Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 681 Glass Cover
I have been writing a book all my life.

This sentence is not Modiano's self-effacing words, but his true inner thoughts.

He does think he has been writing a work for so many years, because his works are all similar in style.

And he didn't think it was a bad thing.

Not all writers want to make breakthroughs and innovate, as long as they can carry forward what they insist on, that's fine.

Gina knew what her father was thinking, and said with a smile on the other end of the phone: "The agency sent me to Jinling to do follow-up interviews at the Deep Space Annual Meeting next year. Maybe, are you interested in joining me? You can bring your mother Together, let's go to Jinling to play, maybe we can meet YU."

Modiano thought for a while and said, "You are going to work."

"After work, there is always time." Gina said with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for a long time, we can meet in Jinling. The deep space annual meeting will be held for a long time, and you still have enough time to go through the formalities."

Modiano pondered for a while, then suddenly came back to his senses, "Why did we talk about this topic, when did I say I was going to China?"

It's really strange, he just called to ask Gina's opinion on "Curse", why did the topic suddenly turn to the topic of going to Jinling?

"I just think it's good to go to Jinling. It's rare for you to be so interested in a writer. I remember that when I recommended "Xiang Xi" to you, you were obviously impatient."

Modiano said bluntly: "I have never been impatient with words. Even if I am impatient, it is because of your tough attitude in recommending reading materials, like the after-school reading tasks assigned by elementary school teachers to students."

Gina and Nick were amused by Modiano's metaphor, and Gina asked back: "What do you think of the book "Cursed"? No one will give you homework this time."

"My point of view."

Modiano looked out the window. Although the sky was clear today, it was a rare cold weather. The TV said that the lowest temperature today was close to zero.

He was thinking that maybe it was because of the appearance of "Curse" that the weather was so cold.

Many people like to mention three key words when evaluating his works, memory, history and identity.

In "Curse", there are precisely these three key words.

But different from his works, the memory, history and identity in "The Curse" are more suspended. Yu Dong seems to deliberately keep a fixed distance between the story and the readers. I can actually see the story happening in front of me, but I can't reach it with my hand.

Some novels are like film and television works on TV. The story is inside the screen, and the readers are outside the screen. They develop separately through the screen.

Some novels are like a game, and the story is like flying flowers, fallen leaves, and ubiquitous air, surrounding the reader, making the reader fall into it, unable to extricate himself.

And "The Curse" is neither like it, it is more like trapping the reader in a transparent glass cover on all sides, and then throwing the glass cover and the reader into the vast ocean of the story, allowing the reader to drift with the waves of the story .

The reader is separated from the story by an invisible layer of glass, but the distance is so close.

Modiano looked out the window and thought a lot, but in the end only one word came out, "Very good."

Gina smiled, "Then let's go to Jinling together, and I'll help you with the formalities later."

……

After "The Love Song of the Stars and the Moon" was broadcast, all the news about the TV series was overwhelming. Other than that, there was news about the song "The Roof" and the album "Jay Chou" that this song was on.

And the only one who can make a way out of these news is Yu Dong's new book "Curse".

Compared with "Old Book", the new book "Curse" did not go through too much publicity, but when Yu Dong and "Curse" appeared, it naturally caused a wave of heated discussions.

Many people went into the bookstore with red eyes and bought a copy of "Curse" before they got out of the tragic ending of "Song of the Stars and the Moon", but they couldn't laugh or cry as a result.

The cover of "Curse" is very simple, with a pure black background and two large red characters on it: Curse.

It seems that as soon as it comes out, the publishing house wants to tell readers that this book comes from bad people, and those who are timid should be cautious about entering it.

In fact, this is not a thriller novel, and there are not many scary plots, but after reading it, the depressive feeling makes people breathless.

If "Old Book" is a novel with infinite warmth and healing, then "Curse" is a novel that makes people lose their smiles.

……

Of course, after "The Curse" came out, besides the major bookstores, there were also scholars in the academic world who were busy.

Now the study of Yu Dong's literature has become an upsurge in the academic world, and many students have already made Yu Dong their key research object while still in school.

This book has only been out for a week, and relevant comments have appeared in some times, and the speed is not uncomfortably fast.

Of course, some of these novels were produced after working overtime after the novel came out. Although the quality is average, at least there is content.

And some commentary articles, the whole article is cloudy, not only what is said, it is very likely that the novel has been edited before it comes out.

While those scholars who don't deserve their names are crazily rubbing against Dong's heat, the real "Dong Scholar" Zhang Zuohai is scratching his head and scratching his head, unable to do anything.

Zhang Zuohai began to study Yu Dong a long time ago, and because of several articles, he is well-known both in the academic circles and on the Deep Space Chinese Network, and he is the most famous Dong scholar.

But after "The Curse" came out this time, Zhang Zuohai was very embarrassed.

Although Yu Dong's "Curse" seems to be all old things, when combined together, it becomes a brand new thing.

He read it over and over several times, but still couldn't figure out how Yu Dong did it.

If he was just an ordinary reader, he could attribute this simply and crudely to the charm of Yudong characters, but as a scholar, he must figure out the ins and outs of it.

After a week of research without any clue, Zhang Zuohai decided to ask for foreign aid.

Speaking of asking for foreign aid, the first thing he thought of was not the other scholars who worked with him, but a netizen he met on the Internet, Dong Yudao known as Lao Dong.He wrote a long email, expressing all his doubts, and hoped to have an in-depth chat with Lao Dong about the book "Curse".

Yu Dong saw the email the next morning.

The email is really long.

"Brother Yudao, please forgive me for delivering the mail to you in the middle of the night. I encountered a problem and urgently needed rescue. You must have read Yu Dong's new book "Curse". In this novel..."

After reading the email, Yu Dong couldn't help but smile. It's a very weird thing to study yourself with others, and this kind of weirdness is very interesting.

Looking at the entire email, Zhang Zuohai has indeed encountered a problem, and the point of his entanglement, in fact, is that he has ignored the use of perspective in this novel.

Zhang Zuohai is too entangled in the techniques and genres used in the novel, but lacks in the analysis of perspective.

Of course, Zhang Zuohai is not to blame for this, because Yu Dong did use a lot of tricks in the novel "The Curse". Although it is not the main content, it confuses scholars like Zhang Zuohai and makes them focus on the tricks above.

After thinking for a while, Yu Dong began to write a reply letter.

Zhang Zuohai's letter was very long, and Yu Dong's reply letter was not short. He focused on explaining the work "Curse" from the perspective of writing.

Here Zhang Zuohai came home from get out of class at noon and saw Yu Dong's reply.

After reading the reply, Zhang Zuohai seemed to have opened up the acupoints, and it opened up all at once.

Old Dong is right. The success of this novel lies in the choice and conversion of perspectives. The reason why Yu Dong can choose and switch perspectives so appropriately and smoothly is entirely due to years of experience and his unique aesthetics. .

Regarding Yu Dong's aesthetics, Zhang Zuohai has written many articles for research, so this time, he is going to discuss the perspective shown in the novel.

But before writing Dongxi, Zhang Zuohai also had some doubts, because Lao Dong's writing was too in-depth.

This email is not like an analysis of other people's articles, but rather like the mental journey of my own writing.

Looking at the email, Zhang Zuohai couldn't help muttering, "This old Dong, has he put himself so deeply?"

In performance studies, there are experiential, expressive, and methodological teachings.

In fact, this situation also exists in academic research. When some scholars conduct research on a certain artist, they cannot always stand in the third-person perspective, and often try to observe the world from the perspective of the artist, trying to enter Find out more about the artist's inner world.

Zhang Zuohai has done this before, but he doesn't think it's a good way, because the term "standing" from the artist's perspective is inherently subjective, and subjectivity is absolutely essential for scholars to do academic research. Unnecessary.

Of course, there are people who do this often.

Perhaps, this old Dong respected this kind of research method. From this reply, it can be seen that the old Dong seemed to have substituted himself into Yu Dong's perspective, and even succeeded in substituting himself.

Zhang Zuohai shook his head with a smile. Although he did not agree with this method, Old Dong used this method to give him some key enlightenment.

"Brother Yu Dao, thank you, I have the opportunity to treat you to dinner in the future."

After a hasty reply to an email, Zhang Zuohai started to write his thesis.

……

After "The Love Song of the Stars and the Moon" became popular, Deep Space Company received many similar scripts, but the quality of most of them was not very good, and eight of the ten books were similar to the content of "The Love Song of the Stars and the Moon".

There is still more than a month before the Deep Space Annual Meeting, and Yu Dong boasted that the plan to launch [-] TV series in Haikou has only been launched so far, and the other eight have not yet been shadowed.

But Yu Dong is not in a hurry at all, because he still has a lot of plans that can be launched, and with the sprint at the end of the year, by the time of the annual meeting, even if there are not twenty, there will be seventeen or eight. .

At that time, the reason why he set the goal was to show an attitude, and being able to start [-] or [-] TV series in a year is already a very good achievement.

By next year, their company's TV series will enter a blowout stage.

This year, their company has produced TV dramas such as "Never Close Your Eyes" and "Looking for the Qin Dynasty". They are currently filming "The True Colors of Criminal Police", "The Years of Burning Passion", and "Flying Man". "Wait.

If nothing else, most of these TV dramas will start airing next year.

Yu Dong took a brief look at the script outline list that Yu Yu had brought over, and said with a smile, "These screenwriters are really lazy, so they sent over "Song of the Stars and Moon" after a little modification."

Yu Yu also laughed, "I guess these screenwriters not only sent us a family, but other companies should have received many such scripts. When talking to Zhao Baogang on the phone yesterday, he also mentioned this matter. I received more than a dozen similar scripts in a week."

"He probably wasn't interested in these kinds of scripts."

"Boss, you guessed wrong. He is really interested. Although he doesn't shoot himself, he can give it to others to shoot. It's just that these scripts are too homogeneous, and the filming will affect the reputation too much."

Yu Dong nodded, "For us, this may not be a good thing. Since someone is willing to invest in capital, let them come in. Although it is to follow the trend, if we can really make it with our heart, there may be a few high-quality movies. work."

"The boss is grand." Yu Yu flattered, and then talked about this year's annual meeting, "This year's annual meeting is different from previous years. In order to attract more ordinary people to participate, the cycle will be lengthened then, and then Some books and film and television works were exhibited. When the annual meeting was held last year, many exhibition halls in the park were not completed, and this year they have kept up."

"How many people can the park carry now?"

"There will be no problem receiving 5000 people in a single day."

Yu Dong said, "So many?"

Yu Yu smiled and said: "This is still a conservative estimate. If it is released, tens of thousands of people can be received in a day. At that time, in addition to the theme pavilion, there will be several other pavilions that will be open. These venues can share a lot of people. In order to To enrich this event, we will hold autograph sessions for some authors or celebrities. Mr. Ji means that this year's music hall is the top priority."

The deep space park opened a music hall this year. The space is very large. I have visited it before. There are not many things in it. Compared with other halls, it is more monotonous. Jimmy wants to use this opportunity to build the deep space music hall. , and the key person who set up this music hall is Jay Chou.

Jimmy is going to arrange for Jay Chou to have his first book signing in the Deep Space Music Hall.

"How is the music hall arranged now?"

"The layout is almost done. Now there are a lot of music products stored in this venue. The works of Yunesbo and Jay Chou occupy the main positions. In addition, the proprietress's soundtrack album is also among them."

Yu Dong nodded, and asked again: "How long are you going to extend the cycle for this annual meeting?"

Yu Yue raised his index finger and said with a smile, "One week."

　Thank you [Dream For You] boss for the 500 reward
　　Thank you [Wild Child] for the 1666 reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)