When Deep Space Company promotes music, it often pays more attention to promoting children under the age of fourteen. This is because the music heard in childhood has a crucial impact on later music tastes.
In fact, many companies can think of this kind of thing, and many companies are also doing it, but no company has done it as carefully as Deep Space Company.
Of course, "intention" is just exchanged for money.
Many people know that providing these people with free music albums or even music players will make more people fall in love with their music, but this kind of thing is very slow to take effect and is very cost-effective for a company.
How many companies are willing to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the works of their singers, but the results will not be seen until ten or twenty years later? If there are so many resources, it is better to spend them on media promotion, so that the benefits can be seen in a short time.
Or, some large companies may do similar things in order to build their own long-term IP.
For example, Disney has used every method to market their IP, including distributing free leaflets, pictures and even peripheral toys to certain places in the third world, trying to make their IP as close to users or potential users as possible.
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"Interestingly," Alice Munro said suddenly, "In the town where I live, I have heard Jay Chou's songs several times. To be honest, most of these songs are not suitable for me. They are
It's more like music that young people like to listen to, but there are a few songs that are quite good. I mention this because I want to explain that hearing these songs in a remote town like ours proves that Jay Chou is already a famous singer in North America.
He is a very popular singer. Usually, the popular songs here are a little slower than those in big cities."
"He is also quite well-known in France, maybe not as famous as here in the United States, but many young people have heard of him." Clezio said with a smile, "For a young man like Jay Chou, he can achieve great results at this age.
Such an achievement is quite remarkable.”
Yu Dong said with a smile, "If I remember correctly, you were only twenty-three years old when you published "Litigation Notes", not much older than Jay Chou."
Clezio smiled and waved his hand, "It's just a novel with little reputation, it can't be considered an achievement."
As soon as these words came out, Yu Dong and the others laughed.
"Hypocritical." Yu Hua even directly called Clezio hypocritical.
Clezio is indeed humble. Among many writers, he is definitely considered a genius, having laid a solid foundation since childhood.
When he was eight years old, he went to Africa with his mother to visit his father, and he began his writing journey.
When he was a teenager, he studied literature at the University of Bristol and the Faculty of Arts in Nice, France. When he was 23 years old, he received a bachelor's degree in literature from the Faculty of Arts and published his first novel "Legal Notes".
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This novel was not as famous as he said, but it shocked the French literary world at the time. Many critics even compared "Notes on Proceedings" to Camus' "The Stranger".
As a representative work of existential literature, "The Stranger" has a high status in French and even European literary circles. People discuss "Notes on Proceedings" together with it, which shows how optimistic they are about this novel.
Clezio was not annoyed when Yu Hua made fun of him. They had known each other for a long time and were very familiar with each other, so they often joked together.
A few people were talking and laughing. After a while, a short Asian man with white hair and black-rimmed glasses, probably in his sixties, walked towards them with a smile.
The accompanying staff quickly introduced Yu Dong and the others, "This is Mr. Kenzaburo Oe."
In fact, Yu Dong could recognize Kenzaburo Oe without any special introduction from the staff.
Since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature a few years ago, Oe Kenzaburo's appearance rate has become more and more frequent, and his face has been recognized by more and more people.
In addition, before coming, Yu Dong and the others had already obtained the list of all the guests for this interview, and naturally knew that Kenzaburo Oe would be there.
"Hello everyone, it seems that I am the last one to arrive."
Oe Kenzaburo always smiles when he speaks. His smile is a bit stylized, but it does not make people feel hypocritical. He said this sentence in English. Compared with most neon writers, Oe Kenzaburo
His English is pretty good.
This is related to the experience of Oe Kenzaburo. He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, so he is proficient in French. In addition to French, he also studied English very carefully.
"No." Yu Dong waved his hand, "You are not the latest to arrive. There are still a few guests who have not arrived yet. It will probably take a while. Mr. Oe Kenzaburo, did you come here from Neon?"
"That's right." Oe Kenzaburo nodded, "I just arrived in New York yesterday. To be honest, because I didn't catch the jet lag well, I'm still a little dizzy now. When the interview starts later, if there is anything
If I don’t perform well, please forgive me.”
Although he is already the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Oe Kenzaburo's attitude is still very low-key, and he bends down and nods when he speaks. This is the style of Neon Man when he speaks, and even Oe Kenzaburo is no different.
Of course, if he is really arrogant because he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yu Dong and the others will ignore him. After all, in the eyes of Yu Dong and the others, although the Nobel Prize for Literature is a very important and desirable award,
It's by no means the most important thing.
And everyone present has the hope to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, whether it is Clézio, Alice Munro, Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua, or even Yu Dong, everyone has hope.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If it weren’t for Yu Dong being too young, he would probably have been a favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature in the past two years.
There is a betting company that opens a handicap every year to list every writer who is likely to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and each writer has corresponding odds.
Clézio, Alice Munro, Joyce Oates, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, they are all on this list, even Yu Dong is there, but the odds of Yu Dong are very low, few people will buy him
, if someone really buys it, they are also his readers.
Among these people, Clézio and Alice Munro have the highest odds. Regardless of their age or influence, the likelihood of both of them is relatively high.
In China, Yu Hua and Mo Yan have the highest odds. Everyone believes that if China is going to produce the first writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, then there is a high probability that it will be between these two people.
And among the two of them, Mo Yan's odds are much higher than Yu Hua's. The reason for this has little to do with literature itself, but mainly because Mo Yan is much older than Yu Hua.
The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was Rudyard Kipling. He was 42 years old when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the fact that he won the Prize for Literature at the age of 42 is also related to the times.
When Kipling won the award, the Nobel Prize for Literature had just been awarded a few years ago.
After him, the youngest person should be the 44-year-old Camus who won the award.
Therefore, in most people's minds, if you want to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, you must be at least forty-four years old.
Yu Hua is forty years old this year, which is a bit too young. Mo Yan is forty-five years old this year and has just reached the standard. Therefore, Mo Yan's odds are higher than Yu Hua's.
There is another interesting thing. Yu Dong has been on the list every year in the past few years. The odds are very low every year, but every year the odds are a little higher than the previous year. The reason why this happens is also related to his age.
, Yu Dong becomes one year older every year.
After Oe Kenzaburo joined the conversation, the atmosphere became a little more serious. After all, everyone was not familiar with Oe Kenzaburo, so they couldn't joke casually. The content of their conversation also changed from the original random topic to something related to literature.
Oe Kenzaburo studied French literature in college, so he was very familiar with French literary works and writers, including Clezio, who became famous after he graduated.
He also had some knowledge of Chinese literature, but it was limited to Chinese writers before the 1940s and Yu Dong and others.
After chatting for about half an hour, all the guests were present.
The staff of the program team came over and arranged for Yu Dong and others to take their seats in the studio.
There is a row of seats in the studio. Since there are seats, there must be a seating issue involved.
According to common sense, the more important a person is, he must sit in the middle. In ABC's arrangement, Oe Kenzaburo and Yu Dong, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, sit in the middle position.
Although Yu Dong is young and lacks the Nobel Prize for Literature, his status in the literary world is not low, not to mention his fame. Therefore, the program team did not put him in the same position as Oe Kenzaburo.
I think there is a problem.
When Yu Dong learned that he was going to sit in the middle, he gave in. After all, he was relatively young and should give way to the older comrades. However, with the insistence of the program team, Yu Dong still agreed to their arrangement.
Regarding the arrangement of the program team, Oe Kenzaburo had no objection, Yu Dong had no objection, and no one else had seen it, but individual viewers at the scene did have objections.
The program team invited hundreds of college students. These students signed up first and were then selected by the program team.
Various factors must be taken into consideration when determining these hundreds of students.
Considering that Oe Kenzaburo was present, the program team also invited several neon students, and Kamikawa Mahide was one of them.
Kamikawa Mahide was very unhappy when he saw the seats arranged by the program team. He believed that based on Oe Kenzaburo's qualifications, he should sit alone in the middle position instead of sharing the middle position with Yu Dong.
In his opinion, Yu Dong is just a popular writer who has made some achievements in popular novels. How can he be on an equal footing with a literary award winner like Oe Kenzaburo?
However, because it was the recording site of the program, Kamikawa Mahide was relatively restrained and did not make a scene, but just looked at the stage with an annoyed look on his face.
At this time, the program had already started recording.
Like most programs, the on-site director arranged for Yu Dong and the others to record an opening together with the host. Then everyone sat down and then entered the mode of a literary discussion. The host initiated a topic, and then Yu Dong and the others started.
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The first topic initiated by the host was quite conventional and cliché, called "My literary path".
Many talk shows like to ask writers to talk about their own literary paths. Yu Hua and the others have talked about "my literary path" several times before.
At the beginning, the versions Yu Hua and others told each time were basically the same. They were real experiences from the past, with a little bit of artistic processing added.
But after they happened more times, they felt that it was really pointless to keep talking about this, so they started to make it up with others.
Yu Hua has compiled the most versions, and the most outrageous one was when Jinling TV station invited him and Su Tong to appear on a program. He told the host that the reason why he embarked on the path of literature was because when he was working in the hospital, there was a
When he went to the bathroom in the sky, he saw a novel with no beginning or end on the toilet paper. He squatted and read it until his legs were numb at the end.
After reading it, he really wanted to know the ending of the novel, but after asking around, no one could give him the answer. As a last resort, he had to look for books everywhere.
In order to find books more conveniently, he started writing by himself.
The person who was responsible for interviewing them that time was a little girl on the stage. Maybe she didn't do enough homework. I didn't know that Yu Hua had told other versions, so when I heard this version, I was stunned for a moment and believed it to be true.
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This time, after hearing the host's question, Yu Hua and the others looked at each other and smiled, their eyes seeming to say: We are making up a story again.
This time it was Yu Dongxian who started editing... To answer the question, he took the microphone and said with a smile: "I have always been a loyal reader of Chekhov. When I was in college, my main research object was also Chekhov, but in
There were several classmates in our class who liked Ibsen but not Chekhov. This was something unacceptable to me at that time. So I started talking about Chekhov in these people’s ears every day.
I tried to make them like Chekhov based on Chekhov's merits. But unfortunately, I failed in the end. Not only did these people not like Chekhov because of my recommendation, but they even thought about my attitude towards Chekhov because I kept talking about it.
I went from liking it to hating it. At that time, these students were still pursuing avant-garde literature. After learning about this, I thought, since I can't defeat Ibsen, I can try to defeat avant-garde literature. So, I
I published an article criticizing many problems in avant-garde literature. Later, when I went to teach at Jinling Academy of Arts, I met my senior brother Su Tong. He knew me because he had read my article, so he invited me.
I went to compile a manuscript, and from then on, I really embarked on the path of literature."
Chapter completed!