Read | Can Tie Ning’s beloved “Golden Rose” allow you to discover “new landscapes”Flying into the homes of ordinary people
There are countless writing collections, If you want to say that it is extremely influential, literary, and extremely easy to learn from, I am afraid that the “Golden Rose” is still indispensable. This book has always been considered suitable for the general reader and the new writer. The famous author Tie Ning was delighted when he received a copy of “Golden Rose” in middle school, and regretted losing it. Today, “Golden Rose” still has a strong ability to attract fans with its beautiful language, vivid narrative, and clever structure.
“The Golden Rose” is the first “Notes on Writers’ Creation” completed by Paustowski at the age of sixty-three in his mature creative period. Nature “. The title of the book comes from the only relic of the hero in the opening chapter “Precious Dust”. The story takes place between the French soldier Chamet and Suzanne, the orphan of the commander of his regiment in Mexico. During the voyage that took the little girl back to China, Shamei told her the story of the golden rose, “If anyone has such a flower, he must be lucky.” After the separation, Susanna grew up in her aunt’s house, and Shamei became a cleaner after she retired. Susannah, who reappeared in front of Shamei, was addicted to love and could not forget the golden rose. Secretly, Shamei spent many time and energy collecting scraps from the jewelry workshop, sifting gold scraps from the dust, casting gold scraps into gold ingots, and finally asking the jeweler to make “a very fine rose flower”. However, he failed. Shamei finally presented the golden rose full of his tenderness and blessings to Susannah, and she was in the world forever. A jeweler encounters a writer, and Shamei’s story spreads to the world. The author found resonance in Shamei’s story: “We writers have searched for these countless fine sands for decades, quietly collecting them for ourselves, fused into alloys, and then cast our own ‘golden roses’—— Novels, novels or long poems.” Paustovsky, who has been on a writing journey for 43 years, explained mystery and joy the literary creation like a little water. Such vivid images and simple explanations are not only “Valuable”. features the entire book “Golden Rose”.
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Paustovsky’s subtitle for “The Golden Rose” is “On the Writer’s Craft and Creative Psychology”. In order to achieve this task, on the one hand, he showed himself: using the writing outline from the short story “Snow” to show the importance of considering again and again, and using the writing motives, character prototypes, accumulation of information and other processes of “Kara-Bugaz Bay” to show life Everything in the book “can shock the heart with great power”, and all this can be expressed passionately and lyrically; with a collection of materials from the novels “The Telegraph” and “The Constellation”. of the Hounds”, it is revealed in a popular way that it is necessary to pay attention to everyday life. details, and do not forcibly remove the material of observation, “even the material of success”; explain it in your own words and my words, like a forest ranger, farmer, poet, sailor, etc., “Don’t despise anything when looking for words”, In order to “keep a sense of the language,” not only with people,” but with pastures and forests , rivers and seas, old willows, chirping birds, and every flower that nods under the hazel bushes.”; with the birth of the novel “The Fate of Charles Langseve” to argue that “the material is dead until the characters appeared”; with the epiphany landscape description of a memory of an air raid in 1941, “it is not an addition.”.
On the other hand, Paustovsky cites a wide range of sources: using inscriptions near a Latvian fishing village and the story of the Dutchman Murta Tuli to emphasize the mission of literature; using flashy flakes to show that the true meaning of writing is not fantasy, but the true feelings of Reality; borrowing Leo Tolstoy’s example of seeing a burdock to write “Haji Murat”, “ideas can flourish only if they are constantly in contact with reality”; citing A. Tolstoy’s summary to reveal the Freedom of Logic of the character, “If an author forces a character to act against logic, if he forces a character back to the outline, then the character begins to become lifeless, walking dead, robot”; adapted from the old proofreader Blagov The experience of the old writer in Soboly’s article emphasizes “what an incredible effect a proper period has on the reader”; use Gaidar to write “The Fate of the Drummer”, Feiding to write “Incredible Summer”, Chekhov to write “The Hunter” “explains that there are no specific rules for the way of writing; as shown by the description of “hair in standing on top” in A. Tolstoy’s “The Course of Suffering”, “an accurate detail can make the reader … produce an intuitive and accurate understanding”; the story of the discovery of Florida by Spanish aristocrats revealed that “imagination arises from life, and sometimes it in turn dominates life”; with Monet’s Red Fog in London and Levitan’s “Above Eternal Peace” encouraging the author to be honest Discover and express “new features of reality”.
Going back to the creation scene of “Golden Rose”, I guess I can feel its value even more. When heroism and prestige dominated Soviet literature in the 1950s, Paustovsky, who had experienced three wars and two revolutions, recounted his writing experience, literature at his own pace, claims and aesthetic ideals. In his uninteresting essay, his warm memories of his friends, his continuous pursuit of writing, and his sober conscience and his noble character in the face of the times penetrate everywhere. Paustovsky described his works as the “Golden Rose” carefully created by writers for readers, and his collection of essays “Golden Rose” can be described as a “Golden Rose” created for writers and readers at the same time.
Time is the best touchstone. According to incomplete statistics, from 2022, there will be almost 40 versions of “Golden Rose” in Russia, and there will be no less than 20 versions in China. On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Paustovsky’s birth, whether reading “The Golden Rose” for the first time or re-reading it, there will always be “new landscapes and new paths”. (Bai Ying)
Editor: Guo Ying
