作家名片 | 梁晓声：人心向善是我对文学创作的期待和信仰
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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”。
梁晓声，男，原名梁绍生，1949年9月出生于哈尔滨市，祖籍山东荣成市泊于镇温泉寨。高中毕业后曾在黑龙江第一师劳动，在北大荒度过了七年的知青岁月。由于他擅长写作，被批准参加了全兵团的文学创作培训班。1974年，复旦大学到兵团招生，通过在兵团发表的小说《向导》得到老师力荐，随后就读于复旦中文系。1977年任北京电影制片厂编辑、编剧，并开始正式从事文学创作。知青生活经历是他文学创作的灵感和源泉。他相继创作了北大荒知青题材的系列小说《这是一片神奇的土地》《今夜有暴风雪》《雪城》等。2002年至今任北京语言大学中文系教授。
梁晓声认为，真正的作家不能为了取悦读者而写作，1000多万字的创作量，让他成为当代作家中少有人比肩的高产作家。他的创作风格可以归纳为：现实主义的英雄化风格，现实主义的平民化风格，现实主义的寓言化风格。他被当作是平民的代言人，通过他的作品人们看到了生活在社会下层的小人物的酸甜苦辣，他们的追求及幻灭，他们的执着与无奈，他们的默默无闻所孕育的愤怒和反抗。
梁晓声最初是作为“知青作家”登上文坛的，他的知青小说《知青》展示了特殊年代的年轻人特有的痛苦中的困惑、困惑中的思索、思索后对自身及过去经历的肯定，梁晓声因此也是“青春无悔”型知青文学的典型代表。在《人间烟火》《父亲》中，表现出的是梁晓声平和的平民化创作风格。当中国走上现代化建设之路，社会开始转型的时候，精英文学逐渐走向边缘，世俗化的文学日益兴起，梁晓声的作品在关注知青这一群体的生存状态的同时，开始将目光投向了社会最底层的平民生活。与其他作家寻找平民身上的劣根性不同，梁晓声更多的是从平民立场出发，去描写平民的日常生活，将人们心灵光辉的一面展现出来。作为一名大学教授，梁晓声经常为青年学子开设文化讲坛，是青年的人生导师，他也常常就社会现实问题发声，被称为“平民代言人”。
梁晓声从二十世纪八十年代开始创作，至今依然不用电脑写作，坚持在稿纸上“爬格子”。2018年，梁晓声出版了115万字的长篇小说《人世间》，小说描写了周氏一家，个性和学养有别，却都不遗余力践行中国传统道德，表现出高度的文化自觉。他始终站在人民群众的立场上，深刻体察普通人的生活，展现草根青年的奋斗和拼搏，既书写了中国社会发展的“光荣与梦想”，也反映了改革开放进程的艰难和复杂，堪称“五十年中国百姓生活史”。
梁晓声
Liang Xiaosheng
Liang Xiaosheng began his literary writing in the 1980s and to this day he still refuses to use a computer to write, insisting on writing everything by hand. In 2018, Liang Xiaosheng published a 1.15-million-word novel titled The Human World. The novel depicts the Zhou family sparing no effort in upholding traditional Chinese ethics. Each member of the family, despite different personalities and distinctive education backgrounds, shows a strong cultural awareness. He has always stood by the common people and taken a perceptive observation of their life, demonstrating the struggles and hard work of grassroots youth. The novel not only presents the “glory and dream” of the development of Chinese society, but also reflects the difficulties and complexities of the reform and opening up process, known as “The life History of the Ordinary Chinese People over 50 years”.
Liang Xiaosheng first appeared in the literary scene as one of “educated youth writers”. His educated youth novel Educated Youth displayed the perplexities in their pain, their contemplations in perplexities, and their convictions after contemplations on themselves and their own experiences, all of which were unique to young people in a special era. He is therefore also a typical representative of educated youth literature featuring a youth without regret”. The novels The World’s Life and Father manifest his mild plebeian style. When China embarked on the road to modernization and the society began to transform, literature elitism gradually moved to the edge, giving way to the literature secularization. While focusing on the living conditions of the group of educated youth, he cast his eyes on people at the bottom rungs of society. Unlike other writers who sought out the inherent weaknesses of the citizens, Liang Xiaosheng set out from the standpoint of ordinary people to describe their daily life and reveal the bright side of their hearts. As a university professor, he often sets up cultural forums for young students. He is a life mentor for young people, commenting often on social issues and is known as a “spokesperson of the civilians”.
Liang Xiaosheng believes that a real writer cannot write for the sake of pleasing his readers. His works, which contain more than 10 million Chinese characters, show that he is a highly productive writer among contemporary writers. His creative style can be summarized as the heroic style of realism, the “common people” style of realism, and the parable style of realism. He is considered the spokesperson for the ordinary people. Through his works, one is able to see the ups and downs of people at the bottom of society, their pursuits and disillusionments, their dedication and helplessness, and the anger and sense of rebellion they had borne through being unknown.
Liang Xiaosheng, male, formerly known as Liang Shaosheng, was born in Harbin in September 1949, with his ancestral home in Hot Spring Village, Bo Yu Town, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. After graduating from high school, he was sent to the Great Northern Wilderness in the northeastern part of the country as an educated youth in 1968, where he has worked as a farm worker for seven years in the first division of the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps. As he was good at writing, he was approved to sign in literary creation training class for the entire Corps. In 1974, he was accepted to Fudan University specializing in literary creation in the Department of Chinese on the strong recommendation of his working unit for his early publication of his novel Guide, when Fudan University came to the Corps for student enrollment. In 1977, he worked as an editor and screenwriter in Beijing Film Studio and formally began his literary creation. His experiences as an educated youth were an inspiration and a source of literary creation for him. He wrote a series of masterpieces, with the theme of educated youth living in the Great Northern Wilderness, such as This is a Miraculous Land, The Snowstorm Tonight, Snow City and so on Since 2002, he has been a professor at the Chinese Language Department of Beijing Language and Culture University.
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