When it came to going to Paris for exchanges, Lu Shi did not refuse.

There is a very important reason, that is, Scott's strong persuasion,

My brother even thought of the headline -

The Nobel Prize in Literature? Lu Shi: It's just a joke! 》

If the "Mirror" is published in this way, it will definitely be able to become popular.

But Lu Shi felt that the title was too aggressive, and asked Scott to downplay the personal as much as possible, and instead attributed the incident to a common advance and retreat in the Western European literary world.

Scott changed his name:

"A second-rate literary academy is also worthy of the Nobel Prize in Literature!? 》

Full of aggressiveness.

Since Scott came into contact with the new concept of tabloids, the whole person has changed, and the pigs have made rapid progress in the popularization of news.

Lu Shi had no choice but to let him go, and the only request was not to publish it until Lu Shi returned from Paris.

After agreeing on this matter, Lu Shi and George Bernard Shaw set off by water.

The ship crossed the English Channel, from Dover, England to Calais, France,

The distance between the two ports is not far, and the sea is calm, so it will not take long.

There are a lot of people on the boat, eating, drinking and having fun, you can also go to the window to watch the sea, you can also go to the stern of the boat to feel the sea breeze in early spring.

Lu Shi and George Bernard Shaw played chess in the cabin,

In England, chess is not as popular as cards, so George Bernard Shaw is a pure stinky chess basket,

Of course, Lu Shi is also,

The two of them play chess about the same as a bad match.

Lu Shi picked up the chariot, then shook his head and put it down.

George Bernard Shaw said, "Lu, you can't do this! Haven't you heard of touching a child? ”

Touching the move is the rule of chess,

In a game, if the player touches a piece of his side with his hand, he must move it, and only when the touched piece cannot move at all, can he move another piece.

Lu Shi couldn't help but laugh awkwardly,

"This ...... I really don't. ”

George Bernard Shaw asked, "You won't let me, will you?" ”

Lu Shi shook his head,

"It may not be difficult for a master to deliberately lose, but it is difficult for a low player like me to do it."

George Bernard Shaw thought to himself, too,

With the chess skills shown by Lu Shi, it is certainly impossible for chess to be flawless.

This kid is really too bad.

George Bernard Shaw pushed away the chessboard and complained, "No." The gap between you and me is too big to get up. ”

Lu Shi replied: "It seems like a lot of people~"

With that, he stood up and stretched.

George Bernard Shaw said, "How long have we been on our journey?" Go out now and you should be able to see the famous White Cliffs of Dover. Let's go out and have a look. ”

The two left the cabin and went to the deck.

The spring is cold, and the sea breeze wraps the two of them with saltiness and coldness.

Lu Shi tightened his coat, held the railing in his hand, and stood on tiptoe as if looking from a distance.

George Bernard Shaw looked at the sky,

"Land, for the giant ship, dozens of kilometers of waterways are fleeting, and we should only have to stay on the ship for a day."

In the 20th century, everything was slow,

George Bernard Shaw's understanding of "fleeting" is markedly different from that of land time.

Lu Shi looked at the calm and peaceful sea, and whispered: "The breeze is coming, and the water is not rippling." ”

Because it was said in Chinese, George Bernard Shaw didn't understand it.

He didn't ask deeply, but talked about the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"Lu, this morning, just before we boarded the ship, the Swedish Academy sent another telegram. The telegram said that Mr. Tolstoy voluntarily rejected the nomination, and even described his work as a 'old-fashioned game'. ”

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been hyped up, and the literary world is full of discussion about it, and it is impossible not to reach Russia.

Lu Shi sighed,

"'Old-fashioned game'......"

He nodded, then shook his head again, not immediately speaking.

George Bernard Shaw was curious,

"Why do you nod your head first and then shake your head?"

Lu Shi said: "Of course, there is no problem for Toon to evaluate himself like this, he is very modest and objective. But the Swedish Academy used this as a shield...... Humph......"

George Bernard Shaw chuckled, "Modesty and objectivity are contradictory, right? ”

Lu Shi turned around and no longer looked at the sea,

He pressed the elbow of his right hand against the guardrail, and with his left hand pressed his hat, which could be blown away at any moment, and said, "Toon is talking about War and Peace." ”

George Bernard Shaw said: "The space of the telegram is limited, and the Swedish Academy does not say it. Of course, it is also possible that Mr. Tolstoy was too lazy to ramble on the telegram to the Swedish Academy of Letters. It's hard to talk about the idea of a great writer. ”

Lu Shi said: "It should be "War and Peace", that's right. ”

George Bernard Shaw agrees,

Tolstoy said "old-fashioned games", in which the "old-fashioned" naturally refers to the aristocratic class,

Tolstoy himself was an aristocrat, and Pierre and Paulkonsky in War and Peace were based on himself.

Lu Shi chuckled,

"War, referring to Napoleon; Peace, referring to Toon himself. ”

George Bernard Shaw was stunned for a moment, and then smiled tacitly.

Because the background of "War and Peace" is the Russo-French War, Napoleon equals war,

In the book, the nobles are almost unaffected by the war, and then they play music and dance, which is "peace" in a sense.

Lu Shi couldn't help but sigh: "On the 'peaceful' side, Toon wrote it very really, obviously it is a book, but it is like documentary literature, and the extravagance and decay of the upper class society are almost portrayed to the bones, compared to Cao Xueqin...... Hmmm......"

George Bernard Shaw was curious: "You just said that you are a Chinese, right?" ”

Lu Shi nodded and sold to the other party,

"Mr. Superintendent, if I have time, I will definitely translate "The Story of Stones" to you."

This is actually painting a pie,

To foreigners, "Dream of the Red Chamber" reads like a nightmare.

Lu Shi turned the topic back again,

"Let's talk about the 'war' in "War and Peace", when Napoleon tore up the peace agreement and crossed the Neman River, Paulkonsky's father led the serfs to the battlefield, and the result?"

George Bernard Shaw looked puzzled: "Of course the result is a win." Whether it is or history, the French army finally fell apart. ”

Lu Shi shook his head,

"I'm not talking about the results of the war, but the results of those serfs."

George Bernard Shaw was even more confused,

He looked at Lu Shi speechlessly, not knowing what the other party wanted to say.

Lu Shi said: "The horse leather shrouded and died on the battlefield, but in the end he didn't even leave his name. But is it reasonable that such a group of serfs who are not well fed and unstable can die willingly and generously in Toon's pen? ”

George Bernard Shaw suddenly realized,

"Unreasonable."

Lu Shi said "um" in agreement,

If George Bernard Shaw thinks it is reasonable, he will not only recommend "Dream of Red Mansions", but also "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so that George Bernard Shaw can take a closer look at how Wang Gao was killed by Cao Cao.

Lu Shi said: "That's why I said that Toon is objective in evaluating himself like this. After all, experience needs to be acquired. ”

Tolstoy was in his thirties when he finished War and Peace.

For an aristocratic brother, you can't be too demanding.

George Bernard Shaw wondered,

"Lu, since you also have this attitude, why do you use Mr. Tolstoy as a shield to refuse...... Ahem...... I mean, why do you think only he deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature? ”

Lu Shi replied: "I just said that Toon is not only objective, but also very modest. The depiction of serfs in War and Peace is unrealistic, but as a literary work, its technique and intention are beyond reproach. What's more, Toon also has "Resurrection". ”

Tolstoy's hand-me-down –

"Resurrection".

This book has been published in more than 20 Chinese editions alone, and there are countless editions of literature and translation enthusiasts who use love to generate electricity.

The high status can be seen.

But the first edition of Resurrection was in 1899, again in Russian, and George Bernard Shaw had not yet read it intensively.

He asked, "Isn't it Anna Karenina?" I have heard that when Mr. Tolstoy was writing this book, he revised it 12 times before it was completed, and his writing skills have been perfected. ”

Lu Shi didn't reply.

George Bernard Shaw then asked, "What about the Confessions?" ”

Because Rousseau and Augustine wrote works of the same name, Tolstoy's "Confessions" is not very popular.

But it's undoubtedly a classic too.

Lu Shi smiled and coughed,

"No, in my heart, it's still "Resurrection" ......"

Before he finished speaking, a chuckle suddenly came from behind him.

The two turned back and followed the prestige.

I saw a middle-aged man in his early thirties standing there,

He wore a double-breasted coat with a collar clip exposed, and his solemn dress looked a little uninhibited, but his back leaned against the outer wall of the cabin, revealing a certain uninhibited laziness.

Lu Shi felt that this person was somewhat familiar,

He asked, "Sir, are you?" ”

The man replied: "Russians." ”

Lu Shi nodded,

"Well, the accent is obvious."

Russian English with a strong Russian accent,

Whenever the English "R" is spoken, the Russians will speak themselves as a big tongue trill.

When the man looked at Lu,

"Your English is very good."

He walked over, stretched out his hand to Lu Shi, and introduced himself: "My name is Alexey Maximevich Pyshkov. ”

Lu Shi shook hands with him,

"Hello, my name is Lu Shi."

He only said his name, and everything else was kept secret.

George Bernard Shaw on the other side saw Lu Shi act like this, so he only reported one surname.

Pyshkov looked at the two,

"You were just talking about Tolstoy's Resurrection?"

George Bernard Shaw didn't talk,

He didn't want to comment on work he didn't know much about.

Lu Shi said: "That's right. ”

Pyshkov looked at him curiously, and then said: "Mr. Lu, "Resurrection" is not an excellent work. This book, not deep enough. ”

Lu Shi was stunned for a moment,

"Who are you?"

As soon as these words came out, George Bernard Shaw immediately coughed violently: "Ahem, cough, cough, ......"

He coughed violently, and finally calmed down, then patted Lu Shi on the shoulder and said in a low voice: "You think people are not qualified to evaluate Mr. Tolstoy, and there is no need to be so provocative!" The Russians will do it if they don't agree with each other. ”

But Peshkov was not angry,

"'Resurrection' is just Tolstoy's work of picking people's teeth, far inferior to 'Ball of Sheep Fat'."

"Tsk......"

Lu Shi was speechless and said, "Do you still know "Sheep Fat Ball"? ”

Pyshkov, of course, heard Lu Shi's mockery,

He didn't sneer at each other, but nodded solemnly and replied: """Resurrection" is not as good as "Sheep Fat Ball", because the two books also write about prostitutes, and the former is not satirical enough. ”

The protagonists of both books are prostitutes,

In "Resurrection", the protagonist is devastated, framed and sentenced to death, and finally unjustly dies in prison.

And the "upper-class people" portrayed in it are all scum.

The irony is not profound.

Lu Shi frowned,

"Where the hell are the two books...... Hmmm......"

He slapped his forehead,

"If I'm not mistaken, the publication of Resurrection had its ups and downs?"

Pyshkov's expression wavered, and he tried to keep a straight face, and said, "Mr. Lu seems to have some anecdotes. ”

Lu Shi said with certainty: "It's definitely not an anecdote. "Resurrection" was so spicy that the Tsar threatened to arrest Toon, and the publishing house did not even dare to publish it. In desperation, Toon had to publish at his own expense, but castrated a lot of the content. ”

George Bernard Shaw was surprised,

"There is such a thing!?"

Lu Shi nodded and said, "Therefore, Mr. Pyshkov is not wrong to say that the satire of "Resurrection" is not thorough enough, because it omits a lot of descriptions of rulers. This kind of 'incompleteness' is the most thorough irony. ”

Pyshkov's gaze changed when he looked at the land,

He said approvingly: "I thought the two were vassals and elegant people, but I didn't expect to really understand "Resurrection". ”

As he spoke, he took off his hat and saluted.

The corners of Lu Shi's mouth are hooked,

"It seems that you are also a fan of "Resurrection"."

Pyshkov corrected: "All ethnic Russians should be fans of Resurrection, only the Tsar can without...... Hum...... Whether the tsar is an ethnic Russian or not, I can't say. He may not even be a human being. ”

What this guy is talking about is actually a stalk,

In that year, the French executed Louis XVI with a famous saying:

"The death of a king is not one less person."

George Bernard Shaw, as a playwright, also quickly remembered this stalk, and couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Pyshkov, whose head do you want to cut off?" ”

This is a sentence that eases the atmosphere,

Unexpectedly, Pyshkov turned out to be extremely serious, and continued to talk about the topic just now: "Mr. Lu should hate the Tsar, right?" After all, you just lamented that "Resurrection" could not be published in its entirety. ”

That's not a good thing to say.

George Bernard Shaw shook his head imperceptibly at Lu Shi and signaled Lu Shi not to make a clear statement.

Lu Shi is also a master of tai chi, and said: "The tsar you are talking about, don't you mean someone, right?" ”

Pyshkov smiled,

"You're scared."

His tone was very flat, and it didn't sound like a radical general, but a simple statement.

Lu Shi said: "If you are talking about a tsar, you are not referring to a certain person, but a profession. Then I must say that there were many excellent rulers among the successive tsars. ”

When Pishkov looked Lu up and down,

"Mr. Lu is Chinese, right?"

Lu Shi asked rhetorically: "What?" ”

Pyshkov sighed: "No wonder. Chinese no...... No, let's talk about the topic just now, you said the great rulers, is it Peter I, Catherine II? ”

Lu Shi also looked at the other party for a while,

"You are Russian, but you don't know much about Russian history, and you keep your mouth shut about Peter the Great."

Pyshkov was a little annoyed,

"You even say I don't know the history of my country? I think you really don't understand! When it comes to successive tsars, who can bypass Peter I? He seized the Baltic Sea from Sweden and founded St. Petersburg, which was the key to his hegemony! ”

George Bernard Shaw sighed,

"Mr. Bishkov, are you sure you want to talk about history? Frankly, you can't be Lu's opponent. ”

As a result, these words were only exchanged for a vicious glance from Pyshkov.

George Bernard Shaw shrugged,

Good words are hard to persuade damn ghosts, since the other party wants to give Lu Shi a head, then what else can he stop?

He consciously took half a step back,

"Please, continue."

(End of chapter)