Mo Yan Dialogue Gulner: About the person who tells stories

Source: China News Agency

Reporter: Gao Kai

"All writers are people who tell stories", "But there are many important tasks in addition to telling stories, and to express their own thoughts in the work." On the 11th, at the Haixian Campus of Beijing Normal University on the 11thIn the Lecture Hall of the East Academic Hall, Mo Yan, a winner of the Chinese writer and the Nobel Prize in Literature (2012), talked about the "writer".

In this regard, the Nobel Prize winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and British Tanzani writer Gulner in 2021 agreed.He also emphasized that "the story is not only a description of the incident, it also reflects a way people treat the world."

On the same day, a talk event jointly organized by the School of Arts of Beijing Normal University, Beijing Normal University International Writing Center and Shanghai Translation Publishing House was held here.The two Nobel Prize winners, Mo Yan and Gulner, titled "The Hometown of Literature and the Hometown of Literature", and exchanged the thinking and perception of the opponent's works and literary creation.

For a long time, Gulner's novel works mainly focus on the theme of refugees and describe the survival of the colonial people.His masterpieces are focused on identity, racial conflict, and historical writing. The current status of the survival of the post -colonial era in the post -colonial era is considered to have important social significance.

As the first winner of the Chinese Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan's many works are also closely related to his hometown.He wrote, "The impression left to me in my hometown is the soul of my novel."

Talking about the significance of his hometown of his own creation on the same day, Mo Yan said that for the writer, his hometown is a extensive concept. It is undoubtedly describing his hometown in his early novels, but the experience of his hometown must be continuously expanded.The extension of the writer's creative experience, the expansion of the radius of the activity, the broadness of the horizons, and everything in the world can be included in the scope of their hometown.Mo Yan shared what he had seen in the hometown of Gulner and what he saw and heard in the East Coast of Africa.He said with a smile, "It will become my content in the future."

Gulner immediately extended his hometown as the concept of "home".He said, "This may be that we not only have some kind of resonance at a deeper level of sensory and perception at a deeper level of sensory and perception." And this resonance often forms creative inspiration.

Gulner talked about Mo Yan's novel red sorghum that day.He said that in order to better understand this work, he learned a lot of related historical backgrounds.Language description, including all narrative methods, such as the description of marriage scenes and other scenes, I like the breath of this book very much.

In Mo Yan's opinion, a major feature of Gulner's works is from small and big, "coming from a very narrow place, extending to a huge problem." Mo Yan believes that this is the specialty of the writer.It will describe a huge change in a full range like historians, show a war in three dimensions, describe the changes of dynasties, and all kinds of grand plans for politicians. Writers often start from people, start from small characters, expand their opening, and expand their opening.To express history and the times, this is where we should learn together, from small, from the narrow door, to the wide world.

Gulner launched his first China trip to Shanghai on March 5th, and Beijing has also visited Ningbo before.He said that this trip is not only to appreciate the beautiful China, but also wants to understand what Chinese readers think of their works.

Talking about the common of literature between different cultures, Mo Yan said on the same day that the reason why literature can go to the world, and the works of a country's writers can be accepted by readers of other countries, because they all have the common value of human beings.They all describe many common emotional foundations of humans.