A recent issue of New Yorker magazine has a critique on Majian's new book "Beijin Coma." I haven't read the book yet. But the article is quite interesting.
Here is some quotes:
“Writers in Communist countries inevitably focus on what Ivan Klíma once called the “intriguing plots offered by the totalitarian system”—“the humiliation of man, life based on lies and pretenses”—and State repression and terror also tend to distill the writer’s art, giving it a metaphysical rather than a material heft, a poetic rather than a literalist cast. ”
"One of the protestors tells a student leader, ‘You’re supposed to be fighting dictatorship, but deep down you all want to be little emperors.’“
“The novel’s bitterness apparently derives not only from the futility of the Tiananmen protests and the abominations of the Cultural Revolution—Ma Jian uses research that raises the possibility of cannibalism among Red Guards in Guangxi—but also from what he sees as an older Chinese tendency toward autocratic cruelty, submission, and conformity. ”
"Ai Weiwei ...... asserted that 'the history of modern China is a history of negation, a denial of the value of humanity, a murder of individuality. It is a history without a soul.'"
I actually agree with what Ai WeiWei said. - "a history of negation, a denial of the value of humanity, a murder of individuality ...... a history without a soul."
- posted on 07/27/2008
Connie wrote:
I actually agree with what Ai WeiWei said. - "a history of negation, a denial of the value of humanity, a murder of individuality ...... a history without a soul."
A history of negation 是必然的也是完全应该的。当时需要完全革命,这是公认的。后来是革命的惯性那是知识阶层不懂社会斗争艺术而导致完全覆灭,没有能阻止惯性。
humanity和individuality 是现代公认的价值观了,但它们即不是现实社会的支柱,也不直接反应社会的运行原理和制约方式。社会主流意识发展到位了,这些边角料的东西就会到位,或者显得很到位。日本、韩国和德国社会构成,特别是日本,就是这样的。
我有时候有种感觉,中国社会凄惨的历史,就是因为中国缺乏了解现实与主流意识形态之间真正关系的社会活动人士。我们如今在海外看到的这些人,都是能道听途说一些简单术语和口号而轻易达到高潮的自以为把握了中国过去历史脉搏的家伙。这样的人对社会进步恐怕是没有什么实际用处的。也许能骗一骗小姑娘们? :)
我看题目应为“马建昏迷”。北京昏迷了吗?
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