Chapter 133: Sample Book
After another period of time, Jia Youwei received a call from Yuan Meng. The two agreed to meet at a coffee shop near the Grand Publishing House. They sat down facing each other at a table outside the store.
Yuan Meng took out the sample book of "Life" from his LV handbag and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "You can take a look first!"
Jia Youwei picked it up from the table, put it in his hand, and looked at it back and forth. He flipped it open and smelled the peculiar smell of the new book.
"Do you smell money?" Yuan Meng suddenly joked.
Jia Youwei closed the book, put it on the table again, and said seriously: "This smells much better than the taste of money." Money is so important to you?"
"You're saying that very rarely, as if money doesn't matter to you. When people have money, they live more freely and freely.
According to your writers, you can write more according to your own ideas and ideas, without having to look at the faces of editors, publishers, readers, and cater to their tastes.
I don't believe it, you didn't think that "Life" would be a big hit, and then reprinted again, so that you would gain fame and fortune. If it were to win another domestic literary award, wouldn't it be perfect?" said Yuan Meng, who tapped the cover of the book with his right index finger.
Jia Youwei knows very well that no matter what he tells her, if he is not interested in money, he can't make her believe it.
Now and now, the society is a trend of laughing at the poor and not smiling at prostitutes, almost everyone thinks that there is little money and not enough to spend, so what is too much?
Yuan Meng put his left hand on his cheek and said with a smile: "You serious literary writers, what do you say? Sometimes, you not only want to have a good reputation, face and backbone, but also think about some benefits in your heart.
The hard days are not easy, and there will be no romance like youth literature and novels that deceive little girls. Therefore, it makes sense that the books of Guo Jingming, Rao Xueman and others can be sold well.
Real life has been hard. Can't you let me take a breath of spiritual opium and temporarily break free from the shackles of fate?"
Jia Youwei wasn't angry, and couldn't help laughing: "Listening to what you say, it seems to make sense." According to the current standards in our country, the so-called serious literature is not at all in the German sinologist Gu Bin.
You reminded me that when I was in my first year of junior high school, I watched Grandma Qiong Yao's "Huanzhu Gege", which was called an obsession, and I completely felt that it was the best. What world masterpieces are, all of them are garbage for fame.
As I grew older and more experienced in life, I looked back at my past and could only hehe about Grandma Qiong Yao's works.
In addition to the fake love in the book, the unreasonable fiction is also unbearable. However, her works have been liked by generation after generation, three generations, and she can be regarded as the first queen of Chinese language and love. ”
Yuan Meng was taken aback. I really didn't expect Jia Youwei to be so open-minded. In the past, she has encountered some new writers of serious literature, who have criticized, satirized, and denigrated today's non-serious literary works. In their opinion, it is all garbage made of words.
"Serious literature is like Shaolin, Wudang, Emei and so on. Popular literature is like the Qingcheng School, the Kunlun School, and the Tomb School among the neutral small sects...... Online literature is like the Five Poisons Sect, the Sun and Moon God Cult, and the Ming Sect in the Evil Devil's Crooked Path.
Any generation of grandmasters who founded the mountain, a generation of heroes who practiced chivalry and righteousness, and a generation of masters who gathered their achievements in themselves are not only dedicated to all the exercises, but to win the strengths of all families.
Whether it is a famous and decent family or a small sect, the strengths of the evil devil's crooked ways are used only by me, and good and evil exist in people's hearts, not the sect itself.
It's like some people lamenting that reading is dying out in China, where adults only read three or four books a year.
In fact, it is simply alarmist. Reading does not mean to die in our country, but is on the rise, and reading on the Internet occupies the majority today.
The rise of online texts has made young people feel like a fish in water, and they can use their mobile phones to read various forms of text information at all times. Jia Youwei said without hurrying or slowing.
It was really the first time for Yuan Meng to hear his logic and statement, and he became more and more interested, and suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "I finally understand why you didn't join the Writers' Association."
As for an alternative writer like you, I guess that while you don't look down on the Writers' Association, the Writers' Association doesn't look down on you either. You belong to each other, and you don't look down on each other. ”
"A real writer is not officially sealed, but takes out his works to speak, and time will prove everything. What's more, the relationship between a real writer and the government is not one of coexistence and co-prosperity, but one that is insoluble and bears the burden of a cow.
The Writers' Association was originally a non-governmental organization, but it has been firmly controlled by the authorities. The subject matter and content of writing can no longer be freely played by writers, and there are too many restrictions.
Of course, some of these restrictions are justified and in line with national conditions, after all, the overall quality of our country's citizens is poor, and they often lack the ability to think independently. And some people who play with words are very good at taking advantage of this.
For example, does rape attract the attention of some people all of a sudden? If you add that a man is raped, is it curious that a man is raped by a beautiful woman, or a beautiful woman is raped.
Otherwise, it is a female college student who is raped, and the words beauty, virgin, and female student are freely combined, is it more attractive to people to see the desire?
Another example is the Rohr incident. Obviously, he has three suites, and he is still crying poor, pretending to be a good father in order to save his daughter Yunyun, he touched a large number of people and donated to him.
He used to be the editor-in-chief of the magazine "New Story" and a media person. In addition to him, there is also Mimon, who is also a professional player, who graduated from college and worked as a media editor, and now he is still doing this.
There is a huge China, and there are only two of them? From time to time, people will come out and publish all kinds of chicken soup for the soul, inflammatory articles, and inducing articles......
The general public is like a child who has no good disease in secondary school, who feels that he is the most awesome, born extraordinary, and even the earth has to revolve around him, and he has to overcome obstacles with the sword of justice in his hand.
It suddenly reminded me of Wu Zhihong's banned book "Giant Baby Country" to talk about our adults and national nature, that is, a group of people who are physically adults, but psychologically not adults, and are at the level of infants. Jia Youwei said eloquently.