Mo Yan once said: "The books written by Yu Hua are half of mine, but the influence of Yu Hua is half of mine." Mo Yan's worship of Yu Hua has long been well known in the literary world. Even Mo Yan once said: I hope I can write works like I am alive. It can be seen that Mo Yan recognized Yu Hua.
If you can't eat grapes, say sour grapes.
Although Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the sales volume of his award-winning work Frog is not as high as that of Yu Hua's Alive, or even half as high. Yu Hua and Mo Yan are good friends. Mo Yan has always respected Yu Hua, and Yu Hua also respects Mo Yan, and thinks that Mo Yan's works Nobel Prize in Literature are well deserved.
Before Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, many people only heard the name Mo Yan, but never read Mo Yan's books. After winning the prize, Mo Yan's works began to catch fire, but many readers said that Mo Yan's works were insulting history and began to make language attacks on Mo Yan.
Among them, Wang Shuo is one. He thinks that Mo Yan's works won the Nobel Prize in Literature only because Nobel Prize in Literature knows the times, not because you are talented. Regarding Wang Shuo's comments, Yu Hua said: "Mo Yan is a well-deserved contemporary great writer. Mo Yan's worst novels are also better than those of 90% Mao Dun literature prize winners. "
This sentence also caused Wang Shuo's dissatisfaction. Wang Shuo said: He is "kneeling". Those books written by Yu Hua are not good books at all. They just tell a bunch of bad stories to stir up feelings and have no value at all. Yu Hua is a person who pretends to know a lot, but can't write novels at all. He often boasts that Mo Yan's worst novels can win the Mao Dun Literature Award, which is simply sour grapes.
Because Yu Hua didn't win this prize, Yu Hua said that the people who won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, their works are not in the same class as Mo Yan. Doesn't this mean that Yu Hua's own works didn't win the Mao Dun Literature Prize because he disdained to win it?
Is Yu Hua really as miserable as Wang Shuo said? Although Yu Hua has not won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, his works have gone overseas and won many awards in the international literary world. Yu Hua's two works "Living" and Xu Sanduo's "Selling Blood" have also been selected as the top ten most influential literary works by hundreds of critics and literary editors.
Mo Yan has also said many times that he hopes he can write a work like "Living". But my strength is limited, and I can't compare with Yu Hua. Why is Yu Hua's Alive so popular? It can be said that many bestsellers add up to less sales than this book. The book To Be Alive is very popular not only in China, but also abroad.
Many people compare Living with Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Foreigners think that Yu Hua's Living is a book comparable to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
Washington post, an American, once commented on To Be Alive: It is an epic without losing its simplicity, a story of struggle and survival, and left a very profound image of cruelty and kindness. In Yu Hua's works, these characters are described in such an image, that kind of struggle. This realm transcends the convention of novels and is a well-deserved work.
Live, live.
The reason why Yu Hua's To Be Alive can get such a high evaluation is that Yu Hua actually captures the reader's psychology and his inner expression of the world, and depicts the suffering of the world through the image of Xu Fugui. Taking the countryside as the theme, the author tells about the social changes such as the civil war, the three anti-five evils, the Great Leap Forward and the special period of ten years in China at that time.
Xu Fugui, the hero, is the child of a landlord's family, but he owes huge debts because of gambling. In order to help pay off the debt, his helpless father had to live in a thatched cottage because he had sold his land and house. His wife was forcibly taken away by his father-in-law, and soon his father was tortured to death by such a life, and his mother became ill. Later, on the way to seek medical treatment for my mother, I was accidentally pulled to the front line of the war and experienced a war that I will never forget.
After liberation, Xu Fugui finally returned to his hometown after many twists and turns, but his mother was long gone, and then his daughter and wife died one after another, leaving only an old cow to accompany him and leading a miserable life.
Fu Gui has experienced too many unbearable sufferings, but he still lives strong. Many readers have tears in their eyes, saying that after reading this book, they feel that there is nothing wrong with life. As long as they are strong, they will certainly survive. Life is to live to live. As long as you live, there is no despair. Also let more people see the strength of Xu Fugui.
Yu Hua said in the book: at first, we came to this world because we had to come; We finally left this world because we had to leave. This sentence also expresses Yu Hua's true thoughts about his inner world. In this world, who doesn't cry bitter and live strong at the same time?
Life does not belong to anyone's opinion, but only to one's own subjectivity.
There have been various controversies in the literary world, and Wang Shuo is also a famous lover in the industry. Yu Hua did not respond to Wang Shuo's criticism of Yu Hua. As Yu Hua said in his book, life does not belong to anyone's opinion, but only to his own subjectivity.
Yu Hua hopes to write another novel like Alive. Through years of hard work, although many books have been published, such as The Seventh Day, Xu Sanduo Selling Blood, Brothers and so on. Yu Hua often laments that he has never written a work like Living. Mo Yan also often supports Yu Hua, hoping that Yu Hua will not put too much pressure on himself and take a rest when he is tired of writing. It's okay.
Everyone's inspiration is fleeting, and if you grasp it, you can create better works. I believe that Yu Hua will be able to recreate the miracle and create a better masterpiece than "Living".