Bi Feiyu's New Long Story Comes Out: Let China's Contemporary Times Go Through a 160 pound Body, 15 Years of World | Novel | Comes Out
"Don't write the novels you want to write, write the novels you can write." This sentence by Argentine writer Borges was quoted at least a hundred times when I taught. But if I had to give "Welcome to the World" a key word, it was still - "I want to write." After fifteen years of refinement, writer Bi Feiyu wrote the story that truly "wants to write.". The novel "Welcome to the World" was published by People's Literature Publishing House.
Welcome to the World is a novel that focuses on the spiritual world of contemporary people, inspired by a medical news article. At the end of the news, the novel began. The protagonist of the novel, the surgeon Fu Rui, is young and promising, and is seen by others as a good son, husband, and doctor; When alone, the trajectory of life is already arranged, continuously satisfying the expectations of others, and the self image is blurred. Living with the approval of others, Fu Rui gradually walked towards the spiritual breach.
During the 15 years of writing this novel, Bi Feiyu spent a lot of time studying in the hospital, enriching the medical details in the novel. "Before completing it, I wanted to give up countless times, at least ten times. But each time I couldn't get rid of it, I still had to finish it."
At the opening ceremony of the new book, Li Jingze, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, said, "For an ambitious author, fifteen years of savings are by no means stagnant." Bi Feiyu, on the other hand, mentioned Li Jingze's encouragement to himself in the past: "Anyway, whether it's" Qingyi "," Corn ", or" Plain ", what you write is still history. The most crucial point for a great writer is how to experience the present, summarize the present, enhance the present, and express the present." This reminder made him determined, "I need to let the contemporary of China go through my 160 pound body in the form of modern Chinese."
"This is also a novel about the contradiction between self and external recognition." One detail of the novel left a deep impression on Zhang Li, a professor at Beijing Normal University: when Fu Rui was young, his mother cut his hand while chopping a chicken. Fu Rui showed no reaction and continued to busy with homework. Faced with his mother's sad questioning, he replied, "I'm not a doctor. It doesn't matter if you ask me." Zhang Li sighed, "Bi Feiyu's works are all about daily life details, combined together, which are both realistic and transcendent."
Professor Dai Jinhua from the Chinese Department of Peking University believes that "Welcome to the Human World" is a typical modern novel, similar to the expression in Nobel Prize winning author Anne Elno's "Just Happened": a person is suddenly thrown off track due to a small matter, not knowing where to slide, but triggering an avalanche like chain effect. Welcome to the Human World depicts the state of Fu Rui, a planet, being thrown out of orbit through the occurrence of unexpected events. "We are able to think about ourselves, contemplate the times, and the various possibilities within which we place ourselves."
"I believe that Fu Rui is an important image left by" Welcome to the World "for contemporary Chinese literature." Li Jingze said, "The uniqueness of Fu Rui is not that he strives to be a child in the eyes of others, but that he never knows who else he can be besides being a child in the eyes of others."
