I don't like his writing style, but I prefer Jia Pingwa and his "Waste Capital".
In fact, as a representative writer of the "realistic" novel genre, it is not difficult to understand that Yan Lianke doesn't like Lu Yao's works. Yan Lianke has also made it clear that this can only represent his own preferences and cannot deny Lu Yao's greatness.
So why is Lu Yao "great"? Lu Yao is considered as one of the three great writers in Shaanxi literature. The influence of Lu Yao's Ordinary World, Chen's White Deer Plain and Jia Pingwa's Waste Capital cannot be underestimated.
However, Ordinary World is the earliest successful work of the three. When it won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, both The Wasted Capital and The White Deer Plain had not been completed.
More interestingly, "Ordinary World" also had a tortuous rejection experience at the beginning. When the first draft of Ordinary World was completed, the manuscript initially fell into the hands of Zhou Changyi, editor of Dangdai magazine.
But Zhou Changping, a fledgling at that time, couldn't stand it for a long time, so he just found a reason and returned the manuscript of "Ordinary World". It is conceivable that this caused a big blow to Lu Yao at that time.
2 1 year later, Zhou Changyi reflected and wrote the article "Remembering how the roads were destroyed in those years", clearly expressing his guilt and self-blame. Because my youthful vigor almost ruined Lu Yao and his Ordinary World.
199 1 year, "Ordinary World" successfully won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize, which was the brightest moment in Lu Yao's life in just a few decades, but Lu Yao did not have many opportunities to enjoy this honor. 1 1 The next year, he left when he was nearly 4 1 years old.
The people of Sri Lanka have passed away, but Ordinary World has been deeply affecting generation after generation. 20 15 Qiu Yong, the current president of Tsinghua University, will send a copy of "Ordinary World" to every Tsinghua freshman when he issues the acceptance letter.
And the attached letter wrote: "The struggle of life and the pursuit of ideals are similar in different times. ..... I hope you will read "Ordinary World" carefully during your vacation before you come to Tsinghua campus. "
Nowadays, the sales volume of Ordinary World has exceeded 6.5438+million copies, and it is increasing at the rate of 3 million copies every day.
It is true that, like the title of the book, each of us lives in this ordinary world, and everyone's essence is just an ordinary "person" after all. No one can live in John young, and it's smooth sailing. What is indispensable in this world is frustration and suffering.
The ordinary world is like a ever-burning lamp in this world, guiding us to move forward bravely with the confusion in suffering!
If you are still struggling on the road of life and can't see hope, or you want your children to have the courage to be optimistic when facing difficulties, then Ordinary World must be a choice not to be missed.