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Chapter 468 "No matter what, life is beautiful"

The moment Lin Weimin delivered the manuscript, he felt that the shadowy eyes behind him finally disappeared, just like at the end of a horror movie, the wraith disappears and the protagonist is successfully saved.

In order to prevent mistakes during the mailing process, the manuscripts were printed out. There were two manuscripts, one with an address in France and one with an address in the United States. The real manuscript was kept by Lin Weimin.

The Toshiba T100 at home, which had been idle for more than a year, finally came in handy this time. Lin Weimin even purchased floppy disks and printers for printing manuscripts.

Looking at the domestic literary circle, this configuration is unique!

Lin Weimin's novel comes from a classic movie of later generations, "Life is Beautiful".

The movie tells the story during World War II. Guido is a seemingly clumsy, but kind and optimistic Jewish youth.He and his friend Filuccio drove a broken car from the countryside to the small town of Arezzo. When passing by a barn tower, the young and beautiful girl Dora suddenly fell into his arms from the tower.

Once again, Guido accidentally knocked down Dora while riding a bicycle. The two met again and ignited the flame of love in Guido's heart. He lost no time in expressing his love to Dora.

After some pursuit, Guido embraces the beauty.After marriage, good things come one after another, the bookstore Guido dreamed of opened, and they have a well-behaved and lovely son Joshua.Guido often plays games with his son when he has nothing to do, and the family lives happily.

But the good life didn’t last for a few years. On Joshua’s fifth birthday, because of his Jewish blood, the National Socialists captured Guido, Joshua and his son, and forcibly sent them to a Jewish concentration camp.His wife, Dora, was spared the catastrophe because she had no Jewish ancestry, but she was arrested voluntarily in order to be with Guido and his son.

In the inhumane concentration camp, Guido tried every means to get in touch with his wife in the women's prison and reported to Dora that she was safe. On the other hand, he wanted to protect and take care of the young Joshua. Whoever rules the game ends up getting a real tank to go home.

Joe and his son endured hunger, fear, loneliness, and all harsh environments. When liberation came, one night, late at night, members of the nationalist society were about to escape. Guido hid his son in an iron cabinet, and asked Joshua to let Joshua go. Don't come out, he intends to take advantage of the chaos and go to the women's prison to save his wife Dora.

But unfortunately, he was discovered by the National Socialists. When the National Socialists escorted Guido past Joshua's iron cabinet, he walked optimistically and strode forward, implying that his son should not come out.

The optimistic Guido finally died tragically at the gunpoint of the German National Society. At dawn, Joshua climbed out of the iron cabinet and stood in the yard, when a real tank rumbled in front of him.

Later generations of Lin Weimin were very impressed with this movie, because the first 105 minutes of it were as beautiful as a fairy tale, but all the sadness surged when Guido took funny strides in front of the iron cabinet.

The more joy and happiness you feel, the more intense this sadness will be, and the veins of this film know the essence of literary creation.

In Lin Weimin's writing, except that Guido's name was changed to Garyan, and the American soldier at the end was changed to a Soviet soldier, the rest of the content basically maintained the narrative structure and style of the movie.

A 20-word comedy was laid out just to end the tragedy of a few hundred words.

Just say, is this knife fast?
Compared with the novel "To Live", which heals from the beginning to the end, this kind of novel is truly healing.

What Lin Weimin likes most is the core of this work. The name of the movie may be due to consideration of publicity. It used "Life is Beautiful", which lacks a bit of charm.

Lin Weimin writes novels very capriciously, directly quoting the words of the Russian proletarian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

"No matter what, life is beautiful".

The Toshiba T100 that Lin Weimin brought back from the United States has been in dust for two years, and it finally came in handy.

He didn't even install the Chinese card, and wrote the English version directly.

After all, the content of this novel is entirely from a foreign background, and the Chinese version may not be so popular.

The most important thing is that compared with domestic publishing, foreign publishing is really profitable!

The Guowen Society recently reprinted and republished 700 million volumes of his novels, and the remuneration for the reprints was only a little over 40 yuan. The bills for the manuscripts are still piled up in the financial office of the unit, and Lin Weimin didn't go to pick them up.

The remuneration for printing only 40 copies for a few million copies is not enough for foreign publications to print 30 copies.

To make money, of course it is Mi Daoxiang.

The effect of the Goncourt Literary Prize also has a strong influence overseas. Lin Weimin's novels have recently been sold in full swing in countries covered by Gallimard Press and Random House channels.

Because his works have been selling well before, Lin Weimin is already well-known in these countries. Now that he has won the Goncourt Prize for Literature, his fame has risen to a higher level. Now he is not the famous Chinese writer before, but a newcomer Winner of the Goncourt Prize for Literature.

With a high degree of reader recognition, sales will naturally rise all the way.

In addition to the sales explosion of the award-winning work "Lover", the sales of other published novels have also increased to varying degrees.

The sales volume brought by the Goncourt Literature Prize was at least 200 million copies, and Mr. Lin earned 200 million dollars with tears in his eyes.

After finishing the novel, Lin Weimin's life returned to a state of doing nothing, his work was suspended, and he saw Tian'er running around.

On Laba day, he drove Shi Tiesheng to Lu Yao's place.

Since the last time he was diagnosed with early liver cirrhosis at Xiehe Hospital, Lu Yao hadn't moved in the past six months and lived in the house arranged by Lin Weimin to recuperate for half a year.

During this period of time, Lu Yao quit high-intensity creation, and became regular in his work, rest and diet. Coupled with daily medication, regular activities, and visits to the hospital for checkups, Lu Yao's condition has greatly improved.

Since Lin Weimin went abroad, this was the first time he came to visit Lu Yao. Seeing that his complexion improved a lot, Lin Weimin was also happy for him.

The six months that Lu Yao's family lived in Yanjing was a rare and happy time for their family.

Lu Yao no longer ignores his wife and daughter because of his desperate writing, and spends a lot of time with them every day. The family occasionally walks around Yanjing City, living a chic and comfortable life.

Lin Weimin observed that the wrinkles on the face of Lu Yao's wife Lin Dan seemed to be stretched.

This kind of life is extremely rare in her and Lu Yao's more than ten years of married life.

After talking about Lu Yao's body, Lu Yao became concerned about Lin Weimin's award.

"You really put another big satellite this time!" Lu Yao said with a smile.

"The influence of the Goncourt Literary Prize is indeed very great. But after winning it, it will be like that. What kind of influence do you think it will have? It is nothing more than selling a few more books, but there are many troubles. There are a lot of people all day long. Come to find you, it's very annoying!"

After Lin Weimin finished speaking, he was ridiculed by Shi Tiesheng and Lu Yao, saying that he did not know how to be blessed while he was in the blessing.

Hearing that Lin Weimin had written another novel in English, the two were puzzled.

Lin Weimin had no choice but to explain the background and content of this novel, "I will definitely write a Chinese version when I have time, but the market in foreign countries is relatively hot now, let's focus on that first, we call it earning foreign exchange for the country!"

When it comes to the manuscript fee, Lin Weimin is naturally enviable. He said to Lu Yao, ""Ordinary World" is also selling well, and the remuneration for this year's printing is also quite high."

The first two volumes of "Ordinary World" have been published, and the earliest first volume has been sold for almost two years, with sales of hundreds of thousands of copies, and now with the growing influence of the novel, the sales volume is still steady Ascension.

In the past two years, Lu Yao has received 2 yuan in remuneration for the number of prints.

The most exasperating thing is that he spends so much money that he can't save much money.

Especially this year in Yanjing to see a doctor and recuperate, the necessary expenses are too much, and the financial pressure is not small.

Fortunately, the third part of "Ordinary World" will be published soon, and it will be published soon, and there will always be manuscript fees to follow.

When the few people were chatting, Lu Yao did not forget to turn on the radio and broadcast it to the Central People's Broadcasting Station. This is his habit in the past few months.

The first and second parts of "The Ordinary World" have been produced successively in the past six months and have been broadcasted in the "Long-form Serial Broadcast" program of the Central People's Broadcasting Station.

It started broadcasting in September 87, and it is now January 9. The content of the second part of "Ordinary World" has come to an end.

During this period, the Central People's Broadcasting Station received tens of thousands of letters from listeners from all over the country, setting a record for the largest number of letters from listeners in the "Long-form Serial Broadcasting" program.

The audience also spoke highly of "The Ordinary World". Lu Yao's labor achievements were recognized by the audience, and he was extremely pleased.

The broadcast of the broadcast version of "The Ordinary World" has once again expanded the influence of this novel, making the influence of this novel not only limited to some young literary youths, but also to a wider group of young readers. The spiritual world of ordinary people.

Following the Central People's Broadcasting Station, several provincial-level radio stations rebroadcasted this work, and the powerful media dissemination aroused extensive and strong social repercussions.

Even in the past few months, the sales volume of the novel has also increased steadily.

During this period of time, Lu Yao has not been idle except recuperating from his illness. He spends two hours every day editing the manuscript of the third part of "Ordinary World" and has sent it to the editorial department of "Contemporary".

Two days ago, Ye Yongmei just took the proof of the second school of the novel from the Guowen Society, and the production of the third part is already in progress. The Central People's Broadcasting Station will broadcast this work during the Chinese New Year, which shows that it attaches great importance to this novel.

In addition to the broadcast of the novel, the third part of "Ordinary World" will also be published in the "Contemporary" in February, and it will be published in one issue.

The same author and the same novel were published three times in one issue of a top domestic literary journal like "Contemporary".

When mentioning this matter, Lu Yao not only sighed, but also thanked him.

Without Lin Weimin's efforts to overcome all objections, the novel "Ordinary World" would not have appeared in such a decent way.

His idea was correct. The release and publication of "The Ordinary World" in later generations was indeed full of countless hardships and twists and turns. Fortunately, the final result was good.

Stayed at Lu Yao's house until evening and stayed for dinner. Lin Dan made a sumptuous dinner for Lin Weimin and Shi Tiesheng.

When the meal was almost finished, Lu Yao said to Lin Weimin, "Weimin, we plan to return to Xi'an next week."

"Did the doctor agree?" Lin Weimin asked.

Lu Yao nodded, and Lin Dan followed suit: "His condition has improved a lot now, and the doctor agrees that we go back. But after going back, we still can't work too hard. If we want to recover completely, we can't do it without raising him for a few years. "

Lin Weimin pondered and said: "I'm not worried about anything else. There are two main points, one is the medical conditions in Xi'an, and the other is whether he can control his diet and work."

Under his wife's gaze, Lu Yao said with difficulty: "No problem. Once I got sick, I also understood the importance of health. After all, my life is my own. As for the conditions of the hospital, you don't have to worry about it. I am currently recuperating. stage, and it has already turned for the better. Our Xi’an is also the capital city of the province, no problem.”

"Okay. Then you set off in two days, and I will take you there."

(End of this chapter)