Two Plays by Yuan —— Comment on The Watcher and The Lonely Game

? To tell the truth, the names of books often attract me and make me want to find and read. That kind of obscure and sad words attract me, just like a ray of dark light that suddenly shines in life. With this in mind, I entered his words. His world.

? In The Scholar's Watch, Yuan describes his scholar as follows: "When everything is completely silent and sweet, when the rain on the glass window stops snaking, when the bowling ball hits the needle without making a sound ... At those accidental moments, the scholar speaks to me with his strange sign language." Do scholars really exist? I don't know. Anyway, he is a guy who is neither a man nor a ghost. He is a lonely and gloomy old playmate.

In the scholar's view, his style is calm and humorous, and his novels are mixed with the native language of Taiwan Province Province, which makes them very cordial and real to read. Part of it is a fragment of his memories of a certain aspect, and the other part is the source of his novels to sort out the memories, which is very nuanced, just like watching a very good old movie about the boring and empty life, with memories mixed with truth and unreality. Comb slowly, bake slowly, and soak slowly to feel the ethereal beauty brought by time travel.

? The scholar he wrote almost always sends an unreachable letter. He firmly believes that relying on his "Tielix" watch can win time to guess the postman's appearance. But he always loses to me.

? The scholar said: "There is a heart in an automatic watch. People need to stimulate it from time to time, otherwise it will stop beating and die."

? After all the farce caused by watches, Grandpa heard Dashugong say that there would be an earthquake on the island of Taiwan Province Province, and then he bought a watch in a hurry, followed by Huo Yanzai, but the failure to buy a watch became a "waste of time". "Everyone has a watch." It is strange that Huo Yan can guess the time accurately every time. A very funny scene, I imagine a summer afternoon, the white-haired grandfather always stops to cut his hair and nods mechanically. And Huo Yan's sly smug face.

The death of the scholar shocked me and made me understand that my hearing was poor because I wore a watch. His letters were scattered on the rails from his bag, and his wrist was raised as if he were looking at his watch. Loneliness and deception. Memories emerge, in the sound of the iron horse stepping on the ground, in the scholar bending down and running hard, expectation is mixed with loneliness.

The "burning ditch series" composed of the scholar's watch, the father of the zenith and the ghost of the timepiece is a mixture of memory and surrealism. The illusory story association bears the writer's worldview together and depicts the ordinary illusion of life with calm and plain pen and ink. Take "me" for example, the scholar, Kong Maoyang, grandfather Huang Shuimu, grandmother Lin, neighbors, their sons and Wu Nan, fortune teller, teacher and priest. There is a dead man, Wu Xilang. These characters are single, and the characters themselves are not integrated with other characters but scattered in one place. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to the uniqueness of characters and human personality. With the help of characters, this paper depicts an illusory image of rural marginal people in Taiwan Province Province. The fusion of reality and non-reality, fiction and memory. In addition, it has funny and abrupt farce plots, eccentric characters and some ghosts transformed by local superstitions in Taiwan Province Province, thus forming a unique short story with surreal flavor.

Such a group of rural teenagers, such a group of "adults" active in different fields. Such a ghost custom, unreasonable education system (one class takes 50 minutes, and the class ends only 10 minutes).

The Lonely Game impressed me deeply. When I was still wandering in the fantasy world, I became a wandering horse, surpassing the rest of the world. It hit me on the back vividly, which made me miserable. Unexpectedly, the sadness I hid in my body flowed out. I realized the weight of words and the powerlessness of my own value. The style of writing is not only good, but also incomparable. Hide-and-seek describes the farthest dark corner of childhood and likes to hide. He described it like this.

"That day, I hid in a big tree, waiting for my companion Kong to come to me; I waited for a long time until it was getting dark. The feeling of happiness slowly disappeared with time, and finally I saw Kong Zhaonian coming slowly like an old man. He stood slowly under the big tree where I was hiding, looking left and right, and then suddenly looked up-I was shocked before I could scream. He looked at me straight and waited for a while. It should be said that he saw through me and stared at my back, motionless and chilling. I have never seen such a completely expressionless face and such empty eyes, turning a blind eye to me. " This feeling is like the loneliness factor in the soul being seen through, which makes people shudder. It's like Osamu Dazai being exposed by Wuyi that "you did it on purpose" is as terrible as the igloo for thousands of years.

Follow the author's question: the darkest corner in memory? It was a summer evening, the sunshine in my memory was soft and quiet, and some tiny particles emerged in the air. When the characters in the story spoke, I felt as if I had been choked by someone. Open your frightened eyes. "So-and-so told me not to be friends with you. We won't play with you. " I was a child who did something wrong, and turned around and ran out of the grove of memories like running for my life. Children's jokes, young shadows of fear, primary betrayal of friendship. This has become the darkest corner in my memory, which is always picked up by me and gradually becomes clear with the light in my memory.

Submarine is about Kong, a "dumb" boy who always has unique skills. He can repair anything and put these toys in the bomb shelter. His house is also a grotesque building, which can be said to be fabricated by hand. He is the lowest class figure in the countryside. I envy such a partner. Envy him for having a submarine. "What can hide deeper than a submarine? The submarine suddenly dived into the bottom of the water, disappeared into everyone's sight, and moved silently in the water, making it watertight and without any gaps. What is more secret and desirable than this small half space? "

Kong Zhaonian: He turned himself into a submarine; Also, as long as you imagine that you are dead and light, then the underwater motor will become powerful and carry people forward quickly …

? "The Corner" describes a rebellious teenager named German Shepherd, who is tattooed, imprisoned and cursed by his father every four hours on average.

? "Black voice" has a round voice with two black braids, which is not elegant. How I long to hear Wen Ya's piano. "Sometimes, while waiting, I will turn off the light in my room, lie flat on my bed and watch the moon rise slowly from my window; In the dark, my loneliness pricked up my ears. I long for the sound to be like a bat, as if only the fluctuation of the sound can make me recognize everything around me. "

I especially like fragile stories, just because of his horrible stories and unrealistic fantasies. One of Sima Guang's little boys is a ghost, and it happens that they are also playing a lonely game-hide and seek. Sima Guang was convinced that he didn't find another companion, so he smashed the jar in full view. But there is a child who looks exactly like Sima Guang. Through the adaptation of ancient stories, the writer's unique fantasy and ghosts are blended, and the story is adapted to the fullest, showing loneliness to the fullest. It's like a hole floating around on a water tank, just like "I" ran as fast as the hole and his shadow in the sports meeting. As He Wenya said, imagine yourself walking on the beach. A soft blanket floated slowly on the sea. She walked into the golden waves, lay on the blanket, drifted away and disappeared …

? Farewell is Yuan's most famous work, which tells the story of a kitchen worker about to go to sea, his eldest son who was arrested for desertion, and his second son who had to attend a port city middle school. See you off in the silence and desolation on the train. There is a story with a beginning and an end, plain and simple language, and the characters are as far away as the train that is about to leave. The characters in the story pay attention to writing gestures with pen and ink, but pay little attention to their language. The "sense of distance" that keeps readers away from memory is always full of distance, just like looking at photos taken by others. The state of life is wasted in this fragmentation and alienation. The characters were sent away one by one, and they set foot on different roads and ran away. Alienation and parting bring faint sadness and distant distance. One train has brought us closer, while the other has alienated our feelings.

A room without windows is the favorite of this book. "Contact with death, the sooner the better." -Kun Zhouzai. The factor of depression looms in the film, and I feel his pity and sadness in humorous language. When I was preparing to take the "night school" exam, I came to work in the funeral home, and I met Kunzhouzai who chewed betel nuts, whistled and blackmailed people everywhere in his shabby leather jacket. Cheap, design a money slave who is peeling a layer of skin from the dead all day. The dead abnormal peacock fish is obsessed with death and likes to sit in the funeral home every day.

"This is my biggest problem. I am exposed to death too early, and my mood is getting worse every day. " This is like a writer's confession, like saying that I want to die, and I want to die every day.

Guppy: Rainy days are more suitable for death, don't you think?

Recorded in the form of a diary, with Kunzhouzai as the narrative object. The language is humorous and abrupt, with a little dialect from time to time, which is vulgar and beautiful.

? "Come and sit down."

"Shut the fuck up!"

"Come and sit down."

"Bitch bird! None of your business? "

Muyu tells the story of a middle-aged divorced man named Wang Yimin who lost his mother. He misses his mother twice a year on Mother's Day, which leads to the story of taking his five-year-old son to the temple where his mother took his bones. The language is really touching, describing a son who really misses his mother, and the sadness of missing slowly spreads. "The quiet and sad ridge always reminds him of his mother."

Wang Yimin: Life will soon pass. It's no big deal.

Note: Yuan Yu, Luo Yijun, Qiu and Lai Xiangyin are equally famous and are called "five-class writers" in the literary world. The so-called "fifth-grade writer" was born in 50-59 years of the Republic of China (1961-kloc-0/970). After lifting the martial law, he learned the Wild Lily Movement, elected the president for the first time, experienced ten major constructions, and enjoyed rapid economic development. He was the founder of the Four Little Dragons era in Asia.