On the morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Xiao Fei stayed at home in his bedroom and study and began to type new books.

This time, the name of the novel he wants to "write" is "Life and Death Fatigue". That's right, Xiao Fei extended his criminal black hand to the literary master Mr. Mo Yan again.

"Fatigue of Life and Death" is a novel by Mo Yan in 2006.

After the publication of this book, it has been well received and has won many literary awards internationally.

It was named one of the top 10 best books of 2006 by Asia Weekly, it won the first prize of the "Dream of Red Mansions Award" of Baptist University, and it was selected as the first place in the 2006 novel list by the Chinese Novel Association!

At the same time, the book was praised by many critics upon its publication.

Many famous novelists, after seeing this "Fatigue of Life and Death", said in their comments that Mo Yan made them desperate and made them out of reach.

In short, it can be said that "Fatigue of Life and Death" is Mo Yan's most important masterpiece, and Mo Yan was able to win the Nobel Prize in 2012, and this novel helped a lot.

However, it is such a widely acclaimed feature, but it has never even stepped into the selection threshold of the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award......

The 7th Mao Award selected Mo Yan's other novel "Forty-One Guns" to be shortlisted for the Mao Award.

and shut out "Life and Death Fatigue".

Obviously, the quality and standard of "Forty-One Guns" are too far and far behind "Life and Death Fatigue", so naturally there is no Mo Yan in that Mao Award.

And Mo Yan had to wait until the 8th Mao Award to win the belated Mao Dun Literature Award with the novel "Frog".

It is said that this award is for Mo Yan. It's a compensation.

Xiao Fei felt that in 98, he took out Mr. Mo Yan's "Life and Death Fatigue". It's absolutely shocking and will cause a world-class sensation.

And this time. Ba Lao is also the chairman of the National Writers Association, and although the evaluation of the Mao Award is relatively old-fashioned, the rigor and fairness are much better than those of later generations.

"Fatigue of Life and Death" came out in 98, and the possibility of winning the Mao Dun Literature Award is much stronger than that in 2006.

Of course, this is what Xiao Fei himself thinks.

Mo Yan is a master of magical realism, and his novel language is pleasing to the eye, and his imagination is unbridled. Many of the novel's plots are handled in such a novel, vivid, uninhibited and engaging way.

It can be said that Mo Yan is a language artist, and his narrative sentence style is at its peak, and few writers in the world can reach such heights as him.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Fei is very ashamed to "write" this "Life and Death Fatigue".

Well! This kind of thought is unacceptable.

Du II is a human being, and his face must be thick-skinned.

Xiao Fei cheered himself up, his hands crackling on the keyboard, he didn't write fast. It's not because he can't remember the plot of the book.

On the contrary, he had read this book no less than twice in his previous life. Every word in the book was embedded in his head.

He tapped slowly on the keyboard, trying to translate the words in the book into his own words as much as possible, well, at the same time. The artistic charm of the novel must not be compromised.

This may be a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder called "covering your ears and stealing the bell".

Or maybe Xiao Fei is trying to do an experiment: if he changes a masterpiece to a narrative form, will it have too much negative impact on it.

The first chapter, "Tortured and Wronged, Yama Temple Deceived, Reincarnated White-hoofed Donkey", is written in this way. Xiao Fei looked back and looked at it himself.

He found himself rewriting it. The oriental mystery in the original book has weakened too much.

Although the plot and details of the story are there, the flavor is obviously too much less.

"Forget it. It was copied as it was. Xiao Fei shook his head very dejectedly and said to himself.

He directly pressed DELETE, and deleted all the words that had been rewritten without regret.

No wonder in 1983, when the famous female writer Zhang Jie visited East Germany, foreign friends asked her if there were any major events in the Chinese literary world recently, Zhang Jie said that the biggest thing in the Chinese literary world this year was the emergence of a young writer named "Mo Yan".

In 1983, Mo Yan debuted with a novel "Transparent Carrot", which caused a huge sensation in China as soon as the novel was published......

A genius like him is really too few and too few.

And a young "talent" like Xiao Fei, he knows that if he hadn't taken advantage of rebirth, he would not have achieved such a big achievement anyway.

That's why Xiao Fei thought to himself, I have such a sense of urgency, and I want to take those famous books that are still ownerless as soon as possible, right?

If you don't copy it, it's too late......

Xiao Fei scratched his head and sat silently in front of the computer, he wanted to adjust his mood and began to work.

At this moment, Xiao Fei's mobile phone rang.

The call was made by Liu Zelai.

"Mr. Xiao, what a good thing!" Liu Zelai said loudly on the phone like a bell.

"Brother Zelai, happy New Year, what's the matter, happy to be like this?" Xiao Fei asked with a smile.

Liu Zelai said: "I just received a news, this morning, the voting for the first Lu Award has been completed, and your work "The Sun Burns Those Old Times" won the first place in the prose award! In other words, you are sure to win the Lu Xun Literature Award. Hahaha-"

In the end, Liu Zelai laughed heartily.

"Oh! The results are already out, huh? Xiao Fei was quite surprised, he had forgotten about it.

"Yes! As soon as I came out, one of the judges called me and told me the good news. Liu Zelai said very excitedly, "If you reprint your book in the future, you can put the title of the award-winning author of the 'Lu Xun Literature Award' on your profile." ”

"Oh, this is really a great thing, I didn't expect such good news just after the New Year, thank you, Brother Zelai!" Xiao Fei was very happy in his heart.

"You've already won the Lu Prize for Prose, actually, I think. Xiao Fei, you can also write some short stories and novellas. With your talent, you can also get the Lu Award! Liu Zelai excitedly suggested.

"Huh! Brother Zelai. One win is enough, and I don't plan to win the short story and novella awards. Xiao Fei said with a soft smile.

"Oh? Prose, it's not the mainstream of literature now, you're mainly based on novels, of course, you have to win fiction awards to have more weight, right? Well! If you can win the 5th Mao Dun Literature Award, it would be good, that weight is the final literary award in China, second only to the Nobel Prize in Literature, but. Mr. Xiao, the quality and popularity of the works you have taken out now are enough, but your age and qualifications are worrying. Liu Ze said.

Xiao Fei knew that Liu Zelai said this completely out of good intentions.

In fact, there are indeed several Lu Prize professional households in China.

Now that Xiao Fei has won the first award here in the Lu Award. There is such a good relationship here, why not continue to work hard and win the Lu Prize in the fiction category?

But Xiao Fei didn't think so.

Xiao Fei set the next goal of winning the award to the Mao Award.

He worked so hard to brush up on serious literary classics because he wanted to get this award as soon as possible. Drop the bag for safety.

The 5th Mao Award, this will be the best opportunity.

His goal is simple: he wants to publish as many excellent novels as possible during this award cycle. Create a strong call for awards.

Make sure all the judges pay attention to themselves.

And you can't ignore yourself.

The judges of the Mao Award are mainly composed of the following parts: one is the winner of the previous Mao Award. The other is the leader of the National Writers' Association, and the other is the big-name critic and literary critic in China.

I want to conquer the hearts of most of the judges. It's not easy.

The reason why Xiao Fei wants to catch the 5th Mao Award is to catch this last train, which is also very simple.

After studying the previous Mao Awards, he found that the evaluation of the 5th Mao Award may be the last fair and classic award.

If "The Dust Settles" like Ah Lai's "Dust Settled" is placed two thousand years later, it may not be easy to win the award.

Before winning the 5th Mao Award, Ah Lai was just an unknown young writer, and he had no strong connections and no backers to rely on.

Even, after his "Dust Settled" was completed in 1994, after 4 years and countless publishing houses, none of them was willing to publish his amazing work.

It wasn't until 1998 that the People's Literature Publishing House saw it and helped it publish the book.

Subsequently, the book became popular.

Critics and scholars gave "The Dust Settled" a high evaluation, and the book was also highly sought after by readers and became a bestseller that year.

"The Dust Settles" was fortunate to be shortlisted for the 5th Mao Award, and had the last laugh and became one of the 4 award-winning works of the 5th Mao Award.

In fact, legends like Alai appeared repeatedly in the first few sessions of the Mao Awards.

For example, Mo Yingfeng was just an unknown writer before the publication of his debut novel "The General's Yin", and after the publication of "The General's Yin", he also won the first Mao Dun Literature Award in one fell swoop, making Mo Yingfeng famous in one fell swoop.

If you want to win the Mao Award, you still have to do it as soon as possible!

Xiao Fei thought so, so he said to Liu Ze with a smile: "Brother Zelai, I think that I am fully qualified and have a great possibility to win this Mao Award." ”

"Oh?!" Liu Zelai was very surprised by Xiao Fei's confidence.

With the huge weight and influence of the Mao Dun Literature Award, the competition for this award is too fierce, so many outstanding writers in China, and so many novels are published every year, no one can say that they can win the award if they want to.

"Shaw is always writing a new book with new inspiration?" Liu Zelai asked.

Today's Xiao Fei is unprecedentedly confident, which made Liu Zelai suddenly think of a possibility: that is, Xiao Fei may be working on the creation of a new book again.

In the past year or so, Xiao Fei has published "The Fish Walking on Land", "Bright Sword", "Brothers", and "First Close Contact" under his own name, and the long historical essay "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is also about to be published; At the same time, he also published "The Legend of Wukong", "Diary of a Sand Monk", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and other works under the pseudonym of "The Master of Dream Bizhai".

The total number of words created and published has exceeded 4 million words.

Now, while he is creating the series of works "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", will he not want to exert his efforts in pure literary creation?

Liu Zelai feels that this is completely possible.

"Hehe, Brother Zelai, I've really been thinking about a new feature recently." Xiao Fei didn't expect Liu Zelai to have such a sensitive reaction.

"Ahh That's great, when are you going to finish it? Liu Zelai asked.

"By May of this year." Xiao Fei said.

"Don't hand it over to other publishers this time, let's run it ourselves, in fact, if you want to be nominated for the Mao Award, we can also operate it ourselves." Liu Ze said.

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There is indeed no impermeable wall in the world, and as soon as the results of the Lu Award were announced, many insiders and domestic media learned the news, and then, the award-winning result caused an uproar in China. (To be continued.) )