"I found a magazine, and Lu Yao actually published an essay in it."
When Feng Ming placed "Girlfriend" on Yu Dong's table in a serious manner, Yu Dong was reading Doshi's "The Brothers Karamazov". He liked this book very much and would take it out and read it when he had nothing to do.
Doskovsky is also a writer he likes very much, and his status in his heart may be second only to Chekhov and Kafka.
Yu Dong looked away from the book and looked at the "Girlfriend" on the table.
He knew that this magazine was a women's magazine.
Yu Dong looked up at Feng Ming, "You got this from Teacher Wu, right?"
Feng Ming curled his lips and said, "Is this the point? The point is that Lu Yao's works have been published on it."
"so what?"
Feng Ming said excitedly, "How about it? This is a women's magazine, which is far away from mainstream literature. This proves that the mainstream literary world cannot tolerate Lu Yao or a winner of the Contradictory Literature Award."
Seeing Feng Mingyi's indignant look, Yu Dong found it quite interesting. The mainstream literary world looked down upon Lu Yao. Isn't that something everyone has known for a long time?
Back then, the first part of "The Ordinary World" was rejected by "Contemporary", but fortunately "Flower City" accepted it.
But then there was no magazine for the second part.
When it came to the third part, it was only published on "Yellow River".
If Lu Yao hadn't won the Contradictory Literature Award, "Girlfriend" probably wouldn't have asked for his manuscript.
When he didn't get a response from Yu Dong, Feng Ming shook his head and sighed: "I read this article "Morning Starts at Noon" and I feel that Lu Yao's illness may be very serious."
He was almost dying, and Yu Dong also sighed in his heart.
If he remembered correctly, Lu Yao passed away one year after "Morning Begins at Noon" ended.
Some people say that Lu Yao risked his life for "The Ordinary World", but Yu Dong does not completely agree.
Lu Yao's main reason is that his daily routine is too poor. He smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, goes to bed in the middle of the night, and gets up at noon. Such a routine is not good at all.
Even if he had not exhausted his life for "The Ordinary World", he would have reached the same result because of his other works.
It's a pity after all.
"Please leave the magazine and I'll take a look."
"Go ahead and show it to me." Feng Ming said, shaking his head and walking out of Yu Dong's dormitory.
After Yu Dong read "Morning Begins at Noon", he wrote a letter to Lu Yao, expressing his concern sincerely.
He originally wanted to go see Lu Yao, but he felt that he didn't know him, so it wasn't appropriate to go there rashly. Besides, he didn't know what to say when they met, so it would be better not to meet him.
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On October 21st, Yu Dong's new book "The Last City" was officially released.
The first wave of market feedback was good, with nearly 10,000 copies sold in one week.
However, subsequent evaluations of this book have become polarized.
Loyal fans of Yu Dong said that this book is very good and has injected a new trend into domestic science fiction. Biopunk, a concept rarely mentioned in domestic science fiction, has been created by Yu Dong to create a feeling that a new system is about to be born.
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However, those who don't like it think that this book is too involved in politics and ideology, completely divorced from the essence of science fiction, and the biopunk in the novel is not advanced at all, but rather like a run-down apocalypse, deliberately degrading the social structure.
There are also some people who believe that the novel vilifies Western countries too much and writes about China too harshly, which is an arrogant self-pleasure plot. And most of these people are not ordinary people, but intellectuals.
They believe that Yu Dong is hunkered down in China and writing science fiction, and cannot take a broad view of the world. His vision is too small, he cannot recognize the gap between China and the world, and he does not understand the advantages of democracy abroad. Such wanton assumptions will give wrong guidance to the audience.
These people also put it plausibly: if a country wants to develop, if a nation wants to develop, it must first see the strengths of others and its own shortcomings, and cannot be jealous and try to use fictional inferior literature to eliminate one's own inferiority.
This is really true.
But it was used in the wrong place.
Yu Dong didn't know why these people suddenly paid attention to science fiction novels, but their attention would be very beneficial to the sales of the novels.
As they scolded me, my books became more and more popular.
Not only is this book selling better and better, but science fiction novels are also suddenly out of the spotlight.
After buying the book, many people would criticize it. These people not only criticized Yu Dong's science fiction, but also criticized Yu Dong's other works.
It is said that Yu Dong has been constantly criticizing and exposing the darkness of society in the mainstream literary world, but in the science fiction world, he has begun to please the government, and attempts to use science fiction novels to follow the path of red literature. This is an out-and-out double-dealer.
Someone else picked up "The Second World" and said that there are actually signs of Meishang in this book, because the novel often mentions China's fastest technological development.
In fact, Yu Dong did not expect such a strong response this time, because he had already weakened China's power in "The Last City".
But even so, there are still so many people who can't stand it.
In other words, the inferiority complex of these people has exceeded Yu Dong's imagination.
What's funny is that there is an article published in the new issue of "Reader's Digest" called "The Last City", and the author's pen name is Qian Dong.
This article talks a lot about the advantages of the United States and lists a lot of "evidence" to prove that the United States is a democratic country and that it is controlled by multinational companies is absolutely nonsense.
But this is not the funniest thing. The funniest thing is that just two days after this issue of "Reader's Digest" was released, Yu Dong received a letter from their editorial department asking him to write.
Moreover, the reason for inviting papers is high-sounding, saying that it is to promote academic exchanges and be inclusive. If you have different opinions, you can put them forward together and let us learn from each other.
Yu Dong thinks it's quite interesting. What level of magazine is your Reader's Digest, but you still have the nerve to talk about academic exchanges?
Are academic exchanges relevant to you?
Even Qian Dong and "The Last City" appear in their magazine. Does this magazine have a bottom line and a position to speak of?
In later generations, some people said that "The Reader" is a gathering place for public knowledge, and that the magazine's ideology is problematic. This is an injustice to them. What is public knowledge or not has little to do with the "Reader". They just publish whatever is popular, and it just happens to be a certain one.
For a period of time, there has been unequal information at home and abroad, and domestic people are curious about foreign countries, so making up random jokes about foreign countries is very popular.
Yu Dong also wrote back to them and rejected them "tactfully".
"Your journal sent me a letter to invite me to publish, but I have no choice but to have little knowledge and I am afraid that I will not be qualified for the job, so I refuse. However, I can provide other help to your journal. Your journal has recently been involved in lawsuits due to the title of the publication. I don't think there is a need to fight the lawsuit. Your journal will definitely first
Chapter completed!