Lu Shi mourned Wilde, but did not cause the imagined uproar.

Ordinary people just don't care if the novel is interesting,

Who was Wilde?

Sorry not to pay attention.

But fiction writers and literary critics are different, with both appreciators and opponents.

Knut Hamson took the lead in carrying the banner of "pounding land",

He opened fire on the book review page of a magazine: "No One Survives is well written, but its roots are as crooked as those of Mr. Wilde, and I wonder if the Chinese novelist has taken root in the wrong place and grown a poisonous weed." ”

This is a very mean statement,

Whether in Chinese or English context, "root" and "root" are punns, the kind that specialize in the next three ways.

And, not only Hamson,

Almost all conservative writers have opened the free microphone and attacked Lu Shi.

Some people even bluntly said that Lu Shi should delete the eulogy when he republished it, otherwise it would discredit the Royal Publishing Bureau.

This annoys the liberals,

Since Wilde's work can be performed at the Royal Theater, it means that the level must be passable, and there is no problem politically.

Why don't people mourn in public!?

George Bernard Shaw stepped forward and fired back fiercely in the Manchester Guardian,

Looking at the stance, it was as if he and Wilde had never had a falling out.

Moreover, this brother is good at satire, scolding people without dirty words, and his combat power is much higher than that of ordinary writers.

Literati are not easy to bully,

The word is a blade,

Ink is the front,

The pen is the sword,

The two sides took various newspapers and magazines as their positions, and fought freely and fiercely.

The center of the matter is obviously no longer Wilde, but liberal and conservative, and the tone is getting higher and higher.

Later generations of literary researchers will definitely be confused when they see this period of history,

First of all, when Ham scolded Lu,

Then George Bernard Shaw scolded Hamson.

And then it started to get magical.

William Butler Yeats spewed George Bernard Shaw,

Romain Rolland, who was far away in France, was anxious for justice and stood up to help scold Yeats,

Yeats immediately scolded back.

These people, Hamborn was Norwegian, George Bernard Shaw was Irish, Yeats was Irish, Roland was French,

From the perspective of geography alone, it can be said that:

The whole of Northwest Europe is a pot of porridge!

Halfway through, a young man under the age of twenty was killed, named Stefan Zweig,

Zweig's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and he complained about the old-timers one by one,

He said that George Bernard Shaw's gradualism was "a safe rebellion", that Romain Rolland "wrote novels with music", that Yeats's symbolism and metaphysical poetry were "typical feudal desires", and that Tagore had "a very poor level of translation".

So, everyone turned their guns again and angrily sprayed Zweig for a sneak attack on the old comrades.

In just three or four days, all kinds of writers sang and I appeared, which was like setting off a cultural movement.

……

Fleet Street,

Manchester Guardian Office, Editor-in-Chief.

Smack-

Lu Shi put down the newspaper and tried to hold back a smile,

I didn't expect Zweig to be so fierce when he was young, and he didn't care about scolding people.

George Bernard Shaw said angrily: "I bet this Zweig is French." ”

Lu Shi was surprised,

"Huh? Why do you think that? ”

George Bernard Shaw ordered some newspapers,

"Look at what he said about Mr. Roland, 'writing novels with music', this doesn't look like criticism no matter how you look at it~"

"Hahaha!"

Lu Shi still laughed out loud after all,

"So, you guess Zweig is a fellow of Mr. Roland?"

George Bernard Shaw snorted, looked at the newspaper again, and said, "Do you still need to think about this?" ”

The characteristics of Roland's novels are summarized as "writing novels with music", because Roland is not only a thinker, a writer, a social activist, but also a music critic.

That assessment was indeed positive.

It's a pity that Zweig is not French, but Austrian,

George Bernard Shaw guessed wrong.

Lu Shi said: "This matter has nothing to do with the region, right? Aren't you and Mr. Yeats both Irish? ”

George Bernard Shaw was slightly stammered: "Tsk...... I'm not the same as Yeats. I was a supporter of the new theatre, he liked the flamboyant style of romanticism, and his tendencies were very different, and I had a lot of arguments with him. ”

Lu Shi suddenly realized,

No wonder he didn't have anything to do with Yeats, and he still had to jump out and play with George Bernard Shaw,

It turned out that the two had a conflict for a long time.

Lu Shi comforted: "Okay~ Okay~ Don't be angry." Yeats doesn't mention it for the time being, if you look at Zweig, he didn't even let Tagore go, you know that young people think too much, and they don't know how thick the sky is~"

George Bernard Shaw said: "That is, the bully Tagore is in India, and there is no way to fight back." ”

As he spoke, George Bernard Shaw glanced at Lu Shi,

"Aren't you also a young man?"

Lu Shi couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm an old man. ”

George Bernard Shaw almost wanted to roll his eyes.

At this moment, the door to the editor-in-chief's room was pushed open, and Scott hurried in.

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Xiao, are you here?"

Lu Shi immediately nodded,

"Mr. Supervisor is going to submit again, so I'll accompany him."

Scott wills,

"Book review edition? Good! Show me! Maybe we can recreate the grand occasion of the literary discussion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev. ”

Dostoevsky and Turgenev looked down on each other, and the war of insults lasted for thirty years.

Moreover, this kind of scolding is not a shrew scolding the street,

As characters with heads and faces, they are extremely satirical to each other in magazines, newspapers, and even their own published books.

But at the same time, the two wrote novels such as "The Demons" and "Crime and Punishment", which were regarded as classics by later generations.

That's why Scott said "pomp".

Scott was reading the manuscript there, and George Bernard Shaw on the side said to Lu Shi with some guilt: "It's a pity that because of these pickled things, people have downplayed the little poem you wrote." Alas......"

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"Mr. Superintendent, the matter did not start because of you, you don't have to blame yourself."

George Bernard Shaw let out a shallow "um" and asked, "By the way, what's the name of that poem?" ”

——

The night gave me black eyes,

But I use it to find light.

——

This is a modern poem called "A Generation", written by Gu Cheng.

Lu Shi pondered for a moment, feeling that there was no need to change the name, and then said: ""Generation". ”

George Bernard Shaw's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he praised sincerely: "Good! What a "Generation"! It doesn't get any better name than that! And ......"

He sighed silently,

"Zweig is not wrong when he says that I support gradual reform and is a 'safe rebellion'. In an age when progressivism is eternally right, conservatism itself is a rebellion against the mainstream. ”

Lu Shi was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the other party to go around the topic,

"You're a real thinker," he said. ”

George Bernard Shaw laughed,

"Don't think I can't hear your sarcasm. However, I still want to thank you, it is precisely after reading your poem "A Generation" that I am moved. ”

The two were chatting, and Scott on the side suddenly clapped his hands violently,

"Good! Mr. Xiao is really amazing! The article is very well written. ”

Seeing Scott's eyes glowing, Lu Shi knew that

Northwest Europe has to continue to boil porridge.