Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao. This is a novel with a panoramic view of China's contemporary urban and rural social life, consisting of three books. First published in February, 1986.
The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people in all walks of life at that time. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. 1991March, Ordinary World won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize in China.
How ordinary the world is, there are no fearless warriors, no heroes to turn the tide, no earth-shattering feats: only the most ordinary life, only ordinary people who constantly struggle in life. And how vast the world is, from wandering souls who left their wives and children behind to commissioners sent by the central authorities.
All kinds of people play their respective roles on the all-inclusive life stage: some people succeed here, some people fail here, some people are born, some people die, but in any case, the world is so real, vivid and touching, and this is the ordinary world.
The protagonist was originally a farmer, but he ended up digging coal and left scars on his face. The difference from ordinary farmers is that he prefers reading. The hero's brother has been in the countryside all his life, and the changes of the times have finally rewarded his hard work, but he has only become a slightly richer farmer. Most of the characters involved have not made any earth-shattering deeds, and no one is an out-and-out villain like many film and television works.
In a small world, everyone is trying to find their own direction in life. The advantage of the novel is that it almost depicts the life of all beings in the countryside by line drawing.
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The Creative Background of Ordinary World
Ordinary World was written in 1975. However, the cultural background in the middle and late 1980s was that various new literary thoughts were surging, modernism, stream of consciousness and other literary concepts were all the rage, and the innovation of literary creation forms and techniques was dizzying. On the contrary, the traditional realistic creation has been "ignored".
Some critics even think that the realistic writing technique of another novel "Life" by Lu Yao is out of date, but Lu Yao still insists on finishing the novel.
Lu Yao has been preparing and writing for three years. In order to broaden his horizons and master information, he read a lot, including nearly 100 novels, newspapers and other related books in the past decade, and lived a life of "morning begins at noon". At the same time, he also traveled all walks of life and experienced life.
The first draft was written in a remote coal mine hospital. From his essay "Morning Begins at Noon", we can see his persistent confidence in literature and the price he paid: "Writing has entered a frenzy. The body hardly exists; Life seems to be a pure spiritual form, and daily life has become a robot. " The second draft was written in a remote small county in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau. Because of irregular life, Lu Yao was seriously overdrawn and finally fell ill.
Later, after eating more than 100 decoctions, my body recovered a little, and I continued to write with a kind of spiritual strength. The third draft was changed to Yulin Hotel. 1On May 25th, 988, Lu Yao finally finished all the creations of Ordinary World.