After a week, I finally finished reading "Jia Pingwa Talks about Life" by Jia Pingwa. After reading it, I closed my book and thought deeply. Facing the empty writing board, I didn’t know where to start.

I have been fond of Jia Pingwa’s prose for a long time. From "Moon Traces", "Heart Traces", "Trace of Love", "Human Traces" to "Three Records of Shangzhou", I bought everything I saw. Come and read it carefully, and get a lot of pleasure from his prose that is unknown to outsiders. The leisurely, leisurely, humorous and calmness in the book, through the beautiful and fresh words, reach directly into the depths of the soul, like rivers merging in the channel of the soul.

In the final analysis, "Jia Pingwa Talks about Life" is just an ordinary interview record. It records some of his views on rural areas, cities, collections, calligraphy, football, love, etc. Now it seems that the topic is a bit big. First of all, it does not provide much guidance for your life. If you read it with this attitude, you are bound to be disappointed. It is actually just a book that talks about the life of writer Jia Pingwa and reflects his own attitude towards life. Therefore, I even think it would be more appropriate to change the title of the book to "Jia Pingwa Talks about His Life". Secondly, this book is not a collection of essays, nor a collection of works in the strict sense. It is just a "commodity" planned by the publishing house under the banner of a famous artist. Just imagine, if instead of Jia Pingwa talking about life, he would just talk about life casually. If Zhang San or Li Si talks about life, will anyone still buy his book? I think no one will buy it. Even if his life experience is a thousand times more twists and turns than Jia's, and the insights he talks about are so novel, it's all in vain. This is an era that pays attention to celebrity effect. The process of becoming famous is of course difficult, but once you become famous, all kinds of garlands will follow. Therefore, don't say that this book belongs to the writer Jia Pingwa. Even if it is not, it will definitely sell well if it is labeled by him. This truth has been verified by the actions of some pirates.

But, does this mean that this book is a useless book? Of course not. It should be said that this book is still meaningful. Writer Shi Tiesheng once wrote in "Broken Pens Between Sickness": Facing the finished product, I always feel that I am still not finished. This feeling seems to have found some answer from the fact that readers often ask for the author's autograph and are always curious to see the author's face - the eyes may not only be full of admiration, but more likely to be suspicious. He was referring to the fact that some writers always hide the growth process of their works in novel creation and only reveal the finished product. I wonder if readers will completely forget about the writer when reading the work? Do you have a secret desire to pry into the writer's personal situation? Literary works are not ordinary commodities. Like those cookie-cutter products produced in factories, literary works are always full of the writer's strong emotions. Of course, we can leave the writer alone to appreciate the works, but it is different from appreciating the works after getting to know the writer. It definitely feels different. Therefore, many times, we need to understand some writers' situations and their usual thoughts, etc., which is good for reading. And I believe that most people subconsciously have a tendency to explore other people's privacy. Of course, this is not only true for writers. Therefore, in the history of literature, there are many works that describe the writer himself. Many such works are often passed down for generations because of their novel ideas and profound writing sophistication. The descriptions of the ancients have been prepared, but I won’t explain them. Even in modern times, there are only a few such works, such as the biographies of many famous writers. These works are of great help to us in understanding the writer's situation, and we can indeed gain some ideological lessons from the writer's growth.

In the contemporary book world, there are many works describing Jia Pingwa. Like Sun Jianxi, who is also a Shaanxi writer, the only thing he has done for decades seems to be writing about Jia Pingwa. I have read the previous two volumes of "The Ghost Talent Jia Pingwa", which was pretty good and made people understand some little-known events. However, in the final analysis, these things were written by others, with their own perspectives and understandings. This book "Jia Pingwa Talks about Life" is a record of Jia Pingwa's own conversations. It can be said that it is the first-hand information to understand the writer Jia Pingwa. It has practical significance for readers who want to understand Jia Pingwa. This book tells about Jia Pingwa's experience, hobbies, life and attitude from all aspects. We may not accept some of his statements, such as measuring calligraphy, collection, love, etc. In fact, we don’t need to accept it. We just learned more about the writer Jia Pingwa through this book, and that’s it. .

Many readers have already expressed their disappointment with Jia Pingwa. In fact, I have always had this idea, but what I think more about is the artistic life of a writer. In the literary world, there are many writers who have lived their whole lives by relying on one or two books. There are even people who have no decent works and have become writers by relying on their skills outside of literature. And in fact, a writer's artistic life cannot be as long as his natural life. It should be said that people like Jia Pingwa are worthy of our admiration. He has always maintained strong creative vitality and written one after another with mixed reviews. work. How to treat readers' reading expectations and the writer's actual situation has always been a question that I have been thinking about. When I read "Jia Pingwa Talks about Life", I still thought more about this question, and I still haven't figured it out yet.

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