brief introduction

Yu Hua, a native of Haiyan, Zhejiang Province, 1960 was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and later moved to Haiyan County with his parents. After graduating from high school, Yu Hua became a dentist because her parents were doctors. After five years, he gave up medicine and joined the county cultural center and Jiaxing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with his own creation. Yu Hua studied in a postgraduate class jointly organized by Lu Xun College of Literature in Beijing and Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University. Yu Hua began to publish novels on 1984. He is a representative figure of avant-garde novels with the same fame as Ye and Su Tong. He is the author of a collection of short stories: Going Out at Eighteen, Things in Smoke, Novels, Living, Shouting in the Drizzle and Trembling.

Since Yu Hua published his debut novel "Going Out at Eighteen", he has caused a lot of shock and concern in the literary world and readers with his highly experimental works, and he has thus become a representative of China's avant-garde novels.

In fact, Yu Hua is not a prolific writer. His works, including short stories, novellas and novels, add up to no more than 800,000 words. He is famous for his exquisiteness. Most of his works are true and hard-written. Pure and meticulous narration breaks the daily language order, organizes a self-sufficient discourse system, and on this basis, constructs a strange, grotesque, secret and cruel text world and a text truth independent of the outside world. Yu Hua once said to himself: "I feel that all my creations are trying to be closer to reality. This truth of mine is not the truth in life. I think life is actually unreal, and life is a mixture of truth and falsehood. "

"To Be Alive" is a work of Yu Hua's changing style. In the narrative aspect, he gave up the avant-garde brushwork and moved towards the narrative way of traditional novels. But structurally, he can still give readers a sense of drama and imagination.

Main work

Stars, going out at the age of eighteen, April 3rd Incident, 1986, mistakes by the river, a reality, bloody plum blossoms, Sisyphus, smoke, classical love, teenagers in the dusk, cries in the drizzle, being alive, and Xu San.

Xu Sanguan sells blood.

Introduction to the work:

Xu Sanguan Selling Blood is a novel written by the famous writer Yu Hua 1995. "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" depicts life in misery with great warmth, and expresses people's desire for survival in the face of bad luck in the form of fierce stories. The novel tells the story of Xu Sanguan who survived the difficulties of life by selling blood and overcame the stormy waves imposed on him by fate. When he was old, he knew that his blood was gone, but his spirit collapsed. Commenting on Xu Sanguan's story of selling blood, French magazine Reading said: This is an exquisite novel, a perfect combination of simplicity and profound connotation.

Content details:

The story happened in the 1950s and 1960s at the beginning of liberation. At that time, the protagonist Xu Sanguan was still a young man. He is constantly oppressed by the life around him. He has to work hard to make a living, but he still can't guarantee his life. He can only make a living by selling blood. Whenever he is helpless, he will think of selling blood to solve it. As time goes by, Xu Sanguan's health is getting worse every day. In order to treat his son, he insisted on selling blood every 15 days to pay off his debts, which eventually led to a serious illness.

Around the experience of selling blood, the novel unfolds the trivia in Xu Sanguan's life and reflects some responsibilities that a man should bear, which may be a kind of helplessness in life. The novel is full of bitter experiences, but there are also many humorous points, such as drinking eight bowls of water before selling blood every time, so that you will have more blood, and there are many whimsy like this.

Personally, I think the last section of the novel is particularly wonderful. Xu Sanguan wants to eat pork liver and has no money around him. He decided to sell his blood once, but when he went to the hospital, the doctor said that his blood could only be sold to painters to paint furniture. At this moment, he felt that his life had come to an end and had no effect. He sat and cried.

The specific plot of the novel is very vivid, just like telling what happens around us every day. There are not many writing skills and gorgeous vocabulary. However, in this confused era, we don't have to pursue anything deliberately, as long as we have feelings, it is enough!

Alive and Xu Sanguan Selling Blood were selected by hundreds of critics and literary editors as "the ten most influential works in the 1990s".