After the story was written, the cruise ship had not yet docked.

These Westerners felt that the trip was worthwhile, and they participated in the creation of a novel.

Although some people disagree with the plot of this novel and think it is too dark, there is no denying that this will be a good novel.

These men were highly educated, had a certain appreciation of literature, and among them were scholars who worked in education in China, who spoke highly of the novel.

At least the novel has a deep moral and can be thought about, not a pastime of literature.

Some people vaguely feel that the writing technique of this novel is not quite the same as the current novels of Western literature.

In the 19th century, Western literature underwent a process of development from romanticism to realism, while symbolist literature and aesthetic literature began to take off.

In the twentieth century, writing techniques were diversified, and modernist fiction began to flourish.

Modernist fiction includes genres such as expressionism, stream-of-consciousness fiction, absurdist drama, and magical realism.

Lord of the Flies appears to be a realistic novel, but it uses a lot of modernist writing techniques, such as symbolism, absurdity, irony, and parody.

Moreover, it also subverts the previous "desert island literature".

As a pioneering work of desert island literature, Shakespeare's The Tempest is the epitome of humanism.

It celebrates the power of humanity and contains utopian fantasies.

Defoe's Robinson Crusoe expresses the idea that "man will conquer heaven".

Ballantyne's Coral Island and Stevenson's Treasure Island represent the Victorian era's extreme self-confidence and optimistic affirmation of the civilisation values of the British youth community.

In short, the desert island literature that preceded Lord of the Flies was positive and optimistic.

However, this Lord of the Flies goes against the previous thematic traditions. It profoundly reveals the evil of human nature and completely subverts the theme of traditional desert island literature.

This is a breakthrough in literary genres.

Especially for the Western countries that lived after the First World War. The people lost their optimism and thought they could conquer the world.

They are spiritually empty and confused. Doubts arise about the values that were previously embraced.

They strive to rebel against their previous ideals, using rebellious thoughts and actions to express their dissatisfaction with reality.

This type of literature is called trauma literature.

Although the passengers on the cruise ship are very optimistic about the novel "Lord of the Flies", they are not professional literary critics after all, and they cannot see the uniqueness of this novel.

It is a form of fiction that sits somewhere between realist and modernist literature, and it has an existential imprint.

Even if it is not groundbreaking and can form an independent literary genre, it has a unique research value.

When the cruise ship docked halfway, a reporter couldn't wait to get off the ship and write a manuscript about the incident and send it to a newspaper in the United States by telegram.

That is, the novel became famous ahead of schedule before it was published.

The reporter asked Lin Zixuan a question. If the children on the desert island were replaced by Chinese children, would the results be different?

Lin Zixuan pondered for a moment and gave an answer.

"I don't think it's any different."

The novel "Lord of the Flies" is about a group of British children, and it can be said that there is a colonial imprint in it, and these children are the descendants of colonizers, and there is an element of adventure and possession in their bones.

That's why they will fight for power and profit on the desert island, and they will try to occupy the desert island.

But what if it's a Chinese child?

Lin Zixuan would like to say that China is a country of etiquette, we have Confucian culture, and we have basic moral concepts. Pay attention to benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, our children will not fight for power and profit on a desert island, and will not kill each other.

But the situation of warlords in China would make his argument seem silly and ridiculous.

If China is compared to an island, the warlords at home are compared to Ralph and Jack. There's nothing wrong with that, those brutal wars are just two kids fighting for control of a desert island.

Throughout the history of China. It won't be many years before there will be a war, and the dynasties will rotate. Foreign invasion.

After all, it is a remake of the novel "Lord of the Flies".

Therefore, Lin Zixuan does not think that Chinese children can live in peace on a desert island. This is the universal human condition.

Western reporters were quite satisfied with this answer, and he thought that Lin Zixuan was very straightforward, not as hypocritical as the Orientals he had contacted before, and would always find many excuses to cover it up.

As a journalist, he is keenly aware of the novel's prospects.

Like the question he just asked, Lord of the Flies reflects a universal problem in the world, which means that the novel is accessible to the vast majority of the world.

He knew that Lin Zixuan wrote "Gone with the Wind".

"Gone with the Wind" is about American history, and it is reasonable that it is sought after in the United States, but it may not sell so well in other countries, which is the geographical limitation caused by the subject matter of literary works.

But "Lord of the Flies" has no geographical restrictions and can be universally recognized by Western society.

Among this group of people, the most depressed is the pearl race.

Others have heard the story and forget it, and occasionally reminisced about it, but she has to continue to study and translate, and strive to express the theme of the original book most accurately, especially this kind of novel with allegory, which needs to be treated with caution.

If a metaphor is not clearly expressed, it is likely to be misunderstood by the reader.

So, translation has always been a technical job.

It doesn't mean that you can translate a novel after learning English, which often leads to problems such as words that don't make sense, confusing themes, and so on.

Although it is a good novel from a literary point of view, Pearl Race really does not like the subject matter of this novel.

She has lived in China, seen suffering and war, and will not be naïve to think that human nature is good, but this novel shows the evil side of human nature completely and transparently, making people pessimistic.

Lin Zixuan told her that only by thoroughly recognizing the existence of evil will people yearn for good, which is a warning to the world.

He wasn't fooling Pearl Race by saying this, but he was doing it.

He came to the United States with "The Man in the High Castle" this time with this purpose.

In The Man in the High Castle, the United States is divided between Germany and Japan, the United States becomes a colony, and Americans become second-class citizens, living a life of enslavement by Germany and Japan.

By showing this terrible future, he is warning the United States that if the United States does not act in future wars, it will fall into this fate.

If in the novel "Lord of the Flies", Lin Zixuan, who is a time-traveler, is the prophet Simon.

In the novel, Simon is killed.

Lin Zixuan didn't know what his ending would be, but he still wanted to mail out "The Man in the High Castle" to send a warning to the world.

From this point of view, Lin Zixuan is living on this isolated island called the earth, playing the role of a prophet.

It won't be long before a war that engulfs the entire island begins. (To be continued.) )