重音大师课/看稿会 x 孔亚雷 I 创作即奇遇：小说写作中的直觉与非理性
创作即奇遇：小说写作中的直觉与非理性（看稿会）
“我意识到一个好作品不是计划出来的。或者甚至说它必须超出你的计划。”——孔亚雷
小说家、翻译家孔亚雷将从新作《奇遇夫人》出发，和大家聊聊写作中的直觉与非理性：一篇小说如何在理性与非理性之间找到比例，又如何留下属于自己的“秘密”。
看稿环节
参与的同学可以自愿提交一篇短篇小说，孔亚雷老师会在课堂上进行点评。报名后请私信重音微信小助手入群，获取阅读材料与投稿方式。
讨论篇目
孔亚雷短篇小说集《奇遇夫人》
孔亚雷长篇小说《李美真》
残雪短篇小说
大卫·林奇电影《穆赫兰道》
村上春树《奇鸟行状录》
我们会聊到
直觉从哪里来：阅读、孤独与简单的生活如何养出写作的直觉
理性与非理性的比例：一篇小说如何既成立，又留有“秘密”
小说的两个关键词：“自足”与“秘密”
从一张老照片长出一部小说：《李美真》与《大象》的起点
关于孔亚雷
孔亚雷，1975年生，小说家、翻译家，现居浙江莫干山脚下。著有长篇小说《不失者》《李美真》，短篇小说集《火山旅馆》《如果我在即将坠机的航班上睡着了》《奇遇夫人》，文学评论随笔集《极乐生活指南》；译有保罗·奥斯特《幻影书》、杰夫·戴尔《然而，很美：爵士乐之书》、詹姆斯·索特《光年》，并与北岛合译莱昂纳德·科恩《渴望之书》。曾获西湖中国新锐小说奖、鲁迅文学奖翻译奖提名奖、单向街书店文学奖、浙江省优秀文学作品奖，作品被译为英、荷、意等多种文字。
Creation as Adventure: Intuition and the Irrational in Fiction Writing (Manuscript Workshop)
Taught in Chinese.
"A good work is not something you plan. It may even have to go beyond your plan." — Kong Yalei
Novelist and translator Kong Yalei starts from his new story collection 奇遇夫人, named after the German poem "Frau Aventiure", to explore intuition and the irrational in fiction: how a story finds the right balance between reason and unreason, and how it keeps a secret of its own.
Manuscript critique
Participants may voluntarily submit one short story, which Kong Yalei will critique in class. After registering, please message the Accent WeChat assistant to join the group chat and receive the readings and submission instructions.
Readings
Kong Yalei, 奇遇夫人 (short stories)
Kong Yalei, 李美真 / You Beautiful Truth (novel)
Short stories by Can Xue
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive (film)
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
About Kong Yalei
Born in 1975, Kong Yalei is a novelist and translator who lives at the foot of Moganshan in Zhejiang. His books include the novels 不失者 and 李美真 (You Beautiful Truth), the story collections 火山旅馆, 如果我在即将坠机的航班上睡着了 and 奇遇夫人, and the essay collection 极乐生活指南. He has translated Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful and James Salter's Light Years into Chinese, and co-translated Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing with Bei Dao. His honors include the West Lake Prize for New Chinese Fiction, a nomination for the Lu Xun Literary Prize for translation, and the Danxiangjie (One Way Street) Bookstore Literary Award. His work has been translated into English, Dutch and Italian, among other languages.