2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Music of the Mustard Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng “Remembering the Power of Guanyin” “Komiks Writers” Issue 3, 2019
3. Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming” “People’s Literature” Issue 7, 2019
4. Chi Zijian “Steamed Horse Boots” “Zhongshan” Issue 1, 2019
5. Du Lan “Mihuo” “People’s Literature href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanSchool” 2019 Issue 11
6. Huang Jinshu’s “Late Youth” “Tianya” 2019 Issue 6
7. Ning Ke “Train” “Harvest” 2019 Issue 5
8. Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” 2019 Issue 3
9. Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Youth Writer” 2019 Issue 7
10. Zhang Huiwen “Angel” “Literary Port” 2019 Issue 7
1
Emma “Must Seed Inn”
A flower of chivalrous ideal
This is a novel with novel narratives that integrates 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 regarded as an ideal flower full of chivalrous spirits.
The novel’s cross-narrative between reality on this shore and the high-spirited Cinema, the character Xiao Wan is completely established. 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 smooth and lofty style, with “the beauty of literature and the truth of Komiks‘s thoughts”, and ultimately points to the exile of human souls andResettlement issues.
■Xu Fuwei
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Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”
Post-80s writers bring a new experience
If the current situation of the strange situation has made the heroineKomiks href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan‘s inner belief is facing collapse. When she wants to get rid of her “thrilling life”, 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 plays an irreplaceable role in transcendent cognitive and guiding that this theme has become the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
Chen Chongzheng’s novel brings us surprise. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative style, as well as his in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, he disassembled and reassembled real life, opening up a channel of inspiration for readers.
■Wen Huan
3
Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people 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 man he was good at in the squeeze of material survival as a grid of specific backgrounds and details for the characters who grew up further, and emerged from his livelihood, just like a tenacious spider who had to look into the sky during the rainy season – “The Circus is Coming”, so 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 people in small towns is another profound meaning in the novel. Can imagined stories really transcend specific life? The novel tried to “not tell anything”What is the meaning of “segment”? The difference between the spirit of young people is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that once had Komiks.
■Shi Zhanjun
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Chi Zijian’s “Steamed Horse Boots”
Immortal value in the life line
Chi Zijian As an excellent writer who has been in the literary world for many years, he seems to have few short stories in recent years. The short story of “Stewed Horse Boots” is a bit of a thick and thin Cinema.
In a short time, Chi Zijian incorporated many elements such as history and reality, war and human nature, animals and human beings, and wrote the desolation of history and the warmth of human nature. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s graceful and calm brushstrokes still maintain her unique softness and considerate even though she shows the coldness and cruelty in a hostile environment. Whether it is wolf nature, human nature, death, or survival, they all maintain immortal value in the genealogy of life.
The novel adopts the “narration from a distance” method to allow the legend of the father to slowly unfold in the vision of “I”. It is the spirit of modern novels that makes such old stories of the Anti-Japanese United Nations shine with new literary brilliance.
■Wang Gan
5
Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
Cultural Palette and Mongolian Narrative
Du Lan’s short story “Mihuo” first grasped me with a personality style. There is no doubt that she belongs to the Mongolian people – sheep walking in the wind and snow, “Ga Le-Ga LeBabaylan-” shocked the earth. However, the author was born in 1999, which in turn allowed me to connect the language of the work to the Internet, which is a class Komiks like “Youths are keen on games”, it carries the color of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet clan and the long language like the Mongolian clan leader interact to form a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is preceded by the fable. A baby appeared in the ram’s belly, a paradoxical and weird ominous sign, so “KomiksThe grassland fades”, and the world changes sharply; “I am shocked…” A series of mysterious and strange suspense symbols emerge in the middle of the real world. The symbols and pictures that cannot be explained and cannot be explained clearly constitute the charming allegorical characteristics of the work.
■Jiang Bing
6
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 “Late Youth” integrates time, history, memory and identity, which is thought-provoking.
Although the mysterious young man has the ability to curb the flow of time, he still cannot catch up with the threshold of the great turning point in history. This extreme juxtaposition reflects the insignificant lonely coldness of a person in the face of the torrent of history.
Magic is both an unrealized hope, and Babaylan is an elegy for a desire for change, presenting us a strange fable of modernity. Late youth, that is, unfinished youth, are not only a question of cultural identity by Chinese people in South China, but also a revelation and breakthrough of the incompleteness of modern Chinese literature worldwide.
■ Wei Wei
7
I would rather “Train”
The Shadow of the Years, the Voice of Time
Thinkers would rather be good at literary exploration. The novel uses the wildness of the former boys to lead readers to take the whistling train and capture the years from Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station.The broken shadow captures the clarity of the soul and the 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 turns into the sound of time in the novel, and runs 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 it is a little abrupt and mentioned in one stroke, 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 of the narrative, we have a glimpse of the father’s soulCinema, and we also know that he is or has encountered a mental 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 “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Aunt Wu Fang” is a unique artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a well-prepared artistic fight with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”., it was also a challenging writing adventure, that is, he wanted to write short stories that were “completely different from others”.
Incredible that this short story, which is less than 10,000 words, writes the ups and downs of life grudges and irresistible human entanglements of a pair of twin sisters, full of destiny and tragedy.
The novel has a complete structure from the big picture, and the details are rich and vivid. 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.
CinemaThe story tells the story contains sadness in indifference and concern in alienation. The artistic dialectics of small and big, light and heavy unique to short stories can be realized.
■GuCinemaGuangmei
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Zhang Huiwen’s Angel
Looking for the comfort of the heart of the Cinema
” Angel” is a delicate work full of sentimental feelings. Around my father’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 my heart when I was young.
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, but the calculation of each other’s interests has become a daily routine. They form a close isomorphic relationship with the cold and mud-covered streets of their hometown, so that the returning wanderers can no longer find inner comfort.
If we think that Angel is a simple nostalgic work that conveys the author’s inquiry about the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, it seems that it is not bad. But I prefer to regard it as a fable, because every time we return to our hometown, BabaylanThere will always preset countless beautiful scenes in your heart, and they will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang