China’s Pop Fiction (郭敬明).ppt

China’s Pop Fiction (郭敬明） 发表时间：2009-03-20 20:20:50 Guo Jingming Guo is hardly universally beloved. Last fall, he was voted China’s most hated male celebrity for the third year in a row on Tianya, one of the country’s biggest online forums. Yet three of his four novels have sold over a million copies each, and last year he had the highest income of any Chinese author: $1.4 million. 郭敬明很难被所有人都喜欢。去年秋天，他在天涯社区（中国最大的在线论坛之一）连续第三年被列入“中国最受人讨厌的男明星”的行列里。但是，他的前三部出版的小说每部都已售出超过百万册，去年他也是中国作家收入最高者，年收入140万美元。 近年来广受评论界赞誉的中国小说，如《狼图腾》（讲述一个蒙古文化灭亡的寓言故事，暗含着对“文化大革命”的批评），余华的《活着》以及莫言的《酒国》，基本都是运用人物形象承载着对广大社会和政治的评说。而郭敬明的小说中的青少年形象关注于他们受着煎熬的内心世界，他描写的人物或在树下、屋顶上独处数个小时，或通过喝酒打架唱卡拉OK麻木内心来疗愈他们的忧伤。   “My main goal is to tell the story well and have everyone like it,” Guo said recently in a telephone interview. Which isn’t to say he traffics entirely in escapism. For all the over-the-top melodrama and brand-name dropping, his novels’ contemporary urban settings, Guo said, are far closer to the reality of his readers’ lives than the harsh countryside of China’s modern classics. And his frothy novels, though often denounced as “chain-manufactured writing,” do reflect social issues in their own way. The editor of Guo’s first novel, “City of Fantasy” — about the 350-year-old prince of an Ice Kingdom who is forced to kill his younger brother to protect the throne — told one of China’s leading newsweeklies that he had decided to publish the novel because it would appeal to the lonely children of China’s one-child generation. Guo is the most successful of a dozen young celebrity authors who make up the “post-’80s” generation, some others of whom have also achieved book sales in the millions. This group includes the high school dropout and professional car racer Han Han, 25, who derides China’s inefficient educational system in his novels and regularly insults older, more established artists on his blog, and Zhang Yueran, 26, whose novel “Daffodils Took Carp and Went Away” features a bulimic girl who fall