Chapter 178: Eating the Rice of Literature and Smashing the Pot of Literature
PS: I have great support, and the greater the support, the more motivation I have.
The next day, Xiao Fei followed Liu Zelai to the Central Plains Evening News.
Not only did Lu Jin, the editor-in-chief of the cultural section of the evening newspaper, come forward to meet him, but even the editor-in-chief of the evening newspaper took the time to meet Xiao Fei and have a conversation with him.
Xiao Fei received the warmest welcome in the evening newspaper, and even many staff members came over with the special number of this harvest novel or Xiao Fei's essay collection "The Sunshine Burns Those Old Times" published by Hexi Literature and Art Publishing House to ask Xiao Fei to sign it.
The Central Plains Evening News can be regarded as a cultural highland in this province, and most of the people in it can be regarded as literati, and it is not easy to be recognized and worshiped by them.
This made Xiao Fei enjoy the happiness of having fans.
Liu Zelai's interview with Xiao Fei this time mainly focused on the excavation of the motivation for the writing of the article "Literature is Dead, Please Burn Paper If You Have Something".
In the interview, Xiao Fei gave a lot of explanations and explanations on why he wrote this article, so that readers can read it in comparison with the article "Literature is Dead".
As Xiao Fei and Liu Zelai predicted, after the harvest magazine that published the article "Literature is Dead, Please Burn Paper If You Have Something" came out, it immediately set off an uproar in China.
This argument is a bit shocking.
Literature is the most important carrier of human civilization, since ancient times, all dynasties and dynasties, the text 6↑ things are very important, the literary style is high, the article is well written, that is, you can directly step on the temple, Zhong Ming Ding food rich life of the capital!
How can literature die?
How can literature die?
The author, Xiao Fei, not only directly sentenced literature to death, but also apparently killed literature in his own mind.
This is simply intolerable!
Many writers in China who got the harvest magazine were indignant. Gear up and carefully study Xiao Fei's article. Then I was ready to start writing critical essays.
Many people even have the title in mind.
"Eating the Meal of Literature and Smashing the Pot of Literature -- Such a Writer Is Not Worthy of Standing in the Palace of Literature".
Xiao Fei. Is your own literature dead? 》。
"Literature is an immortal bird - without literature, the spirit of this world will be completely desertified".
"Harvest, you shouldn't help the abuse".
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A lot of writers are angry, and they get angry for a variety of reasons. Some people are crazy with jealousy because they see Xiao Fei's works reaching the top of the harvest one after another, thinking that the harvest should not be so partial to a stinky child.
Some are the true defenders of the way of literature, the most fanatical believers in the religion of literature, and some people speak ill of literature. Naturally, it was going to be slammed back.
Some want to take advantage of this hot wind to write contentious articles as soon as possible, so that they can send them out and publish them in newspapers and magazines to attract attention and sell them at a good price.
In short, after the fifth issue of the magazine was launched, the huge group of writers and literature lovers in China suddenly became agitated, and countless people were writing articles.
A large part of it is opposed.
But after reading Xiao Fei's article carefully, a considerable number of them were persuaded by Xiao Fei's article to turn from black to fan and become defenders of Xiao Fei's views.
Not for anything else. The literary decline of the late '90s had already caused many circles to become worried.
If Xiao Fei's point of view can shake this decadent literary world and make it change for the better, it would be quite good.
Just three days later, a large number of contentious articles began to appear in the cultural sections of many newspapers in China.
There are naysayers. Yells.
There are those who agree, and they are full of praise.
It is often the case that articles with different points of view are crowded on the same page and quarrel over each other.
Newspapers are always faster than magazines!
Moreover, literary events seem to have a natural kinship with newspapers. It is normal for the media to be unusually enthusiastic about this.
Someone made a count afterwards.
It is said that in just ten days after the fifth harvest came out. Thousands of articles appeared in hundreds of newspapers across the country around Xiao Fei's essay.
This level of popularity is quite remarkable.
It is enough for the urban population of the country to be subjected to a general baptism of public opinion.
Naturally, the interview about Xiao Fei published in the Central Plains Evening News once again seized the opportunity. On the third day after the release of Harvest Magazine, the Central Plains Evening News published an interview with Xiao Fei.
This report is larger than the last time, accounting for a full page of more than 10,000 words, and reporting in simple terms the causes and consequences of Xiao Fei's article.
After this report appeared in the newspaper, it was reprinted by major domestic newspapers again.
Because it is impossible for them to find Xiao Fei himself for an interview: they can't find where Xiao Fei is. Some media also ran to Heyang No. 1 Middle School, but found that Xiao Fei was not in school and had to return.
The great debate on literature began to unfold vigorously in the country.
And, it doesn't seem like we'll be able to get anything out of the discussion in the short term.
At first, it was people in the literary circle or literature lovers who wrote articles to join the group, and later, many readers began to join the discussion.
The Central Plains Evening News has received many letters from readers, expressing their views on the idea that "literature is dead". More enthusiastic readers called the newspaper directly or even visited the newspaper to discuss.
The opinions of readers were almost overwhelmingly in favor of Xiao Fei.
They believe that the vast majority of literature today is indeed too crudely written to read it, and they don't know what the writer is writing about.
Readers complained that it was not that they didn't like to buy books and didn't support the literary career now, but that there were too few high-quality products, and it was not easy to pull out an interesting book that could cultivate sentiment from the vast sea of books.
Readers said that after reading Xiao Fei's article "Literature is Dead, Please Burn Paper If You Have Something", I realized that the literary circle will be so chaotic now, and if this goes on for a long time, Chinese literature will have to be tossed by these people.
These views of readers were compiled and published in the newspaper by the Central Plains Evening News.
Not only the Central Plains Evening News, but many newspapers have done this.
As a result, the scope of the discussion became wider and wider, and I don't know how many people went in.
The Great Demon Capital.
In a small three-story western-style building.
An elegant middle-aged woman was holding a new harvest magazine in her hand and talking to an old man with white hair: "Dad, this is a new magazine, you look at the catalog, if you are interested in that, I will read it to you." ”
The old man sat in a specially made chair and was in good spirits.
This old man is the famous writer Mr. Ba Jin.
The middle-aged woman is his daughter, Ms. Kobayashi.
The old man looked at the table of contents of the magazine, and then he saw the title "Literature is Dead, Please Burn the Paper If You Have Something", he frowned, and felt that this title was particularly glaring, so he pointed to the title with his finger and said, "Just read this one." ”
Ms. Kobayashi began to read to her father.
The article is not long, and it took about ten minutes to read it.
Ms. Kobayashi looked at her father and leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed, with a pensive expression. After a long time, the old man bowed his head and said: "This article is not bad, it is very well said, the domestic literary circle is indeed a bad ......" (to be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)