Xu Zechen sat in Yu Dong's office for a long time. It was a hot summer day. After finishing the hot tea in the cup, he took out a notebook from his backpack.
This book looks quite old, and it must have been turned over frequently, and the corners are already hairy.
"Teacher Yu, here are some thoughts I wrote when I was studying. Please feel free to enlighten me."
"Is it?"
Yu Dong smiled and took the notebook into his hand.
First, I flipped through it briefly. Xu Zechen should have other notebooks. This one has been finished, and the last page is full.
As soon as he saw the word Xu Zechen, Yu Dong raised his eyebrows very high.
This guy is young, but his writing skills are quite experienced.
The writing is quite sloppy, but it's not the kind of random scrawl. Some rules can be seen in the middle. Xu Zechen should have been exposed to calligraphy.
"Do you usually write?" Yu Dong asked.
Xu Zechen naturally understood what Yu Dong meant by "writing". He nodded and replied: "I have been playing with my grandfather since I was a child, and I am very good at it. I heard that Teacher Yu is very good at this."
"I also write for fun."
Yu Dong replied casually, and then looked carefully at what Xu Zechen had written.
The first article in this book is about "The Story of Xu Sanguan Selling Blood". Although Xu Zechen said that he wrote it as a review, the content is quite professional.
This article mainly starts from the repeated narrative in "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" and analyzes the artistic narrative art of "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood".
After reading the first article, Yu Dong had no special expression.
To be honest, after reading this article, Yu Dong is still a little disappointed.
It's not that this article is poorly written. In fact, if the person in front of him is just a second-year student at Huaiyin Normal University, then he can write such a thing, which Yu Dong seems to be beyond his level.
But he is Xu Zechen.
At least in Yu Dong's opinion, this is not something that someone who will study for a master's degree in Chinese at Yanda University in the future should write.
Although Yu Dong knew that writing novels had little to do with academic research, he would still feel disappointed when he saw a talented writer who would win several major literary awards in the future write such a thing.
First of all, the repetitive narrative of "The Story of Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" has been told over and over again by academic researchers in recent years, and there is nothing new in what has been said. However, the things written by Xu Zechen are no different from those written by others, and the analysis
No one else has figured it out yet.
Secondly, Xu Zechen still lacks many things in academic research, and his knowledge is not broad enough. Some areas that should be studied in depth always end abruptly and remain superficial.
For example, Xu Zechen mentioned in the article that Yu Hua's repetitive narrative technique was influenced by Western literature, and also mentioned Hemingway, but when it came to Hemingway, he was unable to analyze in depth which of Hemingway's novels used this technique and where. This is
Because he hasn't read enough.
Yu Dong didn't need to look it up. Just a quick thought and he could figure out that in some places in "Hills Like White Elephants" and "A Farewell to Arms", there were repetitions of words and phrases, duplication of characters and plots, and intertextuality.
Repeated methods are used on three levels including sexual structure, and they are used repeatedly.
Especially "A Farewell to Arms", such a well-known work, it really shouldn't be contacted by Xu Zechen.
Yu Dong didn't rush to comment, and read a few more articles.
I read four articles in total, and some of them were pretty good, but they still fell far short of Yu Dong’s expectations.
At this level, if he wants to graduate from the Chinese Department of Yan University, Xu Zechen will probably have to work hard later.
Yu Dong closed the notebook and pondered for a while, then looked at the anxious Xu Zechen and said slowly: "It's okay."
When he heard the three words "okay", Xu Zechen felt a strong sense of frustration in his heart. Of course, he could hear the meaning of these three words.
It's okay, just average.
To be honest, when Xu Zechen took out his notebook, he hoped to be praised by Yu Dong, and he also felt that he should be praised.
Before that, he had received too much praise in literature. At Huaiyin Normal University, one of their teachers even told him that his attainments in literature were not as good as Xu Zechen's.
He wrote his first novel when he was a sophomore in high school, and since then he has determined to be a writer, and then he enrolled in the Chinese Department.
During the summer vacation last year, he successfully published an essay and received more than ten yuan in royalties. He also became famous in their Huaiyin Normal University.
Later, he successfully passed the exam and got a place in the Chinese Department of Jinling University, which made him more confident and believed that he was a genius. But today, he only got the word "okay" here in Yudong.
To be honest, he felt a little dissatisfied.
Yu Dong could see that Xu Zechen was disappointed, and opened his notebook again with a smile, "Your current reading volume is not enough to support you to conduct too in-depth literary research, such as this first article..."
In today's era when the Internet is not very developed, the amount of reading can be directly seen from what is written.
The reason why Yu Dong mentioned reading volume is because this thing is very important.
It goes without saying that the amount of reading is important for learning, but it is also particularly important for literary creation.
Some people like to say that Yu Hua and Mo Yan have low academic qualifications and do not read much. They themselves also like to tease themselves about their lack of education.
But this is not the case. In Jinyi, only Yu Dong can match the reading volume of these two people. Especially Mo Yan, whenever we talk about a certain writer, whether Chinese or foreign, he can always pick up the conversation.
The two of them just don't know those professional terms, but they have already seen those writing techniques, writing techniques, and writing genres in their works.
For a writer, they don't need to know what these things are called, they just need to know when these things are useful.
For example, Yu Hua's "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" uses repetitive narrative techniques. He himself may not have known what repetitive narrative techniques were before, but because he had read Hemingway, he felt that he could express himself by writing in this way.
Whatever he wants to express is fine.
Yu Dong took apart what Xu Zechen wrote one by one, and then helped Xu Zechen find out the problems one by one.
This took about ten minutes.
In these ten minutes, Xu Zechen nodded the whole time and said nothing except "um" and "ah".
Xu Zechen has also listened to lectures by some scholars, but this is the first time he has experienced such one-on-one tutoring.
This feeling is so amazing. Even though these problems are all his, he still feels excited, and even feels like he will die in the morning.
With such face-to-face and close contact, Xu Zechen felt that the gap between himself and the literary masters was farther than his hometown to the Yellow Sea.
In fact, Xu Zechen's hometown is not far from the Yellow Sea, only a hundred kilometers away, but he has never seen the Yellow Sea since he was a child. Even for a long time, he didn't know that the sea they were leaning on was the Yellow Sea, so in his feeling,
The Yellow Sea is far away from him.
When Yu Dong said that he didn't read enough, he was still a little unconvinced, but when he saw Yu Dong talking about ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classics with ease, he instantly felt that he had read too few books.
Chapter completed!