Shi Tiesheng (195 1-) is from Beijing. After graduating from junior high school, I went to Yan 'an area in northern Shaanxi 1969 to "jump the queue". Three years later, he returned to Beijing because his legs were paralyzed and worked in Beixinqiao Street Factory. Later, I went home to recuperate because of illness. Published works 65438 to 0979.
Some early novels, such as Lunch Half an Hour, have the characteristics of exposing the "dark side" literature. My Distant Qingping Bay published by 1983 is not only Shi Tiesheng, but also an important novel creation at that time. It is explained on many levels: or it broadens the horizon of "educated youth literature", or its significance in literature "seeking roots". On the issue of "seeking roots", the author expressed the view that "seeking roots" and "seeking roots" are completely different. One is where we come from and why we come. The other is also for: where are we going and how to get there? Regarding the latter, he thinks that "this is to see the absurdity of life and find a reliable basis for the spirit" (Postscript on Sunday, Huaxia Publishing House, 1983 edition).
Shi Tiesheng's personal experience of physical disability makes some of his novels describe the life dilemma and spiritual dilemma of the disabled. However, he transcended the pity and self-pity of the disabled for their fate, and thus rose to the concern of universal existence, especially the phenomenon of mental "disability". Different from other novelists, he has no attachment to the perceptual life characteristics of his own nation and region. He regards writing as a narrative and exploration of personal spiritual course. "The universe and its endless desires will become eternal songs and dances. What kind of names this desire has can be ignored "(Shi Tiesheng's Me and Ditan). This persistent concern for the survival of the "disabled" (in Shi Tiesheng's view, all people are disabled and defective) makes his novels have a strong philosophical meaning. Because of his personal experience, his narrative runs through a kind of warmth, but fatalistic sadness; But there is also a struggle against absurdity and fate. Life is like a string, a fable that struggles with absurdity to gain the meaning of existence.
He is the author of a novel "Notes on Retreat", a short story "Life is like a String" and a collection of essays "I and Ditan".
My Far Green Ping Bay and Grandma's Star won the National Excellent Short Story Awards of 1982 and 1983 respectively, and My Old House won the first Lu Xun Literature Award.