Looking at the endless news page, Hosseini couldn't help but sigh that the influence of YU and ABC is really strong. Of course, YU's influence is stronger.
Hosseini took a special look and found that just over an hour had passed since ABC forwarded his tribe, and the number of his fans had increased from single digits to four digits.
The reason why YU has greater influence is because Hosseini has observed the tribes released by ABC before. As an official tribe, ABC's tribe is not low in popularity, but compared to the past, it is obviously more popular this time.
Higher.
The number of comments for a normal blog posted by ABC is usually in the hundreds or thousands, but the blog retweeted this time has reached the popularity of the ordinary blog posted before within an hour.
Looking at the comments from netizens, Hosseini seemed to be in a dream.
The reason why he wrote this article "The Kite Runner" was because he read a piece of news some time ago that Talib banned people from flying kites. From this news, he thought of the kite chasing game he often played when he was a child, and also thought of playing with him.
Friends to play with.
Many netizens said that this is not like a novel, but more like a memoir. Hosseini is unable to refute it. To a certain extent, this is indeed a memoir.
Hosseini had no extra thoughts when writing this short article. He never thought that this short article would be read by YU, and that YU also recommended this novel.
He even had some doubts, was his short article really that good? So good that it was praised by a great writer like YU?
Hosseini is a very confident person, but his confidence is obviously not enough in the face of the name YU.
Fei Ji saw Hosseini's surprised expression, leaned close to the computer screen, and said with a smile, "I was even more surprised than you when I saw ABC forwarded your tribe. I was also surprised by this short article you posted before.
I saw it, but I didn’t look at it carefully.”
In fact, it wasn't that she didn't read it carefully, but she just glanced at the title and passed by without knowing what was actually written in it.
Although Deep Space Tribe has launched a long article mode, for ordinary people who use Deep Space Tribe as a social tool, the long article mode is not often used. Generally, those who post long articles are those big tribe pigs or official accounts.
In ordinary people's tribes, once the number of words exceeds a certain number, other people will skip it after reading the title at most, and will not read it in detail at all.
Before ABC forwarded "The Kite Runner", this article had more than a hundred views, but in fact, the number of people who actually read this article was probably only single digits, maybe even one person except Hosseini himself.
nothing.
In the Deep Space Tribe, as long as a user crosses a tribe's page, it will be counted as a pageview regardless of whether they click in and read it carefully.
"Dr. Hosseini, like other netizens, I am very much looking forward to the follow-up story." Fergie trailed off with a long tone, turned around and left with a smile.
After Fergie left, Hosseini wanted to close the webpage and concentrate on his work, but he couldn't calm down. He could only turn his eyes to the computer screen again and read the comments of other netizens.
While he was browsing ABC's comments, a new ABC tribe suddenly popped up.
[Big announcement, YU’s new work.]
The title is very short and the content is not long, but in this blog with not long content, there are a lot of messy elements put together.
What expressionism, what alien civilization, what Kafka, what African culture...
Hosseini never expected that he would see so many elements put together in such a short tribe. What kind of novel is YU going to write? It sounds like science fiction? But it has something to do with Kafka and Expressionist literature.
What's the connection? Also, what does African culture mean?
In what mental state the ABC staff were in when they wrote such a paragraph, Husseine thinks it remains to be studied.
But no matter how difficult this passage is to understand, it still ignited the enthusiasm of netizens.
It doesn’t matter what the theme of the new book is, or what the mental state of the ABC staff is, as long as there is a new book to read, everyone will be happy.
[I’m so happy. I just finished reading the short article recommended by YU and got the news about the new book.]
[It’s a science fiction novel, right? Sci-fi fans are having a great time today.]
[It doesn’t feel like science fiction. After all, the people present at today’s interview are all traditional writers, and as mentioned above, there are also Expressionists and Kafka. 】
[I don’t really read YU’s novels other than science fiction. I would like to ask, is expressionism common in YU’s works? 】
[It’s not common, but it’s not surprising that he wrote an expressionist work. Many people here today probably prefer Kafka.]
[Actually, I don’t find any elements strange in YU’s works. Also, what is expressionism? 】
[You can simply understand it as bloody, grotesque, violent, inhuman...]
[This understanding is too crude and one-sided. In fact, what you mentioned is just a means of alienation. Expressionism is difficult to understand in just a few words. If you want to understand
, it is recommended to read Kafka, and then look for Yu Hua’s works.]
[It is important to distinguish whether Yu Hua’s works are from the early period or the later period. The styles of his works in the two periods are very different.]
[How old is Yu Hua? It’s in the later stage...]
[I didn’t expect that one day we would discuss literature under ABC.]
[I don’t really care about the literary genre, I only care about whether the book is good or not.]
【YU’s novels cannot be bad.】
[Is this new book called "The Kite Runner"?]
[This friend came a little late and didn't understand that "The Kite Runner" is not a novel by YU, but a novel by someone else recommended by YU. For details, you can check out the previous blog on ABC. ]
[Oh, this Hosseini is YU’s trumpet? 】
【……】
[The pressure now comes to the Hugo Award Jury and Nebula Award Jury.]
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The last comment is a joke.
From the time Yu Dong debuted until now, except for the article "Falling to Mars" co-authored with Hu Changqing, he has not won any Hugo Award or Nebula Award.
This is a very strange thing.
As the most influential writer in the world of science fiction today, he has not won a Hugo Award or a Nebula Award, which were previously considered the most influential science fiction awards, which many people cannot understand.
In the past few years, Yu Dong suddenly stopped writing science fiction novels. This was a good thing for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. They no longer had to be criticized by the audience for not awarding the award to Yu Dong.
This year "The Wandering Earth" did not win, and some readers protested, feeling it was unfair.
But for both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award jury, the pressure of not awarding the award to Liu Cixin is far less than the pressure of not awarding the award to Yu Dong.
Because "The Wandering Earth" did not win the award, many of Liu Cixin's readers were reluctant. They protested, but to no avail.
This year, Yudong suddenly broke out and wanted to release several science fiction novels in succession.
Under this situation, some readers joked that they wanted to see if the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award could not be awarded to Yu Dong next year.
Therefore, when I saw that Yu Dong was going to publish a new book today, someone mentioned this.
…
There is a difference between recording a program and a normal literary symposium. Compared with a normal literary symposium, recording a program is obviously much more troublesome. During the recording, you often have to stop and listen to the arrangements of the on-site personnel.
There are many places that need to be adjusted. Different situations require different lighting, seating positions... There are many details that ordinary people cannot notice and will not care about at all. The program team attaches great importance to them. Once something goes wrong, they must be adjusted.
Nearly two hours have passed, and only half of the entire program has been recorded. By the time the entire program is recorded, it will probably take close to four hours.
When the program was finished and played to the audience later, the program was only over an hour long, and this hour or so also included some introductions by the authors, as well as material recorded in the field.
After calculation, in the end, three hours of the nearly four-hour interview may have to be cut.
There is a half-time break of about ten minutes, and then the second half continues.
The second half lasted for more than an hour, and just when the authors on the scene were getting a little tired, they entered the interactive session with the audience.
In this session, ABC arranged a total of fifteen questions for writers like Yu Dong, and ten of them were decided in advance. Who they would ask and who would ask the questions were also arranged in advance.
There are also five questions that students can ask freely.
The ten questions arranged by ABC are all fairly standard questions. This link was originally designed to make up for the lack of specific personal shots in the previous links.
These questions can also be adjusted at any time. For example, in the early stage, if Alice Munro speaks less, two or even three questions will be arranged for her. Other writers who have more scenes can only arrange one question.
This arrangement can avoid having too few shots of Alice Munro and poor effects when the program is broadcast.
Alice Munro still has many fans in North America. If there are too few scenes, some viewers may object.
The purpose of these questions is to allow the writers to say more, so they are all guiding questions. Soon, these ten questions will be asked.
"The eleventh lucky guy."
The host looked at the script in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief. He no longer had to think about who should stand up and ask questions, he could choose the questioner at will.
"This man in green clothes, you have been raising your hand since this session. Congratulations, now this opportunity is yours."
Kamikawa Mahide looked at the green clothes on his body, with a look of surprise on his face. He had indeed raised his hand from the beginning, but no matter how hard he raised his hand, the host did not choose him.
Moreover, the questions asked by the person in front were all rubbish and of no standard at all. He even wondered if they were specially arranged by ABC.
Just when he was about to give up, the host called on him.
After being called, a staff member handed over the microphone, and the fax show took the microphone and went straight to the point, "I want to ask YU a question."
The host smiled and looked at Yu Dong. He had already expected this situation. After all, among all the writers, YU's popularity among the public was definitely the first.
During the internal meeting of their program team, someone mentioned this matter before. If the people who ask the questions and the questions they ask are not arranged in advance, a situation is likely to occur, that is, most of the questioners will ask questions to YU, but not to other guests.
Very few people asked questions.
If this is the case, it will be too difficult to edit the later programs.
When Yu Dong saw the face of the man in green clothes at first, he thought he might be a Chinese, but he didn't expect that he smelled neon when he opened his mouth.
"Excuse me." Yu Dong said with a smile.
Kamikawa Shinhide said directly, "The question I want to ask YU is, do you think you are qualified to sit with a Nobel Prize winner in literature?"
As soon as this question came out, the whole audience was in an uproar. No one expected that someone would ask such an offensive question on an occasion like today.
The host was even more shocked and quickly glanced backstage, but the director said in the earphone, "It's okay, go ahead and stabilize the scene."
Hearing the words in the earphones, the host could only smile and said, "It seems that other friends present are as surprised as me by this friend's question. We might as well listen to YU's answer first. Of course, this
During the session, the guests can also choose to refuse to answer a certain question, and we can jump directly to the next one. The questioner has the freedom to ask questions, and the guests have the freedom not to answer."
The audience at the scene slowly calmed down and focused on Yu Dong on the stage. Although this question was quite rude, they also wanted to see how Yu Dong would answer.
Yu Dong had never seen anything like this before. After hearing this question, he did not get angry. Instead, he smiled and glanced at Oe Kenzaburo next to him, "It seems that someone is fighting for Mr. Oe Kenzaburo."
Oe Kenzaburo also smiled, but his smile was a little awkward. If the questioner's accent was not a neon accent, perhaps the embarrassment would be alleviated a lot.
Being from the same country as such a shallow person was the main reason why Oe Kenzaburo felt embarrassed.
"I'll answer the question first." Yu Dong turned to look at the questioner, "I feel that I am qualified to sit with anyone, and similarly, anyone is qualified to sit with me. Just like at this time, you
It's like being in the same studio with me."
"Then, let me talk about the Nobel Prize for Literature. For me, there are two kinds of prizes in this world, one that I have won and one that I have not won. The Nobel Prize for Literature belongs to the latter.
I have always maintained a sense of awe and respect for the awards I have not won. From the perspective of awards, Mr. Oe Kenzaburo is a writer who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which I have not won. There must be something in him that needs me
A place to learn.”
"But apart from awards, Mr. Oe Kenzaburo is a person I truly admire. His noble character is more weighty than any award. Whether he can win the Nobel Prize in Literature is decided by the judges of each session, but
Chapter completed!