Neatly putting an emphasis on his storytelling skill is how writer Mo Yan began his Nobel Lecture in Literature speech, “Storyteller”, on Friday （Saturday, Beijing time） in Stockholm.
For 40 minutes he talked about his mother’s   36   on him as a person and a writer, his literary inspirations, and how he   37   with the controversy（争论）that followed the announcement of his Nobel victory.
He told his audience that as a boy he told stories to cheer up his mother, and   38   that poverty and loneliness fueled his imagination as a writer after he grew up.   39  , authors such as William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez   40   him, he said, especially their bold and unlimited writing style.
“A person should be   41   in daily life, but follow one’s instinct（本能）and take control when it   42   to literary creation.”
He said the soul of   43   all of his works is the boy in Transparent Carrot who has an almost superhuman ability to bear   44  . He added that he also tried to make his hometown of Gaomi in Shandong Province a microcosm（缩影）of China and even the   45  .
His greatest challenge, he said, was writing novels that deal with   46   realities.
“In writing about the dark aspects of society there is a（n）  47   that emotions and anger allow politics to limit literature.”
He said literature must be   48   on real life but go beyond it.
He also mentioned the   49   surrounding his selection as Nobel winner, saying he was showered with many flowers.   50   he was a target for “stone throwers”.
“At first I thought I was the   51   of the controversies, but over time I’ve come to realize that the real target was a person who had   52   to do with me.”
Mo   53   his lecture by saying he was made to feel like an actor in a play with all the attention he was   54  , but he had decided that the best way to communicate his thoughts was to   __55   writing.

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