Jian × Xiaobai
How to read a novel: from the close reading of the text
Think about the classic novels from ancient and modern China and foreign countries that you have read, Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Flaubert, Nabokov, Monroe, McEwan…how many more do you remember?
In fact, no matter how classic a work is, the washing of time will almost make the clues of the story gradually dim, the relationship between characters will be confused and misplaced, and the intention of the text will be blurred. In the dark, it shines brightly.
In the new work “The Details of Fiction: From Jane Austen to Kazuo Ishiguro”, we see Huang Yuning, a well-known translator, novelist, and critic, is very persistent in details. Her interpretation of more than 20 classic writers, from From the details, to the details, each article is like tailoring clothes, with meticulous observation and unique aesthetics to discover the sparkle of the details of the novel, revealing the charm of novel art to us. As Teacher Liu Qing said, Huang Yuning’s “reading is like touching the skin of the text with the eyes, so the light of inspiration from the details comes unexpectedly, enlightening imagination and thinking, and finally allowing insight and comprehension to reach the deep and high “.
At 19:00 on December 23 (Friday) , three teachers, Huang Yuning, Mao Jian, and Xiaobai, will have a conversation on the Dandu video account. Starting from specific literary works, they will discuss why close reading of texts is still important and how we should read the world Literary classics, how to become an ideal reader, etc.
【Activity time】
December 23 (Friday)
19:00—20:30
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【Guest introduction】
Huang Yuning
An all-round author who spans the three realms of translation, publishing and creation. Translated the works of FS Fitzgerald, Henry James, Agatha Christie, Ian McEwan and many other well-known writers. He is the author of a collection of novels “Eight and a Half”, a collection of essays and reviews “One Man’s Castle”, “Negative Reading, Positive Writing”, “Metamorphosis”, “When Fakes Are True”, etc. In 2019, his first novel collection “Eight and a Half” won the first prize of the second Blancpain Utopia Literary Award.
Maojian
Writer, professor of East China Normal University, author of “Very Sinful, Very Beautiful: Notes on Maojian’s Movies”, “Short Nights and Long Dreams: Watching Movies at Maojian”, “Winter is Coming: Notes on TV Dramas”, “Exception”, “There is a Tiger in the Bathroom”, ” One Inch of Ash, etc.
noob
Writer, author of the novels “The Game Point” and “The Concession”, the novella “Blockade” and “Agent Xu Xiangbi”, and the collection of cultural essays “The Lustful Hamlet” and “Performance and Peeping”. His works have been translated and published in English, French, German, Italian, Swedish and other languages. In 2018, “Blockade” won the Lu Xun Literature Award for Novella.
【Related Books】
This book is a collection of literary reviews, focusing on more than 20 world-renowned writers, including classic writers such as Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Flaubert, and Dickens, as well as Camus, Fitzgerald, etc. , Nabokov, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tokarchuk, McEwan and other modern and contemporary literary masters.
Huang Yuning is the ideal reader expected by these novelists. She adheres to the traditional method of close reading, but does not follow the stereotypes. She uses meticulous observation and unique aesthetics to discover the sparkle of novel details and reveal the charm of novel art to readers. . These words of hers, from the beginning to the end, come from the details and go to the details.
At the same time, in this book, she is also an excellent literary reading leader. With the natural advantages of the translator, the author’s personal experience and the critic’s keenness and thoroughness, she can shuttle between literature and reality, fiction and criticism with ease. between. Its delicate perception, unique insights, and pertinent analysis are like signposts leading to the dense forest of literature, leading readers into the deep and secluded literary world.
Ah Yi×Xu Zhaozheng×Sun Yisheng×Luo Danni
Liberated Writing——To Literary Youth
Novelists are a group of “storytellers”, wandering between reality and fiction, and back and forth between the external world and the internal world. Sometimes they value the form, structure and scale of the work, and like the story to achieve a high degree of resonance in the composite narrative; sometimes they pursue more direct expression, breaking the restrictions of style and format, and showing that writing itself is liberation rather than restraint. For writers and readers, what is the difference between a short “mini-narrative” and a well-structured “novel”? What does rhetorical skill mean to a writer? How to explore “outward” and “inward” writing? Where is the freedom to write?
At 19:30 on December 28 (Wednesday) , three teachers, A Yi, Xu Zhaozheng, and Sun Yisheng, will have a talk on the Shandu video account, hosted by editor Luo Danni, and ask the three teachers to talk about how they view fiction as literary youth The relationship between reality and reality, experience and imagination, narrative and fiction, and how to understand “liberated writing” and other topics.
【Activity time】
December 28 (Wednesday)
19:30-21:00
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【Guest introduction】
Ah B
Jiangxi native, born in 1976, has published a collection of short stories “Grey Stories”, “Birds, See Me”, “Spring”, “The Missing Person in Love History”, “The Liar Comes to the South”, and the novella “Next, What Should I Do?” “, “Model Youth”, “Wake Me Up at Nine A.M.”, the works have been translated into more than 10 languages. Won several fiction awards. The latest collection of essays “All Night Club”.
Xu Zhaozheng
Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Letters, graduated from Beijing Normal University, currently teaching at the School of Humanities, Hangzhou Normal University, Institute of Literary Criticism, member of Beijing Literary Critics Association. Mainly engaged in the research and criticism of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, as well as the study of Western modernist literature.
Sun Yisheng
Young novelist, born in Cao County, Heze, Shandong. Novels published in “People’s Literature”, “Tiannan”, “Youth Literature” and other magazines. He has won the “2015 Zijin·People’s Literature Star Award”. Published a collection of novels “How many times does your family have dragons” and “Night Tour God”.
Luo Danni
One Direction Space Editorial Director
【Related Books】
“All Night Club” is the latest collection of essays by novelist A Yi, recording his writing between 1996 and 2020. The texts in the book vary in length and genre, and are all his insights and philosophical thoughts on daily life.
“Dear friends, life is as we see it, always silent to us, but we are always alert, there is something as small as a gecko, passing the canvas of life at lightning speed. As a One of the author’s responsibilities is to capture the fleeting feelings and emotions that appear in life. Like the previously published “The Widow” and “The Sunshine Is Violent, Everything Appears”, this collection of essays also presents the results of this hunting. “
Li Jing×Xu Zhiqiang×Jia Hangjia
what we get from writing
We are about to go through 2022, a year of countless twists and turns. Unknowingly, reading without distraction and writing directly from the heart have gradually become almost a luxury. When we sit at the desk, it is almost impossible not to be distracted by the instant messages on the mobile phone, making us angry or powerless; and what we lose at the same time is self-contained expression and understanding of empathy.
Li Jing, a playwright and literary critic, wrote in her new book “I’m Afraid of Life” (5 volumes in total): “This is an era that requires all kinds of ‘knowledge’, no matter how remote and marginal your knowledge is, it is better An empty axiologist, a commentator has value.” Is that so? Literature is often inseparable from the author’s values. In the pursuit of practical results, how should literature reflect its “value”?
At 19:30 on January 6th (Friday) , the Dandu video account invited three teachers, Li Jing, Xu Zhiqiang, and Jia Xingjia, to talk about literature and writing starting from their most familiar drama, prose, and literary criticism What else can it bring us today, and how to guard the constant inside in the constant turmoil of the outside world.
【Activity time】
January 6 (Friday)
19:30-21:00
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【Guest introduction】
Li Jing
Playwright, literary critic. Author of dramas “Mr. Big” and “Comedy of Qin State”, and literary works “I’m Afraid of Life” (5 volumes in total, including “Must Offend the Audience”, “Catching the Wind”, “Wang Xiaobo’s Legacy”, “To You” and “Rong Yi” Clothes”) etc. Lives in Beijing now.
Xu Zhiqiang
Professor and Ph.D. supervisor of the Institute of World Literature and Comparative Literature, School of Liberal Arts, Zhejiang University, and his masterpiece “Partial Poetics and Common Readers”. Won the annual criticism of the 7th One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award.
Jia Hangjia
Born in Harbin, published works “Dust” and “Scribbled”, and is now a full-time author of APP.
【Related Books】
“I’m Afraid of Life” (5 volumes in total) is a collection of drama scripts, critical essays, literary reviews, novels and poems, with a total of more than 700,000 words, presenting Li Jing’s creations from 1995 to 2022: “There is a person who lives I have experienced a long period of poverty and timidity, but I saw a glimmer of light in my intermittent struggling writing.”
“Must Offend the Audience” includes Li Jing’s critical essays on literature, drama, film, and pan-cultural phenomena in the past twenty-five years, as well as her creation talks on several drama works such as “Mr. Big” and “Qin Guo Comedy”. This book was published in 2014. In this new edition, several old works have been withdrawn, more than 20 articles written between 1997-2003 and 2014-2022 have been added, and they have been rearranged according to the field of discussion.
“Catching the Wind” contains Li Jing’s concentrated discussion on fourteen dramatists, writers and critics. This book was published in 2011. This reprint has some additions and deletions. The authors are: Chekhov, Peter Handke, Lin Zhaohua, Guo Shixing, Zhu Xining, Mu Xin, Mo Yan, Wang Xiaoni, Zhian , Lin Bai, Wang Anyi, Jia Pingwa, Lin Xianzhi, Guo Hongan.
“Wang Xiaobo’s Legacy” is a collection of Li Jing’s comments and memoirs on the writer Wang Xiaobo, written intermittently from 1995 to 2022. The most recent “Sponge Story” was written in April 2022. It is a detailed memory and fragmentary reflection to prevent forgetting. The middle chapters, written in different years, show different degrees of understanding of him. A book is assembled to commemorate the liberating laughter Wang Xiaobo brought to Chinese literature, and to express the author’s gratitude to his literary legacy.
“To You” is Li Jing’s private creation collection, written from 1996 to 2021, including never-published poems, as well as some prose and short stories, published for the first time as a collection.
“Rongyi’s Clothes” is a drama script completed by Li Jing in 2021. Using a story in “Lu Shi Chunqiu”, it asks about the light and darkness in people’s hearts.
Shuangxuetao × Zhian × Shi Hang
“The Black Sheep Among the White Sheep”
new book round table
【Activity time】
January 12 (Friday)
19:30-21:00
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【Guest introduction】
Shuang Xuetao
Born in Shenyang in the 1980s, a novelist.
First prize of the first Chinese-language World Film and Fiction Award, “Young Writer of the Year” at the third One-Way Street Bookstore Literary Award, and first prize winner of the third Blancpain Utopia Literary Award.
Published works include the collection of short stories “Moses on the Plain”, “The Aviator” and “The Hunter” and the novels “The Age of the Deaf and Mute”, “Tiango’s Notes” and “Winged Ghost”.
Zhian
Beijinger, writer, scholar, researcher of Zhou Zuoren and Zhang Ailing. He began to publish works in 1979, and his representative works include “Order”, “Farewell”, “Zhou Zuoren Biography”, “Shenquan Kao”, “Flower Arrangement Booklet”, etc.
Shi Hang
Screenwriter, planner. Graduated from the Department of Drama and Literature of the Central Academy of Drama, he began to write scripts in 1993. His main screenwriting works include “Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan”, “I Love XXX”, “Murder in the Sky Garden”, etc. planning of a program.
【Related Books】
“The Black Sheep Among the White Sheep” is Shuang Xuetao’s first collection of essays. The book is divided into three parts: the first part, “The Black Sheep Among the White Sheep: Talking about Fiction”, contains nine special articles by the author for writing lovers: from the beginning of the novel, the atmosphere, to the shaping of characters, imagery and language, and the ending He shared his practical experience in reading and writing; the second part, “A piece of life that went out: Talking about movies”, started with successful cases of film and television adaptations, and described in detail his own experience in the two art media of film and literature. Understanding, the relationship between novel texts and film and television adaptations; the third part, “The Distance from the Flame: A Collection of Essays”, selects the essays, essays, and interviews published by the author in the past ten years since he resigned in 2012 and began to write freely.
This book is a sincere conversation between the novelist Shuang Xuetao and the readers. He shared how he embarked on the road of writing, the mistakes and detours, losses and gains; To reflect, to invite and call everyone who has creative dreams——
A young man who has not received traditional academic training but has a literary dream in his heart can use the pen in his hand to cut through the thorns of life and approach his literary ideal step by step. In the face of the chaotic reality, we can at least keep the faint flame deep in our hearts through reading and writing.
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