"Sister Jianmei, yes, I came here to buy a book. Didn't I say that "Laizi's Summer" will arrive today?" Zha Haisheng smiled back at Guo Jianmei.
Zha Haisheng's eyes glanced at Tao Yumo next to Guo Jianmei, and a hint of embarrassment flashed across his face. As the most beautiful girl in the 79-level law department of Yan University, Tao Yumo can be said to be the recognized goddess of the law department.
"Xiaocha, then you are late."
Tao Yumo smiled sweetly and said in a teasing tone.
Guo Jianmei urged: "Everyone was rushing to grab books just now. You should hurry up and take a look. I don't know if there are any more."
Listening to Guo Jianmei's urging, Zha Haisheng hurried to the new bookshelf. There was a large space where the new books were originally placed. He read for a long time, but there was no "Laizi's Summer".
He ran to the counter and asked the salesperson, "Is "Raiko's Summer" still available?"
"No, they were all sold out just now. If you want to buy them, it will take half a month."
Hearing this, Zha Haisheng looked disappointed. He was so late and had to wait for half a month.
"You don't know how to queue up early when there are new books in the bookstore. No wonder you can't buy the books." Tao Yumo said sarcastically.
Zha Haisheng smiled helplessly, "They had to drag me along in the morning..."
Before he finished his explanation, Tao Yumo reached out and handed out a book.
Its cover is blue and yellow. The blue one represents the sky and the sea, and the yellow one represents a large field of sunflowers. In a field full of sunflowers, two figures, one large and one small, stare at each other.
"I'll give you this copy!" Tao Yumo said.
At the door of the bookstore in the early morning, the sun shone on her body, and Zha Haisheng seemed to see a fairy.
"Do you want it?" Tao Yumo waited for a long time, and when Zha Haisheng didn't say anything, he asked impatiently.
Only then did Zha Haisheng react, "I want it, I want it!"
He quickly took out the money and handed it to Tao Yumo, then took the book in her hand.
Then he watched Tao Yumo meet several female classmates and drift away, feeling lost.
"Hey, Yumo, did you see the way Xiao Cha looked at you just now?"
On the way back to school, Guo Jianmei asked Tao Yumo.
"What a little brat!" Tao Yumo did not answer her question directly, but he obviously understood what she was talking about.
Zha Haisheng was admitted to university at the age of 15. He is the youngest law student in the 79th class of Yan University. He is already a sophomore this year and is only 16 years old. It is not too much to say that he is a young genius. He has been very popular with the school and teachers since he entered school.
I attach great importance to him and he is also taken care of by his classmates in the department.
After all, among the three college students of 1977, 1978, and 1979, there are many freshmen in their twenties. When Zha Haisheng was born, some of his classmates may have already gone to elementary school or even middle school.
"I'm a brat, aren't you only three years older than him? I'm a junior girl, holding a gold brick." Guo Jianmei joked.
"Stop talking nonsense!" Tao Yumo glared at Guo Jianmei.
Seeing that she was a little angry, Guo Jianmei didn't dare to joke anymore.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong."
"snort!"
After a few tantrums, Tao Yumo returned to her charming and naive nature, chatting and laughing with a few classmates.
She followed several classmates back to the girls' dormitory. Someone saw them coming back from outside and said hello to them.
"What are you doing?"
"I went to the bookstore to buy books. "Raiko's Summer" was published and there were so many people grabbing it."
"Really? Do you still have the book? I want to buy one too."
"What are you thinking? The bookstore sold out within ten minutes of opening. If you want to buy it, go to another bookstore."
Several classmates returned to the dormitory, and a girl sighed: "Yu Mo, your brother-in-law's books are really popular!"
Tao Yumo looked proud, "That's for sure. His novel created the concept of Chinese stream-of-consciousness literature."
Guo Jianmei said: "Your brother-in-law's novel has a high reputation, but its sales volume still cannot be compared with "Wreaths Under the Mountain". Relatively speaking, "Lai Zi's Summer" has a higher reading threshold."
"There is nothing wrong with having a high threshold and being literary," said a classmate.
Many literary young people are proud to read some seemingly profound and remote foreign literary works. On the contrary, they feel that some literary works with strong story-telling are too popular and lack the style.
This is not only true in later generations, it is also true today.
"That's not right! The literariness of a literary work is only one aspect. It must also attract readers. If it only talks about literariness and there is not even a single reader, then how can such a work be called a good work?
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Several girls debated for a while over the reading threshold of "Raiko's Summer", and then a classmate from next door who had just returned from outside knocked on the door and said that someone was looking for Guo Jianmei outside.
"Hey, this is where we go out to make love!"
Everyone teased Guo Jianmei, but she didn't answer anyone and went out with a red face.
After she left, the atmosphere in the dormitory became deserted. Tao Yumo stayed here until almost noon, then rode his bicycle to the Overseas Chinese Apartment.
Have lunch and take a hot bath to enjoy yourself.
During lunch, Tao Yumo told Lin Chaoyang about the scene in the morning when they went to the bookstore to queue up to grab books.
"Brother-in-law, your book will definitely be a big seller again!"
"Selling more or selling less depends on the reader's approval."
"Your works have always been recognized by everyone. "Wreaths Under the Mountains" has sold more than three million copies."
Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "That's different. "Wreaths Under the Mountains" has a very strong story, and it took advantage of the right time, place and people to sell so many sales. "Lai Zi's Summer" is a stream of consciousness, although the literary world is not interested in it.
Its evaluation is quite high, but in terms of readership, it is definitely not as popular as "Wreaths Under the Mountain"."
"I also discussed this issue with my classmates in the dormitory this morning. The impact shouldn't be that big, right? I remember that issue of "Contemporary" sold more than 500,000 copies."
"I'm just talking relatively speaking."
Tao Yumo laughed out loud, realizing that what his brother-in-law was talking about was just comparing it to "Wreaths Under the Mountain".
"Brother-in-law, what do you think about the reading threshold? Didn't you consider this issue when you wrote "Raiko's Summer"? My sister said that the new novel you wrote is also a stream of consciousness literature?"
"Any literary work has a reading threshold, but the level is different. What we writers can do is to try our best to lower this threshold while ensuring the artistic level of the novel.
When I wrote "Raiko's Summer", I thought about it, but I wrote it too quickly and I really didn't have time to think about it in detail.
The newly written novel only contains some stream-of-consciousness techniques and elements. Strictly speaking, it is not actually a true stream-of-consciousness novel."
Hearing what Lin Chaoyang said, Tao Yumo also became curious about his new novel, "It's not a stream of consciousness novel? What kind of style is that?"
"Well..." Lin Chaoyang pondered.
There is a classic science fiction British drama "Doctor Who" in later generations. One of the episodes is called "Meeting Van Gogh". The story tells the story of the protagonist Doctor Who discovers a strange thing in one of Van Gogh's paintings "The Church at Orville" at an art exhibition.
The image of a monster.
This phenomenon should not have occurred. In order to investigate this abnormal phenomenon, the doctor and his assistant Amy decided to go to France in the 19th century.
After time travel, the doctor met Van Gogh who traded paintings for wine in a tavern. At this time, he was at a low point in his life and suffered from mental illness. At the same time, his works were not recognized by society. Even the bartenders and waiters in the tavern could enjoy it.
Taunt him.
And because a murder occurred in the town, everyone in the town believed that the madman Van Gogh was responsible for the bad luck.
The doctor discovered that the criminal who committed the murder in the small town was the monster he and Amy saw in the painting. In the small town, only Van Gogh, who had easy vision, could see this monster.
The doctor tried to eradicate the monster, but almost died, but he also formed a friendship with Van Gogh.
After some twists and turns, the doctor and Van Gogh finally joined forces to get rid of the alien monster, but they discovered that it was an abandoned alien creature. He became ferocious because of his blindness and loneliness.
I understood his roar before he died.
"I'm scared!"
The monster attacks others crazily just because on this strange planet, it has no companions, no one understands it, and no one can see it, just like Van Gogh at this moment.
In order to make Van Gogh feel the value and power of his existence, the doctor took him back to a modern museum, where a retrospective of Van Gogh's works was on display.
In the museum, Van Gogh heard an art critic's profound interpretation and high praise of his works with extremely beautiful words. He was deeply moved and burst into tears.
After sending Van Gogh back to the original time and space, Amy thought that Van Gogh would have a different ending, but in the end he committed suicide at the age of thirty.
But the only difference from the original is that the monster on the window in the painting "Orville Church" is gone, and the play ends on a deep and sentimental tone.
Lin Chaoyang is a loyal viewer of "Doctor Who" and was deeply moved when he saw this TV series.
Especially at the end of the series, when Van Gogh stood in the Musée d'Orsay in France, looking around with tears in his eyes at the paintings he had worked so hard and painstakingly to create, Lin Chaoyang was shocked by that scene.
After this shot was broadcast in the TV series, it also became a famous scene on later short video platforms.
The novel "The Death of Van Gogh" is based on "Meeting Van Gogh", but Lin Chaoyang also made some modifications to the story.
There is no omnipotent character like Doctor Who in his novels. The protagonist of the novel becomes a young man who loves painting, but due to limited talent, his paintings are not recognized by others.
The painter Aaron admired most was Van Gogh, and he often fancied himself to be the unappreciated Van Gogh, and thus gradually became cynical.
At a painting exhibition, he encountered a group of extreme environmentalists setting fire to a painting. In order to save the painting, Aaron rushed into the fire desperately, but accidentally traveled to Europe in the 19th century.
Lin Chaoyang did not make too many changes to the storyline after the time travel. He only removed the science fiction elements in the TV series. The monsters in the TV series were just Van Gogh's inner demons in the novel. Van Gogh finally defeated himself with the help of Aaron.
inner demons.
Aaron thought he had changed Van Gogh's tragedy, but in the end he discovered that it was just a dream he had while he was in a coma.
He was only burned while rescuing the painting, choked on poisonous smoke, and fell into a coma.
After waking up, Aaron felt lost. In his dream, Aaron kept telling Van Gogh that he would become an unparalleled artist in the future, and his works were highly praised by the world. However, Van Gogh still refused to believe it at the time, and Aaron regretted it.
Yu did not let Van Gogh witness his own brilliant achievements.
After Aaron was discharged from the hospital, he went to the art museum that had been set on fire, and was surprised to find that the scene in front of him seemed familiar.
The same museum, the same exhibition, the same audience, the same him.
Seeing the masterpieces of Van Gogh still hanging there intact, Aaron looked around and burst into tears.
At this moment, time and space intersected, as if Van Gogh had come in person and witnessed with his own eyes how his works were admired and loved by the world.
At the end of the novel, the arsonists broke into the art museum again as if they had rehearsed, and the museum quickly ignited a raging fire.
Aaron faced the flames and jumped again.
The story of "The Death of Van Gogh" is based on "Meet Van Gogh" and also draws on the narrative style and structure of "The Da Vinci Code". The plot is both a time and space journey and a time and space cycle.
The novel incorporates many elements such as stream of consciousness, science fiction, and suspense. In today's Chinese literary world, this writing method can no longer be described as novel, but completely breaks the imagination of contemporary writers.
Lin Chaoyang thought for a long time and didn't know how to describe the style of "The Death of Van Gogh".
"It's better to wait until the novel is published and read it yourself." He finally said.
Tao Yumo was a little unhappy when he heard what he said, thinking that he was showing off.
After lunch, Tao Yumo was ordered by his sister to wash the dishes.
At this time, Zhu Changsheng suddenly arrived. As soon as he entered the door, he excitedly said to Lin Chaoyang: "Chaoyang, "The Death of Van Gogh" is confirmed to be published in the January issue. The first issue has been distributed and has been printed now."
Zhu Changsheng made a special trip to tell Lin Chaoyang the good news. After all, he was the one who promised Lin Chaoyang that this novel would be published with high-standard treatment in "Contemporary".
Now, he has kept his promise.
"The efficiency of your editorial department is high enough!" Lin Chaoyang said happily.
Zhu Changsheng took a sip of the tea handed over by Tao Yushu, "You don't even know how much shock your novel has caused in our editorial department!"
Chapter completed!