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Taking Fiction as Form——On "The Pain of Ruins"

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    Guo Xiaodong

    Faye Wong's coldness and her seductive singing made an era suddenly feel the pain in its heart, which turned out to be inexplicable and unreasonable.  Eating too much is a kind of injury, doing nothing is also a kind of injury, appreciating the flowers and weeping, the breeze is shocking, and being bitten by a mosquito is also a kind of earth-shattering love.  Life has become a form, a doctrine, just as fashion likes the process, but the purpose is ignored by people.  Xi Li's "The Pain of the Ruins" (formerly known as "Oriental Maximism or Pointed Leather Shoes"), from the beginning of Faye Wong's singing, to the fact that the heroine only meets Faye Wong by chance, the novel basically completes her part of the explanation of the novel's life.

    The story of a man and two women abounds in reality.  As far as his stories are concerned, Stanislav has fully presupposed the life drama contained in these stories from the beginning to the end.  However, modernity is modernity, and stories and plots are no longer important. To provide a way of life or text form, or simply, to manifest the content of life as a form, this form is what a certain type of people dream of chasing.  The content of life and the goal of life, that is, the understanding of fashion, strive to be fashionable at the same time.  The previous generation was too practical, utilitarian and vulgar, but the next generation naturally has reason to strive for "elegance" even if it is "show".  This is a punishment of children to their parents, and an accusation from one era to another, in this way, in a way of self-sacrifice.

    From Xili's novels, I read the bitterness of crying without tears.

    This is a nation that repays the dementia and madness of the past at the cost of the desolation of its descendants.  This kind of reaction in the cultural chain was unexpected by the creators.

    Is not it?  Our pain does not come from the outside, but from the thorns we once planted, from the ruthless and absurd felling of the dense forest in the heart, resulting in the flood peak that does not occur in a thousand years, and the spiritual consequences that are difficult to deal with.  Can be swallowed without words, this is the real pain.

    Don't blame Luo Zi, shyly, including Li Lin and Joan, etc.  They are the real victims of history and the culture of the times. No matter whether they express nobleness or lowliness in the novel, they do not deserve a better fate.  They all live in a life called "form", let the form pull and float.  They become the form of an era.

    The twenty-sixth chapter of the novel: Relying on such illusions to determine the future, Xili wrote about the gathering of Joan and his boss, a doctor who is nearly 60 years old, in a western restaurant.  First of all, it is a description of a group of "petty bourgeoisie", not because they are really "petty bourgeoisie", but because this is a place pretending to be a petty bourgeoisie. When shallowness and pitifulness are condensed into a brilliant form, shallowness and pitifulness retreat to  Behind the scenes, there is only a brilliant shell left, which provides a stage for the show, "What you want is the form, what you want is to give others room to imagine, what you want is to put on a show in the bar".  Petty bourgeois show off is like mold, permeating the urban air.  Sincerity, simplicity and wisdom are swept to the corner instead.  When life has completely degenerated into black-and-white romance films, form has become the primary symbol of life.

    Xili's poetic observation of modern life is imminent.  Then she wrote about the laments of Li Renneng, a doctor who was about to retire, in the western restaurant.  He represented the life of an era and the struggles of an era.  His embarrassment and cramped behavior in the western restaurant are obvious, and he is placed in the modern window like a cultural relic.  "I'm a little embarrassed to be sitting with them," he said.  Then he lamented: "People like us, big or small, are also cultural people, but our lives are too rough."  This is a contradictory term.  It should be exquisite and gorgeous, but rough. Unfortunately, people over the age of 50 don't realize that everything has gone wrong until they have retired from the stage or are approaching old age.  Although the character of Li Renneng has not been written much, he appears as a pitiful person throughout the novel, which is both sad and vigilant.  He represents the helpless life situation and unspeakable taste of an era.  "What's wrong with you? You're an intellectual." Later, they went to Monte Carlo, another western restaurant, a place where petty bourgeoisie put on a show.  At the age of 60, he began to know what it was like to love. He loved Joan, loved a young girl, but he still hesitated, envied, but still restrained, leaving only sadness and self-sigh, "Joan is because of this man's love."  Sorrowful and sad, and I understand that his sorrow is inconsolable." "The older man actually sobbed slightly." The description of Joan and this man at the moment is heart-wrenching.

    Regarding the various reflections on life, Xili's novels have very delicate expressions. This expression is permeated with the hidden twists of human nature, and at the same time incorporates the desolation of life. There is a kind of compassion in it, which is very touching.

    So far, Xili has not only provided a form, but also talked about a kind of life in poetry, that is, to subjectify the external world, so naturally, the characters in her novels have been talked about in poetry.A modern form of existence.

    Writing novels as a form is not the so-called "conscious form".  Rather, something imbued with the condition of existence yet reduced to elevation to the form of existence.  Rhodes, shyly, and Joan are all forms, which can be seen everywhere in life.  They wear the skin of form, but each has a soul.

    On a bustling street, there may be many people walking together, and in the end, at the end of life, there may be only one man and one woman left. In terms of material form, this may not be a common practice, but in terms of spiritual logic,  This must be an insurmountable law.

    Although the novel describes the modern life stories of a man and several women, no matter how difficult the life is, after all, because of the youth, talent and the city that accommodates them, all the life and narrative are full of a kind of poetic quality.  The smell of an unpurified plant (the novel writes about the smell of plants many times when the hero and heroine get along with each other), a pursuit of the original and simple, which leads the protagonists Luo Zi and Joan to go to "Sanxingdui" in the end.  "At the same time, he was killed in Songpan.

    I appreciate the author's arrangement of the protagonist at the end of the novel. For the life level and artistic tendency involved in this novel, this kind of reference is necessary and clever.

    There should be a destination, and this destination is idealistic. It should always give the gray life a sunny morning, even if it ends in death.  So, all the trivialities before this, the trivialities of life, have all risen to a form, a sublime form.  Life needs this form, so novels naturally offer it.

    ? Is the language that involves the private parts of human nature necessarily naked and unadorned to provoke the senses?  Like Weihui, like Mianmian, like Jiudan.

    Xili's novels naturally involve this field, and naturally there is no shortage of bold and blushing descriptions.  But overall, her writing is elegant and pure.

    It is precisely because of this that I read it patiently.

    Some novels are proud of being vulgar and vulgar, so we should learn from "The Romance of the West Chamber" when describing sexual matters and lust. This is a writer's cultural taste, education and even inner simplicity.  You can be wild, but you don't have to be unrefined.

    Xili's novels are decorative and sometimes gorgeous.

    This kind of magnificence reveals a philosophical element, which is transformed into a kind of mood and atmosphere. Like Faye Wong's singing, there is a kind of charm, a kind of satisfied depression, overflowing between the lines.

    For this novel of secluded events and plots, revealing fragments of emotions and lust, there are naturally many comments. The comprehensive comments on Xili's novels should be the readers - your business.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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