Song Gang's father Song Fanping helped Li Guangtou's mother Li Lan and was regarded as a benefactor by Li Lan. After Song Gang's mother died, Li Lan and Song Fanping fell in love and got married through mutual help. Li Guangtou and Song Gang, the unrelated brothers, also hit it off.
But then Song Gang's factory closed down and he became poorer and poorer. Later, for various complicated reasons, he committed suicide in his forties. While Li Guangtou has nothing to ask for. His only wish is to take his brother's urn into space.
: creative process
The creation of Brothers is purely accidental. In 2000, he began to write prose and turned to novel creation. I originally planned to write a family novel with 654.38+ 10,000 words. Unexpectedly, when he wrote more than 200,000 words, it could not be carried out. In desperation, Yu Hua suspended the writing of this novel in August the year before last. After wandering in the United States for seven months, he returned to Beijing to write a short story and practice writing, trying to restore his ability to write novels. ?
Creative inspiration
Yu Hua returned to Beijing after seven months of wandering in the United States. A TV news attracted him, saying that a migrant worker failed to pay, climbed a tall tower and committed suicide. The crowd under the tower made him busy looking for ways to save migrant workers. Suddenly, I feel that this is a good novel material and I have a great desire to express it. Can be written here, this story can not help but drift to another story, and finally presents a "brother" look.
Creative experience
Writing brothers has put Yu Hua into another completely out of control state. He writes in a state of extreme excitement every day. He was surprised to find that he still had such a strong narrative ability. The original writing plan of 654.38+ 10,000 words was quickly broken, and the story became more and more exciting, and the length could not be controlled at all. He had to tell the story in two parts. After three drafts, only the upper part reached 18.
According to Yu Hua's own experience in writing novels, at the beginning of writing, one third, if lucky, one fourth of the length, is that the author is in control of the narrative, and later narrative will gradually come out to control the author, that is, the author enters an out-of-control writing state, making the novel grow like real life. Of course, the author will still grasp the discretion and direction of his narrative. Yu Hua's Brothers was written in this state. ?
Brother _ Baidu Encyclopedia