最近我们欣喜地读到了由作家出版社出版的长篇小说《中国蓝调》,吕运斌以湖楚大地为背景,以自己熟悉的故乡生活为素材,成功地塑造了子期、少哉、若氏、南屏、秋、西毛等栩栩如生的人物,丰富了我们时代的文学画廊。值得注意的是,作者在创作上采用简约主义的艺术手法,无论是主题的开拓还是人物的塑造,无论是语境的营造还是情感的编织,都因笔法的简约而使小说具有了鲜活的生命和精致的品味。艺术的极致是简约,即用最少的语言,表达最大的信息量,最丰富的情感和最深邃的思想,正如唐诗 Recently, we were delighted to read the novel “The Chinese Blues,” published by the author’s press. Based on the land of Lake Chu, Lu Yunbin managed his familiar hometown life as a material and successfully shaped the sub-period, austerity, Screen, autumn, West Mao and other lifelike characters, enriched our era of literature galleries. It is noteworthy that the author adopts the artistic approach of minimalism in his creation. Whether it is the development of the subject or the shaping of the characters, both the creation of the context and the weaving of emotions make the novel vivid due to the simplicity of the writing Life and refined taste. The extreme of art is simplicity, that is to say in the least amount of language, to express the greatest amount of information, the richest emotions and the deepest thoughts,