This time, Shen Long aimed at Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum", he still broke his promise, he said before that he would not wait for Zhang Yimou to gather wool alone, and now he is going to dig materials from his movies.

The number of words in "Red Sorghum" is not much, a total of 130,000 words, according to the length, it can be regarded as a long article, but it is much shorter than the one in Shen Long's plan, and it can be completed in one or two months.

He doesn't plan to copy it all, "Red Sorghum" is a story that takes place in Gaomi, Shandong, and he has never been to Gaomi, and it is easy to arouse the suspicion of others if he copies it as it is, but fortunately, sorghum is also produced in northern Shaanxi, and Shuangshui Village built a dam on the Weeping River and irrigated tens of thousands of catties of sorghum.

The rest of the plot will also be rewritten according to reality, such as those plots related to the anti-Japanese resistance, in the impression of many people, the Japanese devils do not seem to have attacked northern Shaanxi on a large scale, but this is not the case, during the War of Resistance against Japan, the Japanese devils have attacked Huangyuan many times, until 1940, the guerrilla warfare behind the enemy basically cut off the supply line of the Japanese attack on Huangyuan.

However, the situation faced by northern Shaanxi is certainly not as serious as that of Gaomi, so it is impossible to copy some of the plots in the book as they are, and Gaomi's living customs and idiomatic language are very different from those in northern Shaanxi, and these also need to be modified.

Shen Long chose this article, not only because of his fame, but also because he was adapted by Zhang Yimou, but also because of deeper considerations, if he wants to break out in the literary world, he not only needs a good story and good writing, but also innovates in the literary model, and "Red Sorghum" perfectly meets this need.

This is the same as a film director, if you want to leave your name in film history, you must not only consider commercial achievements, but also artistic achievements, and it is best to make a breakthrough in film language and shooting techniques.

After the 80s, especially after Colombian writer García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature next year, magical realism gradually became popular in China, giving birth to a large number of outstanding magical realist works such as "White Deer Plain", "Ancient Furnace", "Red Sorghum", "Dust Settled", etc., which had a far-reaching influence.

At the same time, it also made writers such as Jia Pingwa, Chen Zhongzhong, Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Ge Fei, and A Lai become well-known figures in the literary world and set up their own banners.

The reason for this is that in addition to Márquez's Nobel Prize for Literature, which has caused a huge repercussion in the world for magical realism, and Chinese writers who have just begun to look at the world again cannot miss it, magical realism and China's history and reality are also naturally consistent, and have the soil for the birth of this kind of literary theme.

China is a magical country, from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" to the Six Dynasties to the "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai", it can be described as a vast sea, writers throughout the ages continue to bring forth this theme to bring forth the new, the ghost and the mysterious factor can be said to be common in ancient Chinese literary works, both the author and the reader are extremely familiar with this subject.

Secondly, Márquez's South American countryside is quite similar to Mo Yan's hometown of Gaomi and Jia Pingwa's hometown of Shangzhou, where these Chinese writers grew up.

Therefore, when magical realism entered China, Chinese writers were immediately excited, they found a way to express their emotions, and they found a new way, combining Chinese history and folklore, combined with magical realism techniques, to create their own magical realist literature.

Now there is more than a year before Marquez wins the Nobel Prize, if he can come up with such a work at this time, after a period of controversy and fermentation, when Marquez officially wins the award, it will inevitably bring him huge prestige, which is a bit opportunistic, but isn't this the kind of thing that travelers like to do the most?

As for the reason, it is easy to explain, although Márquez will only win the award next year, but his works have been translated into Chinese a few years ago, but due to fame, it is not widely circulated for the time being, and Shen Long has seen him in the Huangyuan Library.

By the way, these translations were naturally not authorized by Márquez, so when Márquez came to China in the future, he was very angry when he saw him in the bookstore, and vowed that he would not authorize China to publish his own for 150 years after his death, especially "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

But in 2010, the Chinese publishing industry also became rich, and they reorganized a group to talk to Marquez about copyrights, and paid Márquez a one-time royalty of $1.2 million for the book "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which was more than double the market price of normal royalties, and Márquez decisively swallowed back what he had said.

Officially authorized the domestic publishing house to publish his works, so that classic works such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" can finally meet domestic readers.

In fact, I can't complain about the Chinese publishing industry in this way, because at that time, China's economy was backward, and it did not join the international copyright organization, and at that time, even a penny of foreign exchange was very precious, and there was no money to buy the book copyright of foreign writers.

Shen Long took out the manuscript paper from the drawer, carefully brushed his thoughts, and then began to rewrite, and neat lines of pen words appeared on the manuscript paper:

On the ninth day of the eighth month of the ancient calendar in 1939, my father, a bandit, was a little more than fourteen years old; He followed the team of the legendary hero Yu Zhanao, who later became famous all over the world, across the Yellow River to ambush the Japanese car convoy, and his grandmother put on a jacket and sent them to the village.

Commander Yu said, "Stop." Grandma stood still, and Grandma said to my father, "Douguan, listen to your godfather." Father didn't squeak, he looked at his grandmother's tall body, smelled the hot fragrance from his grandmother's jacket, and suddenly felt the cold air, he fought a battle, his stomach rumbled for a while, Commander Yu patted his father's head and said, "Go,." ”

…… wrote more than 3,000 words in one breath, feeling that the time was not early, Shen Long read the manuscript carefully, corrected a few omissions, and then washed up and went to bed.

When he woke up in the morning, Shen Long went to Dongguan Bridge again, the project in the old place was finished, and he had to find a new place to recruit workers, Shen Long had already thought about where to go, so when the other contractors came to recruit workers, they all sat lazily on the ground, and only when his target appeared, he got up and squeezed over.