The significance of documentary prose

What is the truth of documentary prose?

-"Wing Lung Cup" documentary essay.

■ Wu's Sichuan Daily Supplement advocates documentary prose, which is a cross-century move. 65438-0990 The first large-scale documentary prose essay lasted for half a year, and thousands of authors actively participated. The General Review of Documentary Prose written by Zhou Keqin, the director of the jury and the winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize, became his masterpiece in his life. For more than ten years, Sichuan Newspaper Supplement has held similar thematic essays, pen meetings and picture albums for many times, waving flags and shouting documentary prose, and the number of documentary prose published in daily literary pages is also among the best.

Is it necessary to work so hard and persevere for a literary genre?

From the different aspects of media responsibility, readers' needs and literary inheritance and development, the answers are overlapping: necessary.

Documentary is fiction, which is different from lyricism and discussion. Under the background of prose being sick, false, melodramatic and empty talk, we can even say that documentary is power.

Choosing a documentary is to choose to be close to the life of the times, to be loyal to the people of the world, and to record the current social changes. Such works and supplements will not be reduced to self-entertainment, idiotic word games or stereotyped writing.

Entering the operation stage of selecting topics and selecting materials, the success of documentary prose is closely related to the author's vision, concept, knowledge and even courage. Anyone who walks along the Three Gorges can write some descriptions such as "a thousand miles to Jiangling in one day" and express some feelings about mountains, water, clouds and rocks, but if you have Jia's vision, you will not pay attention to the millions of immigrants under the water storage line; If there is a pure heart of Lu Chuan, you will find that the mother river that entered the 2 1 century has not only lost the "cross-strait ape sound", but has long been an eastward flowing river sewage!

In this essay, many works describe the great changes in traffic and the progress of urban and rural areas and the times, which is a timely reflection and record of real life. But on the whole, there are a lot of hot topics that seriously plague the government and the masses, such as pollution, "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", migrant workers, corruption, difficulties in seeing a doctor, difficulties in enrolling in school, and ups and downs of the property market and stock market. Almost all of them are ignored and never mentioned. This kind of "collective aphasia" is surprising and regrettable. Reminds people of the famous saying "Kung Fu is beyond poetry". Attribution to subject, seriousness, documentary, documentary, what is the truth? This is really a big problem.

What I have said above is the basis of the strength of documentary prose, which is related to its "vitality".

Another kind of power is related to its influence and appeal, which can be called "charm".

Either documentary or good prose. Besides the truth, it depends on how to write it. This is the same as other schools.

The definition of "documentary" makes documentary prose "natural" with some unpretentious characteristics. But if it is ossified into the only mode, it is counterproductive. In the era of cultural consumption, "good-looking" and "easy to read" are indispensable elements, which need serious attention from the aspects of material selection, structure and language to topics, details and techniques.

China's "Great Prose" was not invented today (Historical Records, which is mainly based on documentary, is a recognized masterpiece through the ages), and it is "casual" from the source. Only when it is eclectic in form and expression ("diversification" in present words) can it be endowed with colorful charm.

The closure and impetuousness of the prose team itself and the decline of the current prose are mutually causal. It is undoubtedly a useful revision and promising exercise to advocate documentary style and let more amateur and grassroots authors' "original ecology" fresh works emerge constantly. This is the enthusiasm of colleagues in Sichuan newspaper supplement.