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"Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin" Subtitle: Supplement to "Literary Memoirs" Author: Mu Xin's Narration
"Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin" Subtitle: Supplement to "Literary Memoirs" Author: Mu Xin's Narration
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Introduction · · · · · ·
In the five-year "History of World Literature" course, Mu Xin, at the repeated request of his students, spent half of the nine classes from March 7 to September 11, 1993, talking about his literary writing. All the content is included in Chen Danqing's original notes. In early 2013, "Literary Memoirs" was published based on these five lecture notes. Due to concerns at the time, Chen Danqing did not include the relevant content of the nine classes. After deliberation, for the readers' consideration, he still used his notes as the basis to compile the book "Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin" as a supplement to "Literary Memoirs".
Chen Danqing, a student who attended the class, said that in the 1980s, this "homework" was not to listen to the history of world literature, but everyone urged Mu Xin to talk about his own articles - this was the truth that he had to confess to the readers first. In 1993, the literary history lecture entered its fourth year, and the topic gradually turned to so-called modern literature. At that time, everyone was too familiar with the teacher, and somehow, the old topic was brought up again, and we asked him to talk about his writing and his articles. In March, Mu Xin finally agreed and planned to continue to talk about modern literature in the first half of the class, and in the second half of the class, everyone could choose one of his works and listen to him talk about it himself. Looking at the notes, the first lecture was on March 7, and the last one was on September 11, a total of nine lectures. After that, Mu Xin continued to talk about modern literature full-time until the last class in January 1994.
Mu Xin said very seriously, "When no one understands you, don't speak out yourself." Chen Danqing said, what is "private talk"? This is private talk. The true value of the full "Literary Memoirs" lies in "private talk". He talked about so many wonderful people in ancient and modern times, but he talked about himself. When he talked about his own works sentence by sentence ("Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin"), he was talking about what literature, what articles, and what words and phrases are. This is a difficult move. Where can people who love writing find such a real thing? At present, the research on Mu Xin, which is hidden but lacks a rudimentary form, seems to be sprouting. "Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin" has been published, which should be a text worth pondering. Will the authors who appreciate Mu Xin and have something to say pay attention to his so-called "elf" self-description and the so-called "Bu Xu" self-confession? Cheng Laotou thinks highly of us and has made a bottom line in advance. In terms of worldly wisdom, what he said is really not human: this is a confession that is difficult to obtain even under the most severe torture of the literary court.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mu Xin (1927-2011), originally from Zhejiang, graduated from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. During the Cultural Revolution, he drew piano keys on white paper and played Mozart and Bach silently. Chen Danqing said, "He loved literature to the point of sin, just like his sin and isolation from the world." He wrote books such as "Reflections of Columbia", "Past of White Shoes", "Impromptu Judgment", "Jiong Meka Random Thoughts", "Windsor Cemetery Diary", "My Fluctuating Desires", "Three Trees in Spain", "Feast of Fish and Li", "Baron", "The Pseudo-Book of Solomon", "The Book of Poetry", "The Evil Guest in Emerson's House", and "The Skylark Sings All Day". After his death, there was another book "Literary Memoirs" compiled from "Lectures on World Literature History", and "Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin" as a supplement to "Literary Memoirs".
Mu Xin said: "Mr. Pei was right at every stage of his life; I was wrong at every stage of my life." This is not irony, but the truth, because the truth is even worse than irony - in the late 1950s, he hid at home and secretly learned stream-of-consciousness writing; on the eve of the "Cultural Revolution" in the 1960s, he talked with others all night about Yeats, Eliot, Spengler, Proust, and Akhmatova; when he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in the 1970s, he secretly wrote literary manuscripts, which was shocking; in the late 1980s, he was over 60 years old, and his survival anxiety was far greater than that of a middle-aged man living in a foreign country, but he taught literature for five years... The book "Literary Memoirs" is full of names that Mu Xin never changed, and he knows the literary saint family like the back of his hand, but he has no idea how it has lastingly influenced this person. Mu Xin said, "My lectures on world literary history are actually my literary memories."
Chen Danqing, born in 1953, is originally from Shanghai and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The most complete record of students attending the "World Literature History Lecture" in New York from 1989 to 1994, regards Mu Xin as his "master". Mu Xin said, "The best student is the one who inspires the teacher. Danqing is a friend who inspires me", and he also said, "Horax promised. The genius died, and the genius's friends testified for the genius. It can even be said that the artist gave the gift to the world through the hands of friends." In addition to painting, he has written books such as "Redundant Materials", "Retrogression Collection", "Retrogression Collection Sequel", "Waste Collection", "Careful Collection", "New York Trivia", "Foreign Music in Foreign Countries", "Ignorant Travels", "The Quagmire of Conversation", and "Laughing at the Great Master".
