The narrator of the new overseas story, Ling Lan.

Ling Lan, a new york woman writer whose novels are getting better and better, suddenly published a translation of Plath's Letters. In the last six months of her life, Plath got up at four o'clock in the morning and wrote a letter, in which she read: "Four Zhou Chun Darkness, I am writing in the entrails of God." This gesture, together with the crows beside Van Gogh's wheat fields and prehistoric rock paintings on the mountains in southern France, became the benchmark for Ling Lan's writing.

Plath made her realize the artist's mission for the first time in her life-she will join a small group of people through the ages: "We are both recorders and creators, and we are three-eyed crows carrying human memories."

In recent years, among the surging ranks of new immigrants overseas, people have found a name, which often jumps to the top of the list of famous artists or is at the forefront of the award-winning list. Ling Lan, formerly known as Xie Linglan, read her in the column of Overseas Chinese in new york for a long time before I met her. Among many columnists, I accidentally saw Ling Lan, and her prose paid attention to important topics in American real life with a broad vision.

She is a liberal arts graduate of Peking University. The first time I saw her, I felt that she was a rational thinking woman. Although she is not an enthusiastic friend, she immediately gives people a sense of security that can be trusted. From then on, I gradually realized that she was a busy person, busy with writing and family. Because she strives for perfection in these two things, I sometimes catch a glimpse of her family, a friend with a calm personality and a friend I have never seen before.

I'll start with her novels, and then review her creations in the past ten years.

The story of Rapids is divided into two layers. On the surface, the young couple studying abroad in Chinese mainland suffered a series of follow-up incidents caused by the shooting, including abortion, looking for a car, and rodent infestation at home. Finally, they saw the ocean phenomenon of "tearing flow" because of the burial of the baby's ashes in the stillbirth.

The deep story is about the ignorance of immigrant life and the China people who grew up in a lonely and unfamiliar environment. This kind of growth is experienced, knowledgeable and spiritual-the independent self-consciousness of the protagonist, although defeated by honor, cannot be defeated. This isolated heroism, the end of life is the cold reality of death, which is the theme that the novel wants to express through the symbolic image of "torrent".

The biggest feature of Ling Lan's novels is to deliberately create the spiritual growth of the protagonist, which is the core of all her short stories. Commenting on another novella "Ice" with Selected Publications of Sinan Literature: "It contains the rebirth of the protagonist, but this rebirth needs to pay a great price, such as losing important relatives and friends, which is often used to create a heroic image with tragic atmosphere. A traumatic character certainly won the final victory, but the sense of accomplishment brought by such victory is not proud at all. "

Ice is Ling Lan's first novella. The heroine Lin experienced divorce, unemployment, empty nest and romantic love, and formed a series of stories, including Ice, Guns and Roses, The Only Way, and The Ghost of Si Tuleideng. Ice tells the story of a cruise ship traveling in the Antarctic, which is different from the setting of town life in the last two articles.

In the forest, her husband committed suicide many years ago because of unemployment and depression. She had to be a single mother for many years before her son grew up. The "only way" by the sea went for many years, and it was not until she lost her job that she really came out. This is her personal way. Fortunately, the fisherman is so enthusiastic to accompany him.

Stuart's Ghost is a sequel to The Only Road. When I met a descendant of an Indian tribal wizard in the unemployed forest, I saw my rootless state in the United States from this descendant who had no basis for survival in reality. This rootless state is not only the essence of immigration, but also the unique decline of middle-aged life, which is a universal decline across races and transitions. Rootless confusion is a new life feature that has not been explored in the era of globalization. The progress of science and technology has brought our life into a state where we can arrive at any time and leave at any time, which is a rootless state close to eternal exile.

Guns and Roses, Peach Blossom Stone, tourbillon and Bees were all written in China after 1990s, or the second generation of immigrants. They started an independent life in the awakening of sexual consciousness and self-consciousness. The earliest novel she wrote, a fish called Dabai, was actually about the immigrant experience of father and son. Intergenerational differences, intergenerational transmission, the story of finding relatives thousands of miles away, and the small bridge flowing water are actually written for two generations.

There is another group in Ling Lan's short stories, which is about international students or people who have just come to work in the United States after graduate school. Ah, New Jersey! The Freckled Nautilus is such a novel. In fact, "Rapids" belongs to this kind of theme. This is a topic that immigrant writers often write, such as homesickness, sadness, lack of money, sexual repression, narrow life circle and so on. It is the standard experience of "foreign jumping the queue". It is not easy to renovate this theme and write something new. These short stories will be published as Ling Lan's first collection of novels.

? Ling Lan's poetry anthology "Ice in Flash Memory" was published by new york New Century Publishing House in July this year, and won the overseas poet award of "Asian Poet" in the same year. Fifty poems in this collection span twenty years, but the main works were written in these two years. The poems in "Ice in Flash Memory" have an obvious trajectory from classic imagist poetry to spoken poetry. The routine of lonely self of poets is to look beyond themselves, and everything can be included in poetry, food, politics, skiing trip, shoes, tattoos and physical examination. This state that everything can be poetic is directly influenced by novel creation.

Essays and current affairs commentary columns are Ling Lan's sideline, but her works are extraordinary and will be on the elegant stage.

20 16 after the series of essays tracking the American election won the "Author of the Year Award" by Tencent Everyone, the essay column was collected and published "Is America no longer great?" 》

Experiencing an American College Entrance Examination was recently published in Foreign Stories of Jiangnan magazine. Different from China's college entrance examination system, the application process of college entrance examination in the United States is more complicated: candidates must go to the school they apply for, fill out the application form, write documents, and be brutally rejected if they don't write well, and so on. This paper describes the "dangers" of the author accompanying his son in the American college entrance examination. In spite of many difficulties, he finally got what he wanted. This paper also introduces the author's education method of "stocking" his son, so as to cultivate his ability to live, study and choose independently, which is worth learning and thinking by China students.

Finally, I have to mention the translated works. 20 12 at the invitation of Beidao, Ling Lan translated two poems for 20 13 Hong Kong International Poetry. The traditional and simplified versions of the translated poems have been published in Hong Kong and Jiangsu. 20 16 Plath's Letters was translated by Lijiang Publishing House, Guangxi. The process of translating works is equivalent to a literary training course of Ling Lan. A few years later, her novels began to be published, and she occasionally chatted with Mr. Shen of Lijiang River. He said that translating novels was his self-study course in literature. In this regard, Ling Lan feels the same way. The translation of pure literature is a job with huge time and energy but extremely low return. The only advantage is that the translator can get in touch with the translated classics and see the master's writing track in a text mine as hard as gold panning. Translation provides the necessary knowledge and psychological preparation for many authors to start their literary careers.

Why can Ling Lan's novels impress readers as soon as they are published? What's so remarkable about her writing?

In my communication with her, I found that Ling Lan is a person who will fall into her own story when writing. She attaches great importance to the scene, just as a play should have a plot. She will make fiction, create an environment in which the protagonist lives, and the protagonist's fate will change. On the one hand, Ling Lan set a game for him (her), and then they also grew up and changed themselves. Ling Lan said that when she wrote to a certain extent, the story began to grow slowly, and the fictional characters began to have their own destiny. This is why Ling Lan not only writes very hard, but also likes to collide with the world, constantly reading, learning and communicating with people.

Although Cleavage is the first novel published by Ling Lan, Ling Lan wrote the short story Nautilus with Freckles on 20 15. This very strange and wonderful short story was finally revealed to the world after being rejected for four years. I watched it on purpose. I think it is this novel that has been neglected for four years, and her skill is naturally mature, which makes me have to think that Ling Lan really has a special talent for writing novels. She went from prosperity to loneliness in Bridgeport, a small city. Whether it was industrial civilization or a person's tangled life secrets, bursting hormones, falling rocks and ups and downs of life love, it would eventually disappear without a trace. Left a poetic memory.

There is a passage describing the heroine Jenny: metaphor is dangerous. Jenny's stupid randomness is his weapon. Her sexy Catholic school uniform pleated skirt is invisible inside and outside. Once you put on your skirt and walk, the bright red pleats will open like folding fans, blinding you from time to time. If you want to stare at it for a while, it will be put away like a folding fan, and it will be gone.

After describing Jenny's sexy charm, the following sentence outlines her shrewd personality: Jenny looks at me with a hint of sarcasm, and Berkeley's liberal education plays a role in her like her ex-husband's project. A slight change in the corner of her mouth turned her smile into a tease.

I can't believe this is her first novel, and everything is sharp.

Recently, people found Ling Lan's name in the initial evaluation of Huacheng literature, in the titles of nominated writers' works and in the comments. Her work "The Last Scenery in European and American Media and Images" was published in the fifth issue of Flower City, 2017; This year, the fourth issue of Huacheng 20 19 will publish Ling Lan's article: immigrant literature: literature has only advantages and disadvantages, not old and new; Ling Lan's nonfiction literary work "Experiencing an American College Entrance Examination" appeared in Jiangnan No.4 overseas story column on 20 19. When the second Jiangnan Poetry Conference and the fourth Asian Poets Award were about to be held in Suzhou, I found Ling Lan's name among the participating poets. She is a writer who became a hit because of the novel Torrent. Just after I finished writing her novel story, she made an all-round attack in the fields of novels, prose, poetry, prose, non-fiction literature, translation and criticism with lightning speed, and achieved dazzling victory.

There is a flood of overseas Chinese writing in new york. Ling Lan is with many excellent friends. This is a vibrant writing community. The authors of this community echo each other online and offline, and it is a colorful ecological circle for China writers outside China. In this new immigrant's literary creation lineup, new york is a big platform. These new immigrants received higher education and integrated into American social life. Their writing themes have a broad perspective and depth, and excellent writers and works emerge one after another. Their works began to record their own history and reality in immigrant countries, encouraging new immigrants to accept the challenges, tests and opportunities after the reform, and even to think and understand more. Among them, Ling Lan is undoubtedly an outstanding new immigrant writer.

The three-eyed crow in Game of Thrones is the youngest child of the Stark family, because occasionally seeing another family's brother and sister being pushed off the tower because of incest is paralyzed and disabled for life.

He was born with the ability to manipulate thoughts. He put his thoughts on crows. He can follow crows through high walls and see the past and future of all ethnic groups. He finally ascended the throne of seven families.

It is explained on the Internet that the three-eyed crow can observe all human activities in the past and present from the perspective of a crow, so as to know the truth of the matter. In fact, it is also a keyboard man in God mode.

Throughout the ages, there is a small group of real artists who are both recorders and creators. They are three-eyed crows bearing human memory. Not everyone who writes in Chinese can be a three-eyed crow.

Readers, please remember this name: Ling Lan.