20 12101,the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan, a writer from China, won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. After Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, official website, the Nobel Prize winner, extracted a chapter from Song of Young Garlic as an introduction to Mo Yan's works.
Mo Yan's works are violent. Red Sorghum, published by 1986, is a primary text, as if it were a primitive dictionary, which contains some basic violent words such as adultery, drinking, beheading and peeling. They are a witness to verify the existence of "national primitive vitality".
After that, Mo Yan became a staunch writer of cool words, such as Braised Baby in Wine Country, Stripping Dogs by Building Roads, Stripping Cats by Herbivorous Family, Gutting the Dead in the Elixir, and Hitting People in the Cotton Washing Machine. Mo Yan shows the physical and psychological feelings brought by violence with his unique sensory description.
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The theme of the novel Red Sorghum is interpreted as carrying forward positive vitality and the spirit of pursuing freedom, the spirit of longing for individual liberation and the spirit of reconstruction and creation. Its original intention is to transform the weak national character, call for a strong life form, and call on the Chinese nation to be self-respecting, self-strengthening, anti-slavery, rebellious, and have a healthy personality and national quality.
The theme of the novel "Red Sorghum" not only propagandizes the outlook on life of bold life, emancipating personality and frankness, but also praises the patriotic spirit of bravely resisting Japan. The so-called "personality liberation" refers to the personality liberation of "people". Man is the unity of spirit and flesh, divinity and beast, spirit and matter, social man and natural man.
People have "natural humanity"-human survival instinct and natural lust. Lu Xun pointed out that the "survival, food and clothing, development" that people need is limited-calling for the freedom and happiness of "life" in an emotional form.
He also pays attention to "limiting indulgence" and clearly puts forward that "rationality" should be used to properly restrain and adjust natural instinct: "What I call survival is not living; The so-called food and clothing is not a luxury; The so-called development is not indulgence.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Mo Yan