After a stalemate for more than half a month, the Public Concession's trial office ruled that the magazine under the Commercial Press had disseminated bad information and caused serious damage to Lin Zixuan's reputation, and asked him to publicly apologize in the newspaper and pay Lin Zixuan a symbolic compensation of 1,000 silver dollars as compensation.

This is the end result of the wrestling between the two sides.

The Commercial Press has a big business, Lin Zixuan can't do anything about it, and the lawsuit can't go on endlessly, this can be regarded as a judgment acceptable to both parties.

Bao Xianxian, the founder of the Commercial Press, was a native of Yinxian County, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and his father, Bao Zhecai, studied at Chongxin Academy in Ningbo in his early years, and after graduation, he went to Shanghai to serve as a pastor of Hunan Qingxin Church and participated in the establishment of Qingxin Middle School.

Hunan Qingxin Church is a Christian organization, and both Qingxin Middle School and Qingxin Middle School are run by the Presbyterian Church of North America in the United States.

In other words, the Commercial Press has a close relationship with American Christianity, and the church has a lot of power in the Shanghai Concession.

This matter ended like this, and the scandal about Lin Zixuan and Meng Xiaodong disappeared from the newspaper, but it became the talk of the people after dinner.

Meng Xiaodong reappeared on the stage to sing, and was warmly welcomed by the audience, even people who had not listened to the opera before came to cheer.

She already has the status of a famous actor in Shanghai's Peking Opera circles.

This is the reason why celebrities like to hype up scandals, which can greatly increase their popularity.

It's just that it also left sequelae, after this scandal, those who coveted Meng Xiaodong no longer appeared, and at the same time, Meng Xiaodong and Lin Zixuan were entangled together.

Even if Lin Zixuan won the lawsuit, most people still think that Meng Xiaodong and Lin Zixuan have a relationship. That's the power of gossip.

Lin Zixuan can't control what others think, and he doesn't have superpowers.

He received letters from England and the United States.

Virginia Woolf read "The Catcher in the Rye" and unceremoniously criticized the book's American origin. In other words, compared with the elegance and grace of English literature, American literature carries a kind of impetuosity and exaggeration.

American literature began as an imitation of English literature, and then gradually broke away from English literature.

It was only in this era that American literature developed its own characteristics and began to prosper, and thus the differentiation of British and American literature appeared.

English literature is more traditional. Both the way it is written and the words used are decent.

If it is ugly, it is called old-fashioned, and if it is good, it is elegant.

Because the United States is a country of immigrants, American culture is the result of a fusion of various cultures. Reflected in literary creation, American literature is innovative, more flamboyant in language, and full of personal color. Not so prescriptive. Slang is often used.

This is not common in English literature, so the British consider their literature to be more authentic.

In the book "The Catcher in the Rye", the protagonist is full of swearing, which is a major feature of American literature.

In order to express strong inner feelings, American writers do not mind using this method, of course, not to say that this is the case in American literature, but this novel is more typical.

But Woolf was also an innovator in literature. Able to accept the writing of "The Catcher in the Rye".

After some criticism, she found the psychological depiction of the novel to be extremely successful. Although it is not an authentic stream-of-consciousness writing, it has the charm of a stream of consciousness, showing the empty and oppressive life of Americans.

Judging by the story, the entire American society is in a kind of spiritual wasteland, lost in itself, unable to find a way out.

This is an alienated and depraved society, and the protagonist wants to protect the last bit of beauty in his heart, which is the world of children.

This is close to the meaning expressed in Eliot's "The Waste Land", which is the spiritual disillusionment of Western society.

"The Waste Land" uses symbolism, which is difficult for ordinary readers to read, and "The Catcher in the Rye" uses a novel theme, which is more acceptable to readers.

She decided to help Lin Zixuan publish the novel in the UK.

In the United States, lawyer Peterson found a publishing house for Lin Zixuan, but the publishing house was not optimistic about the novel.

If it weren't for Lin Zixuan's small fame in the United States, they might have refused to publish it, and they felt that using the new work of the author of "Gone with the Wind" as a gimmick should attract some readers.

They hope that Lin Zixuan can write popular literature.

As for the comic "Superman", there are fewer people interested, which has something to do with the fact that American comics are still in the early stages of development.

On May 17, 1896, Altcourt's comic strip "The Yellow Child" was published, marking the birth of American comic strips.

Like China, American cartoonists in this era were not a respectable profession and did not have a significant income.

At this time, the main readers of American comics were children, and in order to cater to children's reading interests, most of the comics on the market were mainly cartoon characters and cartoon animal images.

For example, in 1910, the image of the little mad cat in the comic strip "Upstairs Family" was serialized and published in the daily newspaper, and by 1916, the little crazy cat had become a cartoon star.

Moreover, there are no professional comic magazines in the United States now, let alone superheroes.

The publisher thinks that the premise of the manga is too complicated, and although Superman starts out as a child, he quickly grows up, and children will not accept an adult as the main character, and they may not understand it at all.

The readership of Superman should be teenagers and adults, but how many teenagers read comics now.

It takes time to cultivate the market, so publishers are reluctant to publish Superman.

As a result, he had to publish at his own expense, which Lin Zixuan expected, and he didn't mind spending time cultivating the reading interest of American teenagers, and believed that the golden age of comics was coming.

He mainly puts the copyright of these superheroes in his own name, and if he spends some money now, he will have a big harvest in the future.

Lawyer Peterson is very puzzled by Lin Zixuan's comic complex, but he is a lawyer, and he just needs to complete the client's entrustment, and he doesn't care too much about other things, anyway, he uses Lin Zixuan's money.

In this way, "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Superman" appeared in front of American readers at the end of 1923.

To be honest, sales were extremely dismal.

"The Catcher in the Rye" is better, after all, with Lin Zixuan's fame, tens of thousands of copies have been sold, and "Superman" has reached the point where no one cares.

Parents don't buy this kind of comics for their children, teenagers don't pay attention to comics, and only some readers who like to hunt for curiosity will buy and read them with the mentality of trying them out.

This is the embarrassment of transcending the times.

This is the same as Lin Zixuan's "Ethereal Journey" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" published in the "Popular Fiction Daily", the novels that could sell well in later generations were received a cold reception during the Republic of China.

"Ethereal Journey", a Xiuzhenliu novel, caused heated discussions when it was first serialized.

After all, the background of the novel is set on an alien planet, and there are various magic weapons, and the characters can fly away, which is indeed novel enough.

However, this combination of myth and science fiction quickly became a niche story, as most readers did not accept the premise.

Readers still like to read stories that take place in familiar environments, which gives them a sense of substitution, that the alien planet is too far away for them, that they are two different worlds. (To be continued.) )