The old man who came was Yang Xianyi, the deputy editor of "Chinese Literature" and a well-known translator in China.

Unlike other translators who translate foreign literary works into Chinese, the wise couple have dedicated their lives to translating Chinese literary works into English and spreading Chinese culture to the world.

Two years ago, Yang Xianyi came to discuss with Lin Chaoyang on behalf of "Chinese Literature" about serializing his "Lai Zi's Summer".

The two exchanged pleasantries, and then Lin Chaoyang invited Yang Xianyi into the room and served tea. Yang Xianyi took a sip of tea and spoke on his own initiative.

"Comrade Chaoyang, you also know that our "Chinese Literature" has always been committed to introducing Chinese literary works to the world. Previously, your "Lai Zi's Summer" was serialized in our magazine and gained a lot of popularity in overseas Sinology circles and Chinese groups.

Good reviews.

This year, under my promotion, our "Chinese Literature" launched the "Panda Series", which mainly publishes China's modern, contemporary and ancient outstanding literary works in English and French.

I came here this time to communicate with you and include the two works "Raiko's Summer" and "The Death of Van Gogh"."

Yang Xianyi told the purpose of this visit, and Lin Chaoyang said with a relaxed expression: "My works can be seen by more overseas readers through the platform of your magazine. This is of course a good thing..."

Whether it is "Chinese Literature" or "Panda Series", they are all promoted by the government and have obvious official overtones.

Overseas, we mainly rely on distributors, and the distribution channels are special. Most of them go to libraries in overseas countries. There is a lack of display in bookstores, and there are even fewer relevant reports.

It is unrealistic to say that it will have any big influence, but after all, this is an official recognition.

Lin Chaoyang communicated with Yang Xianyi for a few minutes and agreed to publish the two novels. However, in terms of manuscript fees, the offer from "Chinese Literature" was lower than last time.

Wang Zengqi had complained to him before, saying that several of his short stories had been translated into English and published in the magazine by "Chinese Literature", and the royalties were pitiful.

"The price of six yuan per thousand words is indeed a bit low. Comrade Chaoyang, please understand that magazines like ours rely entirely on government funding and make no profit."

It is true that Lin Chaoyang values ​​manuscript fees, but he does not insist on money. In a situation like "Chinese Literature", it is unrealistic for them to pay high manuscript fees. Anyway, the magazine and book series are not distributed in the country, so it doesn't matter.

However, he still kept a secret and made an agreement with Yang Xianyi that the publication of his two novels would not be exclusive.

To put it bluntly, my novel can be published by you, but if another publisher wants to publish it, you can't stop it.

"This is natural, this is natural. Our magazines and book series are more of a promotional nature. Comrade Chaoyang, if your works can be published and distributed on a large scale overseas, we will be happy for you."

After discussing the publication with Lin Chaoyang, Yang Xianyi left.

After the National Day, Chen Huaikai and his son Chen Kaige came to Lin Chaoyang's house.

"The Chess Master" has been confirmed to be adapted by Yan Film Studio, and he is the director, so of course he needs to discuss the adaptation issue with Lin Chaoyang.

It was selfish to bring his son Chen Kaige here because he wanted him to have more contact with Lin Chaoyang.

The first time he came to Lin Chaoyang's house, Chen Kaige was full of curiosity.

He is a senior literary young man. When he first entered college a few years ago, he caught up with "Today" and became popular in Yanjing University. He participated in many activities with that group of people.

After saying hello to each other, Chen Kaige sat aside obediently and listened as his father discussed the creative direction of the script with Lin Chaoyang.

The story of "The Chess Master" is very complete in terms of structure. Both the character creation and the design of conflicts and conflicts are excellent. From a textual perspective, there is almost nothing worthy of criticism.

Adapting it into a script only requires step-by-step operations.

So Chen Huaikai and Lin Chaoyang discussed it for a long time. In fact, they couldn't put forward many suggestions for improvement. They mostly explained to Lin Chaoyang some of his thoughts on the split-shot script and future shooting.

The two talked for a long time, and when they were done talking, they stopped and drank tea. Lin Chaoyang asked: "Does Kege have any ideas?"

Chen Kaige's face immediately lit up when he heard this. That day, his father came back and told him that the new movie had transferred him to Yan Film Studio as an assistant director. The next day, Yan Film Studio sent a secondment letter to Er Film Factory.

In the past few days, he has been studying the original work of "The Master of Chess" in his free time, and he feels like he has a lot of ideas in his mind.

Seeing Lin Chaoyang asking for his opinion, Chen Kaige was excited and was about to speak, but his father Chen Huaikai said: "He is a recent graduate and has not made a movie yet. What ideas can he have?"

After listening to his father's words, Chen Kaige's face darkened, and he swallowed the words that were on his lips.

When Lin Chaoyang saw this, he couldn't help but sigh that his tutoring was really strict. The Kege in front of him was so similar to Arthur forty years later!

"Chaoyang, how long do you plan to complete the script?" When the conversation was almost over, Chen Huaikai asked Lin Chaoyang a key question.

Lin Chaoyang pondered. He was currently writing a novel, but he was not in a hurry. He could put it down at any time and write the script first.

In fact, in his opinion, it would be best if the movie "Chess Master" could be released in the second half of 1984, because that time would coincide with the craze of the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, which could give the movie a huge wave of popularity.

The movie's box office has nothing to do with him, but the movie's popularity will help increase the popularity and sales of the original work, which is also a good thing for him.

"Probably after the new year."

Chen Huaikai nodded when he heard this. He works in a studio, and many screenwriters can only write a script in one or two years. Lin Chaoyang said that after the new year, it will only take four or five months. This kind of efficiency is already very high for him.

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"Okay, then we can discuss it after the first draft is produced after the year."

Lin Chaoyang:???

You still want me to change the script? The 10,000 yuan from your factory does not include changing the script!

Complaints are complaints, Lin Chaoyang thinks Chen Huaikai's attitude is right, work slowly and carefully.

Throughout October, the hottest news in the Chinese literary world was this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Nobel Prize has a long history of influence in China. As early as before World War II, this globally influential award was highly regarded by the Chinese cultural and scientific circles at that time.

After the reform and opening up, the west wind spread to the east, and many things from Western developed countries have been sought after and loved by the domestic people. Therefore, the annual Nobel Prize has become more concerned.

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has aroused heated discussions in the Chinese literary world, mainly because Guangdong's "Flower City" magazine published the acceptance speech of the award winner Márquez.

He also introduced what "magical realism" is in the "Genre Appreciation" column of the magazine, and also introduced Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Páramo".

"Flower City" was founded in April 1979. The magazine has a total of "Novel", "Film Literature", "Essays", "Memories and Thoughts", "Poetry", "Hong Kong News", "Overseas Letters", "Foreign Literature", "Flower City Forum" and "Interviews".

Remember the eleven columns of "Art".

In addition to a few regular columns, columns such as "Xiangjiang News", "Overseas Winds" and "Foreign Literature" publish content that is rarely available to domestic readers.

"Flower City" also quickly became famous among readers by providing domestic readers with external literary and artistic trends, and became a well-known literary publication.

This time "Flower City" spared no space to introduce Marquez and magical realism to the country, and the effect was impressive. It not only aroused the popularity of readers, but also made the literary world pay attention to Marquez, the new Nobel Prize winner in literature.

and the literary style he led.

This trend has been spreading until November. Any literary young man who usually likes to read books will always say "Marquez" and "magical reality" when meeting him. Even Chen Kaige will pull him for a while when he comes to Lin Chaoyang's house as a guest.

Chen Kaige was arranged by his father to become the assistant director of "Chess Master" and was seconded to Yan Film Studio. However, the movie script is still in the writing stage, so he actually has nothing to do.

In addition to going to Yan Film Studio every day to visit and study various production crews, his favorite thing is to visit Lin Chaoyang's house on weekends, euphemistically saying that he is here to learn script writing.

On the weekend of late November, Chen Kaige did not go to Lin Chaoyang's house that day. Instead, he met Tian Zhuangzhuang early in the morning and headed east to Shishitiao.

In later generations, Tian Zhuangzhuang's reputation was inferior to that of Chen Kaige, but at this time, Tian Zhuangzhuang is the leader of the group of people in Yan Film Studio. Chen Kaige's various activities in "Today" are basically led by him.

The two entered a large courtyard, which was Zhao Zhenkai's home and where their small circle often organized activities.

"Today" has been banned for more than a year. During this period, the editorial staff and friends have worked hard and tried to resume publication, but unfortunately they all ended in failure.

Such setbacks have also led to the group of amateur poets and writers who originally gathered around "Today" dwindling. As soon as Chen Kaige entered the hospital today, he clearly felt that the atmosphere today was not as lively as when he participated in the event two years ago.

But Chen Kaige saw Zhao Zhenkai, who was still so thin and wearing a beige windbreaker, standing at the door of the house to welcome his friends.

Whether you are crazy or not depends on the beige color; whether you are a bandit or not depends on your trouser legs.

Beige is the popular color in Yanjing now. In such a cold winter, the yellow windbreaker worn by Zhao Zhenkai gave Chen Kaige a strong visual impact.

How crazy!

For young literary people who love poetry, regardless of gender, they inevitably wear an idol filter when looking at Zhao Zhenkai.

"Kaige!" Zhao Zhenkai said hello to Chen Kaige with a gentle smile on his face.

"Zhenkai!"

Chen Kaige suppressed his inner excitement and said hello to Zhao Zhenkai. He participated in many "Today" activities, but he didn't have many opportunities to talk to Zhao Zhenkai alone.

Zhao Zhenkai is always surrounded by many people, just like the moon is guarded by stars.

Sometimes Chen Kaige would unconsciously compare Tian Zhuangzhuang, the leading brother in Yan Cinema, to the gentle and elegant Zhao Zhenkai. At this time, Tian Zhuangzhuang, who usually looked like a big brother, would always be overshadowed in Chen Kaige's eyes.

At around nine o'clock in the morning, more than 20 people gathered in the room. The main force among them was the people from the "Today" editorial department headed by Zhao Zhenkai, and students from various universities in Yanjing, like Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang, who had already participated.

There are only five or six people working there.

Today's meeting is not a poetry discussion, but a novel creation symposium, discussing the "magic realism" that is currently popular in Yanjing City.

For most of the people present, the term "magical realism" is a term they have only heard of in the past month or two, and this is all thanks to "Flower City".

Therefore, it is undoubtedly a relatively high threshold for these people to participate in discussions at the meeting. Most of the meetings were given by Zhao Zhenkai, Yang Lian and other poets who were widely read and well-known.

These people talked eloquently, and all kinds of knowledge about magical realism seemed to be at their fingertips. From time to time, they would bring up modern and contemporary Chinese literature for comparison. They were completely learning from both China and the West, which made many people present have expressions on their faces when they listened.

He couldn't help but show admiration.

"...In 1954, the Latin American literary critic Angel Flores used "magical realism" for the first time to name contemporary Latin American novels. This was undoubtedly an important step for magical realism to enter the world literary world.

Since then, magical realism has entered the world literary world and has become the most important literary genre in Latin America. It has also widely influenced the development of world literary trends...

Someone just asked me what works should be read if you want to understand magical realism works, so I will recommend them to everyone.

Not to mention Marquez, he is now a Nobel Prize-level writer. Others include Borges, Rulfo, Mayea, Cortázar, and Ernesto Salvatore.

Vas Calvo, these writers are all outstanding magical realist writers in Latin America.

Their works have passed the test of time and readers and are worthy of everyone's careful reading. I believe everyone will benefit a lot after reading their works."

Zhao Zhenkai stood in front of everyone and talked and laughed with ease. He spoke for more than 20 minutes in a row, which made everyone present feel very useful.

At the end, I did not forget to introduce everyone to the foreign writers of the magical realism genre, which made everyone even more happy. Many people secretly made up their minds to read all the works of these people when they go back.

While everyone was heartbroken by Zhao Zhenkai's performance, Chen Kaige's brows remained furrowed.

These days, he often went to Lin Chaoyang's house, catching up that magical realism was now a hot topic. He asked for advice as a junior, and Lin Chaoyang would teach him some content in this area from time to time.

The content of Lin Chaoyang's speech was very precise and far from as vivid and powerful as Zhao Zhenkai's. The most important thing is that his interpretation of magical realism is very different from what Zhao Zhenkai said.

Chen Kaige couldn't tell for a moment who was right?
Chapter completed!