Literary concept

Some personal experiences accumulated at ordinary times may not be shared, so it's a good idea:

Breakthrough of literary concept

Thoughts, like lightning, are born in a consciousness full of thoughts, feelings and memories. Before all this reached the tense stage of inevitable discharge, it was all accumulated slowly and gradually. When that moment came, this compressed and slightly chaotic inner world produced the idea of lightning.

Several forms of literary concept breakthrough

(A) conceptual type

It is often after the author has accumulated a lot of life materials and determined the subject range for a long time, but it means that there is no meaning to make the whole work rise. At this time, it is often a sudden idea, which can make the ideological significance of the work much deeper at once and greatly increase the artistic appeal.

For example, Gan Tiesheng's Man Is Not a Mimosa tells the story of the struggle of a group of unemployed young people. Many people have written about this topic, but it is very touching. In addition to the rhythm of life contained in the article, it is more important that it finds the "idea" that can appropriately express these struggling young people-people, not mimosa. Because mimosa is grass in China, African rainforests can grow into towering trees. Some people say that China is not conducive to the development of talents, but the author says that people are not mimosa.

It is with this profound thought that people feel a high-spirited struggle force in the cool color of the background.

(2) The finishing touch

This kind of artistic breakthrough works often appear in China's classical literature, and their witty remarks make the works shine.

For example, the strange pigeon in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio wrote a tragic story about loving pigeons.

The story begins with a story about a variety of pigeons raised by childe's surname, and then enters the plot. One night, a boy in white passed by. After seeing Zhang Gongzi's pigeons, take him home to see them. They are all rare treasures. After repeated begging, Zhang Gongzi got a pair. The pigeon's flesh is crystal clear, and if there is no gap in the whole body, its internal organs can be counted. Go home and treat it as a treasure and feed it carefully. One day, my father's friend, a senior official, asked him, "How many pigeons are there?" Think back on what you said and wonder what you want. Extremely contradictory; Give or not, and you will offend your father, friends and officials. Finally, the dove was "shut up" and thought it was worth 1000 yuan. Zhang Gongzi was very proud, but the officer didn't even say "thank you". After a few days, Zhang Gongzi couldn't help asking, "What happened to the former bird?" The official answer: "It is also fat." It turned out that officials ate pigeons.

The finishing touch is the word "fat and beautiful". "Fat Beauty" is no less than a tragedy that shakes people's hearts and makes the work soar. These three words shattered Zhang Gongzi's infatuation with pigeons and the deep affection entrusted by the white boy to the same flesh and blood; The image of an ignorant, greedy, food-loving, beautiful old faint official jumps from the page.

Of course, this finishing touch will only play a role at critical moments. If there is no description of Zhang Gongzi's love for pigeons, the fairy pigeons in white, and the inner conflict when Zhang Gongzi asks for pigeons in "Big Officer", will the word "fat and beautiful" have such a strong tragic effect when it is exported?

(3) Close your eyes.

The so-called Guanmu style is a term in China's traditional drama, which refers to the props that run through the whole opera.

O Henry's short story The Last Leaf has exquisite originality in the use of details.

A terminally ill girl looked desperately at the rattan frame in the autumn wind outside the window and said that her life would end with the fall of the last rattan leaf. However, as the days passed, a leaf on the vine let the cold wind roar, but it never fell. The girl's eyes lit a fire of hope and her condition gradually improved. She ushered in the spring of life with the last vine.

The beauty of the novel is at the end: when the girl praised the vitality of the last rattan leaf, her friend told her that the leaf was painted by the painter.

This unexpected stroke makes the detail of "rattan leaf" occupy an extremely important position in the whole article, which has reached a strong artistic appeal. This is what people often say, "The End of O Henry"

(4) Action type

Action, a dramatic term, was regarded as the basic element of drama by Aristotle as early as 300 years ago. He even thinks that action and plot are synonyms.

For example, there is a thrilling scene in Dostoevsky's Idiot-burning100000 rubles. In front of a group of upper-class nobles, businessmen and officials, Nastyxie threw her100000 rubles into the fireplace with contempt. All the people looked at this bundle of money burning crazily, as if they were burning their own hearts.

Coincidentally, in China's classic novel Du Picking up Niangs, Du Picking up Niangs was so angry that he burst into tears and aroused the emotional climax of the whole work with his actions. The character development and ending of Du Niangniang and Angel Li are hard to show without the action of "anger sinking".

(5) Rapid growth

In literary creation, there is a mutation, just the opposite. It first indicates a subtle or subtle syndrome, and then at the end or climax, with the sharp increase of similar phenomena, it suddenly has a strong shocking effect on readers or viewers.

Folktale: A county magistrate frantically suppressed the people, even forbidding them to light lamps. A man was thrown into prison for disobeying orders. His wife begged the county magistrate to visit the prison. The county magistrate said: You walked from home to prison with a candle on a stormy night. Let your husband go if the candle doesn't go out, or cut your husband if it goes out. The wife struggled in the wind and rain, holding the lighted candle carefully. However, the candle was blown out by the wind in front of the prison gate. The county magistrate killed her husband in cold blood. This angered all the people in the city, and people held high torches, forming a sea of fire and killing the county government.

At the beginning of the story, no lights are allowed. The whole city was in darkness. When visiting the prison by candlelight, the faint candlelight moved in the dark and suddenly went out, turning into a sea of fire in vain. This is the sharp increase from a little candle light to a sea of fire.

(6) Conforming type

As the saying goes, "no coincidence is a book." So unimportant things in life can be "coincidences" in literary works. Literary conception uses this coincidence to influence the overall situation and produce endless interest. However, we should master proper limit for the purpose of coincidence, otherwise, it often gives people a false and lacking real feeling.

The method of literary conception is the surging of the sea. Every time it surges, its shape is different, but when it hits the rock with surging passion, it shows its majestic nature.

Works that pay attention to literary artistic conception often don't win with bizarre plots, and the author also pays attention to discovering the charm of literature from ordinary and indifferent daily things.

Imagine: what is the magic of a rattan leaf, a handkerchief, a little candlelight or even three words? However, when writers are still in a state of confusion, they are like a fire, a lightning that cuts through the sky, brushing all the materials, giving life to the image, putting wings on the works, and pushing the ideological connotation to the sublimation of art.