2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Music of Mustard Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng “Remembering the Power of Guanyin” “Writer” Issue 3, 2019
3. Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming” “People’s Literature” Issue 7, 2019
4. Chi Zijian “Steamed Horse Boots” “Zhongshan” Issue 1, 2019
5. Du Lan “Mihuo” “People’s Literature” Issue 1, 2019
6. Huang Jin Cinema‘s “Late Youth” “Tianya” Issue 6, 2019
7. Ning Ke “Train” “Harvest” Issue 5, 2019
8. Shao Li “Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” Issue 3, 2019
9. Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Youth Writer” Issue 7, 2019
10. Zhang Huiwen “Angel” “Literary Port” 201Komiks Issue 7, 9
1
Emma “Must Seed Inn”
A flower of chivalrous ideals
This is a novel with a novel narrative, integrating traditional martial arts stories with modern social life, trying to reconstruct a new world of chivalrous in the secular world. The strongest feeling when I first read this novel is that it is “fresh and lovely”. Xiao Wan, the owner of Mustard Inn, can be regarded as an ideal flower full of chivalrous spirits blooming among the world’s common sentient beings.
The novel fully establishes the character Xiao Wan in this cross-narrative between reality on the shore and the high shore. She is an “escaper” of urban life with a sense of life and pain, and is also a “bystander” of the restless and uneasy soul in our current social life. The novel has a ease of writing, a lofty style, and has “the beauty of literature and the truth of thought”, which ultimately points to the issue of human soul exile and placement.
■Xu Fuwei
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Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”
Post-80s writers bring a new experience
If it is getting more and more gloriousCinemaThe strange current situation has caused the heroine’s inner belief to collapse. When she wants to get rid of her “thrilling life”, she can only destroy herself in a simple and cruel way.
Survival state, as the theme of literature, will never be easy, but it is precisely because a good work plays a transcendent cognitive and guiding role that this theme has become the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
This novel by Chen Chongzheng brings us surprises, and he is unique to him. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks‘s imagination and pioneering narrative methods, as well as the in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, disassemble and reassemble real life, opening up a channel for readers’ inspiration.
■Wenhuan
3
Chan Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people in a small town
The young Chen Goodbye is well-known in the literary world for a series of “county town novels”.
He is still a young man, but he has extended his brushstrokes to the front of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the youth he was good at in the squeeze of material survival as a grid of specific backgrounds and details for the characters who grew up further, and emerged from his livelihood, just like a tenacious spider who also looked at the sky during the rainy season. “Circus is Coming” so he showed a strange spirit, and we got a good novel with “about” as the driving force of time and space constructionCinema href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks.
Not only that, the intertextuality between “circus” and people in the small town is another profound meaning in the novel. Can the imagined story really transcend specific life? It is an original thing that needs to be “not to be said”, but the novel tries to try toWhat is the meaning of “segment”? The difference between the youth’s enthusiasm is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that they once had.
■Shi Zhanjun
4
Chi Zijian’s “Steamed Horse Boots”
The value in the life genealogy
Chi Zijian As an excellent writer who has been in the literary world for many years, he seems to have few short stories in recent years. The short story “Stewed Horse Boots” has a bit of a deep and profound meaning.
In a short time, Chi Zijian incorporated many elements such as history and reality, war and humanity, and wrote about the desolation of history and the warmth of humanity. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s graceful and calm brushstrokes still maintain her unique softness and considerate even though she shows the coldness and cruelty in a hostile environment. Whether it is wolf nature, human nature, death, or survival, they all maintain immortal value in the genealogy of life.
The novel adopts the “narration from a distance” method to allow the legend of the father to slowly unfold in the vision of “I”. It is the spirit of modern novels, which makes such old stories of the Anti-Japanese United Nations shine with new literary brilliance.
■Wang Gan
5
Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
Cultural Palette and Mongolian Narrative
Du Lan’s short story “Mihuo” first grasped me with a personality style. There is no doubt that she belongs to the Mongolian people – the sheep are walking in the wind and snow, and the “Ga Le-Ga Le-” is earth-shaking. However, the author was born in 1999, which made me connect the language of my work with the Internet. Discourses like “Youth is keen on games” are full of the color of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet clan and the long-lasting language like Mongolian tribes interact to form a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is premiering with fables. A baby appeared in the ram’s belly, a paradoxical and weird ominous sign, so the “prairie faded” and the world suddenly changed; “I was shocked…”The series of mysterious and weird suspense symbols emerge in the middle of the real world. The indescribable symbols and pictures constitute the charming allegorical characteristics of the work.
■Jiang Bing
6
Huang Jinshu’s “Late Youth”
The Elegy of Desiring Change
Huang Jinshu’s narrative has wild imagination and distinct style, stirring up the mystery and vastness of the waves in the South China Sea. His short story “The Late Youth” integrates time, history, memory and identity, which is thought-provoking.
Although the mysterious young man has the ability to curb the flow of time, he still cannot catch up with the time threshold of the great turning point in history. This extreme juxtaposition reflects the insignificant lonely coldness of his individual in the face of the torrent of history.
Magic is both an unfulfilled hope and an elegy for a desire to change, presenting us with a unique fable of modernity. The late youth, that is, the unfinished youth, is not only an inquiry of cultural identity by the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also a revelation and breakthrough of the incompleteness of modern Chinese literature worldwide.
■Wei Wei
7
I would rather “Train”
The Shadow of the Year The Voice of Time
Thinkers would rather be good at literary exploration. The novel uses the wildness of the former teenagers to lead readers on the whistling train, and captures the shattering shadows of the Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station, capturing the clarity of the little qins in the heart of their growth and the lost innocence of their childhood.
In the depths of history and human nature, in the residential compound and the story space outside the capital, the sound of the train whistle turned into the sound of time in the novel, and rushed towards the youth with a bang, gradually becoming the ideal light of the novel, and also creating the author’s new historical narrative.
The narrative of the work is concise and spiritual, resolute andRich in rhythm; the novel is rough and warm, desolate and clear.
■Zhang Yanling
8
Shao Li’s “The Father on the Stage of Heaven”
Speculation on why he couldn’t extricate himself
“Maybe I changed my faith after leaving that city.” This is the first sentence of the novel “The Father on the Stage of Heaven”. It is precisely because of this sentence that I value the novel Babaylan. Especially the word “faith”, although slightly abrupt and introductory, it implies some differences in this work.
After reading it, I found that this is indeed a novel with profound connotation, a novel that touches the world of faith and inner self. The novel Babaylan constantly reproduces the ups and downs and fluctuations experienced by his father who committed suicide by jumping off a building. We have also learned about the bravery, righteousness, passion, stubbornness and frustration of his father. The most memorable scene is the details of his notes.
Stripping the surface of the narrative, we have a glimpse of the father’s soul and knowing that he is or has encountered a spiritual crisis. What we want to know most is undoubtedly why he can’t extricate himself?
So Cinema, do we know? No, we can only speculate. And this returns to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
9
Ye Zhaoyan’s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
The unique artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a prepared artistic fight with “Wu FeiBabaylan and Aunt Wu Fang”, which was also a very challenging one.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanWriting adventure is that he wants to write short stories that are “completely different” from others.
The incredible thing is Babaylan, a short story of less than 10,000 words, writes the ups and downs of life grievances and irresistible human entanglements of a pair of twin sisters, full of destiny and tragedy.
The novel has a complete structure from the big picture, and the details are rich and vivid. The characters have a fullness that is about to emerge. It not only greatly expands the artistic space of short stories that reflects history and reality, but also deeply conveys the tremor, despair and helplessness deep in the characters’ souls.
The story tells the story contains sadness in indifference and concern in alienation. The artistic dialectics of small and big, light and heavy unique to short stories can be realized.
■Gu Guangmei
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Zhang Huiwen’s “Angel”
Find inner comfort
” Angel” is a delicate work full of sentimental feelings. Around my father’s funeral, “I” who returned from a foreign land, with a desire to find the warmth of happy growth and blood ties, and tried to relive the love with the “angel” in my heart when I was young.
However, when he walked through this once familiar “small place”, he found that all the comforts became hard, profit-oriented reality, and all the admiration and longing turned into simple carnal joy. The emotions between people are constantly alienating, but the calculation of each other’s interests has become a daily routine. They form a close isomorphic relationship with the cold and mud-covered streets of their hometown, so that the returning wanderers can no longer find inner comfort.
If we think that “Angel” is a simple nostalgic work that conveys the author’s questioning the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, it seems that it is not bad. But I prefer to regard it as a fable, because every time we return to our hometown, we always preset countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and we will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang