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"Dust" Author: Chen Nianxi Tianjin People's Publishing House Douban 2021 Chinese Literature (Non-fiction)
"Dust" Author: Chen Nianxi Tianjin People's Publishing House Douban 2021 Chinese Literature (Non-fiction)
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Introduction · · · · · ·
I have seen so much misfortune that I have never been depressed.
——Chen Nianxi
This book contains a collection of 21 non-fiction stories by Chen Nianxi.
The book tells the stories of a group of ordinary and simple workers.
They are blasters, stone movers, rural carpenters, farmers, farm women, small workshop owners...
The writer's own story runs through the whole story: blasting rocks five thousand meters underground, raising a family amid smoke and roar, writing poems in sheds and mountains, recording the explosion and silence of fate.
Although they have experienced the hardships of life, they are simple and strong, and quietly tell the life themes about family, love, death, desire...
This is a book about life, a book about death, and ultimately, a book about living.
What is the world like? What is life like? In my opinion, apart from the long, omnipresent wind, the rest is dust. We rush through it, trying to stand firm, but more often we fall to the ground, unable to control ourselves.
About the Author
Chen Nianxi
Born in 1970 in Danfeng County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province;
In 1990, he began to write poetry;
In 1999, he went out to work and worked in mine blasting for 16 years;
In 2015, due to cervical spine surgery, he sought another way to make a living and participated in the creation and recording of the Sichuan Satellite TV program "King of Poetry";
In 2016, he was invited to Harvard University and other prestigious universities for poetry exchanges, and in the same year he won the first Laureate Worker Poetry Award;
In 2017, the documentary film "My Poems" starring him was released;
In 2019, he published his first poetry collection, Explosion Chronicles;
In 2020, he was invited to be a guest on the CCTV program "The Reader".
After graduating from high school, Chen Nianxi went out to work, and blasting worker is the job he has done for the longest time so far.
Growing up at the foot of the Qinling Mountains, Chen Nianxi was immersed in traditional culture of his hometown, such as Qinqiang and drum books, from an early age. He regarded it as his literary enlightenment.
While working in the mine, Chen Nianxi began to write continuously. His inspiration flowed like a spring. On the dynamite boxes, on the rocks, and on the bed, his poems and stories flowed out like a spring.
After leaving the mine in 2015, Chen Nianxi moved to Guizhou, Beijing and other places.
In 2020, Chen Nianxi was diagnosed with pneumoconiosis. Now, he has returned to his hometown, and he continues to write.
Some media reports:
Chen Nianxi, a strong-willed and affectionate blaster, expressed his feelings in a mine deep in the mountains: "Even the humblest bones have rivers in them."
——People's Daily
Chen Nianxi became a rich mine. Those ridges hollowed out by traveling all over the country were like a person's mined life.
——Southern Weekend
While working, I held a pneumatic drill in my arms, but my thoughts drifted far away. Some sentences came to my mind, and I quickly wrote them down. The mattress in the dormitory was made of a discarded explosive box, and there was a pen at the head of the bed. When I left, I rolled up the bedding and wrote densely, covering the bed.
——GQ report
Brother, I have read your poems and heard your hunger, because I was once waiting for a train in Lanzhou and was starving on the train.
——Yi Zhongtian
He is the good writer in my mind. I have never thought about his profession. Although I respect writers who come from workers or farmers, the most important thing to me is the words and literary quality itself. "
——Zhang Li, two-time Mao Dun Literature Prize judge, professor at Beijing Normal University
