After everyone arrived, Cheng Yongxing led everyone to the lounge.
Cheng Yongxing said that Yu Dong and Ge Fei were young people. In fact, the writers who came here today are basically young people. Wang Anyi is a little older, but he is still less than forty years old, which is when he was in his prime.
It can be said that today is a gathering of young writers in Shanghai and a gathering of effective forces in the Shanghai literary circle.
Wang Anyi and Yan Geling naturally sat together, and everyone's attention was focused on them.
Different from Wang Anyi's cheerfulness, Yan Geling gives people a quieter feeling. She is well-dressed, always maintains a slight smile on her face, and does not even relax her posture for a moment.
She had her hair permed and curled, her eyebrows were trimmed as thin as willow leaves, and she exuded a petty bourgeoisie aura that people in Shanghai talked about. But in fact, this petty bourgeoisie aura was not developed in Shanghai.
It has something to do with her life in the United States in recent years.
In fact, Yan Geling's life is not as decent as it seems on the surface. She was just divorced a few years ago and is now studying in the United States alone.
She has probably spent most of the royalties she earned from her previous works. She had to work-study in the United States and was unable to focus all her attention on her studies and writing.
It is not easy for most domestic writers to live a prosperous life relying on manuscript fees. For example, Yan Geling has published many well-known works in China, but she has not made much money.
It was not until later that Li Gao approached her to buy the copyright of "Girl Xiaoyu" to make a movie that she made a lot of money.
And it happens to be Li Gao. If it were another domestic director, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to pay much.
At this time, Baodao was indeed more generous with cultural products. For example, "Girl Xiaoyu" was published in Baodao and received a bonus of 3,000 US dollars.
Because of Wang Anyi's special treatment, Yan Geling became interested in Dong. She asked Wang Anyi, "Teacher Wang, what works has Mr. Dong done?"
Her voice was not quiet, and she did not ask questions behind anyone's back. Such a direct way of asking questions somewhat subverted other people's first impressions of her.
Wang Anyi answered her with a smile, "You have been abroad in the past few years and have not paid attention to it. Before, Yu Dong published an article "Mending the Sky" in "Zhongshan", and it seems that he has recently published a novella in "Harvest"
, I haven’t looked at the specifics.”
Because Wang Anyi is now stationed at the Writers' Association and is considered a family member of "Harvest", so she knows a little bit about the magazine's news.
Cheng Yongxing on the side continued: "It's "The Death of a Widow" and it will be published in March. The editor-in-chief of this novel has also read it and rated it very highly."
When Cheng Yongxing said that the editor-in-chief spoke highly of "Death of a Widow", everyone else's expressions became a little different.
The current editor-in-chief of the magazine is Ba Jin, one of the founders of the magazine. Ba Jin’s status in the domestic literary world is obvious to all, and everyone knows what his evaluation represents.
This young man named Yu Dong may really become famous.
Yan Geling showed a regretful expression, "I will go to the United States soon, and I'm afraid I won't be able to read this novel in time. But I can buy a copy of "Zhongshan" and read the article "Mending the Sky"
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Cheng Yongxing pretended not to be concerned and said: "Teacher Yan, you are now standing on the territory of our "Harvest", why are you going to buy "Zhongshan"?"
Yan Geling laughed: "I see, Chief Editor Cheng, you also have a few copies of "Zhongshan" in your office?"
Wang Anyi also smiled and said: "He doesn't just have a few books. If you open his drawers and then open the bookcase, you will find that he almost never misses an issue of "Zhongshan"."
"This is called being in Cao's camp and being in Han's heart." Sun Ganlu on the other side made a concluding statement.
"Haha, you're not kidding." Cheng Yongxing smiled and waved his hand, "In fact, Chief Judge Li was also coming today, but there were some things that didn't make it possible. She also asked me to apologize to you and said that I would definitely come if I had the chance.
I want to invite everyone to tea."
The editor-in-chief Li mentioned by Cheng Yongxing refers to Li Xiaolin, the daughter of the editor-in-chief Mr. Ba Jin.
Because Ba Jin is old and not in good health, he often doesn't stay in the club.
Many tasks in the club are shared by several other leaders.
Cheng Yongxing can actually only be regarded as the fourth-in-command in the company, including Ba Jin, Li Xiaolin, and Xiao Yuanmin, the deputy editor-in-chief.
But a lot of the actual work was done by Cheng Yongxing, who was young and energetic after all.
A bunch of writers are sitting in a room, and the things they talk about are not very different from the masses. Everyone is talking about trivial things. And many people are not familiar with each other, so naturally the things they talk about can only be superficial.
Yu Dong would like to thank the two ladies who were present at the scene. The men who smoked were very restrained. If they wanted to smoke, they would go out to the toilet.
After chatting for about an hour, the topic gradually shifted towards literature-related topics.
And because of the change of topic, the focus of the speech suddenly shifted. For example, Ge Fei, who didn't talk much at first, started to talk a lot.
He graduated from the Chinese Department and worked as a teacher. He is very familiar with literary concepts and has his own opinions.
There are different types of writers, some are like Ge Fei, and of course there are also others like Yu Hua.
In the early days, Yu Hua actually wrote based on his own feelings. Asking him to talk about literary theory would kill him.
In China, there are not a few such writers. There is a saying in China that writers cannot be cultivated.
Now this statement still has a market, but everyone's ideas have also changed.
Ge Fei put forward his own opinion. He did not say that writers can be cultivated, but that writers need to be cultivated.
He still believes that literariness is difficult to cultivate through technical means, but if writers want to better express literariness, they need to cultivate it.
Ge Fei's statement was agreed by many people present. In fact, this is also a trend. Now many writers are also seeking to improve their writing. These improvements have nothing to do with literary quality, but they can improve certain aspects of their works.
aspects of expressiveness.
After Ge Fei finished speaking, Yan Geling also expressed her opinion: "I have had some different ideas in the past few years in the United States. They have a systematic writing training method and have a completely different way of cultivating writers.
Way……"
Then she talked about what she had experienced in the United States.
After listening, the other writers present had different expressions. It could be seen that most people did not agree with what Yan Geling mentioned.
According to Yan Geling, she did a lot of purposeful reading in the United States. She also copied famous works and conducted word association training.
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Chapter completed!