Zhu Wen's life story

Zhu Wen, male, 1967 was born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province in February. 1989 Graduated from Power Department of Southeast University with a bachelor's degree in engineering. I began to write poetry during my college years, and I began to write novels in 199 1 year. 1994 resigned from public office and is now a freelance writer.

He is the author of a collection of poems, We are going back from the riverbank, a collection of novels, I love dollars, because of loneliness, my brother's performance and the novel What is garbage and what is love. He is one of the representatives of young writers in the 1990s.

From 65438 to 0998, he initiated and presided over an activity called "Fracture", and sent out a questionnaire survey to 73 young writers all over the country to promote the literary world to reflect on the existing literary order.

He started to get an electric shock in the mid-1990s, and wrote many plays, such as Wushan Yu Yun, Going Home for the New Year, Train Train Hainan and so on. The film Seafood written and directed by Zhu Wen won the "Jury Award" at the Venice Film Festival which just ended in September.

Zhu Wen will always be different. In his own words, that is "not in the rivers and lakes."

Now his novels have been included in college textbooks together with Fang Zhouzi's lyrics and Cui Jian's rock music. Zhu Wen is embarrassed. "At that time, I was young and wrote recklessly. Those things are still not suitable for children to read. " When people reach middle age, Zhu Wen suddenly becomes quiet. For a time, he also mixed with friends of Nanjing literary and art circles, such as writer Han Dong and painter Mao Yan. "Not for communication and creation, but for eating, drinking and having fun." Now Zhu Wen quit smoking for six years, got married for three years, didn't drive, didn't drink, usually liked walking dogs, climbing mountains and drinking Pu 'er, and he decided to "live clearly".

At the end of Little Things, the hero Mao Yan and Thomas drank Pu 'er tea together. Mao Yan told Thomas that this Pu 'er tea is not twenty years, nor fifteen years, but ten years. Thomas, a foreigner, replied, "Ten years, but good enough!" This is Zhu Wen's footnote to friendship. "I like everything that has traces of time. As the saying goes, three lives are in the same boat. When one person meets another, it's about karma. "

Almost all interviewers will ask Zhu Wen the same question: As an artist with a non-professional background, where did your creation come from? Zhu Wen always gives them two words: "talent", followed by a sentence "although I hate using this word." Indeed, before 1994, he was a boiler engineer in a state-owned enterprise in Nanjing. His first article published in a magazine was neither a novel nor a poem, but a professional paper on boiler structural design. Because parents were greatly suppressed during the Cultural Revolution, Zhu Wen, who was "active in thought", frightened them from an early age. Studying science is the requirement of his parents, and he lives quietly by craft. That's what they expected of him, but he didn't expect Zhu Wen to embark on the road of art.

Zhu Wen works normally without turning on the computer. Even a little old. He usually gets up at six or seven, pulls up his five-month-old golden hair and goes downstairs for a walk. "I am the biggest beneficiary of my community garden." So, the novelist Zhu Wen will meet all kinds of idle nannies and old people along the way. He can walk the dogs and watch them. The story has been haunting his mind. "Usually I have ten stories in my mind, so you just let them float there and ignore them. Just wait and see which story forces you to write. "

Now someone will always ask Zhu Wen to refine his only three works and talk about their common themes. At this time, Zhu Wen always returns to his original point. "I used to think that I photographed seafood by accident. After thinking about it, it was inevitable. My hometown is by the sea. My grandfather and father used to be fishermen and lived by the sea. I grew up inland. When I was a child, everyone else ate freshwater fish, and my family always ate frozen seafood. I've always wondered why. It turns out that everything flows in your blood. Seafood took me back to the seaside, and the south of the cloud took me to the other side of the mountain. All my art always wants to get rid of gravity.

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From 65438 to 0998, he initiated and presided over an activity called "Fracture", and sent out a questionnaire survey to 73 young writers all over the country to promote the literary world to reflect on the existing literary order.

From 65438 to the mid-1990s, he began to get an electric shock and wrote movie scripts such as Sex on Wushan Mountain, Going Home for the New Year, Train, Train, Hainan and Hainan. The film Seafood, written and directed by Zhu Wen, won the jury award of Venice Film Festival in September 2006.

In fact, we know very little about Zhu Wen's films.

For example, seafood, such as the south of the cloud-seafood doesn't even exist in cam-was once broadcast on a CCTV channel in lightning speed, and it is said that it was in the middle of the night.

Zhu Wen himself seldom talks about his films. In this respect, he has the meaning of cherishing words like gold.

He rarely appears in the media, but he is not mysterious. At least, he didn't dress up as a mystery. He may be a little fatter than before, wearing ordinary clothes and smiling kindly. He is not arrogant. He appeared in a coffee shop at the south gate of Tsinghua, wearing a hat and looking around. At this time, he is a bit like his past adolescence, looking around and wandering around. This is Zhu Wen, very specific and tall, but he can't continue to understand his past history and future. Any adolescent literary youth who loves literature may have loved Zhu Wen's novels ten years ago. What is garbage, what is love, I love dollars and whether people need a sauna. His novels are so maverick, unique, absurd and funny, and dare to take the world by storm-is that everyone's adolescence?

Zhu Wen's keenness lies in that he records faster than anyone else and quickly gives up his writing career and devotes himself to the movies he loves more. For example, in 1994, an outstanding engineer with a 2000-ton fireman's license who was good at making great plans on drawings suddenly decided to leave this skilled post (or was fired according to legend) and began an unreliable writing career. He knew that he was born a writer. Now he wants to prove that he was born to be a director. He doesn't think that Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou are talented directors, because they are not original, and only rely on the lens and script. His self-confidence has been verified, so he is not bored.

Once a rebellious youth

Zhu Wen's early films "Wushan Yu Yun" and "Going Home for the New Year" have long been known to many people. Little Things is the third film directed by Zhu Wen after Seafood and South of the Cloud. For various reasons, his films have not been widely released. The external evaluation of Zhu Wenxin's novel Little Things is: fiction, reality, martial arts, aliens and other elements. In Zhu Wen's eyes, "this film is the simplest and most relaxing of my three films, but it took the longest time, with three years before and after."

Whether it is the "breaking" behavior initiated against traditional literature in those years, or the temperament revealed in Zhu Wen's poems and novels, Zhu Wen gives people the feeling that he is constantly writing about himself, writing about his resistance and anger.

Zhu Wen said that he took pains to write about those little people, just reaffirming a kind of freedom, which was manifested as a kind of confrontation and anger when he was young; But now, Zhu Wen has become peaceful, although Zhu Wen has been alienated. "He just became good at finding a balance between anger and the system." In the impression of writer Han Dong, "I have never seen Zhu Wen go on the rampage and swear. Even in the face-to-face confrontation with critics with ulterior motives, he always smiles and taunts in sarcasm, which forms a strong contrast with the embarrassment of the other party. "

Zhu Wen said that words like "silly ×" are not as vulgar as many people understand, but neutral, a natural habit and an expression of emotion at that time. So he said, love, you are really like a piece of shit, covering up his yearning for something better with rebellion and subversion. Because as we all know, Zhu Wen has a beautiful girlfriend named Jin.

In order to leave Nanjing freely

1989, Zhu Wen graduated from the mechanical department of Southeast University and was assigned to the preparation office of Huaneng Nanjing Power Plant, a national key project. Later, he became a fireman in the unit control room. He controlled a huge boiler in three shifts, and he used his rest time to write. After five years of writing, Zhu Wen resigned from public office on 1994. Later, he left Nanjing for Beijing. At one time, because his parents and some friends were in Nanjing, Zhu Wen had to run in two cities.

Zhu Wen said that after years of struggle, his strength has become stronger.

Zhu Wen is not a very noisy person. Even if he has to deal with people because of making movies, it doesn't change his simple relationship with others. Earlier, he even looked at the crowds coming and going in the street with Han Dong and commented on the women among them. But one day, he gave up his fun and left Nanjing for Beijing.

Zhu Wen found that there were so many friends in Nanjing that he couldn't settle down. "Beijing is so big that it is not so easy to find someone to play with." Now, more time, Zhu Wen will stay at home in the suburbs of Beijing and hardly talk to anyone. Zhu Wen denied that it was a kind of loneliness. He said that it must be another matter with his girlfriend and family.

Unforgettable life in a big factory

Zhu Wenyou's novel How Far is it to Dachang describes a ride to Dachang in the suburbs of Nanjing, which was cold and warm. It is not very noticeable in many of his novels, but it has been repeatedly mentioned by many critics.

Many people think that Zhu Wen has developed the regional concept of writing novels. Since then, many writers like to describe buses, streets and so on around them in their works, so as to make a seemingly peaceful separation from life. His Ancient City Li Duan and Aunt's Voice are both classic works. Although the familiar place names and daily life of Nanjing only appear as an alienated background, it reflects Zhu Wen's special feelings for Nanjing as a stranger.

"At that time, I spent most of my time running around the country, but working in the Nanjing factory for five years had a great influence on me. Wherever I go, people are still used to saying that this is a writer from Nanjing. However, I don't like repetitive things. I like the work of the power plant very much because it has a sense of value and creates wealth every day, but repeating ... five years is the limit for me. "

Zhu Wen, who wrote so many novels about Nanjing, won a lot of fame in the international film industry and never forgot this place. He said that it is not impossible to express his thoughts and thoughts about Nanjing with movies at an appropriate time.

Important writer

There is a famous circle of poets and writers in Nanjing. As a group, their name is "them". These people are Han Dong, Zhu Wen, Calvin, Dingdong, Wu Chenjun, Liu Lizhong, Yang Lu and the younger generation of Cao Kou, Zhao Zhiming and others. Zhu Wen works as a boiler worker in the factory and works hard in three shifts.

By the end of 1999, Teacher Zhu Wen had written 800,000 words. I felt that I had written enough, and I haven't written another word since. Up to now, his fame is far from being popular. His novels have a small print run and are not easy to buy. Fans posted his novels on the forum to exchange views, which was very interesting. It can be said that Zhu Wen is a writer among writers and has a considerable force field in the writing circle. His works have influenced a group of people, and many young writers, such as Li Hongqi and Shijiang Li, are deeply influenced by them.

Zhu Wen's writing goes deep into everyone's existence. With great patience and enthusiasm, he described eating and drinking Lazarus, aimless wandering and sudden accidents, and showed the most boring, insignificant and trivial details in life. These details are strange and absurd, but this is what we are familiar with and insensitive to. He said, "You can only see the truth when you are bored."

In his works, there are bored young people, old people who have been depressed for most of their lives, and women in the art circle who have broken pots and broken falls. He doesn't defend them or judge them. He respects and understands these people and allows them to rise and fall independently in various relationships and destinies. In the face of oncoming temptations and blows, they are repeatedly humiliated or occasionally regain their dignity.

Zhu Wen once said: "Every story told by a good novelist must first be necessary for himself, and it can only come from your honest and keen mind. It is not important to write the highest, most perfect and complicated story you can achieve. The important thing is to write the story that has a flesh-and-blood connection with you. I call the latter a basic writer. It is hard for me to accept that there is another writer. " Now, he added, essential writing means going back to the source and the original feeling. He refused to let those seemingly profound and extensive factors penetrate into his works. He said, "For a serious and self-disciplined writer, his worst works also have the strongest mental anxiety at that time." Writing is a process of inner communication, and he lives with his own thoughts. He also said, "I need writing more spiritually than writing needs me."

This attitude is reflected in his novels. His novels have the spiritual quality of facing reality directly and going deep into the soul. They are independent and strong, do not please or avoid, do not touch themselves or try to touch or pity others, and dig directly like excavators, which is unstoppable. His language is passionate and pleasant to read.

Completely abandoning the existing standards and attacking many things will inevitably be countered by many people. 1In the middle and late 1990s, after the publication of I Love Dollars, Zhu Wen was called a "rogue writer". I Love Dollars is not Zhu Wen's best novel, but it has become his most famous work because of his fierce rebellious psychology. It's about "I" taking my father to find a young lady. This novel almost destroyed Zhu Wen's father. Zhu Wen deeply felt that this way of writing "I" was very harmful.