Chapter 61: Sample Book
Before the release of "Love and Sex", Wang Defu not only instructed Ling Jingsu to create "Smoke and Rain", but also visited Cao Xuping, the head of the philosophy department of his university.
At that time, Wang Defu was obviously not only a campus genius who wrote "Listening to the Snow Night", but also a cutting-edge writer who became famous in Suzhou and the Jiangnan area of the magic capital with an article "The Subservient Status of Women".
If later generations of scholars study the history of literature and thought, they may still think that Wang Defu's essay sounded the clarion call to advocate women's rights and emancipate women......
As a man, Cao Xuping naturally subconsciously resisted Wang Defu's article to emancipate women's minds, and this article even made him feel less favorable to Wang Defu's "Listening to the Snow Night" written before.
The main reason is that although this person did not marry his aunt's wife, he was quite fond of prostitutes.
That's right, the Qinglou and brothels in this era still exist, and they are legal entertainment venues, and the old-style literati still feel that it is a romantic thing to be famous and indulge in sex in the Qinglou, but it is a pity that in this era, the old-style literati who can write poems of the ancient times are too rare.
The imperial government did not ban the green houses and brothels, but only believed that they needed better laws to regulate them, and prostitutes must have regular medical examinations and have legal prostitute certificates before they could take up their posts.
Cao Xuping is not an old-fashioned literati, but he does like prostitutes, he once said to his wife - I know you are good to me and I love you, but I really can't change prostitutes.
Miraculously, Cao Xuping's wife of course chose to forgive him, and didn't care about his prostitution, and even felt that as long as Cao Xuping didn't marry a woman outside as an aunt like other men, it would already be very good.
However, Wang Defu went to see Cao Xuping, but he was not given a cold reception.
In addition to Cao Xuping's true appreciation of Wang Defu's talent, as well as his achievements and reviews in the Department of Philosophy, it is also because of the importance that the school's senior management attaches to Wang Defu's essay.
This article directly led to the unanimous opinion of the school's top management, and the next school year will be open to women.
In the process of Cao Xuping's conversation with Wang Defu, he admired the freshmen of the entire philosophy department even more, just because the other party had obviously read through the philosophical academic treatise "Philosophy and the Soul" that he was proud of, and also studied it deeply......
But it doesn't matter, the more you can't understand something like philosophy, the more it means that you are awesome!
Perhaps the greatest joy of a scholar is that his own writings can inspire readers, and it is clear that Cao Xuping thinks that his works have inspired Wang Defu, who has become famous in the literary world, and what a sense of accomplishment it is!
So, when Wang Defu proposed that he had also written philosophical academic papers and wanted to submit them to the philosophical academic journal "Times and Trends of Thought", but there was no teacher to guide him, so he hoped that Cao Xuping would not hesitate to give advice, Cao Xuping, who had been touted by Wang Defu, of course agreed.
Cao Xuping absolutely recognizes Wang Defu's philosophical attainments, and can study his "Philosophy and Soul" so profoundly, and the writing is so good, can the philosophical papers he writes be bad?
In this way, Wang Defu finally swept away the obstacles that he had taken the first step in the field of philosophy.
His first philosophical dissertation, if nothing else, would have been published in an academic journal.
However, such a dissertation work will certainly not be able to raise a temporary hot issue like an essay like "The Subservient Status of Women", but it can establish Wang Defu's status in the philosophical community step by step.
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Wang Defu got a sample of this novel before the official release of "Love and Sex", and its cover is still very reverie, it is two beautiful and moving women, one is dressed in classical clothes, with the gentleness of ancient ladies, and the other is fashionably dressed and modern and beautiful, like a big star at the forefront of the times.
In addition to the portrait on the cover, there is also a golden sentence from the book - from now on, I begin to choose my life carefully, and I no longer allow myself to be easily lost in all kinds of temptations. I have heard the call from afar in my heart, and I no longer need to look back and care about the rights and wrongs and discussions behind me. I don't have time to think about the past, I want to move forward.
After Wang Defu's deletion and modification of "Love and Sex", the H descriptions that he originally wanted to use for the number of words in water have been greatly reduced, and a lot of philosophical discussions on love and sex, spirit and flesh have been added, which can be described as far-reaching, I hope readers can think after reading it - what is the lightness of life that human beings can't bear?
This undoubtedly made the enthusiasm of ordinary readers begin to decline since the third issue of the serial, anyway, Wang Defu's roommate Liu Qingshan said that he was impatient to read it.
However, Liu Qingshan did not unsubscribe from "Red Rose", mainly because there were other small H essays on top of "Red Rose", which is obviously the follow-up work of "Love and Sex", but it is a pity that the writing and forcing are too far from "Love and Sex", but it is better than simple and rude, more practical, this vernacular small H article, is always more stimulating readers' desire than those literary small H articles in the "Gusu Evening News".
Ordinary readers don't have the patience to read it, but it doesn't mean that those readers who like works with depth and connotation will give up reading this work, and they are even very surprised because of the sudden increase in style and depth of the work, which makes the fan cohesion of "Ms. Yiren", a new writer, extremely high.
This is probably like the achievements and income of most of the high-quality Xiaobai literary works in the online literature circle of later generations, which are better than the same high-quality literary works, but when it comes to the cohesion of fans, it is obviously still the high of literary and young works, and the influence of literary and young works often spreads outside the online literary circle.
"Love and Sex" aside from H description and philosophical discussion, in fact, it can be regarded as a high-level Mandarin Duck and Butterfly novel, its high writing and outstanding modern poetry are enough to fascinate many literary and artistic young people.
Therefore, although Wang Defu is not very looking forward to the sales of his single book, it can definitely make "Ms. Yiren" famous in one fell swoop!