《天行者》(The Sky Dwellers)

《天行者》(The Sky Dwellers)

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作者简介
刘醒龙,生于古城黄州,现为《芳草》文学杂志总编,华中师范大学客座教授,华中师范大学刘醒龙当代文学研究中心名誉主任。著有《刘醒龙文集》(27卷)等。散文《抱着父亲回故乡》获老舍散文奖,中篇小说《挑担茶叶上北京》获首届鲁迅文学奖,长篇小说《天行者》获第八届茅盾文学奖。
Born in 1956 in Tuanfeng in Hubei province, Liu Xinglong's works include eleven novels and twelve collections of short stories. Some of his novels have been translated and published in English, French, Japanese and Korean. His novel The Sky Dwellers won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize, while his Holy Heaven's Gate won the first Academy of Contemporary Chinese Literature Prize and the second China Novel Society Novel Prize. He has also won the Lu Xun Literature Prize for a novella and Taiwan's United Literature Prize.
编辑推荐
周新民:"刘醒龙的《天行者》就是这样一部超越了简单政治道德评价,立体地表现中国民办教师的优秀作品!"
陈瑶:"《天行者》不是一部简单的乡村知识分子精神的颂歌,而是一部意蕴丰厚的现实主义力作。"
尹正保:"《天行者》可谓是民间英雄的再现之旅。"
王春林:"'当代诗人北岛在其《回答》中有名句云'卑鄙是卑鄙者的通行证,高尚是高尚者的墓志铭'在这里,我篡改北岛的名句,用以评价刘醒龙的长篇小说《天行者》。"
王子杰 :"在长篇小说《天行者》中"作家大胆闯进描写对象'自我'内心世界中去,准确又合乎逻辑地揣摩人物在特定情势下的所想、所说、所做,同时保持他清明的理智和独特的创作个性对生活、对人有自己的敏锐观察和见解"对他笔下的每个人物还做出了恰如其分的美学评价。"
宋辰博:"《天行者》零距离的描绘了中国乡村教育的现状,总体上来说是'民办教师的纪念碑,乡村学校的艰辛史。"
内容简介
《天行者》 以中国20世纪90年代贫乏的乡村教育为背景,讲述了一群在贫苦生活中无私为乡村教育事业做出贡献的民办教师为求转正而发生的辛酸故事,也反映出被人们遗忘已久的乡村民办教师曾有过的艰难历程。
本书围绕着西河乡界岭小学三代民办教师转正的故事,以及张英才、余校长、孙四海、万站长、蓝飞和夏雪等人的爱情故事开展起来。这些大故事中穿插着小故事,每个小故事又可以作为下个故事开展的源头,相互交叉汇合,使得小说的叙事精彩纷呈,紧缩而富有张力。

The Sky Dwellers describes the lives and struggles of primary school teachers in Jieling, a tiny, fictional community nestled high in remote mountains in China. These teachers are not state teachers, with regular salaries and pensions to look forward to. They are, instead, community teachers (or "minban teachers" - a term which literally translates as "people-supported" teachers) whose wages are paid by the local community and who might not have received much beyond primary school teaching themselves. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most children in China were taught by minban teachers. From the early 1990s onwards, the role was gradually phased out, and some minban teachers were lucky enough to become state teachers.

A minban teacher's life was one of poverty. State subsidies provided only part of their wages and local cadres were supposed to make up the rest from often very limited village funds. But often the cadres did not pay on time, or at all. Inevitably, this would result in tensions - a theme explored in this novel.

Each of the teachers in the book responds differently to the pressures of life as a minban teacher. But the novel is not just about the teachers' lives, it also deals with the impact they had on the children and the community they served. Set in the 1990s, a time of great social and cultural change in China, The Sky Dwellers is a compelling, personal and moving account of a part of China's recent past which is often overlooked.
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