Today's reading list "Novel Class"

Today's reading pages 1-26, read Pu Songling's "Promoting Weaving"

Cao Xueqin is a novelist The responsibility lies in that he quietly handed over the interpretation power of "white jade to the palace's gold and horses" to the "bitch" Grandma Liu. p5

What did Grandma Liu see in front of the Rongguo Mansion? There are stone lions and "clusters of sedan horses", which are several Lamborghinis and Maseratis. p6

There have always been two books of history: one written by historians, and the other written by red mouth and white teeth. Red mouth and white teeth have one most basic function, which is chewing the tongue. p8

Different people find different excuses and eventually become different people, ultimately forming different cultures. p9

Good novel language sometimes has nothing to do with the rhetoric of language, it is just vernacular. p9

Good novel language is like this: with it, you may not necessarily feel how wonderful it is, but without it, the sky will fall immediately. p9

The purpose of slavery is to make you accept servility, and servility means that you actively, consciously, and calmly accept servility from the beginning. It becomes the basis of your cultural psychology, behavior, and habits. Logical starting point. p10

Language is the starting point of imagination, and language is also the destination of imagination. p13

Tragedy has tragic principles, and all joy is a highway built for sorrow. p14

"The couple is in the corner, the hut is smoke-free", these eight words effectively inspire our specific imagination about life experience. The tragic atmosphere was created all of a sudden, as if it were before your eyes, lifelike and lifelike. p15

Good novel language is also related to the reader's memory. Some of them are already in the reader's mind, but they cannot be said out loud because they are explained by you and you remember them all at once. . p15

You don’t need to remember the language of good novels intentionally, you can only remember it unconsciously. p15

Whether we are writing novels or reading novels, it is by no means just a spiritual matter. It involves our physical feelings. To a certain extent, physiological feelings are also the last word in aesthetics. p16

Concerning drama, we all know a common sense in literature and art called "discovery". This method was used in ancient Greek tragedies. Before "discovery", the author had to hide everything - or the work The parties involved don’t know, or the readers, or the audience don’t know. p19

When it comes to emotions, novels should not “express” them, but should only “transmit them”. p20

If you write carefully, the novel will be natural. If you write carelessly and carelessly, the novel will lose its naturalness. p20

Literature requires imagination, and imagination requires courage. p24

No matter what literary height "Promoting Weaving" reaches, it is only a part of the "admonition" culture. p25

The history of the West is very different. It is a history of seeking knowledge and solving problems. It is also a history of spiritual growth related to the self-understanding of "people". p25

How to read novels: We need to solve two problems, one is about the "big" problem, and the other is about the "small" problem, that is, how can we see the big inside the novel and at the same time Read the inside of the novel.

If you only focus on the big picture, your novel will lose its vividness, depth, and those parts that best reflect the charm of the novel; if you only focus on the small, we will lose the coverage and structure of the novel. The radiation of novels is, most importantly, the function of novels.

A good reader must have two eyes, one eye to see the big picture and the other eye to focus on the local area.

After reading the first chapter of "Novel Lesson", I was amazed. No wonder every writing teacher recommends this book.

Compared with the previous writing books I read, "Novel Lesson" is not like the teacher's step-by-step guidance in "Wen Xin", nor is it like the unique and unconstrained style of "Woolf's Reading Notes" , not to mention "Write a Good Novel This Way" which only focuses on writing skills and methods.

And it seems to cover the characteristics of the previous books.

This chapter talks about Pu Songling's short story "Promoting Weaving". I have read this story before. Even if I read it again now, I can only feel the twists and turns of this story, the sadness and the irony.

The author talks about everything from the perspective of writing novels, and many of his views are refreshing and wonderful to me.

Starting from the very small "color" in "A Dream of Red Mansions" that everyone is familiar with, this novel is drawn to start from the big picture.

From the perspective of appreciating classics to the role of teacher, we are taught to pay attention to both the "big" and the "small" in novels.

As mentioned in the article, the twists, turns, and conflicts in the plot of this novel immediately reminded me of the plot writing method mentioned in "Writing a Good Novel This Way".

What I admire the most is the author's popular, funny and personalized writing style, which makes such a novel lesson so vivid and interesting, and makes readers gain a lot.

Looking forward to reading on.