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Diario veneziano

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Nel Diario veneziano Acheng porta all’estremo limite il suo sguardo «taoista» sul mondo. All’inizio del Diario, passando dalla descrizione della Los Angeles bruciata dalle violenze razziali al ricordo di un episodio della Rivoluzione culturale, lo scrittore conclude con disarmante ironia: «Nei grandi disordini c’è sempre un grande silenzio». La forza segreta di questo libro, che si colloca in un preciso genere letterario – detto biji (letteratura in forma appunto), divenuto popolare in Cina a partire dal periodo delle Sei Dinastie (265-589) – sta proprio nella svagatezza e concisione quasi algebrica dello stile. La simpatia per il meticciato e l’ostilità ai nazionalismi. Lo spirito anti-aristocratico. L’insofferenza per le corporazioni degli intellettuali di ieri e di oggi, nella varietà cinesi e occidentali. L’ironia sull’antico e sul moderno, e anche sul postmoderno», sono alcuni dei nodi attorno ai quali si coagula la visione del mondo di Acheng.

144 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

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Ah Cheng

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Ah Cheng, born in Beijing in 1949, is the pen name of Zhong Acheng (simplified Chinese: 钟阿城; traditional Chinese: 鍾阿城; pinyin: Zhōng Āchéng). An accomplished fiction writer, painter, and screenwriter (for internationally renowned Taiwanese director, Hou Xiaoxian), Ah Cheng spent the Cultural Revolution years in a small village in Inner Mongolia where he painted the sheep and grasslands, and on a State Farm bordering Yunnan province and Laos. During the 1980s he came to prominence as a member of the “primitive” or “seeking roots” literary movement. He has lived in several countries including the US, often not writing for long periods and working various jobs such as fixing bicycles and house painting. In 1992 he received the Italian Nonino International Prize for his literary achievements, which includes a travel journal, Venetian Diary. He lives in the outskirts of Beijing.

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January 17, 2017
阿城会聊天,所以很多人喜欢和阿城做朋友,可是真正能做他朋友的人, 恐怕生活在千百年前,在孤灯下的羊皮卷里,或者在宣纸上。

阿城说:“饭做好了,土豆非常新鲜,新鲜得好像自己的嘴不干净。”他又说:“空气新鲜,新鲜得好像第一次知道有空气这种东西。”他那个圈子里不时发散出来的高明,使得我这样的俗人觉得自己犹如一个乞丐,站在高门大户的墙外,偶尔听到墙内的莺歌燕舞、欢声笑语,闻到酒菜的飘香, 就那种感受。

在我看来,阿城是一个寄居于人世的旁观者,他对于世间的乱象总有一种淡淡的悲悯。其实这些乱象与他无关,因为他一个行走自如的人。世界之大,他总能找到一个安静的角落。把自由的头脑,带到一个安逸的屋檐下听风听雨。

“穿过小方场,在光滑小巷中走。掏出钥匙开街门,院中水井静静立着。一只猫站下来私家侦探般研究我。穿过幽暗的走廊,辨认钥匙,声音像在数银币,开房门,两道房门。屋里暗沉沉,只有玻璃窗泛着灰色。开灯,桌子、椅子、床,同时浮现出来,看着我,好像说,这两天又去哪儿疯了?坐到桌前,启动计算机,“嘟”,屏幕亮了,日记浮现。”

在这段文字里,我读到一种对于劫后余生、偏安一隅的怜惜。这种怜惜不是对自己的,而是对那些不能行走自如的人们的。
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October 23, 2025
经「不止读书」的播客推荐去读。阿城是博主最喜欢的中文作家,而我则是第一次听说和读阿城的书。

过去我也写游记,却总是被身边的人落下个“流水账”的标记。有好长一段时间,我在寻找适合自己的游记写作方式。

阅读这本书也属于寻找的过程。但结论是,没有定式。

阿程写游记,没有固定的格式和主题,总是想到哪写到哪,篮球、艺术、船夫、朋友等等,给我的启示是,写作思维要发散:可以上一秒在逛高雅的威尼斯艺术展,下一秒就在讨论晚上的篮球比赛。

另外,总是要写自己想写的东西。

书里有句印象深刻的话,“偶尔出现的精彩句子,是需要频繁的废话衬托的。”

很喜欢作家在书里写的聪明话。

今年后续会读他的《棋王》。
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June 12, 2022
在威尼斯的日记原来是交差作业。要想不无聊的办法就是深入世俗生活,赞同。
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May 29, 2019
到底有什么是阿城不懂的?能对生活保持好奇心真好呐❤
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