作家名片 | 陈应松：写作——从上帝的视角，找寻信仰的高度
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近年来，中华文化“走出去”的影响力不断扩大，在全球文化多元化发展日益兴盛的背景下，中国文化译研网(CCTSS)联合中国作家协会《小说选刊》杂志社，启动“新世纪中国当代作家、作品海外传播数据库”项目，将100位中国当代优秀作家的简介、代表作品以及展示作家风采的短视频翻译为10种语言，集结成1000张中国作家名片向全球推介。千张“作家名片”将鲜明地向世界宣告：我是中国作家，我在进行中国创作。
此种形式和规模是中国故事走向世界的一大创新，会让世界更加全面、客观、公正地了解中国优秀作家作品，同时也是打通中国文化走向世界的“最后一公里”。
陈应松，1956年1月出生于湖北公安县黄金口，武汉大学中文系毕业。1973年高中毕业后下放农村并开始学习写作，出版有长篇小说《还魂记》《猎人峰》《到天边收割》《魂不守舍》《失语的村庄》，及小说集、散文集、诗歌集等70余部，《陈应松文集》（10卷），《陈应松神农架系列小说》(3卷)。小说曾获第三届鲁迅文学奖、第二届中国小说学会大奖、《小说选刊》小说奖、梁斌文学奖、华文成就奖（加拿大）等。2015年被湖北省政府授予“湖北文化名家”称号。因写作“神农架系列”小说《马嘶岭血案》《太平狗》《母亲》等，成为新世纪“底层文学”的代表作家，作品翻译成英、法、俄、波兰、罗马尼亚、日、韩等文字出版。中篇小说曾7年进入中国小说学会的“中国小说排行榜”。现为中国作家协会全委会委员，湖北省作协副主席。
诺贝尔文学奖得主莫言评价陈应松：“用极富个性的语言，营造了一个瑰丽多姿、充满了梦魇和幻觉的艺术世界。这个世界建立在神农架上但又超越了神农架，这是属于他的王国，也是中国文学版图上的一个亮点。”陈应松的神农架系列小说在中国文坛独树一帜，以其激越的生命体验，超现实的想象，魔幻的文体，奇异的风格，奇崛的意境，惨烈的故事，震撼人心的艺术表达征服了读者。
神农架系列之一的长篇小说《猎人峰》，以神农架民间笃信的“人在一天内有两个时辰是牲口，其余时间是人”的独特生命观和世界观，书写了以死而复生的老猎人白秀一家在时代的变迁中，在人与自然残酷的厮杀中沉浮、扭曲、苟生、死亡的传奇经历，是一部为猎人立传的魔幻现实主义小说。
《马嘶岭血案》是引起轰动的一部中篇小说。作品书写两位老实巴交的农民挑夫，一气杀死七名踏勘队队员，由这一发生在神农架山区的惊天血案，层层剥笋，细腻叙说，揭示出贫穷和贪欲是如何扭曲了善良的人性，从而走上嗜血的不归路。小说叙述冷隽、精准、真实、残酷，观照人性深处善与恶的搏击、挣扎与骚动，马嘶岭的鬼魅氛围因象征和魔幻的渲染，加重了这个故事的悲剧分量。
《还魂记》带有强烈巫楚色彩的故事、神秘诡异的变形意象、简短有力的诗性语言，共同构成了魔幻色彩浓烈的小说文本，思考了社会现代化进程加速所带来的社会问题与精神隐疾。非凡的想象、丰沛的意象、奇诡的语感、睿智的野性，小说叙述的异质元素横溢在整个文本中，以音乐和诗一般的文字冲击力，被评论家誉为“新时期第一部真正的诗性小说”。
陈应松
Chen Yingsong
Chen Yingsong was born in Huangjinkou in Gong’an County of Hubei Province. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Wuhan University. He was transfered to the countryside after graduating from high school in 1973, and began studying writing. His published works include the full-length novels Returning Ghosts, Mount Hunter, Harvest at the Ends of the Earth, Unhinged, and Village of Aphasia, along with over 70 other works of short story collections, essay collections, and poetry collections, as well as The Collective Works of Chen Yingsong (10 volumes) and The Chen Yingsong Shennongjia Series Novels (2 volumes). His novels have won the Third Annual Lu Xun Literary Prize, the Second Annual Chinese Fiction Institution Award, the journal Selected Fictions’ Novels Award, the Liang Bin Literature Prize, and the Chinese Language Achievement Award (Canada). In 2015 he was named a “Famous Cultural Figure of Hubei Province” by the Hubei Provincial Government. He became a representative writer of new century “bottom strata literature” due to his “Shennongjia Series” of novels, A Murder in Masiling, Tranquil Dog, and Mother. Many of his works have been translated and published in English, French, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Japanese, and Korean. His medium-length novels had once been on the list of the Chinese Fiction Institution’s “Top List of Chinese Novels” for seven years. Chen Yingsong is now a member of the general committee of the China Writers Association, and Vice Chairman of the Hubei Writers Association.
Assessing Chen Yingsong, Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said: “He uses extremely individualized language to create a magnificent artistic world brimming with nightmares and delusions. This world is built on the Shennongjia mountainous area, yet also surpasses it. This is his kingdom, and is also a highlight in the domain of Chinese literature.” Chen Yingsong’s Shennongjia novel series is unique in the Chinese literary world. It subdues readers with its intense experience of life, surreal imagination, literary fantasy form, bizarre style, peculiar artistic conception, horrifying stories, and shocking artistic .
The full-length novel Mount Hunter in the Shennongjia series depicts the legendary experience of the ups and downs, twists and turns, ignoble existence, and death of the revived family of the old hunter Bai Xiu during changing generations and in the brutal fight of man with nature, with the unique outlook on life and worldview sincerely believed among the people living in the Shennongjia mountainous area that “in one out of the two twelve hour periods in a day, a person is draught animal, while the remaining time is as a human.”
A Murder in Masiling is a medium length novel that created quite a stir. The work tells the tale of two honest peasant porters, who kill seven members of a site survey team without a break. The shocking murder that occurs in the Shennongjia mountain region is stripped apart layer by layer and meticulously narrated, revealing how poverty and greed distort kind-hearted human natures, and consequently sets them down a bloodthirsty path in which there is no return. The novel’s narrative is profoundly meaningful, precise, realistic, brutal, and contemplates the fight, struggle, and turmoil of good and evil in the depths of human nature. Masiling’s atmosphere of forces of evil strengthens the tragic elements of the story due to embellishments of symbolism and fantasy.
Returning Ghosts is a story with poignant features of the witchcraft created in ancient Chu State. Mysterious and strange transforming images and short and powerful poetic language together form a novel with strong magical features, which reflects on the social problems and the unmentionable spiritual diseases brought about by the speeding up of the process of societal modernization. With its unconventional imagination, plentiful imagery, eccentric sense of language, and sagacious unruliness, the entire text overflows with the heterogenous elements that the novel depicts. Critics have called it “the first true poetic novel in the new era of China” on account of its musical and poetic-like textual impact.
英文审校 | 咸慧
编辑 | 朱贺芳
“文化互译，沟通世界”