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in Afghanistan on the way to see, and I hand him the latest edition of . The book's back cover, writing this to say: mystery, money to drive the villagers into a crazy, chaotic era in the values, right and wrong confused with the new generation of machines village. bustling town like clouds dissipated, beliefs, allies and enemies, struggle, doubt, as he died away, Cangshan are elderly, people He Yikan. After the collapse of rural culture, the fate of the ups and downs, and both fall engender a sense of hometown hero, La Jiaze in the fortune and resurrection, everyone may experience; machine all the village, not the interpretation of the legend, but the life around us.
compared to fame as There, people reading again and give birth to pain, but far as reading experience, the latter obviously does not like the former is so hearty and unable to stop.
in Beijing in early spring turns warm again, our topic from the the sun to jump on the table, A to smoking one after another, silent and good talks. In ancient Tibetan inside, , now has many titles, in front of the camera platform and the performance of skill, suits and ties to the Arab-Israeli brilliance, or that write yourself as if you were hollowed out, and there is no passion for some time, there are two or three years time can not write. I want to know, what made you started writing in 2005 for six hundred thousand words When finished this series, feelings, and then finished, time of writing, emotion is plentiful, access is very arbitrary, after writing a very fun, but the writing is completed, found a great emotional exhaustion, long time no writing impulse. not just two or three years, a full five or six years time. then want to write, but because caught in other things, long time no time. until 2005, began to I am a person stay at the hotel, started writing Volume I, Italy also has not tried, reluctant to leave the computer. to write ; empty can not give up in which to express their views, I can not give up because of heavy, but I do look forward to the end of this process as soon as possible.
Wu Huaiyao: This publication cycle, on weekdays or the heart is also filled with entertaining work of other factors other ?
Alai: wanted a quick end out, is a mood, not to say that writing is really impatient again. and no other considerations. For example, periodic publication of it, last year's third turnaround March, but until it was formally published early this year.
Wuhuai Yao: After together, does not seem awkward and stiff, this structural break in the Chinese contemporary novel is not common. what to write and how to write, format and subject matter, is often considered writing you do? < br> A to: As a novelist, of course, should always be sensitive to the form, and improve the content of the novel form may be fully realized. However, the ultimate form of expression or the content to be determined.
Over the years, I have been want to make an ancient village to write a new history, which the old regime was overthrown in a Tibetan village in contemporary history. in the upper reaches of Minjiang River in Sichuan Northwestern, Dadu River upstream of those mountains fold, in the Tibetan community in the Chieftain of the tribe called, scattered with many of these villages. but I has yet to write. The reason is that I have not come up with for such a novel from start to finish through the appropriate written, will certainly show something at the same time, left behind some other things.
revelation as I have been waiting for, waiting for a new wording. Then I finally understand that such a novel structure not only to maintain (story) integrity, but also to maximize the tolerance to be said for the village people and events of the novel form, may not exist. So, had to step back, using a collage approach, several important parts of the novel is the equivalent of several medium-length story, written to be said for the people and things, you can go alone, look can be a separate chapter. However, when the collage together, would constitute a relatively rich and full of contemporary Tibetan Country picture.
, of course, I do not want a so-called puzzle effect. The reason is this form, from my village to be about a half century. The story is the story of a village. However, today villages have been imposed in the city's political and economic fragmentation of the double pressure. Specifically, to tell the story of a village, you can no longer find the river like a traditional novel, like a man or a few, always in center stage, different times, because from the city's political and economic impact of different orders, loss of autonomy to another country without a stable center, an independent thread that runs through the story. so-called Changba me on stage structure. volumes story is that a large part of the six puzzle, in fact, I wrote twelve short, there are large fragments, there should be small pieces, the puzzle is incomplete, but now, including the ten All this, including two short unpublished, we have not seen.
Wu Huaiyao: This kind of thinking and expression in your behind, if also hidden some strong personal feelings?
A to: actually hope that a successful transition, although the history of the progress we need to take some of the price, although the progress of history will let us have suffered the baptism, but I strongly believe that: Not all the pain we all must take, if we assume, that bear the cost of at least should not be ignored.
Wuhuai Yao: important position in the bookstore. In fact, as you said, then the needless to say.
Wu Huaiyao: There are many great writers lack of confidence, like write a there was not confident when you?
Alai: Kafka If the value of their entire writing has doubt, he can not write so many works, and he was alive he was not any good for his writing, he Why keep going? he has full confidence. I certainly have no confidence when no self-confidence when it is generated in the specific process of writing a book which, because of their higher expectations, higher demands on their own. written, such as a paragraph, do you think is written very generally, a third-rate writer can write, you will wonder, I also write this thing do? not confident that I can almost set their own goals Can not say I finished writing a novel, or whether the sell of this publication, the like. This is not the process of self-confidence, a lot of artists, painters, musicians, the more talented, the more easily produced in the process of their own suspicion. doubt on the premise that he felt himself reach the objectives envisaged, which is a short process.
to have two pieces of his poems, beautiful language What role play?
Alai: I think for everyone, its role is very different. Literature is my religion, is a very pure spirit world. When I was growing years, if a young Tibetan rural background, the last out of the school door, has been able to use Chinese session or skillfully written, that means he could from the hard life of the ignorance of farmers. our generation Most of Tibetan intellectuals is the case, can be used conversation and writing, but the Tibetan language, like a childhood era, is still a spoken language. commanding the majority of Chinese is the language of the countryside in the town. Tibetan countryside to gathered in the official language of these speakers around town. Every time I walked out of small towns, into the vast countryside, you will find in the street between the two languages. see the shadow of two languages, showing a different mind landscape. This is a strange experience, I think, the world will be more and more people to join this experience. It is in the continuous walk through between the two languages, my first literary culture sensitive, so I could be A Tibetan writer writing in Chinese.
Buddhist scriptures, there are words to the effect that the sound to go to heaven to become a big sound, big voice is heard in order to allow more living beings. to make their own voice into this A great voice, in addition to a valid reference, is always more important, their own life experience gained through the sense of history and a sense of destiny, so that the hot blood and real emotions, sneak in the word, the line between.
Wu Huaiyao : you say you're particularly grateful to the eighties. during the presentation of various genres of literary works blowout state, surging foreign literature from a variety of thoughts. you personally to achieve two jumps, from teachers to edit, from editing to writers. to nine the early years, you start writing ? to: I do not want to talk with this thing. But I can say that my own writing has never been any wavering. indomitable, because I think writing is the most worthy of the world's great cause I have to work hard.
Wu Huaiyao : The most recent ten years, the Nobel Prize for literature issued during the first few days, the domestic media and cultural circles began to move restlessly, appeared very good for nothing, some writers said to have written acceptance speech in private. Some say it is the world, with international standards, but I think it exposes a deep cultural inferiority. In the past we were conquered by others, and now take the initiative to surrender to others. I know you have the world of literature and philosophy and more, it only received the nod from the West to prove the value of our culture? Do you think the future direction of Chinese literature what? it in world literature at what kind of position?
Alai: Culture is not a jigsaw puzzle rules. If we must as a puzzle , then no matter how an ancient culture, and ultimately decided the fate of the strength of their rehabilitation capabilities. Basically, what prize was not really an irrelevant issue. writers will be winning, and that a representative of the outside world species recognition. but that is not the root of literature, because the awards more or a business or political strategy. I have won prizes, but I said over a decade ago, today you can say it again: award-winning writers like shameful. at least, bent on winning writer is shameful.
Wu Huaiyao: Writing twenty years, you had a lot of work by the award, but also achieved great commercial success. but I have a guess, you want to prove it: the external glory, may give you a little pleasure, but can not touch your heart. what, you will truly hi from the heart? Oh, do not tell me you do not material- hi, not to have compassion.
Alai: I was just not the kind of Chinese literary favorite won numerous prizes and all the writers, only a few prizes to everyone that impression. business get on with success, but not great. If literature is your life as a career, then what kind of gains should not be in your surprise, that is the proper meaning of title, it will not have any special surprise. more Importantly, the goal of literature is internal, rather than the external things, these things up to the outside world that some recognition of your work, you achieve your goal but not a reliable guarantee. my glory, I said to myself recognition from the writing process, to express what has been full and perfect expression, then I will feel proud of.
Wu Huaiyao: When you write something, usually first think of a good title, or After finished setting the title again?
Alai: I think the title is not very good first set, first set the title, the title has a very strong hint of the title is meaningful. I write fiction, I hope not only concerned about a problem, inside will also contain a lot of problems. as we listen to a symphony, we listen to Beethoven, to listen to Tchaikovsky, good music is called classical, not because of pop songs, singing is not like singing for two years . symphonies there are a lot of structure, we are not the structure of Chinese music, start to finish a few minutes to get away, is a very short process. But we heard the symphony, a movement of what and what style. The second movement, third movement, what the fourth movement, then the provisions of a symphony is not in a theme, first theme, but also leads to another, of course, some music image, will be a second theme, the third theme , then these movements which were intertwined with each other change, you sound good stead. a rich novel should do, not just a single topic, we often talk about students writing is a single topic, through what to what, it should be more abundant, as we live down section by section, so you can see it, see it, different people will see different meaning. It is also because the theme of the rich, which can be refined a lot of things. If you advance to the It is a title, it will limit its thinking, will always suggest you to write this novel two meanings, this means that theme. Finally, and with great effort, 20 million characters, 50 million words, you write something in this no interesting novels, many Chinese do not mean you think the novel, lies in this. do you charge the King, to write a text message would be finished. theme first, the novel's dense and rich will disappear, become a dry, write so many things and, finally, to illustrate a simple truth that, so I'm not willing to write this. finished later, but his novels have a feeling, that feeling derives from the title and the novel is very with.
Wu Huaiyao: the writing process, what you most enjoy? you excited or excited you?
Alai: After writing there is nothing exciting, but the process will enjoy, I might have a certain paragraph, ancient and modern writers I write all the best. Not long ago, a young banker, he said, writing a novel bitter, very bitter if I say one thing, why do you do it? you are in the one thing, it could not give you pleasure, brought only pain and suffering, why do you go off it.
Wu Huaiyao: you put the novel in 1997, After the ABA from the home went to Chengdu, employed in the also by the circulation of hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands; from the one derived for the five; by the publication of books to audio and video products. years, a little magazine, from operations to management to make the moment we appearance of the cultural industry is pursuing. in the World Science Fiction magazine circulation, the : business, particularly with regard to culture as the business need is imagination, as is her own, of course, a pattern that is formed product marketing, and the company's internal management. My experience is not self-define their best for dry some kind of work, or do not work for some kind of dry.
Wuhuai Yao: From the it? your collection of essays, results. That is, a lot of roaming is not a direct result of this. I do not advocate every travel writer has some text as a result. travel is a learning experience, an insight, or even a rest.
Wu Huaiyao: My friend said, you love to shoot flowers, some flowers on a small plateau, you all to a lot of close-up, as if to emphasize their short lives. artist Chang Yu has a good view, Everyone has a natural, each piece in the leak about the secret of nature, every flower, all imbued with metaphors from nature, signs and way home. Records flower charm, it really makes you close to nature, in an instant touch similar to natural arm, and thus get the joy and ease?
Alai: more than walking in nature, and wanted some of the specific nature should knowledge, I know every flowers and trees from the beginning, and to consolidate this understanding with the image. I love the poet Milosz loves botany, he said this sentence: hurt, you may take comfort from the biology. the presence of a geological exploration team, outside the mountain you have an interest in the world, finished junior high school after the age of sixteen, has chosen to migrant workers, because I like reading, by chance, was the site responsible for the people to see, become a tractor driver .1977 college entrance examination system restore on your night driving tractors to register at the registration time has elapsed in the case of signed up. then you are a teacher, but also a chance to participate in the local Department of Cultural Affairs of the literature Writing Pen, and soon began to publish poetry and embarked on the road of literature these past experiences hh speaking placid now, but when I concluded that, whenever you do choose, seem to have a mysterious force behind the dominance . This year you have five years of age, the words of Confucius to accepted most of the education during the Cultural Revolution. At that time no formal education, but also the input to our world and life view is wrong. the later part of self-education is in fact a considerable error in the elimination of that applied to their own education impact. so later, I have refused to accept any school education. Although I had many opportunities, but I refused. and my best way of self-education literature. I am not a professional literature, literature for me is a better school. take the beam to the sea village life than the traditional Tibetan areas more open, folks use both Tibetan and Chinese, can be said to start from childhood, you walk between the two languages. your growth is the era of the sixties and seventies, At that time both the natural environment or traditional culture, are subject to different degrees of damage. In such a context of growth, and for your personality and creativity are what kind of impact?
Alai: That of course, is open. of course walk in different cultures, the conflicts among different cultures, prejudice, discrimination, jealousy, abuse, gave me a deeper sensitivity, and desire for communication and reconciliation. I think all my works are included with this a personal effort.
Wu Huaiyao: the main characters in your work, everyone is drunk often gives people a sense of loneliness I alone am sober. They are similar to you? I heard you a good drinker, and booze After like singing, in addition, quite a ladies man, living in Afghanistan to in the end what?
A to: the kind of loneliness, because you want to accept all things should be accepted: knowledge, attitude, approach, but Most people is not the case, loneliness is produced. physical reason not to drink, and that time has passed. As a woman, I have a better them than on men's views. I like those kind, intelligent , inclusive of women. In these areas, in the women than the men, tend to have better performance. human nature is often brilliant flashes in women more easily, and even the world of men think that only his own courage.
Wu Huaiyao: You has revealed that before their old, will the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau longer follow the time, with the land as a farewell. in the return to this place next life, I love this beautiful place! Most of the beauty. the so-called for a few ranked in the top of the pyramid of power and wealth for the few people, so we seek equality and freedom. When I'm in nature, will understand another reason, that is, the world is not just for human beings preparation. The world is a world of all life.
Wu Huaiyao: You have about seventy thousand square kilometers in the home geographical Aba had a monk on the type of roaming. traveled the result is you wrote the two Chinese literature: home of the mother river of the lyric poetry describing literature) is concerned, at the time, that make you disappointed? this little poem with you then, if there is a definite relationship? far as I know, me, did you mind?
Alai: correct you, but was previously published poetry and short stories, I have been lovers before, and now, look out of the two books, the problem really arises, I want to be a writer? If yes, what is to become a writer?, I am still not ready to rise to life-long hobby business. A has been loyal to her cause. I need to test, I can can not be a writer, he has not that potential. how proved? to the vast land and life. see if I can with it resonance, with whom mutual induction. roam the results, I told myself, I can. Since then, the literature does not another is a relaxing and elegance of the hobby.
Wu Huaiyao: your three-year-old in 1989, your collection of short stories, in others it seems, you're a writer. In my view, although you are a minority writer, mother tongue is Tibetan, but far beyond your ability to use many of the Han Chinese so-called The gifted, wide range of reading, writing poetry was about, and you are still small by the nourishment of the oral folk literature relevant?
Alai: If everything is so simple. the language enough? then to point poetry exercises, or to collect and sort out folk literature, like the fairy tales of Italy finishing Calvino. if possible, more complex than this. Geographically, the areas of my life was never the center of Tibetan culture. more because they do not understand the Tibetan language, literature can not access the written Tibetan language. I am more of a Tibetan folk from the Tibetan tradition of the myth of mouth, tribal legends, family legends, stories and fables in the absorption of nutrients. these things are very strong civil position and folk color. Tibetan written culture or literary tradition, it is often too strong to bring the Buddhist color. The life of Tibetan Buddhism is not the native religion. Therefore, those people in the countryside in the spread of the oral story but contain more of the Tibetan people had the habit of thinking and aesthetic characteristics, including the more simple and profound view of the world. These views express more dependent on the rich emotional rather than rational clear. This approach is the manner required of literature. Through these stories and legends, I learned how to take the time, showing space, learn how to deal with the fate and passion. Then, with the Chinese, this non-native was able to skillfully use words to express. I found, whether in poetry or fiction, this creative process had produced the differences in texture and alienation, used properly, will work very effectively to expand the meaning and emotional space.
Wu Huaiyao: in literary work after You read a lot of world famous, and found two mentors: the United States and Latin America, Neruda, Whitman, the former is in English to express the United States, which is expressed in Spanish South America. Since the writing has been, you Tibet has been expressed in Chinese, is it, and Whitman, Neruda related to the impact of your? If so, this effect is short or long? the way you talk about Faulkner's
A to: Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda on their mainland painted, a problem encountered is that these places is a piece of literature is almost virgin territory, that is, their continent has never before in the local Writers have been successfully expressed. I started writing the case is the same, the Tibetan Plateau and the high ground of the people and culture are almost never be fully filled with the local community and it is the expression of modernity. They are my guides of literature . and Faulkner's words. I think it was Faulkner to say, he said: alone among the human society of the time.
Wuhuai Yao: In addition to the above-mentioned writers, do you like and what kind of literary attention? can light about cards?
Alai: I have the greatest impact on American literature I focus on three areas of American literature, one of black literature. blacks in the United States regarded as alien, the minority in the United States. Their culture is the mainstream culture of the United States sub-culture. I like the black literature since World War II, rather than earlier universal thinking, walking in the forefront of the times. such as Na Erfu. Ellison's novel is great, his accommodated by mainstream society, he, like Sartre, Camus, like rising to the philosophical level, rising to the human condition, he used modernist approach, with the fate of blacks reveal the abstract Nobel Tony. Morris's , Brodsky wait for them in the pursuit of writing is much higher compared with Latin American writers, their works are very heavy, very real, very heart (and painful) on the topic so that they vary greatly, they can take a variety of subjects, They never art for art, the content determines the form of work.
third South American Literature. on behalf of course, Faulkner, and Southern writers, Austria. Cornell. She is an American native write novel, very mainstream, she went to the Faulkner, the the U.S. does not like American literature chaotic, noisy, rough, but full of vitality, they did not created a new literary form, but all forms of literature have very good development in the United States.
early years I also like Latin American literature. But now talk about Latin America, to ...
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