2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Music Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng “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” Cinema “People’s Literature” Issue 1, 2019
6. Huang Jinshu “Late Youth” “Tianya” 2019 Issue 6
7. Ning Ke “Train” “HarvestCinema” 2019 Issue 5
8. Shao Li “The Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” 2019 Issue 3
9. Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Youth Writer” 2019 Issue 7
10. Zhang Huiwen “Angel” “Literary Port” 2019 Issue 7
1
Emma “Must Seed Inn”
A flower of chivalrous ideals
This is a novel with novel narratives that integrates traditional martial arts stories with modern social life, 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 regarded as 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
2
Chen Chongzheng “Remembering the Power of GuanyinKomiks“
A new experience for the post-80s writer
If the increasingly bizarre status quo 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 theme of literary creation, will never be easy, but it is precisely because The transcendent cognitive and guiding role played by a good work is irreplaceable, which makes this theme the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
Chen Chongzheng’s novel brings us surprises. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative methods, as well as his in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, he disassembled and reassembled real life, opening up a channel of inspiration for readers.
■Wenhuan
3
Chan Goodbye “CircusBabaylan Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people in the 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 regards the situation of the young man he used to be in the squeeze of material survival as a figure who has grown up further. The specific background and details grid of Cinema emerges beyond livelihood, like a tenacious spider who also wants to look to the sky during the rainy season. “The Circus is Coming” has brought out a strange spirit, and we have obtained a good novel with “comicmov.com/”>Cinema. Not only that, the intertextuality between “circus” and the people of the small town is another profound meaning in the novel. Can the imagined story really transcend specific life? Cinema? Komiks was originally going to be “not to be said” but what is the meaning of the novel trying to “speak to be said”? Running with young peopleKomiks is probably in the middle age.Babaylan began to assume spiritual room and wanted to reactivate the journey of “chasing dreams” in this way.
■Shi Zhanjun
4
Chi Zijian’s “Steamed Horse Boots”
Value in the Life Genealogy
Chi Zijian As an excellent writer who has been in the literary world for many yearsBabaylan, in recent years, there seems to be few short stories. The short story of “Steamed Horse Boots” is a bit of a deep meaning.
In the short space, Chi Zijian incorporates many elements such as history and reality, war and human nature, animals and humanity, and writes out the desolation of history and the warmth of human nature. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s beautiful and calm brushstrokes still maintain her unique softness and consideration even when showing the coldness and cruelty in a hostile environment. It is also good for wolf nature, human beingsBabaylan. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema Whether it is sex, 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 fathers 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
5
Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
Cultural palette and Mongolian narrative
Du Lan’s short story “Mihuo” first grasped me with a unique language style. There is no doubt that she belongs to the Mongolian people – sheep walking in the wind and snow, “Ga Le-Ga Le-” shocking. However, the author was born in 1999, which made me connect the language of the work with the Internet. Among them, discourses similar to “Youths are passionate about games” carry the color of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet and the long-lasting language of the Mongolian people interact to form a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is first heard with the allegorical colorTake advantage of people. 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…Komiks” a series of mysterious and strange suspense symbols emerged between Komiks in the real world. The indescribable symbols and the Babaylan picture 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 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 unique fable of modernity. The late young people are unfinished young people. They are 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 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 ran with a clang.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksTowards youth, gradually becoming the ideal light of novels, and also creating a new historical narrative for the author.
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”
Speculation why he couldn’t extricate himself
“Maybe 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 abruptly mentioned by Cinema, 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 Cinema fluctuations experienced by his father who committed suicide after 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?
So, do we know? No, we can only speculate. And this returns to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
9
Ye Zhaoyan’s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
Exclusive artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a well-prepared one with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanArt fighting is also a challenging writing adventure, that is, he wants to write short stories that are “completely different” from others.
Incredible, thisA short story with less than 10,000 words is written with a sense of fate and tragedy about the ups and downs of life grudges and irresistible entanglement of human nature for the twin sisters.
The novel has a complete structure from the big picture, and the details are rich and vivid. The characters have the fullness that is about to come out. Not only does it greatly expand the artistic space of short stories that reflects history and reality, but it 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”
Search for inner comfort
The 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 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 their hometown’s cold and mud-covered streets, so that the returning wanderers can no longer find their 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