Before the "Lu Award"

Author:Lanzhou University Time:2022.09.03

"Some people may know what they look like from the only photo, and more people, their faces are annihilated in time, obliterated to our familiar stories, or even themselves and stories have followed the wind with the wind. Passing. "

This is what Liu Jiandong said at the time of the "Unable to Complete Portrait" novel.

On August 25, the winning list of the 8th Lu Xun Literature Award was announced, and the novel of the 1989 alumni Liu Jiandong was among them.

The circle of four people

In the 1980s, it was an era of worship of literature, and a literary fanatic was surging.

Liu Jiandong, who was studying at the Chinese Department of Lanzhou University at the time, was no exception.

He studied while studying, and after reading a lot of literary books, he began to try writing. At that time, the other three like -minded classmates in the class, four of them formed a small circle to read each other's works, and then discussed and criticized each other.

"In this way, the degree of love for literature is getting higher and higher, and he is more and more interested in the art of literature. It lays the foundation for his future literary creation path and firmly has a confidence." Liu Jiandong said.

Later, the four also assumed the compilation of the self -organized publication "Bodhi" of the Chinese Department at the time. Articles, novels, poetry, prose, and comments created by classmates were published on it.

In 1989, Liu Jiandong (third from left) and Fu Pengfeng (first from left), Ye Zhou (second from left), Hu Liangcan (fourth from left) in Lanzhou

"I think Lan Da's school style has an important and even impact on me." Liu Jiandong said during an interview.

After entering the university, Liu Jiandong found that every classmate around him was studying.

"Without impetuous psychology, everyone is with the passion of ideals, dreams, and idealism. This atmosphere also affects me on the way to writing. This is the wealth that Lan Da has benefited from my life."

(Liu Jiandong on the right)

Unexpicious portrait

In "Unable to Complete Portrait", there is a very delicate description of charcoal painting, which is inseparable from Liu Jiandong's personal experience of learning charcoal painting when he was young.

Carbon painting is a traditional Chinese painting art, which is painted with charcoal powder as its main material. The master of painting charcoal painting will carry the streets and lanes with painting, and people in need will invite him to home.

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When he was a child, his father brought a portrait of Master Liu, who painted charcoal painting, and painted a portrait for Liu Jiandong's uncle. At that time, Liu Jiandong became interested in charcoal painting.

At the age of 13, his father asked Liu Jiandong to learn charcoal painting with the same unit club to paint a movie poster. Teacher Xu told Liu Jiandong: "The details determine everything."

The eyes, eyebrows, and mouths of charcoal painting portraits, every line, every shadow, every shadow, seemed to determine the success or failure of a portrait. Later, in the novel writing, Liu Jiandong also attached importance to the details of the details.

"The charcoal paint I wrote is a very fine technology. Without painting, without those experiences, it must not write it, nor can it be achieved by a story and a perfect unity of art." Liu Jiandong said.

Willing to choose a difficult road

Liu Jiandong said: "If you don't write, you may be able to play and enjoy life, but when you choose this road, you may choose a difficult and never end. Go over and over again, and then build your own process again. "

After graduating from Lanzhou University in 1989, Liu Jiandong entered the Shijiazhuang Refinery, and has been a reporter for many years in the Shi Refinery Daily. After published the first work in 1995, officially embarked on the road of writing.

Liu Jiandong is not a special writer. Because of his work, he is more written in free time.

Like many writers, Liu Jiandong often encounters bottlenecks.

"In different periods, you will find that when you want to go one step forward, it is actually difficult on the road of literature."

With the development of text, the development of the story, and the development of the character, there will be many forks in the middle. When choosing the fork, how can I choose the best way when I encounter a hurdle?

"Each writer may have a unique method to go through this hurdle. The best way for me is to think and read." Liu Jiandong read a lot of books during college and has always adhered to to this day. Through reading classic things and looking back at your own works, it is easier to find the disadvantages and the gap between writing. "Why do I admire great writers like Tolstoy, because they can see them from their works that have a high degree of thoughts on the entire human beings and the entire world, and they can get a lot of revelation from these ideas."

At the same time, Liu Jiandong did not advocate that the speed of writing was particularly fast. Thinking while writing, constantly denying is his writing habit.

Literature must have some quality

Since its creation in 1995, Liu Jiandong has published more than 2 million words of literary works. How did he keep so full of creative power and creative desires?

"Actually, you have to say that keeping the fullness of creation may not be realistic."

Liu Jiandong said that novel writing is an art that requires long -term training. It is not to master how to use language, how to tell stories, and how to establish a character image.

Must maintain awe of literature at all times, sensitivity to reality, and maintain a sense of alertness and brain tightness.

"I am too. For example, when writing a series, I think this series can make me passionately open up, but when I change another series, I may enter another field, and I will feel that it has an infinite one. The seed space allows you to use the imagination of literature. I think this is the basic quality of a writer. "

At the end of the interview, when I mentioned my alma mater again, Liu Jiandong said with emotion: "I sincerely hope that Lan Da is better and better. Shijiazhuang has many alumni of Lan Da, and sometimes it is often gathered together. They are all grateful and nostalgia. This feeling for Lan Da has not decreased after years of hardship, but it is getting deeper and deeper. "