2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Music of Mustard Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng “Remembering the Power of Guanyin” “Writer” Issue 3, 2019
3. Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming” “People’s Literature” Issue 7, 2019
4. Chi Zijian “StewedKomiks Racing Boots” “Zhongshan” Issue 1, 2019
5. Du Lan “Mihuo” “People’s Literature” Issue 1, 2019
6. Huang Jinshu “Late Youth” “Tianya” Issue 6, 2019
7. Ning Ke “Train” “Harvest” Issue 5, 2019
8. Shao Li “Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” Issue 3, 2019
9. Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Youth Writer” Issue 7, 2019
10. Zhang Huiwen “Angel” “Literary Port” Issue 7, 2019
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Emma’s “Must Seed Inn”
A Ideal Flower of ChivalrousCinema
This is a novel with a novel narrative and noveltyCinema, which blends traditional martial arts stories with modern social life, trying to reconstruct a transcendent chivalrous new world in the secular world. The strongest feeling when I first read this novel is that it is “fresh and lovely”. Xiao Wan, the owner of Mustard Inn, can be called an ideal flower full of chivalrous spirits blooming among secular sentient beings.
The novel fully establishes the character Xiao Wan in this cross-narrative between reality on the shore and the high shore. She is an “escaper” with a sense of life and pain in urban life, and is also a “bystander” of the restless and uneasy souls in our current social life. The novel has a ease of writing, a lofty style, and has “the beauty of literature and the truth of thought”, which ultimately points to the issue of human soul exile and placement.
■Xu Fuwei
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Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”
The post-80s writer brings a new experience
If the increasingly bizarre situation has caused the heroine’s inner belief to collapse, when she wants to get rid of her “life that makes her tremble”, she can only destroy herself in a simple and cruel way.
Survival state, as the creative theme of literature, is never easy, but it is precisely because a good work has a transcendent cognitive and guiding role that this theme has become the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
Chen Chongzheng’s novel brings us surprises. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative style, as well as his in-depth thinking of “need to guess Cinema, need to guess riddles…”, he disassembled and reassembled real life, opening up a channel of inspiration for readers. Babaylan
■Wenhuan
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Chan Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
Mind-life in the small town
The young Chen Goodbye is well-known in the literary world for a series of “county town novels”.
He is still a young man at present, but he has stretched his brushstrokes ahead of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the young people who were good at in the past to squeeze into material survival as the specific background and details grid of characters who grew up further, and emerged from their livelihoods, just like a tenacious spider who had to look into the sky during the rainy season. “The Circus is Coming”, and then he showed a strange spirit, and we got a good novel with “It’s about to” as the driving force of time and space construction.
Not only that, the intertextuality between “circus” and the people of small towns is another profound meaning in the novel. Can imagined stories really transcend specific life? Komiks? The fact that there is originally something that needs to be “not to be said” is what is the meaning of the novel trying to “speak”? The difference between the spirit of young people and the enthusiasm of middle-aged people is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to use this to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that they once had.
■Shi Zhanjun
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Chi Zijian’s “Steamed Horse Boots”
Value in the Life Genealogy
Chi Zijian As an excellent writer who has been in the literary world for many years, Chi Zijian seems to have few short stories in recent years. “Steamed Horse Boots”KomiksThis short story is a bit of accumulating strength.
In a short period of time, href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>CinemaCinemaCinema has integrated many elements such as history and reality, war and human nature, animals and humanity, and written the desolation of history and the warmth of human nature. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s beautiful and calm brushstrokes still maintain her unique softness and consideration even when showing the coldness and cruelty of the hostile environment. Whether it is wolf nature, human nature, death, or survival, they all maintain an immortal value in the genealogy of life.
The novel adopts the “narration from a distance” method, allowing the legend of his father to slowly unfold in the vision of “I”. It is a modern novel<a The spirit of Babaylan has made such an old story of the Anti-Japanese United Nations shine with a new literary glory.
■Wang Gan
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Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
Cultural palette and Mongolian narrative
Du Lan’s short story “Mihuo” first captures my personality languageBabaylan style. There is no doubt that she belongs to the Mongolian people – sheep walking in the wind and snow, “Ga Le-Ga Le-” is earth-shaking. However, the author was born in 1999, which made me connect the language of the work with the Internet. Discourses like “Youths are keen on games” carry the color of Internet youth culture. The language style of the Internet and the long-lasting language of the Mongolian people interact to form a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality. language style of the Internet tribe and the long-lasting language of the Mongolian tribe interact to form a language style that is slightly dazzling, uncomfortable, but full of personality.p>
The works are premiering with fables. A baby appeared in the ram’s belly, a paradoxical and weird ominous sign, so the “prairie faded” and the world suddenly changed; “I was shocked…” A series of mysterious and strange suspense symbols of gods emerged in the middle of the real world. It is impossible to explain the difficult Cinema with clear symbols and pictures, to form the charming allegorical characteristics of the work.
■Jiang Bing
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Huang Jinshu’s “Late Youth”
The Elegy of Desiring Change
Huang Jinshu’s narrative has wild imagination and distinct style, stirring up the mystery and vastness of the waves in the South China Sea. His short story “The Late Youth” combines time, history, memory and body, and is thought-provoking.
Although the mysterious young man has the ability to curb the flow of time, he still cannot catch up with the time threshold of the great turning point in history. This extreme juxtaposition reflects the insignificant lonely coldness of his individual in the face of the torrent of history.
Magic is both an unfulfilled hope and an elegy for a desire to change, presenting us with a unique fable of modernity. The late youth, that is, the unfinished youth, is not only an inquiry of cultural identity by the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also a revelation and breakthrough of the incompleteness of modern Chinese literature worldwide.
■Wei Wei
7
I would rather be the “Train”
The Shadow of the TimesBabaylan
Thinkers would rather be good at writingLearn to explore. The novel uses the wildness of the former teenagers to lead readers to take the whistling train, and together captures the broken shadows of the years from Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station, and captures the quiet and lost innocence of Xiaoqins in the center of their growth.
In the depths of history and human nature, in the residential compound and the story space outside the capital, the sound of the train whistle turned into the sound of time in the novel, and rushed towards the youth with a bang, gradually becoming the ideal light of the novel, and also creating the author’s new historical narrative.
The narrative of the works is concise and spiritual, resolute and rhythmic; the novel is rough and warm, desolate and clear.
■Zhang Yanling
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Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop”
Speculation why he couldn’t extricate himself
“Maybe I changed my faith after leaving that city.” This is the first sentence of the novel “Father on the Rooftop”. It is precisely because of this sentence that I value this novel. Especially the word “faith”, although slightly abrupt and introductory, it implies some differences in this work.
After reading it, I found that this is indeed a novel with profound connotation, a novel that touches the world of faith and inner self. The novel constantly reproduces the ups and downs and fluctuations experienced by his father who committed suicide by jumping off a building. We have also learned about the bravery, righteousness, passion, stubbornness and frustration of his father. The most memorable scene is the details of his notes.
Stripping the surface narrative, we have a glimpse of the father’s soul and knowing that he is or has encountered a spiritual crisis. What we want to know most is undoubtedly why he can’t extricate himself?
So, do we know? No, we can only speculate. And this returns to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
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Ye Zhaoyan’s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
The unique artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a well-prepared artistic fight with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”, which was also a very challenging writing adventure, that is, he wanted to write short stories that were “completely different from others”.
Incredible that this short film is less than ten thousand wordsKomiks‘s novel, which describes the ups and downs of life grievances of a pair of twin sisters with the irresistible human entanglement, is full of fate and tragedy.
The novel is complete from the big picture, and the details are rich and vivid in small areas, and the characters have a fullness that is about to emerge. It not only greatly expands the artistic space of short stories that reflects history and reality, but also deeply conveys the tremor, despair and helplessness deep in the characters’ souls.
The story’s story contains sadness in indifference and concern in alienation. ShortBabaylanThe art of small and big, light and heavy, unique to the novel Komiks is realized.
■ Gu Guangmei
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Zhang Huiwen’s “Angel”
Search for inner comfort
The Angel is a delicate work full of sentimental feelings. Revolving around the fatherBabaylan‘s funeral, “I” who returned from a foreign land, with a desire to find the warmth of happy growth and blood ties, and tried to relive the love with the “angel” in his youth.
However, when he walked through this once familiar “small place”, he found that all comfort became a hard, profit-oriented reality, and all admiration and longing turned into simple carnal joy. The emotions between people are constantly alienating, and the calculation of interests between each other becomes a daily life. They form a close isomorphic relationship with the cold and muddy streets of their hometown, so that the return wanderers can no longer find inner comfort.
If we think Cinema “Angel” is a simple nostalgic work that conveys the author’s questioning the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, and it seems to be okay. But I prefer to regard it as a fable because we return every time we return.The hometown always presets countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and they will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang