What does Horton do?

Horton, formerly known as He Bin, was born in Chenzhou, Hunan. Formerly known as He Bin, Changsha native, went to the countryside, studied in university, worked as an art teacher and a decorator. Now he is a professional writer of Changsha Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a member of Chinese Writers Association. His major works include This Is the Way It Is, We Are Like Sunflowers, Innocent Life, Clear River and Blue Sky, etc. Being regarded by critics as one of the representative writers of the "new generation" and "new realism"; Some works have been translated and published abroad.

Chinese name: Horton

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Occupation: writer

Graduate school: Hunan Normal University

Masterpiece: "This is the way it is"

Original name: He Bin.

Character experience

1983 graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Hunan Normal University. From 65438 to 0977, he worked as a farmer in Kaihui Commune, Hunan. Later, he worked as a teacher in the Children's School of Changsha No.2 Optical Power Plant, an art teacher in Changsha No.9 Middle School, and a professional writer in the Literary Federation Workshop. Published works 65438 to 0984. 1995 Join the Chinese Writers Association.

Main work

1989, the novella "Ancient Town" was published in "Lotus", and it has since entered the literary world.

In recent years, more than two million words of long, medium and short stories have been published in Harvest, Zhongshan, October, Flower City, Everyone, Novel World, People's Literature, Shanghai Literature and Beijing Literature.

Published novels include: We are like sunflowers, That's the way it is, Sunshine in the Wilderness, Himalaya, Seeing Life, Journey in the Wilderness, etc. Novella collection: Life is innocent, sunshine is beautiful, as long as you live better than me.

Being regarded by critics as one of the representative writers of the "new generation" and "new realism"; Some works have been translated and published abroad.

20 1 1 In July, Hunan Mule was published in People's Literature Society. The Recommended Bibliography of Key Work of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Annual Novel of People's Literature Publishing House were bought by Hunan Shi Jing Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and hundreds of TV dramas will be adapted. The first 50 episodes will be adapted next year and filmed the year after.

Anecdotes of characters

Life is innocent, and I don't want to do anything. Hello, brother, the sunshine is very good. That's the way it is. It doesn't matter. We are like sunflowers, the sunshine on the wasteland. These works by He Dun are all about Changsha, stories and people about the city. These Chinese and long novels with Changsha flavor have appeared in national first-class literary periodicals such as Harvest, Everyone, Flower City and Zhongshan in recent two years, and the young He Dun has attracted more and more attention. Horton's novels first received enthusiastic response in Beijing and Shanghai, which are rich in humanities and well-informed. "Horton is like the sun and readers are like sunflowers." Beijing Youth Daily compares the number of readers of Horton's novels. China Reading Newspaper rated This Is the Thing as one of 1995' s two best novels. (The other is Mo Yan's "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks") CCTV sent a reporter to interview He Dun. Xinmin Evening News introduced He Dun and his works many times. This literary newspaper published a special issue of Horton's novels. Cheng Depei, a novel critic, published "What Finally Happened" in a major newspaper in Hong Kong, which was later reprinted by Taiwan Province Provincial Newspaper. Horton's novels were translated into English and published in Britain and Australia. Critics are busy giving Horton all kinds of hats. Chen Xiaoming classified him as a "new appearance", while Zhang Yiwu and Wang Gan brought him into a "new state". Some people even call him the "new generation", the "dark horse" in the south. The film and television circles are competing for the right to film adaptation of Horton's novels. Zhang Yimou bought out This Is the Way It Is, and the Qi Xian Film and Television Production Center of Shexian County bought out We Are Like Sunflowers. But Horton is still in Changsha, and he still stays in a two-bedroom and one-bedroom house in the South District day after day to write his novels.

"Horton has aristocratic culture in his blood, but he has a strong civilian tendency emotionally." Horton is a native tree in Changsha.

Born in a scholarly family

Horton is a child who grew up in the street. He lives in an alley called Qingshan Temple, and the streets and alleys are all Xanadu of Xiaohutun. "When Dong Cunrui was eighteen, he joined the revolutionary guerrillas." The hero's jingle is that yazi likes to shout all the way. A few little guys often get into the Nian Nian Chun Teahouse on the road near the Academy to play and listen to the stories told by adults.

As an educator, my father often tells stories to Horton. Horton called his father's education "huge and far-reaching". He still clearly remembers the story that his father told Han Xingan that he was humiliated by his legs and that his mother-in-law stabbed his country faithfully. When I was in middle school, Horton added a thick "Water Margin" to his schoolbag. He fell in love with the heroes in Liangshan, Shui Bo. He loves painting, and besides airplanes and cannons, he paints the most, that is, Li Kui jy, a black whirlwind, and Zhang Shun, a wave dancer.

He Dun, who entered the Fine Arts Department of Hunan Normal University to study oil painting, once aspired to be "China's Lie Bin" and created the world famous paintings such as Volga Tracker. Who knows that in order to strengthen artistic accomplishment, I opened a literary masterpiece, but I couldn't extricate myself after reading it. Red and Black and Madame Bovary fascinated him. From then on, the ideal ship turned to literature, and Horton got a 300,000-word novel "Silent Evening" in the spirit of "newborn calf" to write about college life around him. Of course, the results have not been announced. Later, this manuscript was set on fire by him. For more than ten years, he burned five or six hundred thousand words of calligraphy.

"This may be life!" Whenever someone asks Horton why he switched to literature, he always answers like this. Horton naturally chose to express his familiar life while choosing literary creation. He painstakingly rehearsed a "play" on the social stage in Changsha, and he struggled step by step unconsciously in his mind.

"Horton has aristocratic cultural origin in his blood, but he has a strong civilian tendency emotionally." Horton's friend Lin Lezhi said.

Several small business owners in the south gate of Changsha listened to Horton's story and found We Are Like Sunflowers to read. I couldn't stand it at first sight, but I was surprised after reading it: "It's about us!" " Not long ago, several people got in touch with the unknown Horton in a roundabout way and insisted on inviting the writer to dinner. After dinner in the "Golden Triangle", I took them to my shop and chatted with Horton excitedly about Feng Jianjun, Li Yuejin and Liu Jianguo in the novel.

Horton knows them well. In Horton's own words, his understanding of these people is "a bowl of rice". When I was a child, I played together, left my job without pay, did decoration business, and hung out with these people all day. For several years, Horton and his self-employed friends have been drinking tea and coffee in Xinhua Building and Yuloudong three or four nights a week. For those who write their emotions on their faces, Horton feels that they live very real lives, and sometimes he even feels that he is one of them.

While feeling them, Horton always looks at them from the perspective of a cultural person-at the bottom of society, with no background and no dependence; They made a fortune by relying on the opportunities given by the times, their own struggles and struggles, and even by unscrupulous and desperate means. But material enjoyment can't bring spiritual enrichment. Cultural poverty makes them unable to get rid of the strange circle of money, so they keep looking for excitement, and many people are "out of control" in looking for excitement. Horton also saw the "cells" of the market economy active in ordinary people in these cities, and saw the truth, goodness and beauty faintly shining in their mediocre figures.

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"In Changsha, these people are very' sea' Manchu, but their hearts are so fragile. The stories on them don't even need you to edit, and they are more vivid than editing. " Horton wants to show that their desire is getting stronger and stronger. In the gap between this decoration and that decoration, 199O 10 in June, he finally finished the novella "Life is Innocent". It is not easy for this famous book with more than 50 thousand words to become famous. Over the past two years, I have repeatedly hit a wall in many publications in the southeast and northwest, flying around the country for roaming. Until the recommendation of the famous writer He Liwei, Xiao Yuanmin, editor-in-chief of Harvest, had an eye for pearls and was published in the first issue of Harvest 1993. With the publication of Life is Innocent, Horton's morale was greatly boosted, and he finally gave up the more profitable decoration business and concentrated on creation.

He Liwei predicted that Horton would become popular. He evaluated Horton's novels as "solid" and "there is a kind of material hardness and cruel truth, which has reached the purity of literature." Horton's pursuit of his own creation is very popular: "I pursue simplicity." The charm and tension of literature are in reality. "

More and more people in Changsha are reading He Dun's novels. Changsha people are more likely to "do as the Romans do" than foreigners. There is the stinky tofu smell of the Fire Palace, the laughter of Qindao Club, the fashionable cabin of Huangxing Road and the cruise ship of the artificial lake in Martyrs Park. What's more strange is that the characters coming and going in this novel all speak authentic Changsha dialect, such as telling jokes as crosstalk, wandering as vagrants and solving problems as difficulties.

"Regional color is the color of the world." Horton said, "Faulkner described the small town on the Mississippi River in the dialect of the southern United States, which did not prevent him from becoming a world-class literary master." Language is the reality of thinking. He Dun, a native of Changsha, is used to thinking in Changsha dialect. He never thought that Changsha dialect would be incomprehensible. On the contrary, he found Changsha dialect very attractive, with a strong sense of frustration and rhythm. In Horton's novels, the general narrative is written language, and the dialogues of the characters are almost all Changsha dialect. In this way, the standard written language and the distinctive Changsha dialect have formed two different levels, which have played a role in setting off the characters. Facts have proved that the clever use of Changsha dialect has not affected the spread of Horton's novels, but has made his "this one".

Writing characteristics

Horton's works are a wonderful mirror of urban life in the market transition period and the details of his desire for a commercialized society. Horton is good at writing about ordinary people and self-employed people in the lower cities. The hooligans he wrote were not written by Rainbow, and there was no anti-moral tendency in Wang Shuo's novels. Most of Horton's works seem straightforward on the surface, but in fact they are exquisite in skills, interspersed with narratives, outlined in scenes and polished in details.

Chen Xiaoming, a literary critic, once commented on Horton's writing: "He just expressed his real life and his personal feelings at will. Those naked desires for life make those vulgar daily realities vivid and magical. "