Although Yu Dong and Bi Feiyu did not tell Yu Hua about the matter, Yu Hua found out about it within two days.
Because "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks" caused more and more controversy, even the "Yangtze Evening News" reported on it.
The "Yangtze Evening News" report did not have any tendency, it just stated the matter objectively from beginning to end, and by the way mentioned that Yu Hua was also scolded.
The key is that the opponent’s battle is quite large. Professor He Guoduan of the Chinese Department of Jiangcheng University directly published an article in the "Journal of Jiangcheng University" titled "Literature and Art in Praise of Revolutionary Violence, Patriotism and Internationalism - On the Essence of Socialist Literature and Art"
articles.
The article's words were sharp and severely criticized Mo Yan's "Big Breasts and Wide Butts" as an "almost reactionary work."
This is somewhat different from previous criticisms.
When "Big Breasts and Wide Butts" first came out, people criticized it for its sensational title, impure motives, and being very obscene, as well as for the excessive descriptions of sex in the novel.
But later they seemed to realize that just scolding them was not effective at all.
Su Tong's earlier book "Wives and Concubines" was also criticized for its sensational title, but nothing happened afterwards.
If you criticize there are too many sexual descriptions in it, it seems that you are not strong enough, because compared with novels written by Shaanxi writers such as "Desolate Capital", "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks" does not have many descriptions.
Later, voices like He Guoduan appeared who sang "reactionary".
Once this sound comes out, it's quite useful.
"Zhongliu" followed closely and published several articles, criticizing "Big Breasts and Wide Hips" for distorting history and vilifying the anti-Japanese armed forces.
Yu Dong and the others were not surprised at all by "Zhongliu"'s comments, because "Zhongliu" itself was a well-known literary magazine with a strong smell of gunpowder, and they described everything as a conspiracy of the enemy.
They also criticized "Farewell My Concubine" before, and even labeled Zhang Guorong as a cultural poisonous milk powder.
Yu Dong doesn't have much opinion about this magazine. In this world, left and right will always exist at the same time, and no one can be missing.
The key lies in the method.
As long as there is no problem with the method, there is no problem.
Yu Hua knew that he was being criticized, but he didn't pay too much attention to it. He didn't roll up his sleeves and get to work like he did when Yu Dong was criticized last time.
Yu Dong and Bi Feiyu also teased him and said that he was mature now.
Yu Hua himself said that he didn't feel anything about the criticisms against him. On the contrary, he felt a little offended by He Guoduan's criticisms of Mo Yan.
In fact, although He Guoduan and Liu Baiyu of Jiangcheng University both criticized "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks", their perspectives and positions are different.
Liu Baiyu was a writer who served in the army, experienced the war, and was a red writer. He had his own perspective on the Anti-Japanese War period, so it is not difficult to understand why he felt uncomfortable after seeing "Big Breasts and Wide Hips".
But He Guoduan is different.
He Guoduan is engaged in academics and criticism. When a scholar reviews a work, he first criticizes others, which itself violates the principles of literary criticism.
If he only expressed some personal opinions on this novel from a personal perspective, there would be nothing wrong with it. However, if he went so far as to publish a serious article in a journal to criticize others, then that would be a big problem.
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But no matter what, whether it was He Guoduan's paper or a few articles in "Zhongliu", Yu Dong and others didn't pay much attention to it.
After resting at school for a few days, a few of them went to Shanghai again to visit Mr. Ba Jin.
Ba Jin's residence is on Wukang Road in Shanghai West District. This is a very historical road, and many celebrities have lived here.
No. 113, Wukang Road, is a three-story small foreign-style building. This building was built in 1923 and was formerly the Soviet Commercial Representative Office. Ba Jin has lived here since the 1950s.
The gray garden house has a high wall outside and a small black iron door that separates the deep courtyard. Through the crack in the door, you can see the quiet winding paths inside and the surrounding flowers and plants.
Yu Dong and the others waited at the door for a while, and then Li Xiaolin ran to open the door.
"Come on, come on. What else should you bring?"
Li Xiaolin welcomed them in with a smile.
As soon as they entered the first floor of the foreign-style building, the three of them felt that they had entered the world of books.
From the living room to the study room to the stairwell, there are bookcases everywhere, even the sunroom on the ground floor is not spared.
The living room and dining room are connected together, with a piano and old-fashioned sideboards.
From the living room to the balcony, there is a small long table in the middle. Mr. Ba Jin is sitting on an armchair in front of the long table.
The old gentleman wears glasses, has square cheekbones, a hunched head, and gray hair. He is a little tired sitting in the chair.
Seeing Yu Dong and others coming in, he held his legs to get up.
The three people walked over quickly and said, "Sir, please sit down. You're welcome."
Li Xiaolin also said: "Just don't get up, sit down and I'll find some chairs for them."
Then she called upstairs again, "Li Xiaotang, come down and pour water for Yu Dong and the others."
Only then did Yu Dong and the others know that Li Xiaotang had returned.
As soon as Li Xiaolin finished speaking, footsteps were heard upstairs, and soon Li Xiaotang came down the stairs.
He was already quite familiar with Yu Dong and the others, and he laughed as soon as he saw them, "Sometimes we are greeted from a distance, and sometimes we are greeted from afar."
Bi Feiyu laughed, "I don't dare, I don't dare."
Then the three of them helped Li Xiaolin move the chairs. After everyone got the chairs, they sat around Ba Jin.
Ba Jin leaned on the chair and spoke slowly: "Xiaolin said that you wanted to come over, so you asked her formally. This is not necessary. If you want to see me, just tell her at any time. I probably only know how to do it now.
Appeared in two places, one is a hospital and the other is in Hangzhou."
The old gentleman spoke for a long time at once, but his speaking speed was very slow, and one could clearly feel that he was short of breath and tired when speaking.
The weather is nice today, the sun shines slantingly in from the balcony and shines on the floor.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The old man moved his chair, stretched his legs forward, and used his feet to catch the warm sunshine. The morning sun was very gentle, but the old man’s feet
When he encountered the sunshine, the vague expression of pain on his face was all gone at once, as if the sunshine contained some magic power.
Yu Dong looked at the yard, then at Ba Jin, and said with a smile: "Since you are coming, you must say hello in advance. If there is any inconvenience, we don't want to bother you. We have been discussing it before.
Come and have a look, but we have never agreed on a time. On the one hand, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient for my husband, and on the other hand, as the younger generation, we are also a little scared."
"That's too polite." Ba Jin kept rubbing his wrists as he spoke.
He has Parkinson's disease and has difficulty moving and holding a pen. Even if he doesn't do anything, his hands will shake unconsciously. He rubs his wrists back and forth with both hands in an attempt to relieve the symptoms, but the effect is not good.
After rubbing it twice and still shaking, he gave up and looked at Yu Dong and the others with a smile: "I have read your new books and they are very good. I told Xiaolin to bring my words to you.
I don’t know if she brought it.”
Li Xiaolin curled his lips and looked at his father, "How dare I not bring it? But every time I praise it, they may not believe it and think it is my polite words. Now that they are in front of you, you can tell them personally,
They have to believe it.”
Ba Jin nodded and added, "Li Xiaotang wrote a novel, "Family Rules", which was quite passable. Later, it was cast in "Zhongshan". Later, the novel was made into a movie, and Bi Feiyu also re-wrote the script.
It was written into a novel called "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai". I also read it and it was very well written."
Bi Feiyu said modestly, "I just made some modifications based on the "Sect Rules", it's nothing."
Ba Jin moved his legs again, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "You all write about Shanghu, but the best one is Yu Dong, a native of Shanghu. I have read "The Crowd", it is very well written and has a good perspective.
, the technique is good and all aspects are good. The Shanghai you write is different from Li Xiaotang’s, Zhang Ailing’s, and Wang Anyi’s. You have written a different Shanghai.”
Yu Dong smiled and replied, "Actually, it was only after I left Shanghai that I came up with the idea of ​​writing about Shanghai. When I stayed in Shanghai before, I never thought about what Shanghai was like. This is probably
It’s just that you don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because you are in this mountain.”
Ba Jin nodded, "I can understand this feeling. If you stay in a place for a long time, your impression will become blurry and blurred, but after you leave, it will gradually become clearer. In the past two years, I will go to Hangzhou.
After staying for half a year, although my body and mind have become more relaxed during this half year, I often think of going to Shanghai, which I never did before."
Starting from the past two years, the hospital has implemented a semi-treatment and semi-recuperation method for Ba Jin, so he will go to Hangzhou for recuperation between April and June every year, and then return to Shanghai to spend the winter.
I left a little late today, but it will be over soon.
That is to say, Ba Jin is at home during these days. Otherwise, at other times, if Yu Dong and others want to see him, they will either go to Huadong Hospital or Hangzhou. He rarely comes back from Wukang Road.
Yu Hua is from Zhejiang Province. His hometown of Haiyan is not far from Hangzhou, right between Shanghai and Hangzhou.
Speaking of Hangzhou, he knew more about it than Yu Dong and others, and chatted with Ba Jin about Hangzhou: "The air over there is better. Staying there for a while is very good for the body. Sometimes I do
I thought that if I went home and stayed for a while, if I had any physical problems, I would be fine all at once."
"It's really useful. Every time I come back from Hangzhou, I gain a few pounds."
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After chatting for a while, Ba Jin became a little tired, so Li Xiaolin and Li Xiaotang helped him into the house to rest.
After Ba Jin entered the room, Li Xiaolin said with a smile, "Fortunately, you didn't talk about the recent news. I forgot to tell you about it before, because I was afraid that you would talk about that. Fortunately, you didn't change the subject in that direction."
"What's the latest news?" Yu Dong and the three of them became confused.
"Don't say you didn't pay attention. Zhongliu published several articles criticizing Mo Yan. The fire at the city gate affected Chi Yu, and Yu Hua was also affected."
"So that's what happened."
The three of them laughed, and Yu Dong said, "What kind of news is this? Is it worth telling in front of the old gentleman?"
"I'm really afraid that you will say, forget about "Big Breasts and Wide Butts". "To Live" was hand-picked by my father to be drafted. If he hears this news, he will definitely take it to heart. Over the years, besides showing it to him, we have
When I read some new works, I won’t tell him any other news at all, just for fear that his mood will fluctuate.”
Li Xiaolin sighed and looked at his younger brother Li Xiaotang again, "There are some things that it would be better if he didn't know."
Li Xiaotang pursed his lips and said nothing.
A few people walked to the edge of the balcony, and after sitting down, Yu Hua said: "Don't worry about this, we won't talk too much. We are not children. After a fight, we ran back and cried to our parents. Besides,
Isn’t this still a fight?”
Only then did Li Xiaotang speak, "It would be best if I cried with him."
When his sister rolled her eyes at him, he stopped talking again.
Seeing the siblings like this, Yu Dong and the others would all smile.
Regarding Ba Jin's family affairs, Yu Dong knew more, and there were even some things that Li Xiaotang and the others didn't know because they hadn't happened yet.
Among Ba Jin's family affairs, Yu Dong remembered clearly that Li Xiaotang went to Hangzhou to visit his father. On the way to Hangzhou, Li Xiaotang's wallet was stolen. When he saw Ba Jin later, his first sentence was: "Old Ba"
Now, pay me the money."
From this incident, we can see that in Ba Jin's family, the relationship between him and Li Xiaotang is very natural and peaceful.
It's just that today, with outsiders like Yu Dong and others around, Li Xiaotang behaves more calmly and won't joke with Ba Jin easily.
In fact, in this family, Li Xiaotang is more afraid of his sister Li Xiaolin.
After finishing talking to his brother, Li Xiaolin talked about "Zhongliu" again: "You don't need to take this matter too seriously. "Zhongliu" likes to criticize people, and not many people will listen to them. You can do it with peace of mind.
Just worry about your own business, so as not to delay your business due to external voices."
Li Xiaotang scratched his head, "I think these people are just idle."
This time Li Xiaolin didn't give his brother a look, and he probably felt that his brother was right.
She smiled, stood up and opened the balcony window. A gust of breeze blew in from the window, bringing a slight coolness, but the coolness was not disturbing, but made people more energetic.
Then she said again: "Let's have a meal at home at noon. Li Xiaotang will stay at home in the afternoon. You guys can go to the club with me. It's rare for you three to come together. I will take you to get together with everyone."
Bi Feiyu nodded, "Okay, I just happened to go see Wang Anyi and the others."
"I even called Ge Fei and the others," Li Xiaolin said.
When she said this, there was a different kind of light in her eyes, and Yu Dong and the others probably understood what she meant.
Although Li Xiaolin asked them not to pay too much attention to the affairs of "Zhongliu" so as not to affect her own business, she took this opportunity to create a situation for Yu Dong and the others.
If there is really going to be a verbal spat in the future, today's game can also bring some help to Yu Dong and the others.
Chapter completed!