Jia Fei's Book Review

1, youth literature, touching the pain of life growth (author Fan Zao)

Youth literature, especially campus youth literature, should be integrated with the seasons and scenery of the campus, along with the passion and fantasy of youth, along the way in longing and confusion. In the early 1990s, Yu Xiu's "Flower Season and Rainy Season" became an instant hit, and a few years later, the "New Concept" composition contest of Shanghai's "Germination" magazine made the youth literature bristle. Subsequently, Han Han, Jing M. Guo, Yin Lichuan, Ming Xiaoxi and other young writers made their debut, and a batch of youth literature came one after another, which stirred the literary world in China for a time. In their works, the longing and rebellion of teenagers, the romance and confusion of youth, the joy and pain of growing up, etc. , constitute a double variation of youth literature. Then, after wonderful passion and wonderful illusion, what else should youth literature and campus youth literature have?

Just when he went to the United States to study business, Han Han became a racing master, Jing M.Guo entered the entertainment circle, Yin Lichuan turned to directing movies, and Ming Xiaoxi devoted himself to international trade. Or when the young masters of literature and art were scattered and met with crisis, Jia Fei, an out-and-out post-80s writer born in Sichuan 1986, was born in May, 20/2. Newspaper interviews, TV appearances and online postings are all very enjoyable. Jia Fei once again ignited his passion and projected the illusion of youth literature with true records, profound thinking and unique writing style. It is true that Jia Fei's Youth in China and Only Youth still have the symbolic factors of youth literature, that is, the passion and fantasy of youth. In addition, they also have different elements from similar novels, that is, awakening after sinking, reflection in exposure, sigh in sadness and criticism of authenticity.

China Teenager is a campus novel written by Jia Fei in his hometown Quxian No.2 Middle School in 2005-2006, with a total of 6,543.8+0.6 million words. The book takes a group of students in a rural middle school as the narrative object, and tells their difficult learning process, entrance war and survival dilemma with deep affection. The author tells himself from the first-person perspective of 6530.6000060606 that if China Youth is the memories of youth of high school students, then Nothing but Youth is the reality of college students' youth. Only Youth is a novel written by Jia Fei after the "5. 12" earthquake in 2008. Based on a group of college students in a provincial undergraduate college in D city, the work covers all aspects of college life, such as scholarship farce, job-seeking tragedy, insider of grand prix, crazy drinking, hopeless love and wanton sex. , or the first person perspective. Although the two novels are independent, they have a whole idea, and the main line runs through them. All of them are based on what Jia Xiaodao saw, heard, thought and felt, and reproduce the struggles and mental processes about ideals and destiny, life and opportunity, love and marriage, study and employment in the 1980s and 1990s, which are known as the "little emperors" of contemporary China. In the novel, flashbacks, episodes, diaries, letters and other techniques are widely used, and writing skills such as sketching, lyricism, exaggeration and ridicule are interspersed, so that a history of growing pains and life tempering is vividly written. Creating and displaying contradictions and conflicts is the artistic pursuit of narrative literature, especially novels, so should it be the same in the familiar campus youth literature? Yu Xiu's "Flower Season and Rainy Season" describes the intergenerational contradiction between the simple and optimistic students and the strict and loving teachers in the middle school of the special zone; Han Han's Triple Door shows the social contradiction between students' free nature and exam-oriented education. Jing M.Guo's How Many Flowers Fall in a Dream shows the emotional contradiction between romantic love and sincere friendship on campus. There is also Ming Xiaoxi's "There will be angels who love you for me". So, what kind of contradictions does Jia Fei's campus youth novels show and reveal?

The first is the incompatibility between reality and ideal. Jia Fei's novels are not like all youth literature. His youth does not represent his longing for the future, his longing for beauty and his pursuit of dreams. Although in a sense, youth is a proper term for young students to interpret their life ideals, the youth described by Jia Fei is unique. His novel describes that students who enter high school are eager for the university hall, and charming children who enter the university are looking forward to improving themselves. However, the real campus is not all sunny. In the novel, some teachers are more mercenary, the school evaluation score is the highest, various societies form gangs, the student dormitory is smoky, and more people are recruited. Secondly, the instinct conflict between emotion and desire. Needless to say, Jia Fei's two novels use more pen and ink to truly and boldly reproduce the feelings and desires of adolescent boys and girls. There are not only hazy and beautiful love and first love, but also the innocence of two children without guessing. Here, there is dirty and humble debauchery and catharsis, showing the tragedy of true human nature; There is even student prostitution here, which exposes the complexity of social problems. Jia Fei adopted the general realism of Jin Ping Mei, Mo Bosang's critical realism and even Zola's realistic brushwork, which showed these boys and girls' physical maturity and childish mind, the suppression of desire by impulse and reason, and the temptation of greed and holy love to the fullest. Finally, there is no choice between depravity and sublimation. Indeed, life is not an inevitable choice to turn left to heaven and right to hell, but in reality we often have no choice. None of the characters in Jia Fei's novels have the joy and frankness of childhood, the frivolous and longing of teenagers, and the pursuit and loss of teenagers. However, the reality forces some of them to go into pyramid schemes, some to go to jail, some to struggle at the bottom, some to have a bright future on their own, and some to live a luxurious life on the power of their parents; Although the author gave the protagonist Jia Xiaodao a shiny "tail" and made him repent, he may go to heaven because of Stendhal's Soren Rolling in the Abyss or Dante's Imaginary Poet. We don't know, in fact, ordinary or even mediocre is his real destination.

It is true that the campus presented in Jia Fei's China Teenagers and Youth has nothing else, has long been a vanity fair and a happy valley of life. The characters he created are not ideal and optimistic angels, but the whole "lost generation" and even the "beat generation". In this regard, although there is no need for the author to make incisive analysis and severe criticism, the truth of the facts told in the novel is more real than hypocritical criticism in a sense, because the best way to respect a great man is to point out his shortcomings. In this sense, Jia Fei's novel is not so much a bold and adventurous youth rebellion as a solemn verdict of deep love and responsibility:

This is a backwater of despair,

This is definitely not the beauty,

Why don't we leave it to ugliness to cultivate,

Look at the world he created.

If Wen Yiduo's Dead Water turns ugliness into beauty and realizes the phoenix nirvana from life to literature, then Jia Fei's youth novels not only show the true value of youth literature, but also touch the pain of life growth!