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Problem description:

Please introduce Mr. Alai!

Analysis:

About the author:

Alai, a contemporary middle-aged writer, is a Tibetan, born in Marcand County, Aba Tibetan area, northwest Sichuan, 1959, commonly known as "Four Tusi", that is, the land under the jurisdiction of four Tusi. He graduated from Marcand Normal University and is now the editor-in-chief of Chengdu Science Fiction World Magazine. 1982 began to write poetry, and turned to novel writing in the middle and late 1980s. His main works include Leng Mo River, Blood of the Old Year, Silversmith in the Moonlight, Dust Settled, and Stairs of the Earth.

Alai won the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Award for his novel The Dust Settled, which was highly anticipated. (Author Hui Yu)

Comment on Alai's The Dust Settles

It is reported that Alai's Dust Settled won the Mao Dun Literature Prize. I think this novel can win this prize. This novel can be said to be one of the most important achievements of China's language and literature in the 1990s. Compared with Chen's White Deer Plain, it is not bad at all. In some novels, such as The Dust Settles, we are delighted to see that China vernacular literature has entered a harvest period since the 1990s, and the quality of the important works that appeared in the 1990s can almost rival the achievements of vernacular literature in the past century.

As for Alai's The Dust Settles, I think the achievements of this novel in artistic feeling and cultural consciousness are obvious to all. The mystery and fragrance of * * * culture and its special artistic charm are all reflected in Ma Yuan's novels. At that time, * * Ma Yuan came to * * as a stranger, and he walked there strangely. In addition, Tashi Dawa has the same power, and his understanding of * * * culture may have surpassed that of "Ma Yuan".

However, Loy seems to have gone one step further than the two of them. Loy is not writing in a foreign land, but writing in a primitive state of man and soul. Loy's writing is that he has not left the original work, and his spirit is still in that magical light.

Alai shows a gentle avant-garde narrative in The Dust Settles, which is the late product of extreme experimental novels. It avoids the discrimination of extreme experimental novels against readers and gives readers the tension of reading comprehension.

We can see a language similar to Shen Congwen's, and the calm and nervous Chinese has played a role here. Extreme emotional flow language and extreme descriptive language both left here as experiments, leaving a real grasp of the language. This effort marks the maturity of China vernacular language and literature.

Of course, this novel is somewhat exaggerated in story and narrative, and some places seem inconsistent. The novel relies too much on content, but its formal strength is still insufficient.