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“If you feel good after eating an egg, why should you know the hen that laid the egg?”

At that time, Qian Zhongshu’s “Fortress Besieged” was translated overseas. After reading it, foreign readers couldn’t put it down, and wanted to visit the door. As a result, Qian Zhongshu declined on the phone and said this famous saying.

A recent documentary attempted to meet the writers who laid eggs. “Daily Literature” selects five writers such as Ma Yuan, Ma Jiahui, Alai, and Mai Family to knock on the writer’s daily life in the form of a friend’s visit. Incompatible with fictitious packing.

In the film, Ma Jiahui and Jiao Yuanpu travel through Hong Kong, and each destination stores a memory of Ma Jiahui. His mother led him to the pawnshop of pawn stuff, and now he still remembers the humiliation of looking up at the high counter.

The Southorn Stadium at the door of the house is called the lung of Wan Chai. It is a good place for nearby citizens to move. The thin young Ma Jiahui can only dissipate on the edge, because he will not fight, and even the triad will not accept him. These unpleasant experiences became nourishment and were all included in his first novel “Leader Phoenix Tail”.

Still Life in the Daily Life of Literature

The Mai family was also rejected by the people around him because of family composition problems, which made him out of line. This has become a heart disease for many years.

The Mai family, who has disappeared for eight years, returned to the public with a book of “Sea of ​​Life”, saying goodbye to the spy warfare theme he used to become famous, trying to explain his hometown to the past. Just like Shi Hang’s evaluation of him in the film, for ordinary people, the wind blowing is cold, but for writers whose nerves are exposed, the wind blowing hurts.

Because of hiding behind the work, people often have unrealistic fantasies about the daily life of the writer. As a niche profession, the writer seems self-evidently pointing to a light and elegant life, Thereby becoming a sustenance for literary and artistic youth to escape from the trivial and commonplace.

So that director Nolan ridiculed in his first feature film work “Following”: a young man in his twenties, without a job, will most likely imagine himself as a writer.

But in the documentary, writers and friends hang out and go to the restaurant like the general public. They are also entangled in illness and family affairs, and they ca n’t even hide the embarrassment of facing the camera. Writing does n’t teach them the strange way to escape life, reality Instead, the confusion and stubbornness are where the writing grows.

“Paris Review” writer interview series, long-term invitations Capodi, Hemingway, Henry Miller, Nabokov, Kerouac, etc. Writers talk about their works, literary views and creative experiences. / People’s Literature Publishing House

I work, I am 996, but I am a good writer

Strictly speaking, it is very recent for a writer to become a professional. Relying on the prosperity of popular commercial publishing, writers can be regarded as a serious work.

Before this, few writers could only rely on the nobility. Their creation was mainly to show their own literary bacteria in the salon of the hostess. Moliere once created the custom comedy “The Ridiculous Female Talent.” “Satire and pretense of French seventeenth-century salon literature, moaning without disease.

Even in China with a writing association system, there are still a small number of professional writers. The poet Yu Xiuhua became famous as the vice chairman of the Hubei Zhongxiang City Writers Association. As a result, he found out that this is a non-governmental organization with no salary. Everyone toasted each other in a meeting and came back. ”