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Yu Hua's First Single Person Live Chat on "Three Views": It's a Regret to Have Read "To Live" But Not "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood"

2024-05-10   

Recently, on the occasion of the launch of the new version of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", Yu Hua held a special live broadcast to chat with netizens about his "Three Views". This is Yu Hua's first solo live broadcast - without any other guests throughout, Yu Hua delivered a wonderful "talk show" to netizens with dense golden phrases. The one and a half hour live broadcast received over 6 million viewers, and at the end, everyone left a message saying "I haven't heard enough". "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is another novel created by Yu Hua after "To Live", which tells the story of Xu Sanguan, a silk factory worker, selling blood twelve times in his life. After its publication in China, the novel was quickly translated into Korean, German, Italian, French, Russian... It has been published in more than 30 countries and regions so far. It, along with "To Live," was selected as one of the "Top Ten Works of the 1990s" by 100 Chinese critics, and has also won multiple international literary awards such as the Ivo Andric Literary Award in Serbia and the Literary Translation Award of the Portuguese Writers Association. Although nearly thirty years have passed since the birth of the novel, it still has vibrant vitality and infectious power today. As a reader commented: Everyone laughs at Xu Sanguan, but who is not Xu Sanguan? "Xu Sanguan's Blood Selling Chronicles" and "To Live" are the relationship between left and right hands. Yu Hua mentioned during a live broadcast that after writing "To Live", he felt that he had written a novel about how the Chinese people of that generation struggled, which was not enough. He should write another book about how the Chinese people of that generation lived through it, so "Xu Sanguan's Blood Selling Chronicles" came into being. "These two books are actually closely connected, just like the relationship between the left and right hands. So after reading" To Live ", I didn't read" Xu Sanguan's Blood Selling Record ". I think it's a pity." Some people commented that "Xu Sanguan's Blood Selling Record" is a "lucky version of" To Live ", and Yu Hua liked it very much. The tone of this novel is warm and humorous, as described by Yu Hua: "You can always smile or even laugh while reading the novel, and of course, you may also be moved in the middle.". When someone asked in the comments, "Have you ever wanted to write Xu Sanguan to death?" Yu Hua repeatedly "clarified," absolutely not. "Because in" To Live, "after Fu Gui lost one family after another, I hope that no one will die in the next novel.". Even the only one who died, He Xiaoyong, Yu Hua, expressed that the responsibility was not on himself. "It was the narrative that sent him on the path of death" - "If he didn't die, that novel wouldn't be able to continue." Although the tone of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" and "To Live" is different, the protagonists of both novels share the same optimism: although life is full of hardships, both Fu Gui and Xu Sanguan feel satisfied with what they have. Yu Hua said that people in different times will face hardships, when they are short of materials, and when they are rich in materials. Although the forms of suffering may vary, sometimes economic and sometimes spiritual, falling on everyone's head is equally unfortunate. The best way to avoid collapse is to stay away from "straw". Recalling the inspiration for creating "Xu Sanguan's Blood Sale", Yu Hua tells this story: "My wife and I are two people."

Edit:Lubaikang Responsible editor:Chenze

Source:Southern Network

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