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In the face of the other party's "accusation", Garian scratched his nose and smiled awkwardly.

From Michelle's conversation, Gary learned that he was forced to choose a third-class seat because he couldn't buy a first-class seat, and luckily met himself who knew how to give first aid when he had a seizure, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable. If you're lucky, you might wake up to find yourself covered in crosses and sprinkled with holy water. If you are unlucky, you will be choked to death by vomit in your mouth.

Michelle said casually just now, and didn't expect to hear the high-pitched talk from the young man in front of her, leaning against the glass window, chatting with each other.

Michelle asked in a skeptical tone, "Opera, music, all of this is also understood?" Including literature? ”

"I know a little bit about literature, and I don't dare to say that I am proficient."

talked about literature, and it can be regarded as a real mention of the topic that Garian is interested in.

"Oh?"

Michel smiled, he wanted to hear what the countryman had to say about French literature.

"Literature has to be talked about sixty years ago, and from the beginning of 1800, French literature showed its character traits that were vibrant and at the same time full of contradictions and uncertainties. Literature of different styles and charms coexisted and intertwined at the same time, making the literary world at that time a splendid and splendid garden of free creation; Literary masters have produced many masters, and the salons of the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine in Paris have become a meeting place for various creative genres where inspiration and passion meet. It's no wonder that artists from other European countries say that Paris is the center of European culture and art. The real beginning was after the disappearance of the empire founded by Napoleon I, when the original cultural repression had disappeared and there was an explosion of growth. ”

"So you know about the Latin Quarter salon?"

Mihil's expression changed from a smile to a slight surprise.

Garion replied honestly, "Understand some." ”

And he was very curious about the identity of the young man in front of him, although he was wearing a worn Carvanio jacket, and his pants were loose dark blue pontarons with patches on his knees. However, the elegant conversation and polite politeness did not give people the slightest bit of countryman vulgarity, but a certain Bourbon family road in the middle of the side of the aristocrats, suddenly there was a feeling of talking and laughing with a goblet in the Leeds Hotel on Place Vendôme.

Especially for Garion's views on French literature, it is clear that the status of a peasant son is no longer worthy of his conversation.

The more Garian spoke, the more excited he became, completely free from the influence of strangers in front of him. Concentrate on expressing your opinion.

"Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Balzac's The Human Comedy and Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, of course, although the last two books are selling, I always feel that in the descriptions of these two almost obsessive scenes, I feel that they are suspected of cheating on manuscript fees."

Michelle smiled and nodded approvingly.

"Of course, the most important thing in a novel is to be able to touch the reader's emotions, whether it is negative or excited, and it can have a strong resonance, which is the most important point."

Garian has a deep grudge against the masters of the first half of the 19th century, and Notre Dame knows how crazy they are about hydrology even if they still don't miss the main story after flipping through four or five pages. However, after all, the literary giants are very different from the starting authors. At the very least, the master's hydrology can create an atmosphere of immersion, rather than a mere meaningless trick of numbers.

From the point of view in the book to fool the other party, it is obvious that Michelle has fallen into Garion's point of view, and said with emotion, "I don't know where Mr. Garion intends to be in Paris?" ”

Garion smiled and shook his head, "Thanks to a friend, the customs office has just obtained a position as a scribe. ”

Hearing this, Michelle said in a slightly regretful tone, "It's a pity, I think your talent should become a professional writer." You don't feel the shadow of French Proletalia at all from your conversation. ”

Full-time writer?

Hearing the other party's words, Garion shook his head disdainfully, "Forget it, compared to being a full-time writer, I think I must first have a job to support myself, and of course I can also write things part-time in my spare time to submit to the newspaper." Isn't it? ”

Michelle smiled and echoed with an embarrassed expression, "That's not bad." ”

The 1960's was an awkward time for full-time freelance writers, with the rise of the newspaper industry and the subsequent publication of advertisements that also led to higher fees. Literati before the Second French Empire were almost always in a state of half-starvation.

When Hugo wrote Notre-Dame de Paris, the publisher paid him 10,000 francs, 5,000 in cash, and the other 5,000 when the book was sold out. Baudelaire wrote a lifetime and earned 36,000 francs for the manuscript, which is equivalent to earning 100,000 yuan in a lifetime at the current exchange rate. Maupassant was even more miserable, when he wrote "Balls of Sheep Fat", no publishing house was willing to publish it, and published 300 books at his own expense. It took four years to sell out. When Balzac was hungry, he went to a friend's house for a few days, mashed it with cheese and sardines, and ate it with bread.

As for why some literati lived such a chic life in the 19th century, after all, writing books was only a part-time job for literati. Hugo was already a member of the French parliament when he wrote his book, and Baudelaire even held a ministerial position in the Second Republic, and writing books was a hobby for rich, powerful and talented writers.

Flaubert inherited a legacy from his father, lived to write, and had enough time to craft, so Flaubert was both a great writer and a stylist.

Even in the twentieth century, life as a full-time writer was not easy. Hemingway often couldn't afford books when he was in Paris, so he had to rent them to gamble. I rented an attic, and there was no place to take a shower, so I could only put down the furniture such as tables, chairs, and beds. When I can't afford to eat, I go straight to the café to drink coffee, and even when I am hungry, I feel very good when I look at Cézanne's paintings.

As the author of "Lolita," Nabokov finally got the book's bestseller in his fifties and was able to do without work. He used to teach at Cornell, which was not satisfactory, and he also taught tennis at first. Because he couldn't live without his wife, Vera, the Cornell students mocked him for hiring him rather than hiring his wife.

Márquez was a journalist in his youth, carrying a briefcase containing only manuscripts of his novels, and went to a shoddy hotel as a mortgage and slept in a bunk. Later, when he came to Paris, he wrote "The Colonel Who Nobody Wrote to Him" when there was no heating in the room, and he almost froze to death. At the age of thirty-one, I went to Mexico with five finished books in my hand, four of which had nowhere to be published.

After all, the competition in the writing industry is far more cruel than imagined, and many people, like Van Gogh's paintings, only ushered in the peak of their lives after they died. For example, Herman Melville's Moby Dick was buried for nearly a century before the meaning of literature was discovered, and many more books have disappeared into the long river of history before they could be discovered.

In a thousand words, only one sentence is an eternal truth, even in the future era of online literature, it still flashes his value.

Come, everyone read with me: writing a novel is a dead end.

In short, Michelle's encouragement to become a professional writer is a very unreliable thing, and it is clearly the practice of casting a wide net and fishing more, anyway, for himself, there is not much to lose. As for those who throw themselves into this line of work with a hot head, they often starve half to death later. The technique is similar to that of some later web weavings.

You say it's okay for me to go to a publishing house as an editor, after all, the Paris editor at this time also had a monthly salary of 250 francs, which is equivalent to a monthly salary of six or seven thousand without five insurances and one housing fund in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

You asked me to be a full-time writer? Waiting to starve to death?

In the face of Garian's refusal, it was obvious that Michelle was a little reluctant, but handed his business card to the other party, and whispered, "If you want to open a book at any time, you can come to Michelle Press to find me." I think it's a good fit to be a writer. ”

Garion took the other party's business card into his arms and said to him with a smile, "Of course, if I had the opportunity to become a professional writer, I would consider Mr. Michelle's publishing house as soon as possible." ”

Although Michelle's advice is not very reliable, it also inadvertently shows a path for himself.

He now has no other skills to earn a living than his head full of advanced ideas, and can only survive on the low salary of a customs typist, but Garion has realized that maybe writing books part-time can be another way to make a living.

Maybe I could try to write a literary classic for later generations?

A bold idea popped into Garian's mind, slowly brewing in his mind as the train headed for Paris.