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"Wine Country" is a general movie that Mo Yan worked hard to create from 1989 to 1992. It is a long masterpiece that pushes the edge of reality criticism to the extreme and makes bold attempts and innovations in narrative experiments. In the novel, Ding Gou'er, a special detective from the Provincial People's Procuratorate, goes to Liquorland City to investigate a special case; but no one who comes to Liquorland City can withstand the temptation. In the process of dealing with power, wine and women, Although Ding Gou'er kept reminding himself not to drink, he ended up drunk and drowned in the toilet. Through Ding Gou'er's story, the novel sharply reveals the terrible secrets of this society. Parallel to the story of Ding Gou'er are the correspondence between the author and Li Yidou, a literary young man from Liquorland City, about literary creation that appears in the novel, as well as the novels written by Li Yidou; these novels are diverse in style and can be called the "Manchu-Han banquet" of novel style. ". The French version of this book won the 2001 French "Laure Bataillin Foreign Literature Prize". In this age of romance, passion, chaos and corruption, brothers, do not judge your own brothers. Text on the waistband: "Manchu-Han Banquet" of novel experimental style. Detective novels, brutal realism novels, expressionist novels, symbolism novels, magic novels, martial arts legend novels, lyrical novels, structuralist novels... appear in turn "by outstanding Chinese novelists" Mo Yan's original "Wine Country"...is an unprecedented experimental style. Its bold ideas, fantastic plot, ghostly characters, and novel structure are beyond the reading experience of French and even world readers."

——The 2001 French "Laure Bataillin Foreign Literature Prize" Award Speech

This is a book that I found shocking and confusing.

While reading the book, I definitely knew that various wine countries, wine cities, and other places must be fictional. However, the various plots described in the book feel both real and imaginary. I don’t know whether this is semi-realism or fiction.

Who is Li Yidou? Is this a fictional character created by Mo Yan for this work, or is he a real person who has repeatedly asked Mo Yan to help him submit manuscripts? It seems that a seemingly simple question has made me somewhat confused.

After winning the Nobel Prize, Mo Yan's works instantly became popular, and Mo Yan's writing style seemed to become the authority on other people's serious writing overnight. However, it doesn’t matter why the Nobel Prize jury finally awarded the award to Mo Yan, or whether this title is 100% worthy of the transformed words in his hands. I think it is best to read with a peaceful mind when reading a book. What you see in this way is the knowledge you can originally acquire, and it can best objectively reflect your understanding of this work. However, if one really regards Mo Yan as a great master and worships, admires and appreciates his masterpieces, I think 80% of the time he will be affected by some of his own irrational thoughts. In fact, when I read this book, I felt that I was somewhat affected by it.

The Wine Country is a place that I don’t know if it exists, a place that I don’t know where it is, and a place where even if it is false, it is difficult to guess where the wooden template was obtained from in the real world. This is a horrifying world, and it seems to be a place where materials are relatively developed and life customs are relatively decadent and luxurious. In this bad place, what we can learn about is not only the scenery with local characteristics, but also some magical stories and legends, as well as the shocking bad habits. According to the description in the book, this is not only a city with a decadent lifestyle, but also a wild and terrifying society where people eat people. Here, dignitaries and dignitaries prey on the common people like wild beasts. Innocent babies become the food of powerful people. However, the vulgar people are so ideologically and culturally backward that they do not know how to fight for rights and dignity for themselves and their children. Instead, they are willing to hand their own future and the future of their descendants into the hands of others and let others greedily suck up the last bit of flesh and blood. Here, civilization is just a superficial decoration, while ugliness and viciousness have become the most deep-rooted base of this society. This is a sad and deplorable wine city. This is a sad and deplorable wine country.

In the opening chapter, Li Yidou said that his work is a bit like Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman".

I did not find "Diary of a Madman" and read it carefully for comparison, but while I was reading, a sentence from this article seemed to be echoing in my mind - save the children!

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