Fang Yingwu is the chairman of the Yanjing Writers' Association, and in addition to his position as chairman of the Yanjing Writers' Association, he is also a well-known writer himself. Most of the people here will give him face and see him presiding, and they all gave warm applause.
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When the applause died down, Fang Yingwu continued, "This exchange meeting has two themes, one is literary exchange between China and foreign countries, and the other is scientific and literary dialogue. First of all, thank you very much for being here. In a few days, we will
The birthday of our country is also the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance. As we all know, with the in-depth development of globalization in various fields, literature has entered a new era of world literature. Literature
Globalization and globalization have brought severe challenges and huge opportunities to literature itself. Chinese literature, Greek literature, Arabic literature, and Indian literature are all the oldest literatures in the world, but in this thousands of years of evolution
During this period, our Chinese literature took some detours and encountered many setbacks..."
Fang Yingwu was talking eloquently, and Zhuang Yu covered his mouth and whispered, "Fang Yingwu opened his mouth a little too wide."
Wang Yi also covered his mouth and whispered, "He Kelan is here, why don't Fang Yingwu make a big deal? It's not the Yanjing Writers Association exchange meeting now."
Liu Yuan and Zhang Zhong both nodded and said nothing.
Fang Yingwu spoke for about four or five minutes before stopping, and then he stretched his hand in the direction of He Kelan.
"Today, we are honored to have Mr. He Kelan, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. I think Mr. He Kelan should have some unique insights to share with us. I would like to invite Mr. He Kelan to come to the stage to speak."
He Kelan was wearing headphones. He probably heard the message in the headphones and walked onto the stage with a smile.
He took the microphone from Fang Yingwu and said, "First of all, I would like to thank Yenching University for the invitation. I am also very honored to be able to come to such a world-famous university and experience the elegance of China's highest university."
Of course, He Kelan spoke in French, but there was simultaneous translation in the broadcast, so everyone sounded fine.
"What Mr. Fang just said is correct. Chinese literature is one of the oldest literatures in the world. When I was a child, I was interested in Chinese literature. But it is a pity that foreigners like us have
When you want to understand Chinese literature, you have to face two problems, at least two problems. These two problems are geographical gap and language gap. Some people say that literature has no borders. This statement has a romantic flavor, because literature no longer has borders.
Borderless also has an influence radius. The development of the Internet has reduced this geographical impact a lot, but people cannot just live on the Internet. Our feelings and preferences for literature often come from the things around us. Language is
Not to mention, for a literary work to have a global impact, the first thing it must pass is translation. However, as far as I know, Chinese translation is very difficult, and the loss of literary quality after translation is also relatively large. In addition, Chinese traditional
The artistic conception and intention of literary works are very dependent on the local cultural background..."
What He Kelan said is still very objective. Chinese literature is not accepted by the Western world, and the most basic problems it faces are these two.
But after he talked for a long time, he didn't seem to say anything special, because everyone already knew these things.
Zhuang Yu also seemed a little disappointed, because he was still thinking about what amazing things He Kelan would say, but he didn't expect that he would still say some commonplaces.
"He might as well take out what he wrote in "Republic of the Literary World" and read it again." Zhuang Yu muttered.
He Kelan once wrote a book called "The Republic of the Literary World". In this book, He Kelan took a unique approach, transforming the consideration of "world literature" into an investigation of the "literary world" and looking at "world literature".
It becomes a unified literary space that evolves and develops over time.
He pointed out that this space has its own "center" and "edges", and these "centers" and "edges" do not always correspond to reality.
In this book, He Kelan also mentioned the importance of translation.
If "national literature" on the "margin" wants to move toward the "center", it is natural that it must rely on translation. However, translation is not a simple neutral language conversion. In He Kelan's view, translation is not simply a change from one language to another.
It is an excess of language, but a more professional "literary" one.
In addition, this book "The Republic of the Literary World" also puts forward many interesting theories.
That's why Zhuang Yu said that if He Kelan is talking about these things now, it would be better for him to take out the book he wrote before and read it.
Liu Yuan said, "What he said was quite satisfactory. He did not particularly praise China, nor did he belittle it. It was too conservative."
Wang Yi heard Liu Yuan's words and said with a smile, "Since he was invited by Yenching University, he definitely can't say some fierce words."
In this way, with Zhuang Yu and others disappointed, He Kelan ended his speech.
After finishing his speech, Sarkozy, who was standing in the audience, said, "Thank you Mr. He Kelan for sharing. I noticed that there are many students from Yenching University sitting down there. I think from Mr. He Kelan's speech, you must know
I can experience a lot of things that are useful to me, and now, several young people not only listened, but also had the opportunity to have a face-to-face spiritual communication with the master at the scene."
Next is the question and answer session.
The students who asked questions were arranged in advance, and the questions they asked were not nutritious.
Liu Yuan shook his head and said, "It's these things every time, don't Lin Wenyuan and the others get tired of them?"
Wang Yi said with a smile, "If it were you, what arrangements would you make?"
"Me?" Liu Yuan shook his head and said, "I won't make any arrangements. Let the students perform on their own. They can ask whatever they want. What's the big deal."
"Then you can give your opinion to Principal Lin next time."
"It's okay if I ask, but he definitely won't listen to me."
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The session with Nobel Prize winner He Kelan passed quickly, followed by several foreign literary figures who spoke.
They are all similar to He Kelan, saying some unnutritious things.
Zhang Zhong listened to it at first, but later he found it boring, so he just sat on a chair and listened.
After those foreign friends finished speaking, Fang Yingwu said on the stage, "Now we move on to the next theme, the dialogue between science and literature. I would like to invite Academician Yang Fan, Mr. He Kelan and Mr. Zhang Zhong to come to the stage."
Seeing the camera pointed at him, Zhang Zhong forced a smile. A staff member had just come over to remind him that he would be on stage soon, but he did not expect this to be the case.