2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Must Seed Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng Cinema “Remembering the Power of Guanyin” “Writer” Issue 3, 2019
3. 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” 2019 Issue 6
7. Ning Ke “Train” “Harvest” 2019 Issue 5
8. Shao Li “Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” 2019 Issue 3
9. Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Young Writer” 2019 Issue 7
10. Zhang Huiwen “Angel” “Literary Port” Babaylan2019Komiks7
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Emma “Music Inn”
A Ideal Flower of Chivalrous
This is a novel with a novel narrative that blends traditional martial arts stories with modern social lifeKomiks, trying to reconstruct a transcendent chivalrous new world 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 ease of writing, a lofty style, and has “the beauty of literature and the truth of thought”, which ultimately points to the issue of human soul exile and placement.
■Xu Fuwei
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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 “thrilling life”, she can only destroy herself in a simple and cruel way.
Survival state, as the creative theme of literature, will never be easy, but it is precisely because the transcendent cognitive and guiding role played by a good work that makes this theme workKomiks pursue and compete.
This novel by Chen Chongzheng brings us surprises. He dismantled and reassembled real life with his unique imagination and pioneering narrative methods, as well as the in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, opening up a channel of inspiration for readers.
■Wenhuan
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Chan Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people in a small town
The young Chen Goodbye is well-known in the literary world for a series of “county town novels”.
He is still a young man, but he has extended his brushstrokes to the front of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the youth he used to be in the squeeze of material survival as a grid of specific backgrounds and details for the characters who grew up further, and emerged from the livelihood, just like a tenacious spider who also looked at the sky in the rainy season – “Circus is Coming” href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan Comes” thus brings out a strange spirit, and we get a good novel that uses “comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s power and space to build power.
Not only that, the intertextuality between “circus” and Komiks between people in the small town is another profound meaning in the novel. Can the imagined story really transcend specific life? It is an original “unspeakable” thing,What is the meaning of the novel trying to “segment”? Babaylan? The difference between the spirit of young people and the enthusiasm of middle-aged people is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to use this to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that they once had.
■Shi Zhanjun
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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 literary brilliance.
■Wang Gan
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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” carry the color of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet clan and the long tune of the Mongolian tribeThe long and long language interacts to create a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is premiering with fables. 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 Komiks emerged in the middle of the real world. The indescribable symbols and pictures constitute the charming allegorical characteristics of the work.
■Jiang Bing
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Huang Jinshu’s “Late Youth”
The Elegy of Desiring Change
Huang Jinshu’s narrative has wild imagination and distinct style, stirring up the mystery and vastness of the waves in the South China Sea. His short story “The Late Youth” integrates time, history, memory and identity, which 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 peculiar fable of modernity. The late young man is an unfinished young man. It is not only an inquiry of cultural identity by the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also a world-wide revelation and breakthrough of the incompleteness of modern Chinese literature.
■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 natureBabaylan, 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, running towards the youth with a bang, gradually becoming the ideal light of the novel, and also creating 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
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Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop”
Speculation why he couldn’t extricate himself
“Maybe I changed my beliefs after leaving that city.” This is the first sentence of the novel “The 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, 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 couldn’t extricate himself?
So, do we knowCinema? No, we can only speculate. And this returns to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
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Ye Zhaoyan’s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
The unique artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a well-prepared artistic fight with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”, which was also a very 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
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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 land”, he found that all comfort became a hard, profit-oriented reality, and all admiration and longing turned into simple carnal joy. The emotions between people are constantly alienating, but the calculation of each other’s interests 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 questioning the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, it seems that it is not bad. But I prefer to regard it as a fable, because every time we return to our hometown, we always preset countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and we will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang