Zhongxin Wanghai, August 8 (Wang Di) The 11th Mao Dun Literature Award announced the winners on the 11th. The famous writer Sun Ganlu created "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" launched by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House is on the list.
The famous writer Sun Ganlu's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". Photo courtesy of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
The Mao Dun Literature Award is one of the highest honorary literary awards in China sponsored by the China Writers Association to encourage the creation of outstanding novels and promote literary prosperity, and is selected every 4 years. A total of 5 award-winning works were selected for this year's Mao Dun Literature Award, including Yang Zhijun's "Snow Mountains and Earth", Qiao Ye's "Baoshui", Liu Liangcheng's "Bemba", Sun Ganlu's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and East-West "Echo" won the award.
Sun Ganlu, a famous contemporary writer known in the literary world for his "avant-garde", has been carefully created for many years, with a dangerous storyline, precise worldly human feelings, meticulous portrayal of characters' temperament, and in-depth excavation of human nature, deeply infecting and shocking readers, and establishing a spiritual connection between reality and history.
As a "new red classic" of revolutionary realism full of details that illuminates reality and is full of details, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" imagines and presents hidden and great historical events in a literary way, and forms a "narrative MacGuffin" through a famous painting, calmly and skillfully narrating the life and death contest in the long night of history and the struggle of faith in the evolution of the times. The novel is like a long scroll, like a long letter, depicting the spiritual map of a generation of idealists who have fought bloodily in search of light, describing the spiritual code they have preserved in history and passed on to contemporary people, and is full of the touching temperament of heroic epic compassion.
Famous writer Sun Ganlu. Photo courtesy of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
In the open, comfortable and dense text space, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" presents a spatial poetics similar to the classical famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", just as Wang Ximeng skillfully interspersed the still scenery such as fishing villages, water pavilions, thatched cottages, and watermill long bridges in the dynamic scenes such as fishing, boating, playing, and gathering, so as to achieve the perfect combination of movement and stillness, light and dark, vast and close-up. The author retains his precise and elegant narrative technique of the novel, and in the chapters composed of 34 characters or location environments, like parallel montages in the film, they advance separately but are also connected and stacked to form a unique narrative structure.
With profound humanistic cultivation, extensive knowledge reserves, and accumulated creative ability, the author has traversed the changing times and reshaped another "Shanghai style" that is completely different from "Shanghai Modern". Critics believe that "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a hardcore major revolutionary historical theme, and it has great story intensity, and its narrative style also maintains a fresh, vibrant, moving, and fascinating avant-garde meaning, achieving a high degree of unity of ideology, artistry, and readability, using good-looking stories to convey the great spirit, and growing the bloodline of long poems and dramas to the style of the novel, and the Shakespeare-style philosophical temperament, which is a long-form masterpiece that takes into account both literature and theme.
While the paper book was selling well, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" also triggered many readers to spontaneously conduct intellectual archaeology and in-depth analysis of the novel, and conducted a more in-depth discussion of the geography, poetry, drama, music, painting, food and other aspects of the novel.
It is revealed that at present, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" has reached copyright export intentions with 11 publishing houses such as the Saudi Arabian Literary Publishing Center, the British Unicorn Publishing Group, and the Russian Academic Research Press, and has reached copyright export matters in more than 10 languages such as English, German, French and Vietnamese, and 10 language cooperation such as Italian is also under negotiation. (End)