Chapter 149: Writers and Academic Qualifications
The moonless night did not affect Jia Youwei's good mood for a concise conversation. The two of them sat outdoors, not to admire the moon. The lights in the front courtyard of Jia's house were turned on, and there was no feeling of black lights blinding the fire at all.
Jia Qianqian did not choose to leave. She was both interested in listening to the literary conversations between the two and was more than happy to act as a light bulb between them. It's not so much that I might as well shine a brighter light on this place, but rather that I will monitor it myself.
Jia Youwei picked up the tea bowl with his left hand, held the bottom of the bowl with his right hand, and tasted a cup of tea. He put down the tea bowl and said eloquently: "Now and now, people with high social status are officials, businessmen, and celebrities. What surprised me the most was that my country has changed from hating the rich in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to hating the poor at present.
The division of feudal society was that of Shinong and industry. The status of our businessmen is not high, and the star is the drama of the past, and the social status is second only to prostitutes. This feng shui took turns, and it became the current scholar, merchant, worker, and peasant.
Contemporary writers who have made a name for themselves do not and do not see writing as a lifelong career. One by one, they not only went to teach part-time, but also did business, made movies, and became directors part-time...... Busy making money.
The early batch of writers who went to the sea to do business included Yu Qiuyu, Haiyan and others, while the new batch of writers who went to the sea to do business included Guo Jingming and Han Han...... Yu Qiuyu's "Cultural Journey" is actually just a work of popular literature. He is a person who walks there and says that he is the center of culture.
Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, did not take the initiative to choose to write because he had the so-called ideal since he was a child, but because he heard that writers have dumplings and steamed buns to eat. This is not my nonsense, Mo Yan once said it himself. ”
Simply enjoying the best time at the moment. For a whole week, I only felt that Friday night was the most enjoyable for her.
"The decline of serious literature is not only in China, but all over the world. The introduction mechanism of the market economy to China's publishing houses has caused economic benefits to be put in the first place.
In order to survive, publishing houses also have to publish those young books that are loved by the masses of readers that have no connotation, no thought, no logic, and are only novel and fast.
There is a couplet, how to say it, dragging cool and hanging the sky, pretending to be forced to slap the face, is to cater to the current popular writing mode.
Therefore, in the era of planned economy, it is not all bad. At the very least, there are a lot of benefits for the publishing industry. Relevant employees are paid dead wages, but they can work slowly and carefully.
At that time, the professional standard of editing was still very high. If a contributor plagiarizes a paragraph in the work, the editors can often see it and give the other party a warning.
If there is multiple plagiarism in the whole paragraph, the publisher will directly blacklist it. The translation of literary works is similarly high. Many old editors have a good level of foreign language, or they don't shoot, and they will do the complete works of so-and-so.
Some of them have been working for decades in their lives, studying a writer and his entire work. "Concise and deeply touching, there are fewer and fewer good books at the moment.
"From the perspective of academic qualifications and university majors, the academic level of Chinese writers tends to be grassroots, and they become monks halfway, which is not at all like the elite and professional writers of island countries.
The three great writers of modern times in the island country, Natsume Soseki is the University of Tokyo, Akutagawa Ryunosuke is the University of Tokyo, and Mori Ouwai is the University of Tokyo.
For a long time, I felt that Mori Ouwai was a wasted name, and he couldn't be ranked as one of the three great writers of modern times in the island country along with Natsume Soseki and Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
The education of the top three writers of the island country after the war, Yasunari Kawabata is the University of Tokyo, Yukio Mishima is the University of Tokyo, and Osamu Dazai is the University of Tokyo.
The second Kenzaburo Oe, the second to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was also at the University of Tokyo. Junichiro Tanizaki, the master of the island country's aesthetic school, is from the University of Tokyo, and the Abe public house, which I admire, is also the University of Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kikuchi, the initiator and founder of the Literary Spring and Autumn Festival, was the University of Tokyo, and it was only then that the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize were born. The University of Tokyo is the cradle of writers at the University of the Island.
The great writers of the island countries often study in college, and their majors are often related to literature. In the island country that respects the spirit of craftsmen and craftsmen, it is good to pursue a person's life to do a good job and keep improving.
Although Haruki Murakami did not graduate from the University of Tokyo, he also graduated from Waseda University, a century-old school. Edogawa Ranbu is also a graduate of Waseda University. Jia Youwei said slowly.
He paused, then added with a slight smile: "From 1966 to 1976, a special decade, the college entrance examination was interrupted, resulting in a university interruption in my country. It was only in 1977 that the college entrance examination was reinstated. ”
"You've forgotten that there is a famous writer in the island country!" said with a simple smile playing with a slippery head and a spear.
Jia Youwei is a very smart person, and when he heard it, he understood, and he laughed and said: "This person should be the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Kazuo Kuroishi." Although he was born in the island nation of Nagasaki, he immigrated to the United Kingdom with his parents in his early years, and is of Japanese British descent. ”
"Do you like Kazuo Kuroishi's literature?" Concise nodded, and his smile became brighter and brighter, like a peach blossom.
"To tell you the truth, I haven't even had time to read one of his works. It is said that after Kazuo Kuroishi won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he directly compared Haruki Murakami.
Not only in the bookstore of the island country, but also in the bookstore in China, the most conspicuous place has been replaced with the works of Kazuo Kuroishi. Even, once made Kuroishi's works still need to be booked online in advance, Luoyang paper expensive today's real writing. Jia Youwei said truthfully.
"Serious writers are like that. Unless he wins a well-known literary award, the more famous the award, the better, so that he can make his own tide rise, so that the general public knows that there is such a person as him in the world.
In China, Kazuo Kuroishi's name is unknown, and his work is unnoticed. I'm afraid that apart from the few insiders who know about this person and have read his works, it is difficult for anyone to be there.
However, he was quite famous in Europe, especially in Western Europe. Of course, not everyone can read Kazuo Kuroishi's work. The reason why many people buy his books is nothing more than to chase a hot spot.
Just like Mo Yan back then. There are many people who buy the work "Frog", but not everyone has read it from beginning to end.
Haruki Murakami, who accompanies the Nobel Prize in Literature every year and has high odds every year, Junichiro Watanabe, a popular novelist and erotic master, and Keigo Higashino, a mystery novelist, are the most popular and well-known writers of the current island country in China. "Concise, not hurried, not slow.