Rebirth of the Great Era 1993

Tao Ge nodded without any doubt.

She had just carefully read 16 books. She picked the page number with notes in each book and read a paragraph carefully. She found that those reading insights were not written casually.

Rather, each post-reading experience has a deep foundation in writing, and each post has a deep intention.

Glancing at the book wall again, Tao Ge suddenly admired this young man.

Before coming here, I thought he might be that kind of extremely talented genius.

But after actually experiencing it, I realized that behind the great talent is hard work and solidity.

Zhang Xuan poured her a cup of tea.

Tao Ge took the tea cup and took a sip, put down the cup, raised his right wrist, looked at his watch, and asked Zhang Xuan:

"are you ready?"

Zhang Xuan smiled and nodded without answering, looking relaxed and content.

Seeing this, Tao Ge also sat on the chair opposite, took the assistant's document and flipped through the pages, then smiled and said to Zhang Xuan:

“This interview, I hope, is a time walk with a friend.

Today we want to talk about your creation, your creative mentality and the changes in your life during the creation cycle, which is longer than a novel.

Your book writes about suffering and what this land has experienced. But I’m still more interested in how you “cruelly” let your characters face those hardships? "

Zhang Xuan smiled, then calmed down his expression and said solemnly:

"My life was one of suffering. I came through suffering. I don't think suffering is something that cannot be faced. On the contrary, only after experiencing suffering can I taste the sweetness of the world.

In the novel Feng Sheng, I mainly wanted to write about people's struggle against suffering, and to remember the struggles of the martyrs in the midst of suffering during the great changes.

When one day a group of people is not afraid of suffering, and a country is not afraid of suffering, and when it can even get close to suffering, this group of people and this country will be very powerful. "

Tao Ge laughed and gave an admiring expression before officially starting today's interview.

Tao Ge said: "Let's start talking about the periphery of "Feng Sheng" first?"

Zhang Xuan nodded: "Okay, Feng Sheng does have a lot of interesting things to talk about."

Tao Ge asked: "I understand that you previously published articles in Zhiyin and Youth Digest under the pseudonym "March", which lasted for a year.

Then you suddenly threw "wind" into People's Literature. The writing structure and writing style were very different before and after. Is there a secret connection between the two? "

Grandma is a bear!

You know that these bad things cannot be hidden from anyone, you know that they will be exposed...

Feeling extremely depressed inside, Zhang Xuan replied very calmly on the surface:

"You also learned this afternoon that my previous life was not satisfactory, and the foreign debt of tens of thousands of yuan even put my family in dire straits.

At that time, in order to make a living and to change the dilemma of eating sweet potato rice for manuscript fees, I tried to submit articles to Zhiyin and Youth Digest, but I didn't expect that I would be accurate in every submission. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but smile and continued:

"Don't tell me, it was because of my repeated success that I discovered that I have a talent for writing.

Later, life gradually got better, and I found that it was not difficult to only contribute to Zhiyin and Youth Digest, and I even felt it was a waste of time.

So I came up with an idea, why not write something profound?

Then he stumbled on the road.

Every day I started reading books on military espionage and started writing about rumors, trying to see if I was the material. "

Tao Ge said with a smile: "The fact that you wrote it down confirms that you are the material."

Zhang Xuan nodded and said, "I also think I have a talent for writing.

This talent is mainly reflected in being able to feel the direction, endure the suffering, and be able to think of a sentence, a plot, or a story in an evening.

I strive for perfection to the point of obsessiveness. Sometimes, just for one sentence or one idea, I will even overthrow it and start from scratch, so that I spend a lot of time and accumulate many versions of scrapped manuscripts. "

Tao Ge asked: "How many editions have you revised in total? Are the scrapped manuscripts still there?"

Zhang Xuan said: "A scrapped manuscript is still a manuscript. This is also my hard work. It's natural."

Tao Ge asked, "Can I take a look?"

Zhang Xuan said: "Of course. I know people like you. If I don't show it to you, you won't give up."

As they said that, the two of them smiled in unison.

Zhang Xuan opened the drawer and gave up his seat.

Tao Ge looked at three drawers full of manuscripts and stacks of handwritten manuscripts. His head felt dizzy and he was very shocked inside!

She counted them.

Edition.

Two editions.

Three editions.

…

…

Edition Thirteen.

There are thirteen modified versions in total.

Tao Ge picked up part of it and flipped through it. Looking at the meticulous and beautiful pen calligraphy and the changes in content in different versions, she became more and more surprised.

At a certain moment, she made a move and asked the photographer to take a close-up of the drawer.

Tao Ge sighed: "This is the most precious wealth. Being able to see this scene makes our trip worthwhile."

Then she turned to Zhang Xuan and asked, "You must have spent a lot of time and effort writing about Feng Sheng."

Zhang Xuan was quiet for a few seconds and said in a deep voice: "Yes, I spent a lot of energy. In order to write about the news, I only slept two hours a day for the past year. I persisted until the rooster crowed every day. I could see the four o'clock in the morning every day. What’s it like in the upper village?”

Hearing this, Tao Ge looked at this face that was too young, and looked at these eyes filled with depth and vicissitudes of life, his heart trembled suddenly, full of admiration.

After taking the close-up, everyone returned to their positions.

Tao Ge asked: "Why did you think of writing about rumors at that time? Why did you write about spy wars? Where did your initial inspiration come from?"

He was well prepared for these problems.

Zhang Xuan stood up and picked up a book from the bookshelf and said:

“At that time, I was reading a collection of Borges’s short stories translated by Mr. Wang Yangle. There was a novel in it, “The Garden of Crossing Paths,” which is now translated as “The Garden of Forking Paths.”

This is a spy novel that tells the story of a German spy during the European War who passed a piece of information to his boss while being hunted by British spies.

At that time, I couldn't calm down for a long time after reading it, and my heart was touched. Thinking of the suffering my country had experienced and the stories told by the veterans in the village, I seemed to have grasped something, so I decided to write it. "

Tao Ge said: "I have studied your novels, and they often remind me of the relationship between you and Borges. I didn't expect that there is really the "ghost" of Borges behind your novels."

This may be the key to your novel’s uniqueness. Next time we have a chance, we can chat about this issue. "

Zhang Xuan spread his hands: "Actually, it's nothing. We can talk about it now. Have you read the Bible?"

Tao Ge replied: "When I was studying abroad at Oxford University, I borrowed a friend's book to read it."

Zhang Xuan said: "Although I am not a Christian, I have read the Bible by chance and I understand the stories in it.

The four gospels of the Bible: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It tells the life story of one person, Jesus.

The four gospels are independent of each other, with similarities and differences, conflicts and omissions, which gave me the inspiration to create "The Sound of the Wind".

"The rumor is" says one thing and three things. I D said, GD said, the author said. Therefore, the source of saying many things about one thing is not in "Rashomon" but in the Bible. It was also because of inspiration that I created the outline-style structure. "

Tao Ge asked: "No one can understand these intricate secrets of writing unless you tell me. This also reminds the so-called professional readers, including me, that the recovery and reproduction of a writer's personal writing history, or the logic of writing, is very important. You cannot rely solely on superficial information such as the time and journal in which the work was published.

A writer's writing is a very long growth process from getting inspiration to finally ripening.

At the same time, I discovered that the writing process of "The Wind" was actually retelling the same story over and over again. You seem to enjoy this kind of happiness? "

Zhang Xuan replied: "I like to write a story in many ways. Good novels are all modified, and I am superstitious about this. "The Wind" was also crafted in this way, but the process is not happy at all, but full of challenges. "

Tao Ge asked: "You are good at grasping the reader's mind, setting up the light and darkness of the novel world, and then suddenly appear as an experiencer who freely wanders in the light and dark world, telling the story of stumbling in the darkness, and gaining a sense of the darkness. He has the power to name everything, and he is the most reliable "passenger" of the "darkness" of the world. For the world we live in, are the illuminated parts really that reliable?"

Zhang Xuan said: "I am not an optimist. I am afraid of the darkness and cruelty of human nature, and I am eager to expose it."

Tao Ge asked: I see a very stable structure in "The Wind": Facing the same past event, different parties have different "memories". Readers must first listen to the "East Wind" recalled by Pan Lao, and then listen to Gu Xiao The "west wind" recalled in the dream, and finally the "quiet wind" narrated by "I" need to be felt across time.

This is a very postmodern style of pluralism, and the logic behind it is to acknowledge that the truth is infinite, and that the historical memory that can be recorded is only a "small truth."

In other words, it identifies memory as a social activity and modifies the "standard image" of those memories through the memory of each individual's differences.

You mentioned earlier the “illumination” of the wind by the “four Gospels.” In fact, it is difficult for us to say now who discovered who first, postmodernism and "biblical" narrative. They seem to be attacking us at the same time.

Today, when avant-garde narratives are gradually receding, we seem to be more inclined to regard the kind of postmodernism brought about by deconstruction itself as a kind of relativism, believing that there is a truth behind postmodernity.

Having said so much, what I want to know is, the triple narrative of "East Wind", "West Wind" and "Standing Wind". How do you think such a confrontational narrative structure brings historical reality or literary reality? "

Zhang Xuan replied: "You should know that real life is actually filled with too many untruths and absurdities.

Even more absurd than the novel.

While novels have the privilege of fiction, they are deprived of the minimal right to be unreal. The bulky eavesdropping equipment in "The Sound of the Wind" must not be replaced by pinhole probes, and the bamboo forest in the yard cannot be replaced by a coconut forest, otherwise it will be false.

Any distorted object or abnormal detail in the novel may be fatal, because giving it the privilege of fiction is to achieve high fidelity and eliminate falsehood. Therefore, Hemingway said that he did not allow any untruth to enter his novels. "

Tao Ge agreed with this view and asked as soon as the topic changed:

"Let's talk about the publication of "Feng Sheng". It seems to have won the first place. You have to know that People's Literature did not publish novels before. How could you submit it to a magazine that did not publish novels?"

Zhang Xuan was dizzy, why didn't he pay attention to this?

But it doesn’t matter, you are talented in fooling us, who doesn’t?

So he replied with a helpless smile: "You know my family background, and you know that I am also a student. I don't have much knowledge or connections in the literature field. I have only heard of People's Literature, and I firmly believe in the value of my works." quality."

At this point, Zhang Xuan paused and revealed himself: "Actually, you don't know that I have been waiting for news since I sent the manuscript to you People's Literature.

I waited and waited, and more than 20 days passed. I was quite impatient at that time, thinking that the manuscript had disappeared.

Who knew you People’s Literature still published novels?

To be honest, if I knew this, I might not dare to vote. Now think about it, sometimes ignorance is also a kind of happiness. "

Hearing him teasing himself like this, Tao Ge laughed out loud.

Even the photographer and assistant grinned.

Tao Ge smiled and said: "Fortunately you voted for People's Literature, otherwise we would have missed such an excellent work."

Zhang Xuan said: "Thank you."

Tao Ge asked: "The serialization of "The Wind" will be finished soon, and it will be published physically in April next year. Do you have anything to say about this? What are your expectations?"

Zhang Xuan straightened his body and said: "I hope "The Wind" can become a best-seller, even better than this year's popular "White Deer Plain" and "Abandoned Capital"."

Tao Ge opened his eyes wide and asked: "Are you saying that "The Sound of the Wind" is better than "Bailuyuan" and "Abandoned Capital"?"

Hey!

This bitch was kind all night and finally set a trap.

Is this to start a war?

However, Zhang Xuan was a man of no fear, not afraid of going to war, not afraid of quarreling with famous writers from afar.

From a marketing perspective: If you want your book to be well-known and want to quickly open up the market, this step is really indispensable.

The aroma of wine makes me afraid of the deep alley.

Compared with Lao Chen and Lao Jia, he is now a nobody.

Just scold, what are you afraid of?

The stronger the scolding, the greater my reputation, and the better my book sales.

As for recruiting evil?

It doesn't matter, even if you don't quarrel with them now, when you become famous in the future, in a circle, newcomers will still be suppressed by the old people.

This is a law from which no one can escape.

It's all a matter of time, so what's there to be afraid of?

Besides, scolding can be regarded as paving the way for the next novel to "lurk".

Faced with Tao Ge's expectations and Tao Ge's aggressive eyes, Zhang Xuan pondered for a while and then said:

"I have read Bailuyuan and Abandoned Capital. They are very well written and are very good works."

As he spoke, the old man changed the subject.

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