Chapter 16: Dystopian Fiction

"Well, why is there such a good novel? Why is it so appealing? ā€

Sugano sat on the lawn of the east gate very unfiguratively, the lawn had not been taken care of for a long time, and a few pieces of withered yellow grass stalks were like markings on the body of a leper dog. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info He held a small book with a rough binding, and every time he looked at it, he sighed.

Otomo walked over from the trench and nibbled on an apple as he said, "You'll shout once you turn the page, Kanno, what the hell are you looking at?" ā€

"Night God Moon, the manuscript I just got." Kanno raised the pamphlet in his hand.

"Hey, there's such a thing coming out?" Otomo took the manuscript and flipped through it, pointed to one place and said, "It must have been made by those people from the medical department, I heard that there are people over there who can never forget it." You see, even Li Jun's grammatical mistakes have been copied here. ā€

"Well, I'd rather never bought this thing. It's so devastating. Kanno said with a stalk in his mouth and lying on the grass, a little discouraged.

"What's wrong, I applied for the Faculty of Science of Todai University, and Kanno, a talented son of the Waseda Faculty of Literature, also had times when I conceded defeat?" Otomo teased narrowly.

Hayato Kanno shook his head: "I'm too far behind him. Of course you don't understand, the more you are an insider, the more you use theoretical analysis, the more you can understand how powerful Li Jun is! ā€

Otomo is a little upset, although I'm a high school student, but you can't look down on people like this! He said: "Okay, then tell me, what is the strength of "Night God Moon" in theoretical analysis? ā€

Hearing this, Sugano Hayato sat up with a bone:

"Let's start with the skills. There is a strongman named Propp in the United States, who spent his life reading novels all over the world and summed up 36 routines in literary and artistic works. This is the golden rule of the literary and artistic world, and it can be said that without it, there would be no current prosperity of Hollywood in the United States. [Note]

"Is it so powerful?"

Of course, the famous poet Schiller of the time wanted to challenge this theory, and spent a lot of time in various plays trying to find out the imperfections of these thirty-six routines, but he couldn't even find all thirty-six of them. Since then, no one has dared to challenge Propp's theories. But, huh...... I didn't expect to see a copy of ...... here."

""Night God Moon" is not among those thirty-six routines?"

"Why don't you stop here," Hayato Kanno smiled bitterly, "This week, the plot of "Night God Moon" has seven twists, and the five twists are not among the thirty-six skills! Fortunately, the school institution was paralyzed, otherwise I would have studied the techniques of this novel, let alone graduated, and even published a paper in an American professional journal. ā€

Otomo looked at the small book in his hand with some shock, is it really fake, is it so powerful?

In universities, there is no shortage of onlookers discussing academic issues, and the conversation between the two has attracted the attention of several students. At this point, some of them made obvious expressions of disbelief.

One student took the lead and shouted, "Hey, Kanno, don't think we're from the Faculty of Science, you're going to mess around!" The author of Propp Thirty-Six or something, but Americans! How can something that an American has spent his whole life summing up casually be broken by a Chinese who has not even read a book for a few days? ā€

Nowadays, among the Japanese, the worship of beauty is extremely prevalent and even encouraged. Even the student party with the slogan of "revolution" felt in their hearts that the United States' scientific and technological and cultural strength was hopeless, just like China's feelings in the face of the United States in the eighties and nineties.

"Okay, let's not mention that, let's talk about the other parts." Sugano Hayato is a good-natured person, and instead of getting angry, he continued from a different angle:

"Li Jun's overflowing talent, don't you deny it? In the past seven days, the final turning point of each day is enough to be the finale of an ordinary movie, right? How much effort and time it takes to conceive such a plot! If an author writes a masterpiece by chance, it may be lucky. But the turning point of "Night God Moon" spans a lot, from the initial control of Qingsuke Huokou, to the current battle of wits with L, so many stories are still fascinating, and they are definitely carefully made up plots! ā€

"Well, that's right, I know that "Night God Moon" is good, but why is it good? We want to hear the theoretical analysis! ā€

"I don't know." Hayato Kanno blinked innocently, "Novel technique is not mathematics, it is hidden in the text, if the theoretical gap between the critic and the author is a little larger, then it is completely impossible to see where the theoretical profundity is." I can't see the specific skills in "Night God Moon" at all, but my experience of reading a lot of books tells me that there are definitely skills that are ahead of the times! ā€

This kind of answer obviously does not allow everyone to agree. Some people think it makes sense, but many more don't. At this moment, the onlookers quickly divided into two factions, and the quarrel was inseparable.

When Shinonome Yoshiko passed by here, she saw such a scene.

She has been busy maintaining order near the West Gate these days, although it is very tiring, but she can hear first-hand stories without grabbing a seat, and sometimes she can see the manuscript of "Night God Moon" in advance, not to mention how enviable.

Not to mention, since the beginning of Li Shanhe's novel, the number of people applying to join her organization has skyrocketed, and the drudgery of being a member of the Discipline Inspection Committee has also been fought for, and Zhongxi Xiushi, her boyfriend, has also risen in the organization.

Today, she was called by Zhongxi Xiushi, saying that he wanted to surprise her. She took a moment out and was rushing to the agreed copy office.

The lively atmosphere of discussion attracted the attention of Yoshiko Shinonome, who stopped and stood at the back of the crowd, listening to the person in the center of the crowd express his opinion:

"Well, it looks like I'm going to have to get something real," the man said, "and you've all read dystopian novels, right?" ā€

"Wait," said a short man, a little shocked, "Kanno, you mean to say that Night God Moon is a dystopian novel?" Like in 1984? ā€

Is "Night God Moon" a dystopian novel?

This point of view is novel, Shinonome Yoshiko couldn't help but think about it, it seems to be really a little interesting, isn't the night god moon just using a dark means to establish the perfect world in his mind?

There are many dystopian novels, and "1984" is the most representative one, and the central theme of this kind of novel is: the world of absolute peace and stability has lost the possibility of innovation, in fact, it is an eternal prison!

"No, no, it's not dystopian fiction." "However, he is not a commercial novel that relies on superpower like "Superman" and "Batman" to blindly cater to readers!" It should be said that it is somewhere in between - utopian and dystopian! ā€

The crowd shouted, "What about the evidence? "Yes, where is the evidence?"

Hayato Kanno became proud, and directly flipped the manuscript to the middle: "Right here, on page 86, when the Grim Reaper was looking for the night god Tsuki, he asked, 'Why did you only write the names and not the cause of their death?' ', How did Night God Moon reply? ā€

Dongyun Fangzi behind the crowd shook violently, and involuntarily recited:

"Night God Moon said: 'If you can change the world by killing people alone, then what is the difference between me and Hitler? Even if I write my name in the book of life and death every day, how many can I write? Will this kind of killing make the world a better place? ā€™ā€¦ā€¦ā€

Someone next to him also read: "......', but just writing your name will lead to death from heart palsy, and that's the best part of this note!" If all the wicked die of heart palsy, sooner or later, people will realize that 'the bad guys are being destroyed by a righteous judge,' and the whole world will know about my existence! If you do bad things, you will die, and this kind of deterrent is the real power to change the world! ā€™ā€

The voices of the people also converged, as if on a pilgrimage, and finally resounded in the sky: "......'What I want is not to punish after the fact, nor to show my personal authority, but to make humanity better!'" This is me, the God of a new world, the governing body that will change the world! ā€™ā€

Although Yoshiko Shinonome had memorized this paragraph backwards, every time she repeated it, her chest felt like a fire boiling.

The pride of changing the day is nothing more than that!

Sugano finally shouted, "Did you see it!" It's not surprising that superheroes who are very self-disciplined, it's not surprising that superheroes hide their identities, and even superheroes want to change the world. But with such a clear and feasible way, "Night God Moon" is definitely unique! It's like clearing the clouds and seeing the moon, and the method of the night god moon is absolutely feasible! That's why I say it's utopian and dystopian, somewhere in between, a whole new kind of thematic fiction! ā€

Boom, people suddenly applauded, cheering endlessly.

I've always just thought that "Night God Moon" is good, but after today's debate, I finally understand that this novel is good!

It's a whole new genre! A well-constructed genre of fiction that has never been discovered before!

Counting the popular works in Japan, there are few exceptions: the entire worldview, characters, and settings are all prepared for a long time, waiting for the protagonist to knock on the door, and then present them to the readers one by one through the perspective of the protagonist. The protagonist is more often a tourist, entangled by the characters, or manipulated by fate, forcing him to move forward.

And this kind of protagonist has a great degree of freedom, but through his own efforts, he can dig the rules to the limit, use the rules, and even create a new world in the end, there are not many novels in the world, but there are endless online novels in China.

Don't blame Li Shanhe, who let him read a lot of online novels. The original work of "Night God Moon" has a bit of this meaning, and as soon as Li Shanhe rewrote it, he naturally strengthened this part to its current appearance.

Note: Propp was a native of the Soviet Union and summarized thirty-one narrative functions of theatrical works. What Hayato Kanno wants to talk about here is the Frenchman Plotti, author of "Thirty-six Theatrical Situations". In the 1960s, one of the major events in the literary world was the birth of the narratology of the novel, before which writing novels was considered a talent and could not be learned. The details are not expanded, and interested readers can Baidu by themselves.