Chapter 166 New Sensation School Novels
After traveling through time, Lin Zixuan gradually discovered a fact that most people would ignore in future generations, that is, the Chinese textbooks in later generations were too powerful.
The articles in the textbook cover many essays, novels and poems in ancient and modern times, and most of them are famous works.
With the extracurricular introduction, he was surprised at his reading volume.
But when I was in class, I didn’t feel that I was learning the essence of literature, but I didn’t like it very much and felt it was boring.
Perhaps it is related to the teacher's constant speech on the central idea and paragraphs of the text, what reveals the corruption and decline of capitalism, and what expresses the author's criticism of feudal society.
Does a middle school student understand these things? Do you like to listen to these things?
Lin Zixuan did not want to criticize the way of Chinese teaching, but felt that Chinese should tell the beauty of the text, rather than being divided into paragraphs of explanations, or even the original author did not know the profound meaning.
Of course, if you really say that, middle school students may still not understand.
In short, after traveling through time, Lin Zixuan realized that Chinese textbooks were such a killer weapon, and provided him with works by many writers.
Although some articles are just excerpts, it doesn't matter. He just needs to know the general plot setting. He has a huge group of writers as his backing and can do secondary creation.
He wanted to solemnly remind time travelers in the future that it would be great to travel with Chinese textbooks. The era of learning mathematics, physics and chemistry and not afraid of traveling all over the world is gone forever.
"Izu's Dancer" is a first-year high school reading material. It is an early work by Kawabata Yasuki.
It fully reflects the literary characteristics of Kawabata-style "Buddhist scriptures". Influenced by the Buddhist universe, Kawabata Yasukuni's life ideals appear to be both magnificent and illusory.
The novel travels to Izu through an orphan-born preparatory student, who travels with a wandering artist on the way, and develops a love affair with a 14-year-old dancer.
The novel has typical characteristics of Japanese literature, deliberate exquisiteness, a faint sadness and a hazy artistic conception.
This is the explanatory text that Lin Zixuan saw in later extracurricular reading materials, including a brief introduction to Kawabata Yasukuni's life.
Yasukuni Kawabata was born in 1899 and graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. He is a Japanese writer of the New Sensation School.
The so-called New Sensation School is a literary school that emerged in Japan in the early 1920s.
After the end of World War I, Japan's economy was restored and developed, but an economic crisis broke out in 1920, causing serious difficulties to social life. A kind of thought of nothingness and despair spread in society, and the West's greed for instant happiness.
The New Sensationist School believes that people should understand and express the world through vision and hearing.
They believe that the artist's task is to describe the inner world of people, rather than superficial reality. They emphasize the role of subjectivity and intuition, and believe that the symbol of literature is much more important than reality.
The new sense school was introduced to China and was very popular in Shanghai in the 1920s.
Most of this type of novels are based on the pathological life of metropolis. By describing various daily phenomena and worldly phenomena in metropolitan life, it exposes the depravity and indulgence, loneliness and emptiness of urban men and women.
It is very suitable for the atmosphere of the Shili foreign market in Shanghai and has grown into the most complete modernist novel genre in China.
In later generations, the representative figure of the New Sensation School was Mo Yan. His "Transparent Carrot" shocked the literary world with its unique conception, sensational, and experiential narrative methods and ethereal artistic conception.
In the Western literary world, this way of writing is called the stream of consciousness.
In Japan, the stream of consciousness plus the unique aestheticism of Japan has become a new sense school.
Chinese writers strive to be compatible with various expression techniques, bringing "psychological analysis, stream of consciousness, montage and other emerging creative methods into the track of realism", thus forming a "new sense school" novel with Chinese characteristics.
Lin Zixuan is not unfamiliar with stream of consciousness. Virginia Woolf in the UK is the representative writer of stream of consciousness.
The two exchanged this writing method in letters.
The story narrative of the stream of consciousness does not move forward in a straight line in chronological order, but organizes the story through free association as people's consciousness moves.
The arrangement of the story and the connection between the plot are generally not restricted by time, space, or logic, and causal relationships. They are often manifested as jumping and change in time and space, and lack of time and place between the two scenes before and after.
Time is often the past, present, and future intersection or overlap.
The recognized representative works of stream of consciousness novels include Proust's "Remembering the Past Years", Joyce's "Ulysses", Woolf's "Go to the Lighthouse", Faulkner's "Noisy and Fury", etc.
Although Kawabata Yasukuni was the initiator and central figure of the New Sensation School, he did not insist on using this writing method.
For example, his representative work "Snow Country" returns to the creation of Japanese classical literature.
In Japanese classical literature, "中文" is the aesthetic criterion of the entire Japanese traditional literature.
They believe that "in all kinds of emotions, only depression, sorrow, sorrow, and sorrow, that is, everything that cannot be satisfied is what touches people the most."
Therefore, Japanese literature always revolves around the two major themes of "beauty" and "things of things".
The novel "Snow Country" is full of sad feelings such as frustration, loneliness, sentimentality, and the ending also has a certain tragic color. It can be said that it has reached the extremely high state of "beauty" and "sadness of things".
Of course, "Snow Country" also embodies the characteristics of the novel "New Sentiment", and is mixed with Japanese Zen and nihilism.
Lin Zixuan didn't quite understand this kind of deliberate pursuit of beauty and sorrow, and he felt that it was a bit too pretentious.
But this is a world-class novel after all. It can only be said that his literary appreciation level has not reached that level. His biggest advantage is that he will not pretend to understand.
Fortunately, plagiarism novels do not require real understanding, just write them word by word.
"Snow Country" was written in less than 80,000 words in half a month. Lin Zixuan needs to consider a Japanese pseudonym.
He remembered a Japanese writer in later generations who would be mentioned every year when the Nobel Prize in Literature is about to be announced, and the odds of this person winning the Nobel Prize in Literature are extremely high.
Unfortunately, he has never won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been with him all year round, making him the most tragic finalist.
He is in the same relationship with Xiao Li, who has been striving for the Oscar for Best Actor. It is said that Xiao Li is striving for the Oscar again, but Lin Zixuan can't see it.
This person is called Harukura Murakami.
Lin Zixuan wrote this name as the author of "Snow Country", and then handed over the manuscript to Hirokiya, asking him to find someone who is proficient in Japanese to translate it.
He would publish the book and consign it to the comic version of "The Smart Ikki" in Uchiyama Bookstore to see how the Japanese react.
Chapter completed!