Original title: Shuangxuetao Thanks for his willful "naked resignation" eight years ago
Shuangxuetao's famous work " Moses on the plain" was adapted into the movie of the same name this year.
Shuang Xuetao is now a professional writer living in Beijing.
"When I graduated from elementary school, it was the summer of 1997, and it was as hot and dry as every time I graduated afterwards." This is the first sentence of Shuang Xuetao's semi-autobiographical novel "The Age of the Deaf" when he was 28 years old. At that time, he worked in a bank in the Northeast during the day and went home to write at night. He was a typical " slash youth ".
No one would have thought that Shuang Xuetao had become a professional novelist who moved to Beijing nine years later. His two works, "Assassination of the Novelist" and "Moses on the Plain" have been adapted into movies this year, which has attracted much attention. Recently, taking advantage of the reprint of "The Age of Deaf", he communicated with readers through live broadcast for the first time, reviewing his decade of creation and life journey.
"The Age of Deaf" records the youth of the post-80s
Shuang Xuetao's literary appearance is quite dramatic. In the spring of 2010, while working in a bank, he accidentally learned that Taiwan had a Chinese World Film Novel Award. For the first prize of NT$600,000, he spent more than 20 days writing his debut work "Winged Ghost". Unexpectedly, this work won the championship in one fell swoop.
After receiving the award from Taiwan, Shuang Xuetao returned to the bank to continue working, but at this time, the impulse to write could no longer be suppressed. He secretly built a folder on his computer, named "Deaf and Mute Age", and wrote it every day after get off work, and wrote it for two more days on Saturdays and Sundays. "The novel itself is a story that has suppressed me for more than ten years, just like I was hit by Xuanming Divine Palm . Although I was not dead, the cold poison was on my body and it would happen from time to time. The writing process is like practicing an internal mental method. This is a battle that is not easy for outsiders to be ruled. I have been covered with frost several times."
. Shuang Xuetao wrote for six months, changed three drafts, and lost five or six kilograms. "On the day after I finished writing, I opened the window and found that the window was so light. Everyone on the road was wearing short-sleeved sleeves. The sun was fierce. It was already summer. I was wearing summer clothes, but I didn't realize it at all. I knew I could never write such things again. Maybe I became another person. From then on, I will live as another person."
This story that Shuang Xuetao regarded as a "must-write" was his youth era. The protagonist of the story is a group of junior high school students on the campus of 108 Middle School. The novel tells the story of seven sharp teenagers through the narrative perspective of the teenager Li Mo, linking the growth trajectory of "I". Frankenstein Liu Yida, the genius boy Huo Jialin, the weird and precocious charming girl Anna, and Ai Xiaonan who always wears a white shirt... Faced with the first collision with the outside world, some people resisted fiercely, some people died and lost traces, and more children became taciturn. In "The Age of Deaf", industrial cities covered with heavy snow, families in troubled times in the laid-off wave, and the depression of campus life intertwined the youth and destiny of the post-80s generation.
Writing has become its own "life ladder"
"Every writer writes his first novel is ignorant and has great ambitions." The reason why he named it "The Age of Deaf and Dumb" is because Shuang Xuetao at that time hopes to use it to spread it to a generation. Looking back at the title of this book today, he still felt it was appropriate, "My junior high school years were a period when personal expression and personality were suppressed more severely. The feeling of depression was the reason for the title of this book. In fact, it was not particularly grand, but the stories of people around him."
This is Shuang Xuetao's second work, and it is also a book that he dared not reread because the stories in the book are too close to himself. "Now the post-80s generation are approaching middle-aged, and many people have almost forgotten their youth. Fortunately, I embarked on the road of writing and wrote down things that may be forgotten in the future." He said that "The Age of Deaf" is the book with the highest emotional concentration among all his works, so that after writing, I felt like "spouting a large piece of stone."
"I will never be defeated again." At the end of "The Age of Deaf", Shuang Xuetao wrote this sentence and encouraged himself in this way.
entered the bank as soon as they graduated. This may be a very enviable profession in the eyes of others, but it is a kind of mental torture for Shuang Xuetao. Writing became his "life ladder". Until now, he still missed his state very much. "When working during the day, he was the time to release himself completely at night, and imagined himself as the king of an independent kingdom. During that period, he had a strong desire to express himself, and he felt uncomfortable not writing. He was especially looking forward to going home and writing for a while, which was very enjoyable."
Although "The Age of Deaf" was not published after it was finished, the next year, he resolutely resigned from the bank and focused on writing. He wrote for a year, but he still had not published a word, and all the documents were placed on the D disk of the computer.
"Assassination of Novelist" movie adaptation is very exquisite
"Assassination of Novelist" was written in that unknown period. Because the work could not be published, Shuang Xuetao could only use the novel to pour his own blocks and write a fantasy story about a former bank employee being hired to assassinate a novelist. A few years later, this story was spotted by director Lu Yang and adapted into a movie starring Lei Jiayin, Yang Mi, Dong Zijian, and Yu Hewei. It will be released in the Spring Festival next year.
"I have read the script. Lu Yang has strong creative ability and exquisite modification direction." Shuang Xuetao revealed that he is also looking forward to this movie very much. "Movies and novels are completely different media. This will be a very audio-visual impact and special movie. Its creation of the world is richer than that of novels."
In 2014, Shuang Xuetao spent nearly a year to polish out a novella "Moses on the Plain". This work won the 17th Hundred Flowers Literature Award Novella Award, which made him famous. In 2015, Shuang Xuetao entered the first creative writing graduate class at Renmin University of China for further study. Since then, he has published many works such as "The Age of Deaf", "The Aviator", and "The Hunter", becoming a hot post-80s writer.
Ten years, from a bank employee to a professional novelist, Shuang Xuetao admitted that he was "the lucky one among thousands of people who love literature." Now when he recalled the "naked resignation" at that time, he also admitted that he was "really reckless". "During that time, Haruki Murakami resigned at the age of 29. I was also that age. His experience pierced me like a leverage. Thanks for his choice for affecting my choice."
This month, the movie of the same name adapted from "Moses on the Plain" was just announced to be completed. Zhou Dongyu and Liu Haoran's starring lineup plus the crime story that took place in the Northeast has made many book and movie fans look forward to it. In fact, with the writing of the old industrial zone in Northeast China, the "Northeast Writers Group" has also attracted much attention from the literary community in recent years, but Shuang Xuetao is not interested in this concept. In his opinion, "There are many concepts that are created to attract everyone's attention and are not particularly related to the essence of literature. If you read novels carefully, you can see the difference between everyone." (Reporter Li Li)
(Editor: Meng Liyuan, Ding Tao)
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