Chapter 166 of the main text volume The first book of the century

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"Ben, I've outdone you!"

Bertrand is another emerging writer in France in recent years, especially the new masterpiece has achieved remarkable results in the East, and after receiving the news, he immediately showed off to his friend Ben Chamin in Calais via the Internet phone.

"Ben, next year, I will also appear on the highest podium in the East, how about it, better than you, right?"

Bertrand repeated triumphantly, waiting for his best friend's towel.

Benhamin won the top book prize from the country of the East last year, causing a sensation throughout France, much to Bertrand's envy and unconvinced.

There are many new French science fiction writers, and the two of them are the most outstanding representatives of them.

Although they became a pair of friends in the process of peer communication, it did not affect the division of each other's areas of expertise.

Now that the winner was decided, Bertrand couldn't bear it for a minute.

However, he did not hear the other party's praise, only Ben Shaming sighed: "Bertrand, I think you are happy too soon." ”

Bertrand frowned and asked, "Ben, what do you mean, I can't win the prize if I occupy the top spot?"

Now that the world awards are hijacked by readers and fierce confrontation, the biggest award criterion is the number of sales, this model has been widely criticized by the industry, but it has not been able to make major changes in a short period of time. So before the awards, the writers and the public basically already knew it.

"I thought the award was yours the other day, but today I saw a book, and I guess you're going to be finished!"

Bertrand said disbelievingly: "How is that possible?"

"Haha, I know that your hometown is known as the land of freedom, and you are competitive, and you didn't lose to me this time, but you will definitely lose to someone else. ”

"Who?"

Ben Sha laughed brightly: "A Chinese child, you can go to the bookstore and look for the book "The Little Prince...... If you want to win the Huaxia Polaris Award, it is estimated that you will have to wait for the next opportunity, and you will definitely lose this year!"

"Sell tens of millions of people in three months, and you will definitely lose?"

Hanging up the phone, Bertrand looked incredulous, and immediately put on his coat and rushed to a nearby bookstore.

He wanted to see what kind of book made his friend so optimistic.

"The little prince?"

Half an hour later, after reading the book, Bertrand stood silent in front of the bookshelf.

……

There are a lot of headaches to solve when it comes to publishing books across languages.

From reaching an intention to cooperate, to providing the manuscript, to translating, and then coordinating all parties.

Hurrying and catching up often takes months.

When Thompson, the head of Mitchellin's publishing house, saw the manuscript of "The Little Prince" and decided to sign the contract in just five minutes, in the words he said during the negotiation with Zhongli: "It doesn't matter how much money you make, what matters is that Mitchlin's name is on the bottom page of this book!"

This kind of pleasant cooperation is first and foremost based on the improvement of the copyright systems of both sides.

Shen Zhe has a deep understanding of this.

In the 90s, Marquez, the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", issued a cruel remark that "China will not be authorized to publish works for 150 years after his death, especially "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which cannot but be said to be the most severe condemnation of the rampant piracy industry in China. After the Berne International Copyright Convention came into effect, several domestic publishing houses wanted to buy the copyright of the book, but unfortunately they did not want to pay royalties. China's accession to the copyright convention is more of a joke, and it is no wonder that many Western writers and artists hate China to the core.

Of course, there are no such problems in this world.

Thanks to the efforts of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the copyright system has been quite perfect in recent years, but there have been no world-class works.

Therefore, Zhongli's negotiation went smoothly, and it only took two days to return to China with the contract.

Michelin Publishing House has rich experience in global publishing, and has completed the translation of major languages such as English, French, German, Italian, and Russian in just over a month.

Fifty days later, "The Little Prince" landed in eight countries simultaneously.

These countries include two-thirds of the world's population, English and Mandarin are the most widely spoken and widely used languages, respectively, and books carry the crystallization of philosophy and thinking in the early days of human beings.

A reading hurricane quietly blew up, and then swept across Asia, Europe, and the United States with a devastating momentum, affecting the whole world.

The news media of various countries were moved by the news.

The Los Angeles Times was the first to get the news, and with the urine nature of the American newspaper, the headline certainly had to be sensational.

"This is a spiritual feast for all mankind!"

Spanish newspaper El Mundo followed: "The Little Prince belongs to all mankind!" Plagiarism without blushing.

The British Times said: "This is a timeless classic!"

On the same day, the New York Times also devoted a separate page to a commentary, and a young male reporter named Jacob wrote sourly: "This book should have appeared in New York first, and we should be ashamed!"

There is a belief that the 19th century was Paris, the 20th century belonged to New York, and Los Angeles dominated the 21st century.

Regardless of whether it is accurate or not, New York seems to be recognized as having a less promising future than Los Angeles.

No wonder the New York Times is not angry.

……

The reaction of the Chinese media was as slow as ever.

The first to discover the "Little Prince Hurricane" blowing abroad was Huaxia Daily, which was known for its strictness.

At six o'clock in the morning, Wu Anmin, the editor-in-chief of the "Excerpts from Current Affairs" section, had already arrived in the office.

"Xiao Li, did anything big happen yesterday?"

Wu Anmin is 54 years old this year, and a man of this age has not yet the habit of surfing the Internet, and the first choice to understand the world is still the next day's newspaper.

Secretary Xiao Li was sorting through a stack of domestic and foreign newspapers, and his eyes swept over it from time to time.

"Editor-in-chief, there's a big deal in the world. ”

Wu Anmin frowned and picked up the teacup made by the secretary.

"What big deal can there be in the world, you Xiao Li, you have been coming to the newspaper office for so long, and you can't tell the priorities. This is not possible, we are a news unit, and this is what we pay attention to, otherwise how to choose so many things that happen at home and abroad every day. ”

Xiao Li smiled bitterly: "The editor-in-chief will know it by looking at it, it's really a big deal." ”

"Oh, yes, I'll see. ”

Wu Anmin came to the desk with a teacup, then turned the stack of newspapers around, and then was stunned, and the teacup was put on the table.

"This is a fairy tale written by Chinese people to Westerners!" At the top is the Liberty newspaper.

"It's hard to believe that this is the work of a Chinese!" pulled out the next one, which was a report by the French newspaper Le Figaro.

Wu Anmin raised his head and said suspiciously: "The Little Prince"?"

Secretary Xiao Li nodded violently and said, "Editor-in-chief, I haven't seen that book, but reading these reports is definitely not a trivial matter." ”

As the most official newspaper in China, Huaxia Daily is quite capricious, and its daily circulation time is two hours later than that of other stores, and it does not arrive at the sales terminals until about 9 o'clock in the morning. At the same time, it has nearly 100 printing points, and the layout will be determined at seven o'clock.

So on the "Excerpts of Current Affairs" section that day, a news article covering the German people's march was immediately taken down.

"The first book of the century? When did Huaxia Daily become so undisciplined?"

The reader looks at each other.

When the whole world began to guess who "shot NLIN", Huaxia.com, stv, local newspapers and periodicals woke up like a dream and exclaimed again and again.

"The first book of the century!"

"The greatest achievement of the cultural renaissance!"

"It's not that we can't write classics, but we lack the eye to discover them!"

……

Yenching Institute of Fashion dormitory

Pan Ruizhu had stars in his eyes, looking at Lin Yuhan with an expression of infinite admiration.

"Yuhan, you wrote "The Little Prince"?"

Lin Yuhan bit her lip, glared at her, and said, "Which eye did you see that I wrote it?"

Xiaozhu said dissatisfied: "You still want to lie to me, your name is signed on it, when I am stupid, you sign me first!"

"Only the illustration was done by me, and besides, this one is mine!"

Shen Zhe received two sample books from the magazine a few days ago, and of course he wanted to send one to Lin Yuhan.

"Stingy, just let your family get another copy. ”

Lin Yuhan didn't expect this book to have such a big impact, although she also liked it and had read it many times on the computer in the past few months. Thinking that she participated in the creation, the signature was nothing, but now I suddenly found that Shen Zhe seemed to have other thoughts.

"Hmph, that's cunning!"

……

Children who also want to have a small planet.

Young men and women who are getting or losing roses.

After reading the paper, I pondered and thought back to the backbone of my career for decades.

Sighing old man.

Words are not like others, they can stand scrutiny the most, and often dozens of words flow through their hearts, which can make people feel infinite emotion and be unforgettable for a lifetime.

The best-selling female writer in the far south is facing the sea and the wind in summer and winter, holding her chin with her right hand, and every sentence of "The Little Prince" seems to be able to poke the softest place in her heart. I picked up the thin book beside me again, thought about it and put it down, feeling that I was able to basically repeat a lot of things, and I didn't need to read it anymore. After a while, I turned on my portable computer and took the initiative to send a message to someone for the first time: "Maybe I'm going to call you Shen Da sincerely." ”

Shen Gongzi, who had just woken up, and Wang Zhongtian, who changed the topic halfway through the topic selection meeting......

In the editorial department of "Children's 365", Grandma Zhen's face was full of wrinkles, and she shook her head and said: "Xiaoqi, this is not a fairy tale, it has nothing to do with us." ”

He Qi pouted and said, "I think it's the most beautiful fairy tale, Yuhan didn't even greet us, hum!"

Grandma Zhen smiled dumbly: "You are really a child who doesn't grow up." ”

The most excited is Shen Zhe's original book fans.

Whether he likes the youth trilogy the most, or the martial arts trilogy, or even Ming Fan, he has lost interest in arguing about which type Shen Da is best at at this moment.

"Alas, it turns out that Shen Da is best at fairy tales. ”

"At this moment, we all became children who did not want to grow up. ”

"It's so classic!"

"Agreed, more than 20,000 words of short stories, I have excerpted more than 100 classic sentences alone. ”

"I want to be a little prince. ”

Some derivative information related to "The Little Prince" was also proposed.

For example, creative intent.

For example, who is Lin Yuhan?

In Zhonghai City, reporters who rushed to hear the news surrounded Oriental Magazine, and the editor-in-chief Zhong Li took the opportunity to hold the first press conference since the establishment of the company. This is different from actively inviting the media, for a cultural company, it is more like an honor. Shen Zhe would not show up, so Zhong Li had to explain on his behalf: "Some of you may not know that the two authors who wrote "The Little Prince" are also the authors of "Shuke and Beta". As for why it was not published in the magazine Fairy Tales of Tongguò, those who read the book should understand that it is a work dedicated mainly to adults......"

"Who is Lin Yuhan?" a reporter couldn't wait to ask this question.

Zhongli looked at Lin Yuanzhi not far away, and said with a smile: "This question, in fact, I don't know. ”

The reporter was dissatisfied: "Editor-in-chief Zhong, this book may be the biggest honor for domestic books to enter the world, you should cooperate with us!"

Zhongli shrugged and said, "I really don't know. ”

"How is it possible, you are the publisher, and you don't even know the identity of the author?"

"I don't know. ”

The reporter gritted his teeth and was helpless.

"The Little Prince" gave the entire Federation of Literary and Art Circles the biggest surprise, of course, with the media's hard work, Tan Yi, the second-level chairman of China Shipping, showed his face fiercely.

With the continuous fermentation, the role of this book in enhancing the international image of Zhonghai has become more and more obvious, and the symbol is that when Westerners hear about this place in Zhonghai, they will first ask whether it is the place where the little prince was born?

The so-called soft power is nothing more than that.

……

"Once you tame something, be responsible for her, forever. Isn't that what a woman wants from a man?"

Guan Yu, one of the candidate flowers of the hospital, looked at Shen Zhe with complicated eyes.

In front of the first row of the Yan Theater, "Rhinoceros in Love" and "Spotted Bamboo Tears" completed the final rehearsal, and just after the performance was completed, 100 invited audiences still left the stage.

Now only the actors of the School Drama Club and the Crescent Moon Drama Club remain.

is not talking about the stage play, but about the little prince who has been hot recently.

Zhao Honglei, who was wearing light makeup on the side, had just finished the performance, and said with a smile: "I still like the sentence "a unique flower in the sea of stars" the most, Shen Zhe, is this your personal experience?"

Shen Zhe replied: "Senior Sister Zhao, the little prince left the planet and drifted away, and he was still thinking about that rose from time to time......"

Zhao Honglei: "Even if you see a flower garden full of roses on the earth?"

Shen Zhe spread his hands: "So people's hearts are very small. ”

In fact, "The Little Prince" can be interpreted from various aspects, love, the authenticity of life, the attack on the values of the adult world, various symbolic imagery, and dramatic narrative characteristics...... A few days after the launch, some critics have already begun to dig deeper.

Based on his experience, Shen Zhe knew that this process could last for decades.

So "The Little Prince" became a masterpiece.

Guan Yu suddenly said: "I lost." ”

Shen Zhexin said, it's not normal for you to win, "Rhino in Love" is one of the most famous youth dramas in his life, so easy to surpass?

said in his mouth: ""Spotted Bamboo Tears" is also good. ”

After the Crescent Moon Drama Club left, Qi Yue said: "Brother Shen, have you thought about it, you will leave for Paris next week, and the list must be reported as much as possible." ”

Shen Zhe didn't want to fly around, but he asked Lin Yuhan if he wanted to go, Parisian clothing culture is world-famous.

Then go, right as a prelude to the trip.

"I want two badges. ”

Qi Yue smiled: "Take your little girlfriend with you, it should be no problem, let Lao Chen handle this matter." (To be continued.) )