Chapter 11: The Lonely Monkey (Part II)
"Boss, do you have any new books lately?" Zhou Ye, a person who has just graduated from college and has not yet found a job, likes to read novels the most, but he doesn't like to use his mobile phone to read e-books, because it hurts his eyes too much, so he likes to buy physical books, and most of his pocket money is spent on buying books.
"Of course there are new books, and the new books that were only published today are in the front row of the bookshelf and read them for yourself." Bookstore owner.
Zhou Ye moved to the bookshelf and saw the new book "The Legend of Wukong" in the mouth of the bookstore owner? Looking at the name, Zhou Ye was stunned, "This can't be a sequel to the Journey to the West or something," Zhou Ye picked up the novel with a scrutinizing gaze.
The cover of the novel is a monkey, standing on a high lonely peak, proud, independent, with a bird's-eye view of the world, this should be Sun Wukong, if Sun Wukong is so domineering, it makes sense.
Due to the promotion of CCTV's TV series, making trouble in the sky, borrowing treasures from the Dragon Palace, modifying the book of life and death, etc. are all well-known stories for women and children, and it is said that CCTV has also made a big investment this year to prepare for a new version of Journey to the West.
Sun Wukong can do such a thing, this kind of arrogance and independence is reasonable, but Zhou Ye saw a trace of sadness and loneliness in this cover, as if it was the kind of spirit that thousands of people have been waiting for.
[Fourteen-year-old genius writer Su Shichen's meticulous masterpiece! ] γ
"A novel written by a fourteen-year-old kid can be published, and now the level of publication is getting lower and lower." Zhou Ye said disdainfully, fourteen years old is just a junior high school student, what kind of good-looking novels can he write? Also genius writer, joke! put down the novel, but Zhou Ye thought that there were no new books to read anyway, so he reluctantly opened it and took a look.
"I want this day to no longer be able to cover my eyes, I want this earth to no longer bury my heart, I want all living beings to understand my intentions, I want all the Buddhas to disappear"
On the title page, a domineering and leaked introduction instantly caught Zhou Ye's eyes, and now that online novels are developing like this, there are naturally all kinds of pretending to be forced introductions, but from the introduction of this book, there is a trace of other flavors in addition to domineering-
I want all living beings to understand what I mean, what do I mean?
I want all the Buddhas to disappear, weishenme wants the Buddhas to disappear?
Zhou Ye can be sure that there is absolutely no sentence in the original text of Journey to the West, that is to say, this sentence was added by the author, so who is saying this?
Monkey king? Or who?
Immediately came interested.
"Boss, I bought this book"
Returning home with "The Legend of Wukong", there are not a few people in Yangcheng who are interested in this book because of the introduction of the title page.
At the same time, Deyun Publishing House can also be the first round of momentum.
"The post-90s can't compare to the post-80s, I told OUT, the 14-year-old genius writer of the post-90s is in the Westward Journey frenzy!" -- Fashion Morning Post
"Wukong Legend was born, are you ready? -- Independent
"Su Shichen: A fourteen-year-old writer. -- People Evening News
I have to say that the financial resources of Deyun Publishing House are very powerful, and on this day, seven or eight newspapers published information about "The Legend of Wukong" on the main page.
But this round of momentum is not over yet.
The famous critic Xin Ping published an article in the school journal.
The Spirit of a Generation
I accidentally saw this novel, but I found that it was written by a fourteen-year-old classmate, and I would think about what I was doing when I was fourteen years old, and I still remember the villain book every day, or playing marbles, I can't remember clearly, anyway, it's not so good that I can publish a book.
Therefore, I have interesting expectations for the novel written by this fourteen-year-old novelist, and I watched the full text, but found that the quality was good, so I will analyze the characters of this novel a little.
The protagonist of the novel, Sun Wukong: He is a great Yongxiong, but this hero is tragic, just like the image of a tragic hero in Western culture, he has the spirit that can destroy everything, but he does not have the wisdom to dissolve everything. He represents the courage of humanity to never admit defeat.
Tang Seng, he is the heir of the golden cicada, and he is also a great hero, in this book his return to the mine is no less than Sun Wukong, he dares to directly challenge the authority of Rulai.
His ambition is great, but it is also so hard, symbolizing the desire of mankind to be free from all constraints and to achieve true evolution.
Human nature has desires, and that is a source of joy and pain. Zhu Bajie, his infatuation is no less than that of any other person, no less than Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who are born and die as butterflies, and have earned countless tears from countless people.
He symbolizes the yearning and pursuit of a better life for human beings, maybe this pursuit is ordinary, maybe this pursuit is simple, but it is persistent!
Monk Sha, I know that many people are laughing at Monk Sha, laughing at Monk Sha's "servility", laughing at Monk Sha's "pedantry", laughing at Monk Sha's "obedience", and the efforts of five hundred years ago only became a servant of the fairy curtain.
But I couldn't laugh, Monk Sha represents the big pair of people on shijie, what represents you is me. Sha Monk he is powerless to resist, he Liliang is not enough Sun Wukong, and his wisdom is not enough Tang Seng, what can he resist?
He wants to live a peaceful and stable life, even as a servant, in fact, this is the wrongful of most people, safe and stable, simple, but this seemingly simple wrong, for Monk Sha is a luxury, his fate has already been decided, he can't control himself, he can't resist the arrangement of fate. Monk Sha represents the weak and obedient side of human nature, which everyone has, and laughing at him is laughing at ourselves.
"The Legend of Wukong" is definitely worth watching, Xin Ping recommends it.
Comments came like snowflakes, of course, the most important review was published in the campus magazine, as long as the content of the campus magazine is dedicated to students, not to mention Yangcheng, it has a lot of influence in the whole south, and the main consumers are junior high school students, high school students, and college students.
The editor-in-chief of the campus magazine, Zhuo Luo, is a well-known novelist, and the novels he writes can often rank in the top ten sales, and he specializes in writing some campus romance books, which has a great influence among students.
Zhuo Luo published an article on Su Shichen's new book "The Legend of Wukong" in the campus magazine.
Lonely Monkey
The biography of Wukong is also very popular, written by the fourteen-year-old genius writer Su Shichen, I wonder when it is so easy to publish a book, even a book written by a fourteen-year-old junior high school student can be published.
What's even more strange to me is that this novel turned out to be not bad!
Su Shichen's name is not unfamiliar, the first time I saw this name was in Yangcheng Daily, Yangcheng Daily's editor-in-chief Zhao Tangtang wrote a comment on an environmental protection article, "Hey-Come Out" This is a science fiction way, to remind people to care for the environment, Su Shichen as a junior high school student, the level of this article completely exceeds the level of college students, yes completely exceeds the level of college students, I am not wrong, even if this article is published on my campus magazine, it is more than enough.
I did a detailed investigation, but I found that Su Shichen, who is known as a genius writer, and the person who wrote this article is the same person, no doubt.
Most people may have a question, a fourteen-year-old junior high school student, even if he is good at writing articles, does not mean that he can write novels, articles are at most five or six thousand words, less than 10,000 words, but novels are 100,000 words at every turn, whether the name of this genius writer is hype, at first I also had such doubts, will think like this.
But when I finished reading "The Legend of Wukong", this doubt disappeared, Su Shichen used another angle to write Journey to the West, worried that the novel would be unable to gamble because of the naΓ―ve writing, don't worry, the text of the whole novel is similar to prose, writing a novel with prose penmanship, it will definitely look very messy, but Su Shichen has managed to integrate the characteristics of prose into the novel.
What are the characteristics of prose, this teacher should have seen and taught, the form is scattered but the meaning is not scattered, the whole novel is almost unfolded by the dialogue mode, which is a major test for the author in terms of text control, but Su Shichen has done it, and he is ashamed of himself.
Just from the writing point of view, the name of the genius novel is well-deserved, of course, this novel is not a novel with no content alone, and I have a particularly deep impression of the words that Sun Wukong said in the whole book-
God doesn't save anyone, only you can save you.
If you die, you can't change anything, but as long as you live, you can change everything.
It is true that relying on the mountains and mountains and relying on everyone to fall, only relying on oneself is the best.
It is true that only living people can change shijie, and the Monkey King in the novel is a hero, a great hero, but few people can experience the loneliness of heroes.
"For me, any place is home. But some people put their home in a certain place in Shijie, so they can't find it and die on the road. β
"You're wrong. I'm not forgetting everything, I'm nothing. β
"You think you have a lot of paths to choose from, but there are so many invisible walls around you that you only have one way to go."
Sometimes it's really like this, it's not that you forget everything, but you really have nothing, and that monkey is a hero, but he's also a lone monkey!
There was no other way out for the monkey, only one way out of the monkey.
This article by Zhuo Luo has at least increased the sales of "The Legend of Wukong" in the early stage.
On the first day, under the fiery publicity, Su Shichen, a rookie writer, sold 12,000 copies of "The Legend of Wukong".
The level of purchase varies from country to country, and if you sell about 50,000 copies a year in China on Earth, it is a bestseller, if you sell 200,000 copies, you can call it a super bestseller, and if you can buy 500,000 to 1 million copies, it is a super red book.
In this Shijie people's purchasing power for books, as well as the crackdown on piracy, it is very strong, and only 500,000 can become bestsellers.
But even so, selling 12,000 copies on the first day is a remarkable feat. Of course, Yangcheng contributed the most, because although Deyun Publishing House is one of the top publishing houses in Yangcheng, its influence in Yangcheng is not so great, so with the sales of 12,000 copies on the first day, Yangcheng contributed at least seven or eight thousand copies, and only sold three or four thousand copies by relying on the influence of the campus magazine.
However, Su Shichen is also completely famous, and now as long as Yangcheng cares a little about literature, he knows that there is a genius writer in the experimental junior high school, and at the age of fourteen, he not only wrote, a thought-provoking science fiction miniature novel about environmental protection, but also published a novel, which is selling well, at least in Yangcheng, which means that Su Shichen is now a well-known writer.
It was for this reason that Su Shichen was treated like this as soon as he went to school the next day......
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