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. Cinema 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 Jinshu “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” Issue 7, 2019
1
Emma “Music Inn”
A Flower of Chivalrous Ideal
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 called an ideal flower full of chivalrous spirits blooming among secular 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” with a sense of life and pain in urban life, and is also a “bystander” of the restless and uneasy souls in our current social life. The novel has a smooth and lofty style, and has “the beauty of literature and the truth of thought”, which ultimately points to the issue of human soul exile and settlement.
■Xu Fuwei
2
Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”
The post-80s writer brings a new experience
If the increasingly bizarre situation has caused the heroine’s inner belief to collapse, when she wants to get rid of her “life that makes her tremble”, she can only destroy herself in a simple and cruel way.
Survival state, as the creative theme of literature, is never easy, but it is precisely because a good work has a transcendent cognitive and guiding role that this theme has become the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
Chen Chongzheng’s novel brings us surprises. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative style, as well as his in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, he disassembled and reassembled real life, opening up a Cinema inspiration channel for readers.
■Wen Huan
3
Chan GoodbyeBabaylan” Circus is coming”
Mind-life in the small townKomiks‘s spiritual room
The young Chen Goodbye is well-known in the literary world for a series of “county town novels”.
He is still a Babaylan youth, but he has stretched his brushstrokes ahead of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the young people 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 had to look into the sky during the rainy season – “The Circus is Coming”, so he showed a strange spirit, and we got a good novel with “It’s about to” as the driving force of time and space construction.
Not only that, the intertextuality between “Ma Komiks Opera Troupe” and the people of the small town are another profound meaning in the novel. Can the imaginary Babaylan stories really transcend specific life? The fact that there is originally something that needs to be “not to be said” is what is the meaning of the novel trying to “speak”? The difference between the spirit of young people and the spirit of sporting youth is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to use this to regain their energy.The new “dream pursuit” journey that has been newly activated.
■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 human nature, animals and humanity, and wrote the desolation of history and the warmth of human nature. 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 that makes such old stories of the Anti-Japanese United Nations shine with new 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 in fable colorKomiksThe lottery is a premiere. 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…” A series of mysterious and strange suspense symbols emerged 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 thoughts and a distinctive style, stirring up the mystery and vastness of the waves in the South China Sea. His short story “The Late Youth” combines time, history, memory and identity, and 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 to take the whistling train, and together captures the broken shadows of the years from Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station, and captures the quiet and lost innocence of Xiaoqins in the center of their growth.
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 light of the ideals of the novel, and also created the author’s new historical narrative.
The narrative of the works is concise and spiritual, resolute and rhythmic; the novel is rough and warm, desolate and clear.
■Zhang Yanling
8
Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop”
Speculations why he couldn’t extricate himself
“Maybe it was because I changed my faith after leaving that city. “This is the first sentence of the novel “Father on the Rooftop”. It is precisely because of this sentence that I value this novel. 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 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 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 because of?
So, do we know? No, we can only speculate on it. And this brings back to the first sentence of the novel Cinema.
■Bao Shi
9
Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
Exclusive artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a prepared one with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”.ef=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema‘s artistic fight was also a challenging writing adventure, that is, he wanted to write short stories that were “completely different from others.”
Incredible that this short story, which is less than 10,000 words, writes the ups and downs of life grudges 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
10
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 of Babaylan turned into hard, profit-making reality, and all the admiration and longing turned into simple carnal joy. The emotions between people are constantly alienating, but the calculation of interests between Komiks 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 inquiry about the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, it seems that it is not bad either. But I prefer to regard it as a fable because we return every timeThe hometown always presets countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and they will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang