Chapter 568: Waves
On February 1, Han Han's novel "Triple Gate" went on sale. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
With the early publicity foreshadowing, the sales results are naturally needless to say, although it has not yet reached the point of grabbing, but some bookstores in Shanghai have queued up to buy or sold out.
The readers in the queue are mainly middle school students.
Now that it is the winter vacation, they meet to travel and go to the bookstore in groups, just to see Han Han's novels.
In addition to Han Han's rebellious character, they are also attracted by the criticism of schools and the education system in "Triple Gate".
When the publishing house advertised, it deliberately targeted the student group, saying that this novel was Han Han's rebellion and accusation against the school, and Han Han was used as a representative of middle school students.
One person rebelling against the entire education system sounds so emotional.
In fact, it is not so exaggerated, the novel is mainly about the daily life of middle school students in Shanghai, and the plot is relatively plain.
Han Han is just a seventeen-year-old freshman in high school, not a fighter.
The new image created by the publishing house for Han Han is to attract middle school students to buy books, they know that the consumer group of this novel, middle-aged and elderly people are not in their consideration, and the main force is still middle school students.
There are tens of millions of middle school students in China, and if one in 100 people buys books, they will make a lot of money.
It's just that middle school students have limited purchasing power and have no money in their hands.
The publisher's price for "Triple Gate" is sixteen yuan, paperback, so that it will not seem too expensive, and students will spend it.
Moreover, during the Spring Festival, middle school students get the New Year's money, and they can buy a novel they want to read.
"Triple Gate" may seem bland and boring to parents to read, without a sense of substitution, but for middle school students, it is familiar to them in their daily life.
They read this novel with a forbidden mood, and when they saw the ridicule and satire of the school, they couldn't help but smile and empathize.
The things that I usually don't dare to say in front of the school teachers and the things I dare not do are all in the novel.
The feeling of being sneaky and afraid of being discovered made them feel stimulated, the pressure of studying at school, the authority of the teacher, and the relationship between classmates were written by Han Han openly.
"Triple Gate" is the story written for them, and it belongs to the youth campus novel.
There have been novels of the same type in China in the past, and they have even been made into TV series, but that kind of youth campus novel is more about the care of teachers and the friendship of classmates, which is full of positive energy.
It can't be said that it is not true, and that is also an aspect of campus life.
Han Han wrote about the other side of the middle school campus, which is also real.
In other words, the former is campus life in the eyes of top students, and the latter is campus life in the eyes of poor students.
On the middle school campus, the treatment of the two is completely different, and the top students are cared for by the teachers and envied by the classmates, so they naturally feel that the school is bright and harmonious.
Poor students get criticism from teachers, contempt from classmates, and it's no wonder that they have a good impression of the school.
This reflects the current problems in secondary education, some schools will even persuade poor students to drop out in order to pursue the promotion rate, and cannot delay the school.
In ordinary study, when arranging seats, poor students often sit in the back according to their academic performance.
Once something bad happens, it is always blamed on the bad student, who is synonymous with making trouble and not seeking progress.
Han Han's "Triple Gate" not only resonates with poor students, but also the vast majority of middle school students.
This is the reason why the novel sells well all over the country, especially in Shanghai, and is popular among middle school students.
After reading it, they will introduce it to the students around them, as if they are sharing a big secret, and they are proud to have seen "Triple Gate".
During the winter vacation, friends go out to play together, if you haven't read Han Han's novel, you can't interject, and you feel ostracized.
"Triple Gate" has become a kind of bragging capital among middle school students.
This is a phenomenon that the publishing house is happy to see, and they are still fueling the flames in the newspaper, and Han Han became popular so quickly.
Some people also noticed the preface written by Lin Zixuan, which is titled "The Coming of the Era of National Writing".
Lin Zixuan said a few words for Han Han in the preface, why can't high school students write, writing shouldn't set a threshold, and writing is what comes to you.
Touching an event or object and recording it in writing down is considered a literary creation.
Maybe a high school student has a bad handwriting, doesn't feel deeply, and can't tell the truth, but this does not deny that it is not a literary creation, but can only be said to be a shallow creation.
Lin Zixuan extended this concept to the Internet, pointing out that creating on the Internet is also a literary creation.
He used the concept of "online literature" to classify those essays, poems, and novels published on the Internet as online literature, which is a new type of literature.
At the same time, it represents the arrival of an era of national writing.
As the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association and a famous writer in China, his preface is not light.
Many traditional writers do not agree with this, writing is a noble profession, and the responsibility of writers is to reflect the style of the times through the description of reality, and the responsibility is heavy.
This is a conservative who doesn't even want to admit popular literature, let alone online literature.
They believe that only those who have written influential works are considered writers.
Even enlightened writers feel that there is a problem, and posting a sentimental sentiment on the Internet is even if it is creation, there are no restrictions, as long as you can type, then creation is too worthless.
By their standards, a writer should at least be able to publish in the print media.
Newspapers and magazines have requirements for writing and plotting, and publishing houses are stricter, which means that the vast majority of people cannot become writers.
They have a point, but each person has a different definition of a writer and creation.
As the times change, people's perceptions are also changing, and it is a gradual process.
Unlike traditional writers, Lin Zixuan's preface is sought after on the Internet and reprinted extensively by literary websites and major forums.
Many literary websites put this preface in a prominent position on the front page, which is the first time that a famous writer in China acknowledges online literature and encourages it, which is of great significance to them.
At present, domestic online literature is in its embryonic stage, and most websites are established out of hobbies, not for profit.
What used to be a literary forum has gradually developed into a website, and it is very small in scale without financial support, but due to the freedom of creation, a number of imaginative articles have appeared.
Once these articles become famous on the web, they seek physical publication.
At this time, brick-and-mortar publishing was dominant, and there was no income to speak of for publishing articles on the Internet.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2000, the domestic literary circle made a lot of waves because of Lin Zixuan's preface. (To be continued.) )