Cover Journalist Zhang Jie
Today (July 17, 2021), coincides with the 110th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Yang Jiang.
The best commemoration is to re-read Yang Jiang’s works and texts, to appreciate her profound writing and unique poetry, and to reflect on the life and spiritual issues that have plagued us so far.
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House “KEY-Culture” brought a special gift-the literary review monograph “Happy Wisdom and Sad Wisdom-Yang Jiang’s Literary World“. This is the painstaking work of the first Luo Yihe Poetry Award winner and scholar Lu Yue after years of painstaking research. It is the first systematic and overall elaboration of Yang Jiang’s literary creation in more than 80 years at home and abroad. Through an in-depth analysis of Yang Jiang’s lifelong dramas, novels, and prose works, it aims to lead readers to experience the unique aesthetic characteristics, spiritual meaning and cultural connotation of Yang Jiang’s works, enter the inner world of this wise man in “invisibility” and appreciate it. The intellectual charm of humor and compassion intertwined, rationality and sensibility.
She is more than just a prose writer
When it comes to Yang Jiang’s works, most readers are familiar with it. Among them, the most familiar to readers is the prose “Six Notes on Cadres School” and the novel “Bath”, which were popular in the 1980s, and Yang Jiang’s representative work in his later years, which is still among the best-selling books in major books. The long essay “The Three of Us” and the long essay “Walking to the Edge of Life-Questions and Answers”, which gathers the essence of Yang Jiang’s lifelong thoughts.
In everyone’s impression, in addition to translating literary works, Yang Jiang is good at prose creation, and her prose about personal experience and family life is particularly popular. Many people easily mistakenly think that Yang Jiang is just a “prose writer”; even enthusiastic readers who love Yang Jiang’s works have limited knowledge of literary creations other than his popular works, especially works of other genres.
In fact, during his more than eighty years of literary career, Yang Jiang’s creation has covered three genres: drama, novel and prose. Although she made her debut in prose, it was her dramatic works that made Yang Jiang stand out in the literary world. She has been involved in both comedy and tragedy, and stood out in the dramatic world for her passion for comedy creation. Yang Jiang’s novels worth reading are not only “Bath”, but smart short stories, which constitute wonderful genre paintings with insights into the world and people’s hearts. “Pleasant Wisdom and Sad Wisdom-Yang Jiang’s Literary World” brings all of Yang Jiang’s works into the exploration field of vision, and expands the interpretation through systematic classification, which is analyzed in detail, and has a clear logic. Corresponding to the chronological sequence of changes in Yang Jiang’s creation focus, this book sequentially interprets Yang Jiang’s drama, novels and prose creation, and extracts different themes-Yang Jiang’s dramas show the dual style of “happiness, wisdom and sadness” ; Yang Jiang’s novels have insights into history and human nature, and concentratedly embody the wisdom of “observing the world and investigating the world”; for Yang Jiang’s prose, the author keenly proposes that different representative naming methods correspond to memory writing of different themes and natures. The unique artistic structure and the core theme complement each other and become the key to Yang Jiang’s fascinating prose.
It is very important to taste literary works and grasp their language characteristics. The reason why Yang Jiang’s works capture the hearts of thousands of readers is inseparable from his wise, pure, sincere, and open-minded writing style. Poet, scholar, and cultural critic Ye Kuangzheng believes that Yang Jiang’s language “shows agility in calmness, reveals wisdom in sophistication, and has a kind of elegance and transcendence that has been washed out of lead, but it is full of vitality”, he once said “Mr. Yang Jiang not only formed his own mature literary style, but more importantly, let us appreciate the indifferent and subtle beauty of the vernacular. This indifferent and subtle, in fact embodies a kind of spiritual realm, which makes Chinese characters in Mr. Yang Jiang’s In the pen, it looks like a living creature, with a subtle and balanced expressiveness.”
Qian Zhongshu Yang Jiang
Refined a large number of “meaningful details” that have not been discovered in previous related studies
In “Happy Wisdom and Sad Wisdom-Yang Jiang’s Literary World“, the author pays special attention to the careful reading of Yang Jiang’s works. In each chapter, the original text is listed and analyzed in detail, and a large number of previous related studies have not been discovered.” Significance details”, and dominate the overall creation of Yang Jiang, re-categorize and summarize the representative elements within different genres, and then realize “innovation in classification” and “innovation in overall style research”.
Through this analysis, when facing Yang Jiang’s works, readers can no longer confine themselves to the vague feeling of “good”, but have a deeper understanding of “what is good and why is good”—this method of perusal text reading is useful for reading other texts. Literary works will also help.
“The performance of the world is vivid, and the space is vivid and light. I laugh at myself and fight for famous scholars, and I am tired of Qingzhao and Mingcheng.” Qian Zhongshu once described the style of Yang Jiang’s works in this way. After categorizing and perusing the text and analyzing it from the perspectives of language, emotion, background, and thought, this book elaborates on Yang Jiang’s style from five levels: spiritual style, stylistic style, emotional style, rational style, and structural style. Readers have a general understanding of Yang Jiangqiwen and his people.
In addition to his identity as a poet, a doctor of literature, and the executive dean of the October School of Letters, the author of this book, Lu Yue, is one of Yang Jiang’s senior “fans”. She confessed that exploring Yang Jiang’s life-long creation and interpreting the hidden spiritual information is like trying to uncover her cherished “invisibility cloak”, glimpse her true body and soul, and explore her spiritual and cultural origins. The process of solving the puzzle is like a deep and lasting dialogue between the two, “and the real dialogue will not end.” In order to show the original appearance of Yang Jiang’s works more intuitively, she specially collected more than 30 precious pictures of Yang Jiang’s works. These pictures are included in the book as an appendix to spread out Yang Jiang’s creative trajectory.
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