How to choose the angle of expression? This is a problem worthy of study in prose creation, and it is by no means a small skill. In our literary garden, people who are good at choosing angles may form their own school, while those who are not good at choosing are often inferior. Zhu Ziqing's "Back" is a masterpiece in which the author chooses the best expression angle-"Back" and transforms it into artistic beauty.
Generally speaking, people usually write from the front, or write facial portraits, or write gestures and clothes. Of course, positive writing has its advantages, but if you write too much from one angle, it will also make people feel dull. Chekhov warned in his letter to the young author: "You are busy describing the faces of the characters ... this is still the same old story, and such a description can be omitted." Five faces that are described in detail will make readers' attention tired. " "Back" takes a different approach. The author chooses a specific angle of his back and expresses his father's back with affectionate brushwork, which is amazing. Except for the title at the beginning of the article, the full text was written three times. For the first time, as a father, I was so familiar with my son. He knows his voice, face and smile like the back of his hand. However, when I left, my father saw me off and bought oranges for my son to climb up and down the platform, which deeply touched my son's heart. Suddenly, "I" had a special feeling and shed tears of excitement. The second time was when my father left. You can't find this figure in the crowds coming and going. Just like a movie screen, it fades out slowly. The lighter the shadow, the stronger the feeling, and the farther people are, the closer the heart is. The third time, I learned from the letter that my father was in a difficult situation and depressed. In the glittering and translucent tears, "a green cotton robe and a black jacket" emerge, which will become a freeze-frame picture that "I" will never forget. Yes, there are very few people who write characters from the perspective of back. However, "some people don't start from me, and some people don't start from me." Jiang Baishi said: "I am silent about what people say; People are hard to say, I can easily say it, and it is not vulgar. " Despite many difficulties, Mr. Zhu Ziqing chose a novel and unique perspective of Back, which is a unique discovery given to him by life tips, an artistic creation of expressing things, and reveals the artistic talent of the author who does not follow the crowd and dares to innovate.
The angle of expression on the back can reflect the inner spirit of the described object.
The material of the writing object is scattered and fragmentary. How can artists find a specific angle to promote the convergence of these beams, thus forming the focus of art ... When my father climbed the platform at the railway station, he "climbed up with both hands, and then his feet shrank up; His fat body leans slightly to the left, showing the appearance of hard work. "This figure moving in a special environment is the focus of this article. Father's kindness and stubbornness, difficulties and efforts, difficulties and struggles are all condensed in this point; The deep love when father and son separated is also poured into this point. Grasping this special point is like rushing my son's sporadic impressions and miscellaneous thoughts about his father's life to a center to concentrate, combine and emphasize, and cast it into an organic artistic whole. What angle to choose is not only convenient to turn scattered and isolated things into condensation points, but also to pay attention to whether the essential aspects of things can be expressed. Some angles can only show some non-essential appearances of things, and some angles may even uglify the true colors of things and show minor and local things as the main whole things. This angle is not enough. If portraying characters, how to choose the best angle to express their personality and emotional characteristics? Lu Xun said: "It is best to paint a person's characteristics in moderation, and it is best to paint his eyes" because "vivid portrayal is being obscured" (in Gu Kaizhi). But this special figure described by Mr. Zhu Ziqing is similar to painting eyes. From this perspective, we can not only see the characteristics of father's "shape", but also gain insight into the essential characteristics of his "spirit". The depression, sadness and sincerity of father's love in his later years are properly shown through his back. That back, like crackle, suddenly lit up my father's rich inner world and saw his soul.
The expression angle of the back gives people an artistic realm of galloping imagination.
My father's back in a specific situation, especially the back at a certain distance from me, omits all kinds of descriptions of my father's face and his positive expressions and actions due to the limitation of visual angle. The author only uses extremely concise sketches, grasps vivid details, outlines a faint outline of the back, creates a rich and intriguing artistic realm, and gives readers a broad world of free imagination. From the back of his father struggling to climb the platform, people will think of his tough demeanor at that time, or his teeth clenched, or his cheeks sweated, hoping to see his willingness to run for his son; From the back, people will think more. It seems that they will see their father's declining past and foresee his future not far from the "big trip". And this figure is actually a projection of the society at that time. If readers have imaginative wings, they will also see the plight of Qian Qian's thousands of old intellectuals. Because the expression angle on the back is well chosen, the writing style is hidden, the contract is not complicated, and the endless meaning is beyond the back, which is thought-provoking and memorable, so the artistic capacity is large and can withstand repeated appreciation by readers. I remember the Italian aesthetician Croce once said, "All the skills of an artist are to create excitement and arouse readers' aesthetic re-creation. "Mr. Zhu Ziqing chose this specific angle to write the back, which is to create an incentive to arouse readers' artistic imagination. If the expression angle is shallow and the writing style is full, it will bound to bind the wings of readers' imagination, limit readers' artistic re-creation, and make the images in the pen become "dead things" without artistic life. Therefore, the choice of perspective should focus on the artistic world that is conducive to creating imagination for readers.
The expression angle of prose can be varied and eclectic, which brings a swaying style to prose. The expression angle of prose also needs to be ingenious and unique, and prose has the writer's distinctive artistic personality and unique style. The expression angle of prose is not only a matter of skill, but also related to the author's understanding and observation of life, which permeates their aesthetic ideals. May our prose lovers draw useful inspiration from the valuable experience of Back!
(How to choose the expression angle of prose from the perspective of "Back", the second volume of "Analysis Collection of Junior Middle School Chinese Texts", Guangdong Education Press, 1990 edition)
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