Once upon a time there was a magician whom no one knew, and who played a flute, passed through a quiet and pleasant town. He took all the children in the town. The children, fascinated by the sound of the flute, followed the magician away. This is an ancient legend told by the Russian writer Paustovsky in "Facing the Autumn Fields". In fact, the writer himself is the magician, and "Facing Qiuye" is the wonderful flute he played. Among the children fascinated by the flute, there are you, him, and me.
"Facing Qiuye", according to the translator, Mr. Zhang Tiefu, originally meant "face to face with autumn". The title of the book comes from an article of the same name in the book. In this article, the author Paustovsky, through an experience of "face to face with autumn", pondered the truth: if a writer wants to write good works, Not only face to face with "autumn", but also face to face with all "nature", because masterpieces exist not only in art, but also in nature.
Smart readers may already understand at this time that "Facing Qiuye" is not a collection of essays on scenes, but a book that "reveals" the secrets of the writer's creation. Although seemingly similar works are not uncommon, most of them are written by "layman" literary and art theorists, and they are always suspicious of others, and their dry words challenge readers' nerves and patience. . Occasionally, I see the creative talks published by writers, and I feel that they lack a little taste, wisdom and sincerity. It directly points to the core and essence of literary creation and literary works, and is full of poetic and picturesque; it makes readers feel at the same time that the autumn wind is blowing, warm and comfortable. "The charm index reaches five stars.
However, to many young readers, "Facing Qiuye", like his author, seems a little naive. In fact, the Chinese translation of this book was published by Hunan People's Publishing House as early as 1983 (republished by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House in 1992, and supplemented in 2008), and has a high "reputation" in the reading circles. A writer praised it from the bottom of his heart, saying that this booklet of Wu Shi has both the delicacy in the prose and the casual indifference of the essay, and it can always use the profound vision of a sage, in many people turn a blind eye to it. The place unearthed golden treasures.
The writer really read "Facing the Autumn Wild", because Paustovsky admired Diderot's words very much, "The task of art is to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary, to discover in the extraordinary. Ordinary things", he further extended that "discovering ordinary things in the ordinary and discovering the extraordinary in the extraordinary is neither art nor literature." It can be said that, as a writer talking about the author's creation, " Facing the Qiuye" has indeed achieved "discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary", and at the same time, the expressive translation of the translator, Mr. Zhang Tiefu, has increased its brilliance and charm, and we have no reason not to read it.
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