Literary Master 1978

When the other party saw Lin Chaoyang, he was about to say hello with a smile, but when he stared at his face, he seemed to have remembered something, and his eyes were slightly stunned.

Half eyebrows, small eyes, familiar because this face was well-known in later generations, and Lin Chaoyang had seen it once before. I say stranger because I only met him once.

Lin Chaoyang was about to ask the other party what happened, but the other party spoke first.

"Hey, we've met before." Ban Zhimei held Lin Chaoyang's hand enthusiastically.

"I have an impression, I have an impression." Lin Chaoyang said politely, and then asked: "What are you..."

"Didn't I tell you before that I am the editor of "Youth Literature", my name is Ma Weidu, and I came here specifically to visit Teacher Xu Lingjun today."

As Ma Weidu spoke, he looked blankly into the courtyard and asked, "Do you live in the same courtyard as him?"

Nowadays, most of the courtyard houses in Yanjing are large courtyards where several or more than a dozen families live together. Ma Weidu preconceivedly thought of this courtyard as an ordinary large courtyard.

"I live in this hospital."

Ma Wei didn't even understand what Lin Chaoyang meant, and there was a flattering look on his face, "It's a coincidence that I meet an acquaintance like you. Just in time, please help me introduce him."

As he spoke, he entered the courtyard in a familiar manner. As he walked, he asked Lin Chaoyang, "Your courtyard looks quite big. How many families live there?"

While he was talking, Ma Weidu had already passed the Weeping Flower Gate and came to the second courtyard. Just as Lin Chaoyang was about to answer his question, Ma Weidu asked again: "Which house is Teacher Xu's house?"

Lin Chaoyang looked at Ma Weidu, who looked like a fool, dumbfounded, "This is Teacher Xu's home."

Hearing this, Ma Weidu looked at Lin Chaoyang and then looked around. It was evening now. If it was a large courtyard, it wouldn't be so quiet. He immediately understood what Lin Chaoyang meant.

"This courtyard belongs to Teacher Xu's house? That's really bright!"

He looked apologetic again and asked Lin Chaoyang: "Forgive my blindness, you belong to Teacher Xu..."

"I am Lin Chaoyang, and my pen name is Xu Lingjun."

"Ah~" Ma Weidu was so shocked that he was speechless on the spot. He only had time to let out a harsh scream from his drake throat.

"You, you, you..." He said "you" for a long time, but couldn't form words. Lin Chaoyang said with a chuckle: "Let's sit in the room first."

He first led Ma Weidu into the main room, asked him to sit down, and poured him a cup of tea.

After a while, Ma Weidu finally digested the shock in his heart, and his face was full of embarrassment, "I'm so sorry, I can't see Taishan..."

Lin Chaoyang waved his hand indifferently, "What's so embarrassing about this? We don't even know each other."

Ma Weidu looked at Lin Chaoyang's calm expression, but the shame in his heart only increased.

The misunderstanding when he entered the hospital just now was nothing. He mainly remembered the bold words he had made when they met before.

The two of them had met before in front of the Xinjiekou cultural relics store because they were collecting antiques.

At that time, Lin Chaoyang used foreign exchange certificates to collect antiques, which made Ma Wei very unhappy. During the chat, he heard that Lin Chaoyang said that he wrote novels as a hobby, which showed off his sense of superiority.

"That's a coincidence. I also write novels, and my job is to be the editor of "Youth Literature"."

"If you have any manuscripts in the future, you can submit them to our "Youth Literature". We have gotten to know each other today, and I will give you priority to review them later."

Ma Wei couldn't help but feel hot when he remembered the previous scene, and he wanted to dig a hole in the ground.

This is really a trick that makes people laugh.

"Now that we all know each other, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it straight to the point. The purpose of your visit today is..."

Lin Chaoyang didn't give Ma Weidu time to be embarrassed. Seeing him asking this question, Ma Weidu couldn't care about anything else and put down his emotions.

"To be honest, I am here today on behalf of the magazine to request a manuscript from you."

Ma Weidu's words were as expected by Lin Chaoyang. He said in as polite a tone as possible: "In the past two years, there have been many magazines that have written to me or come to me to request articles. However, my output is not high, and I mainly focus on medium-length and long-form articles. The Lord often lets everyone run away.

After the publication of my last novel "Shutter Island", I focused on my family life and haven't written any new works recently. "

Seeing Lin Chaoyang's polite and sincere attitude, Ma Weidu felt a little regretful in his heart, knowing that what he said was true. However, when he came to visit this time, he didn't expect to get the manuscript in one go.

"It's really presumptuous to come to you for the first time to request a manuscript. You should also know that our publication was revised from the "Novel Quarterly", and its characteristics are: written by young people, written by young people, for young readers.

It turns out that we have two columns, one is "Special Articles", one article in each issue, specifically inviting famous writers and literary critics to comment on a certain issue or work in literary creation;

The second is 'Talk about Sweetness and Bitterness', which invites more influential writers to talk about their bitterness, sweetness and experience in creation.

There are many young readers who love literature. Many readers love these two columns very much. Young readers who are interested in literature think that this can broaden their horizons.

After the revision to "Youth Literature", we have retained these two columns. If it is convenient for you, can you write a review or a creative talk for our editorial department?

The number of words doesn’t need to be too many. One thousand or eight hundred words is enough. It would be better if there were more words. "

The clever thing about Ma Weidu's request for a manuscript was that he did not, like some editors, hope to get acquainted with her next time or in the future without getting the manuscript on the spot. Instead, he tried to find a way to get a manuscript no matter what.

No matter what it is, even a 300-500-word analysis will do. As long as you have the first one, it will be easier to get commissioned in the future.

Seeing that Ma Weidu had set such a low standard, Lin Chaoyang felt a little embarrassed to refuse.

He thought of Lu Yao's letter today, and said, "In this case... I will write a review article on "Life". Lu Yao and I are also writing letters to discuss it."

Hearing Lin Chaoyang's words, Ma Weidu was overjoyed, "That's great!"

"Are you familiar with Comrade Lu Yao?"

"We have some friendship."

Ma Weidu said, "Then you should know that he wrote this "Life" at the invitation of our editor-in-chief. It's really fate."

"Youth Literature" is a magazine under China Youth Publishing House. Editor-in-chief Wang Weiling is also the deputy editor-in-chief of the publishing house.

Lin Chaoyang nodded and said, "I know."

"What a coincidence!" Ma Weidu muttered again, "Life is very popular now, and you and Lu Yao are good friends. If the comment is published, it will definitely cause a lot of repercussions."

Ma Weidu's words were just compliments, just listen to it, Lin Chaoyang would definitely not take it seriously.

After chatting for a while, Lin Chaoyang felt that it was almost time to serve tea and send the guests away. Ma Weidu suddenly set his eyes on the antiques in his room.

"Oh! This garlic bottle looks really good!"

"This colored glaze is obviously from the Yongzheng period, right?"

Ma Weidu rushed to talk, Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but reply, and his words hit Lin Chaoyang's heart.

"Good eyesight, it is indeed something from the Yongzheng period."

Ma Weidu surrounded the Yongzheng period imitation Rutian blue glaze string pattern garlic bottle, looking at it with great joy, Lin Chaoyang couldn't tell whether he was happy or trying to please.

However, this imitation Rutian celadon glaze string pattern garlic bottle is indeed his favorite. If we really talk about the value, Lin Chaoyang's family has at least 20 or 30 pieces of porcelain that are more valuable than it.

The reason why Lin Chaoyang likes this thing is that it has a single color, not superficial, not arrogant, not decadent, not flattering, unique temperament, and a natural, simple and quiet beauty.

Moreover, compared with the appearance of pastels that are for royal nobles, this monochrome glaze is more in line with the aesthetics of literati and scholars, which makes people happy.

Ma Weidu praised while watching, even though Lin Chaoyang was alert in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little happy.

This kid, hundreds of years ago, would have been a good material for flattering and treacherous ministers!

The two talked for a while, and Tao Yushu had finished his meal over there. He was about to call Lin Chaoyang to eat, but when he saw that there were guests in the room, he didn't say anything.

Lin Chaoyang introduced the two to each other and said politely: "Have you eaten? How about eating together?"

"No need to bother, I'll go home to eat."

Ma Weidu refused, but his feet didn't move much. Lin Chaoyang saw that he understood his little thoughts and took him to the west wing for dinner.

After eating, Ma Weidu said goodbye to Lin Chaoyang with satisfaction.

A week later, Ma Weidu specially picked a dinner time to go to Lin Chaoyang's house to pick up the manuscript. First, he had a dinner naturally.

Then he got the review article written by Lin Chaoyang for "Life" - "On How to Shape the Image of Contemporary Rural Characters from Gao Jialin".

The title is a bit long, and Ma Weidu was a little surprised before he even read the content.

General novel review articles have always been based on novels as the object of observation, which usually has certain limitations.

But if the title is a sentence like "From... to ...", it means that the author is not only talking about this novel, but may be a certain type of work with common attributes, and the content is expanded more than doubled at once.

Ma Weidu had a little idea before reading the article. He first twisted the pages of the manuscript with his fingers, and estimated that there were at least eleven or twelve pages. Lin Chaoyang used 500-grid manuscript paper. Putting aside spaces and punctuation marks, there were at least 5,000 words.

Picked it up!

Before he read the article, his heart was full of joy. He originally only hoped that Lin Chaoyang could take the time to perfunctorily write a review article of 1,000 or 2,000 words, but he didn't expect that he was so sincere.

When he finished reading the article, he was even happier.

Since the publication of "Life", writers and critics in the literary world have successively expressed their views on this novel.

Many people put Gao Jialin, the protagonist, in the position of a typical negative example, and regarded him as a loser and a tragic figure, believing that he only cared about personal interests, rejected rural life, had no ideal of dedicating himself to a great cause, and used love as a tool...

Such arguments have emerged in the past month, but Lin Chaoyang's article "On How to Shape the Image of Contemporary Rural Characters from Gao Jialin" did not follow the old path of these people.

The whole article does not have any high-handed accusations. The article as a whole can be divided into two parts. One part is the analysis and evaluation of Gao Jialin, and the other part is a profound analysis of how literary creators should shape the image of flesh-and-blood farmers in today's changing era through the image of Gao Jialin.

In the first half, Lin Chaoyang affirmed the success of Gao Jialin as a new image of a young farmer, believing that Gao Jialin inherited the good qualities of his father's hard-working and hardworking character, and showed his yearning and expectation for a new socialist modern life.

He has an enterprising spirit and the courage to make choices for the like-minded love he longs for. He is an image of a young man who is at the forefront of the times.

As for the hateful aspects of Gao Jialin's character, Lin Chaoyang also criticized it, but it was far less powerful than those critics in recent times.

In the second half, Lin Chaoyang used Gao Jialin's image to talk about the shaping of the image of farmers in the new era. Ma Weidu extracted several key points according to his own understanding.

First, the sense of the times in the characterization of characters. Lin Chaoyang believes that contemporary writers' portrayal of rural characters is not lacking in authenticity, but in capturing the sense of the times, they have obviously lagged behind the development of reality.

Second, multi-dimensional characterization...

Ma Weidu waved the manuscript and said to Lin Chaoyang with an excited expression: "Teacher Xu..."

Lin Chaoyang immediately interrupted him, "Don't call me 'teacher', just call me Chaoyang."

Ma Weidu admired Lin Chaoyang's humility, but he was a little uncomfortable with calling him by his name, so he said: "Then I'll call you Comrade Chaoyang."

"That's fine."

"Comrade Chaoyang, your article is definitely the highest level of all the commentary articles on "Life" that I have read."

"I don't deserve it, it's an exaggeration." Lin Chaoyang said politely.

Ma Weidu said seriously: "This is definitely not a compliment, please listen to me..."