Original title: Shi Zhongshan’s novel “Ask the Vast Land” published
Recently, the novel “Ask the Vast Land” by Shi Zhongshan, a famous writer and screenwriter, was published. Shi Zhongshan shared the creation experience of this new work online, and had a rich conversation with famous literary critic Meng Fanhua, famous actor Sarina and Lu Xun Literature Prize winner Shi Yifeng, deputy editor-in-chief of Contemporary Magazine.
Shi Zhongshan has published more than 100 novels and novel collections since his debut novel in PLA Literature and Art at the age of 20. His novel “Father Enters the City” was adapted into the TV series “The Burning Years of Passion”, which caused a sensation. Since then, a large number of novels have been adapted into film and television works. He also began to cross-border film and television as a screenwriter and producer.
Shi Zhongshan’s latest novel “Ask the Vast Land” is regarding the secret contest and silent passion following the smoke of gunpowder dissipated: On the eve of the liberation of the Northeast, Bi Jian, the head of the Intelligence Section of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Northeast Bureau, and the Kuomintang spy code-named “Old Man” began to spend their lives “cats”. Rat game”, and the one who was ordered to pretend to be the wife of the “old man” was actually the long-lost sister of Bi Jian’s lover, and the fate of several characters was entangled with each other, causing a series of waves in the tide of the times.
Shi Zhongshan called “Ask the Vast Land” an “atypical” spy war novel, because this work did not focus on the ups and downs of plots and intricate character relationships like typical spy war dramas, but focused on showing people and relationships. The contest between people, and the fate of the characters in the background of the big era.
Critic Meng Fanhua has long been concerned regarding current literary creations. He believes that Shi Zhongshan’s creations are huge and rare among writers of his generation. He agrees with the judgment that Shi Zhongshan’s creation has the characteristics of genre novels, and emphasizes that there is no hierarchy between genre novels and serious literature.
(Reporter Lu Yanxia)
