"It's nothing." Yu Dong shook his head and responded, "I just didn't expect that he could write so well. It has improved a lot compared to before."
"Yeah, I think it's great too. He's very talented. But I feel like his writing style still has some traces of you. Although I've never met him, I can tell just by reading the words that he admires you."
Yu Dong smiled and nodded, Ruan Xiaohu was indeed influenced a lot by him.
As for the content written in this novel, Yu Dong didn't think about himself at first, but some details in it made him unable not to associate the things in it with himself.
If what is written in it is true, then the novel Xiaohu read at that time should be "One Day".
But Yu Dong didn't dare to be completely sure about literary creation... Maybe Ruan Xiaohu had stayed with him for a long time and felt that he had helped him a lot. Later, he saw "One Day" and then combined it with him on the train.
That encounter inspired me to write such a novel.
But regardless of whether this matter is true or not, Yu Dong is inconvenient to tell anyone, not even Cheng Yanqiu, because it concerns Ruan Xiaohu's future.
If Ruan Xiaohu only writes this novel and stops publishing novels in the future, it won't matter. But if he becomes famous for his writing in the future, this matter will have a great impact on him.
Although people are very tolerant of the writer's personal ethics, they do not rule out the possibility of ruining him because of this incident.
"How about it? Do you have a sense of accomplishment when the students you teach finally learn something?" Cheng Yanqiu looked at Yu Dong with a smile, "Actually, the relationship between you two is a bit similar to that in the novel. You often borrow his books to read.
I still guide him on a regular basis, doesn’t it also change his life?”
"It's a sense of accomplishment." Yu Dong also smiled, "Yes, but not much. This boy is still far from it. The traces of imitating me are so heavy that even you can see it."
"What do you mean? Even I can tell. I think you are looking for a beating!"
Yu Dong shrank his neck, then raised his legs and got on the bicycle, "Puhu——"
Cheng Yanqiu shouted twice, then rushed up with her long legs, and jumped into the back seat. She was no longer what she used to be. She made all the movements to get into the car smoothly and smoothly. After getting into the car, she did not need to make any adjustments.
There is no need to hold Yu Dong tightly with both hands. Hold the magazine in one hand, and the other hand can be free to scratch Yu Dong.
"Comrade Luoluo, please drive safely." Yu Dong twisted his body and said.
"Aren't you bragging that you can ride without handlebars?"
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In the blink of an eye, November came, Jimmy had already negotiated the novel collection, and it was finally handed over to the Sichuan Provincial People's Publishing House.
Although the People's Literature Publishing House accepts royalties, the royalty points offered are four points less than that of the Sichuan Provincial People's Publishing House. Of course, Jimmy cannot accept this gap.
In fact, People's Literature did not attach much importance to this novel collection plan. They paid more attention to the single volume of "Going to the West". During the negotiations, the publishing house also revealed some information to Jimmy. If "Going to the West" is published in "
If it gets a good response after being published in "Contemporary", they will consider publishing "Westward" at a relatively high royalty point.
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In early November, there were not many tourists in Huizhou Prefecture. Ruan Xiaohu was lucky. Although it had entered the off-season, he was still able to take a small group every day.
Of course, others may not be willing to take the small group he leads.
Other tour guides are busy "making a lot of money", like the kind of "connected people" who greet tourists who can't be slaughtered. No one else wants them, but Ruan Xiaohu doesn't refuse them all.
This time we brought two old couples. They were well-dressed—people who can travel would not be poorly dressed. However, the temperament of these four people seemed to be that of scholars.
When Ruan Xiaohu went to pick them up in the morning, he saw one of the old men holding a copy of "Contemporary" in his hand.
This magazine has only come out these two days, and Ruan Xiaohu hasn’t even read it yet.
He usually goes to the bookstore and buys one or two of the magazines "Zhongshan", "Harvest", "Contemporary" and "Flower City". The bookstore owner is familiar with him and often lends him other magazines to read.
So although the economy is tight, he can always read these magazines. Now he has enough food for himself and the whole family has no worries. Most of the money he made has been used to buy books. Except for reference books related to tour guides, he has used the rest.
Come and buy literary books.
He previously published a novel of more than 7,000 words in "Youth Literature" and received nearly RMB 200 in royalties. After receiving the money, his first reaction was that he could buy more books in the future.
The tourists were brought to the hotel to check in. After the check-in was completed, Ruan Xiaohu heard the old man holding the magazine say to another old man: "This issue of "Contemporary" has another long story, only half of it. Guess whose it is?"
"who?"
"Yu Dong's."
"Yu Dong, he also wrote a long novel?"
"Look at what you said, wasn't the article "Chaos Diary" in "Harvest" a long one?"
"Hey, I feel that "Diary of Chaos" is average and a bit tricky. On the other hand, "Alive" published at the same time is very good. Yu Hua's language is simpler, but its vitality seems stronger."
"You are biased. I think "Diary of Chaos" is very good. Of course, "Xiang Xiang" is obviously better..."
When Ruan Xiaohu heard the word Yu Dong, his eyes started to shine.
Teacher Yu has published another novel?
He stared at the "Contemporary" in the old man's hand with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to eat the magazine.
The old man saw Ruan Xiaohu coming and said with a smile: "Little tour guide, is the room ready?"
Then he noticed Ruan Xiaohu's gaze and asked curiously, "Do you usually pay attention to "Contemporary"?"
Ruan Xiaohu nodded and replied, "I will read it in my spare time. I didn't expect that Teacher Yu Dong's works would also be published in "Contemporary". His previous works were basically published in "Harvest" and "Zhongshan"."
"And "Science Fiction World"." The old man smiled and said, "It seems you do know a lot about Dong."
Ruan Xiaohu was a little surprised. He didn't expect that this old man would still watch "Science Fiction World" at his age.
"Old Hu, let's see how happy you are." Another old man said.
Lao Hu smiled and said: "If I'm not happy, who is happy?"
After saying that, he handed the magazine to Ruan Xiaohu: "I've almost read it. Let me lend it to you."
"How……"
"It's okay, just remember to return it to me after reading it." At this point, Hu Yueming suddenly thought of a certain unscrupulous disciple who borrowed books and refused to return them.
…
"To the West" attracted widespread attention as soon as it came out. "Contemporary" only publishes a few novels a year, so basically every novel will attract attention.
In particular, "White Deer Plain" is selling well, and "Contemporary" has become very popular among readers recently.
In addition, Yu Dong is indeed popular during this period. Let's not talk about "Resident Evil". The movie "Soft Knife" adapted from "Death of a Widow" has caused a lot of response and brought a lot of fame to the original work.
Logically speaking, it is too early to say anything now. This novel has only been published halfway, and nothing can be finalized until the full text is published.
But critics can't wait to get their hands on it.
In the mid-1980s, root-seeking literature began to emerge in China, and a number of local works emerged.
Closely related to root-seeking literature is magical realism from Latin America. Nowadays, when people mention root-seeking literature, they will think of magical realism.
"Going West" is no exception. Only halfway through its release, it was labeled as "root-seeking" and "magical realism".
Some people think that "Going West" is just a magical realism work that is not too magical in the wave of root-seeking, and is really mediocre.
But other people believe that "To the West" has just embarked on a Chinese path of magical realism. Modern writers can learn from the success of Latin America, but they should not focus on the word magic and should fully express the characteristics of domestic literature.
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There are also some people who distinguish "Going West" from magical realism, believing that this novel is a panoramic realist novel with a touch of magic, and can even be classified as a new historicist novel.
The critics started arguing. Everyone held their own opinions and no one could convince anyone.
Originally, this incident had little impact. Critics argued among themselves and did not say anything too extreme.
In recent years, critics have been relatively restrained and not very courageous. They roll up their sleeves and do much less than before.
But then a fuse suddenly appeared, which directly detonated the bomb.
Yu Hua felt very unhappy when she saw someone criticizing Yu Dong, so she published a "violent comment" in the literary and artistic creation exchange column of "Literary News", targeting the critic directly.
"I think there is a big difference between writers and critics. When dealing with classic writers, critics still try to find flaws in their works...The fact is that any great novel has flaws, so critics
Always confident and confident. Some critics always like to teach novelists to write novels, just like eunuchs always like to teach others how to do AI. In my opinion, even this half of Yu Dong's "Xiangxi" can be regarded as a classic
work, but even such a work..."
As soon as this "violent comment" came out, those who had previously scolded Yu Dong couldn't sit still.
Go ahead, roll up your sleeves and do it! Go ahead and kill this Yu Hua. I didn’t scold you to death when avant-garde literature became popular, but I can’t spare you this time.
Not only did they scold Yu Hua, but they also scolded Yu Dong even more harshly. They were restrained before, but now they are basically going to the extreme.
The most awesome thing is that there is a critic named Fang Yanwu who criticized "To the West" section by section.
One of the criticisms impressed Yu Dong deeply.
"The entire eleventh chapter, more than 2,570 words, is divided into sixty-five paragraphs, each paragraph is less than 40 characters. This writing style has been greatly poisoned by foreign language works, and has lost the beauty of my Chinese language..."
Critics scolded us, and a bunch of outsiders came to set up the fight, and things became lively.
Yu Dong didn't say anything, but the incident started because of him, and he became the center point of the incident.
Yu Hua's statement is a bit too direct, it is easy to offend people, and it is also a bit radical. As a "professional" person, Yu Dong's views on literary criticism are certainly not completely consistent with Yu Hua's, but he has some opinions on the views of some current critics.
The views are roughly the same.
Nowadays, many critics only remember to criticize but forget to criticize. Critics should not teach novelists to write novels, but should critically present the contents of their works to everyone from a professional perspective.
Being in Jianghu, Yu Dong responded "involuntarily", but his response was different from Yu Hua's.
Aren't these people criticizing my novels? Then I can criticize my own novels. Yu Dong had to pick up the knowledge he had learned before and criticize "Xiangxi" and wrote an essay. The title of the article
It’s called [The conflict between the grand narrative background and the characters’ personal consciousness in “Going West”].
The article was published in a later issue of "Literary News" and was signed by Xi.
Although the signature is Yu Xi, everyone knows it is Yu Dong, because Yu Xi was previously in "Death of a Widow". Moreover, in order to avoid misunderstandings, "Literary News" specially attached a line of small print to introduce that the author is "
Original author of "Go West".
As soon as this article came out, everyone called Yu Dong shameless.
There are still people who write essays analyzing their own novels?!
Later, some people began to study Yu Dong's paper, saying that this paper has profound foundation and solid knowledge points, and is very worthy of reference by students who are about to graduate.
On the day the article was published, Yu Hua called Yu Dong.
"You're going to fight a tooth for a tooth, that's awesome."
Yu Dong smiled and said: "It's not all because of you. Why do you think you're so good at provoking them? Have you become famous in the past two years? You're a little arrogant."
"If a dog bites Lu Dongbin, it doesn't know a good heart. I'm not doing this all for you."
"Hey! Come on, I think you have been holding back those words for a long time, and you just used this time to say them out. Let's end this matter. You don't have to pay attention to what they say in the future. After a while, you will
It’s over.”
"Okay, treat me to dinner later. This time, for your sake, I dropped my pants and went into battle shirtless."
"How big of a deal is eating? If you come to Jinling later, you'll have enough food. Besides, taking down your pants doesn't mean going into battle shirtless."
"What's that called?"
"Then let's go into battle."
Yu Dong and Yu Hua died down, but the debate still continued. Mainly because Yu Dong took advantage of a graduate of Yan'an Normal University, and thanks to the help of Hu Yueming, an alumnus of Yan's Normal University department came out this time after Yu Dong's paper came out
So we unanimously opened up to the outside world and wrote many papers analyzing "Xiangxi".
But all these are matters within the circle. Readers outside the circle don't care about these at all. They only care about whether the book is good or not.
Fortunately, the public response to "Going West" has been quite good. They don't really want to know what literature is or is not. Anyway, the language style of this book makes it comfortable to read, and the characters are interesting, making people laugh, cry, and make people laugh.
Being in a daze makes people feel refreshed.
Yu Dong has a good reader base. Nowadays, the distinction between popular literature readers and pure literature readers is not too obvious, and the overlap is very high. Therefore, many of Yu Dong's readers are willing to read his new books.
The editorial staff of "Contemporary" recently sat on the sidelines and watched everyone making noises, which made them feel very happy.
As long as you discuss "Going West", you have to mention "Contemporary".
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At the end of November, Yu Liang went to Chengdu with the manuscript of "Deep Space", while Yu Dong put down his pen and concentrated on coaching.
Chapter completed!