Lin Chaoyang agreed to Li Shifei's intention to write a magical realism-themed work like "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The previous novel has been written, so the creation of this novel must of course be put on the schedule.
When later generations mention the masterpieces of magical realism in China, many people's first reaction is "White Deer Plain" written by Cheng Zhongshi.
This splendid masterpiece of nearly 500,000 words took the author Cheng Zhongshi four years. If you include the preparatory work that inspired him to write it, it would take another two years.
For a long period of time, Cheng Zhongshi was immersed in old papers, consulting local chronicles in his hometown, and preparing for this work, which he regarded as a "coffin-length work."
After the novel was completed, it was first serialized in two issues in "Contemporary" and then published by People's Literature Publishing House. It immediately aroused a huge response among readers and the literary world.
"White Deer Plain" became popular all over China and made Cheng Zhongshi's name resounding in the Chinese literary world.
When exploring the root of the popularity of "White Deer Plain", in addition to Cheng Zhongshi's countless efforts in creating this work, the most important thing is that this work has a strong national complex and profoundly reproduces the historical and social scene at that time.
With "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "White Deer Plain" as examples, Lin Chaoyang's creative ideas are very clear. His work must be rooted in history and national culture. It just so happens that one of the later film and television works has this
A sincere work for him to use his pen and ink to paint.
The idea is there, but he still needs to refine the specific plot. After all, it is not that easy to create a masterpiece.
When someone from his hometown invited him, he could take this opportunity to go back and consult local chronicles to accumulate materials and add details for the next creation.
The visitors from home stayed at Lin Chaoyang's house all morning and left happily. Their work goals for this trip were exceeded, so there was no reason to be unhappy.
Lin Chaoyang made an appointment with them to return to his hometown for a trip after New Year's Day.
"I'll be very busy after the New Year!" Lin Chaoyang sighed after seeing people off.
Promising Li Shifei's novel is only one of his tasks. He has not yet started writing the script for "The Chess Master".
The novel will definitely take longer, so he plans to seize the time now and write the script first.
Before Laba Festival, it is the day of the full moon of Xiaodongdong. According to the custom, a table is set for full moon wine.
Lin Chaoyang arranged the venue in Fengze Garden, with ten tables of Full Moon Wine. Lin Chaoyang had no relatives in Yanjing, and almost all of the people who came were friends.
After Tao Yucheng brought his family to the hotel, he couldn't help but sigh when he looked at these people,
"Chaoyang has only been in Yanjing for a few years. Why do you feel like you have friends everywhere?"
"Chaoyang makes good friends, not like those cunning friends of yours."
Tao Yucheng was scolded by his wife Zhao Li for nothing, and with a sarcastic expression, he waved his hand to say hello to Du Feng who had just walked in.
"Brother!"
Du Feng greeted Tao Yucheng warmly.
Tao Yucheng asked with a smile: "I heard that you made a lot of money this year!"
"It's okay, it's okay." Du Feng said in a low tone, but the expression on his face was one of uncontrollable joy.
After careful calculation, he has been in the sea for more than a year. During this period, he also had two misfortunes, which cost him three to four thousand yuan, but he still made a lot of money. Not counting the expenses of this year, he has already made a real profit.
A household worth ten thousand yuan.
"Don't be modest, cars are already driving." Tao Yucheng joked.
"My car was all saved from parts." Du Feng explained.
While the two were talking, the Du family members also came, and Du Feng drove here by himself.
He carried his bag under his arm and went to greet his father, Du Ruolin, but Du Ruolin snorted coldly and did not look at him.
Tao Yucheng asked secretly: "Why did you offend the old man again?"
Du Feng touched his nose and didn't intend to elaborate. He just said: "Hey, it's about my girlfriend."
He and Feng Juan had broken up for a few months. It would have been okay for young people to fall in love and break up, but who knew that both of them were in the art troupe, and they were too close when they were together.
After the breakup, some rumors inevitably spread within the art troupe, but somehow Du Ruolin heard them.
In addition, Du Feng bought himself a car as soon as he made some money, which naturally made his father Du Ruolin dislike him in every possible way.
Du Feng chatted with Tao Yucheng for a few words, then left him and went to say hello to Lin Chaoyang and take something out of his bag.
Lin Chaoyang said quickly: "No gift money will be accepted."
"I know I don't accept any gift money. This is a small gift for my nephew."
As he spoke, he took out a small gold lock from his bag. Lin Chaoyang saw it and couldn't take it anymore, "It's too valuable!"
This year, the international gold price has reached a new high, reaching more than 400 US dollars per ounce. The domestic gold price has also risen a lot, reaching more than 30 yuan per gram.
The gold lock Du Feng took out was specially designed for children to wear. It was not heavy, only about 20 grams, but it was still six to seven hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the income of an ordinary working class person without eating or drinking for a whole year.
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"Brother-in-law, please don't be polite to me. This is what I should do."
Du Feng borrowed part of the start-up capital for his business venture from Lin Chaoyang and his wife. In addition, he also learned from Lin Chaoyang and his wife from time to time. He was always grateful for the help of Lin Chaoyang and his wife.
After pulling for a while, Lin Chaoyang couldn't resist him, so he put the thing away.
Tao's mother, who was sitting not far away, looked at what Du Feng took out and said to her cousin: "This child is too expensive!"
"I don't know how this kid can be good at making some money! But today's work was not bad. I heard that Chaoyang and Yushu helped him a lot. This is what he should do."
"He has the brains himself, and I think the business is doing well!"
Du Ruolin shook his head and said, "It's just a matter of luck that we catch a good time and buy and resell. What future can we have? If he has the ability to rise to the top, I will be relieved."
In Chinese society, everything is of inferior quality, except for those who are well-educated and merchants have always been out of reach.
It's different for people like Lin Chaoyang who engage in literature. Everyone will look up to him when he speaks out.
Listening to her cousin's praise of her son-in-law, Tao's mother showed a vague look of pride on her face.
Sitting next to Du Ruolin's table were Liu Xinwu, Li Tuo and several other acquaintances. The topic they were talking about was also related to Lin Chaoyang.
"This kid has made all the money! No wonder there is no gift money for the full moon wine in Fengze Garden today." Li Tuo muttered enviously.
The Mao Dun Literary Award has come to an end for more than a month, but the impact is still ongoing.
The most obvious impact is that the sales of several award-winning works increased sharply after the awards were announced, becoming popular books that domestic literature lovers flock to.
Lin Chaoyang's "Chess Master" sold well after being published in June this year. After several months of hot sales, sales have gradually declined. Before December, the monthly sales volume was less than 150,000 copies.
But with the support of the Mao Dun Literature Award, in the past month, "Chess Master" unexpectedly sold another 300,000 copies, with the total sales reaching an astonishing 1.76 million copies.
If there were an annual best-seller list in this era, "Chess Master" would not be said to be number one, but it would definitely have a place in the top three.
According to the publishing contract signed by Lin Chaoyang and Yanjing Publishing House, this novel has currently brought Lin Chaoyang more than 16,000 yuan in income just from the royalties for the number of print runs.
Several people were chatting about the sales and royalties of "The Master of Chess" and were amazed.
Liu Xinwu lamented: "Not only "The Master of Chess", "The Death of Van Gogh" sold better this month!"
As soon as he said this, everyone's expressions were clear.
This year is the first time that the Mao Dun Literature Award is held. The review process and award results have attracted the attention of the domestic literary circles.
Earlier, before the list of winners was announced, rumors that there were eight works in the pipeline had spread.
After the list of winners was announced, people were wondering which novel the unsuccessful work would be?
Many people looked at the list of submitted works this year, and the failure of "The Death of Van Gogh" surprised everyone.
Even Liu Xinwu couldn't help but ask at the symposium whether the unsuccessful work was "The Death of Van Gogh", not to mention those people who didn't know what was going on.
Regarding the outside speculation, the Mao Dun Literature Prize jury did not give a positive response, but their covert response only deepened everyone's speculation.
When people do not have access to open, authoritative information, gossip naturally becomes the authoritative way that everyone believes in.
Regardless of whether "The Death of Van Gogh" is the real anthology, after people choose to believe the gossip, it is.
The reason why so many people are willing to believe that "The Death of Van Gogh" is the selected work, and feel extremely sorry for him, is ultimately because the quality of this novel has been recognized by many.
Especially in everyone's opinion, the award of two or three works in this year's Mao Dun Literature Award is open to question, and this feeling of regret is even more prominent.
Many literature lovers regard "The Death of Van Gogh" as a victim of the politically oriented selection of this year's Mao Dun Literature Award, and many of them wrote letters to the jury to express their dissatisfaction.
When the Mao Dun Literature Award attracted widespread public attention, such gossip continued to spread, causing tens of thousands of readers to become interested in "The Death of Van Gogh" and go to bookstores to buy it.
Just a few days ago, a new issue of "Dushu" magazine was published, which published an article titled "The Regret of the Lost Pearl of the First Mao Dun Literary Award", which immediately attracted the attention of many people in the cultural circles and readers.
"Dushu" is a cultural review magazine that was founded in April 1979, the same month as "Flower City".
Speaking of which, the origin of this magazine is somewhat complicated. When it was first published, the editorial department of "Dushu" was located in the People's Publishing House. The name of the organization belonged to the State Publishing Administration, and the sponsor of the publication was the Research Office of the State Publishing Administration.
The leader in charge is Fan Yong, the vice president of the Humanities Society, the editor-in-chief Chen originally belongs to the Commercial Press, and the deputy editor-in-chief Ni Ziming comes from the research laboratory.
In its first issue in April 1979, "Dushu" boldly declared that "there are no restricted areas for reading", which attracted the attention of the cultural circles who were still on the eve of the thaw at that time, and quickly won the praise of the cultural circles and the love of readers.
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In the following years, the sales of "Dushu" hit new highs repeatedly, and the sales volume of a single issue has already exceeded 100,000 copies.
You must know that the style of "Dushu" is much higher than that of ordinary literary magazines, and naturally its audience is not that large. The sales of more than 100,000 copies of a single issue are enough to illustrate its popularity in the cultural world.
This article "The Regret of the Lost Pearl of the First Mao Dun Literature Award" takes stock of the five works that were shortlisted for the final winning list. They are all relatively popular long works.
The article pertinently analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of each of these five novels, and boldly speculated on the reasons for their failure to be selected. It has a nose and an eye, and it immediately caught the attention of many readers.
"The Death of Van Gogh", as the biggest regret of this year's awards, was naturally included in this list of regrets. When talking about its failure, the author bluntly said that "The Death of Van Gogh" suffered an ideological disadvantage.
You must know that among the readers of "Dushu", people from the cultural circles account for a large group. Before this article in "Dushu" came out, the various arguments about the failure of "The Death of Van Gogh" were only circulated in private.
Now inspired by this article, many fans of "The Death of Van Gogh" can't help but cry out for this novel.
With the help of these fans, this novel not only became the biggest regret of this year's Mao Dun Literature Award, but also became the deepest victim of politically engaged literature.
Within just a few days, a large number of literature lovers began to cheer for "The Death of Van Gogh".
Suddenly, the public opinion was heated.
More than a month after the first Mao Dun Literature Award, the selected work "The Death of Van Gogh" has generated even greater momentum than the winning works.
It’s really incredible!
Chapter completed!