After "Morning Bell on the Sea", Su Hong, a distinguished professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Shanghai University, published his second novel - "Autumn Madness" in Writers Press.
The story of "Autumn Madness" begins with the carnival night before graduation of five young people in the millennium, and continues with the confusing case of a big shot falling from a building fifteen years later. In the novel, Zhou Yu, Liu Chunfu, Qian Jialiang, Sha Gang, and Han Ziji are master's degree students. Their family backgrounds are very different. After graduation, they went to different jobs and therefore left different life trajectories. By chance, Zhou Yu was chosen as the "big secret" by the retiring deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and experienced a roller coaster career experience; Liu Chunfu went from reporter to director of the research office of the Provincial Party Committee Organization Department, and finally to mayor, and the accidental events in between It took him from the bottom of his life to the top of his life, and then from the top of his life to the bottom. The process was embarrassing; Qian Jialiang took the wrong path, and behind the success of the business wizard, he reflected the various contradictions and dilemmas between society, law, and morality. ; Sha Gang and Han Ziji are both children of high-ranking cadres. Their different career choices and different value pursuits play different symphonies of destiny.
"Autumn Madness" attempts to reflect the changes in society and the different paths of life in recent decades through the ups and downs and life situations of these five young people. In this colorful society, the interaction between social changes, cultural environment, moral adjustment, personal feelings and other aspects has become increasingly prominent. How to find a balance between them, how to choose the right direction in life, how not to lose oneself, how to avoid middle age Anxiety is the focus of the work.
"Autumn Madness" is not an official novel. Although the novel involves various officials, the author does not want to position the work as an official novel. Once upon a time, novels about officialdom were all the rage, but the authors of these novels either had never been an “official” and did not know much about officialdom, so the characters and their words and deeds in their novels were specious; or they wrote about officialdom for the sake of officialdom, and whenever they wrote about officialdom, they were corrupt; even more Most of them are just to attract readers' attention and make up some outrageous so-called official stories out of thin air. Therefore, although "Autumn Madness" involves a large number of affairs in the officialdom, it shows the various aspects of life in the workplace and life choices in the new era.
The characters and storyline of "Autumn Madness" may surprise readers, which is exactly the effect the author hopes to achieve. The author places the main scenes of the characters' activities in institutions and workplaces, but tries to avoid conceptualization and stylization, and pays more attention to revealing the social and humanistic logic of the characters' thoughts and behaviors. The novel's description of the main characters' thoughts and behavioral trajectories, as well as the portrayal of their personalities, are of vivid, vivid, and profound enlightening significance to young people who are new to government agencies and the workplace.
According to reports, the novel is named "Autumn Madness", which is mainly inspired by the artistic conception of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji's poem "Ugly Nuer: The Middle Wall of Shubo Mountain Road". It is said: "Young people don't know the taste of sorrow and fall in love with upstairs. Fall in love with upstairs. , I want to write a new poem about sadness. Now that I have experienced the feeling of sadness, I want to say it but I still want to say it, but it’s a cool autumn!
About the author:
Su Hong, a doctor of literature, is a member of the Chinese Writers Association. Distinguished Professor of the School of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University.
is the author of the novels "Morning Bell on the Sea" and "Autumn Madness", the long historical novel "The sky is dark and the sea is dark - Pacific War", the essay collection "Governing by doing nothing - Laozi's strategy", and the collection of current reviews "Peace's Eyebrow - - A Perspective on Cross-Strait Relations under the Overall World Situation" and "Watching for Peace - A Scan of Cross-Strait Relations under the Overall World Situation", etc.
, as the chief planner and one of the screenwriters, produced the drama "A Strong Wind Has a Tunnel", which was performed at the Shanghai Grand Theater in 2019. The script "A Strong Wind Has a Tunnel" won the "First Prize for Script at the 34th Tian Han Drama Award".
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