Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 535 "Twilight"

After seeing Li Li and her husband off, Fang Minghua couldn't hold back his curiosity. When the couple went to bed together at night, Fang Minghua asked his wife:

"Tangtang, what happened to Lili? Why did she not stay in a hotel but sleep with you at night?"

"You'd better not ask about things between us sisters!" Song Tangtang replied unhappily.

Seeing that his wife was unhappy when talking about this, Fang Minghua had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, I won't ask anymore."

As he said this, he picked up a book from the bedside table and started flipping through it casually.

After a while, Song Tangtang was heard sighing softly.

"Ah, Lili has such a hard life."

Fang Minghua glanced at Song Tangtang but didn't respond.

Song Tangtang said after a while: "Minghua, why don't you say anything?"

"Didn't you just tell me not to ask?"

"I'll let you ask now!"

Seeing that his wife's mood was obviously not right tonight, Fang Minghua put down the book, gently hugged Song Tangtang in his arms and asked softly.

"Tangtang, what happened?"

"Minghua, do you know GAy?" Song Tangtang asked softly, lying in Fang Minghua's arms.

"Of course I know, it's homosexuality," Fang Minghua replied with a smile, and suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened:

"Tangtang, you said that Chen Jian is a gay?"

"Yeah." Song Tangtang nodded.

What the hell!

"So is he a top or a bottom?"

"What does it mean to be a top or a bottom?" Song Tangtang was a little confused.

Fang Minghua explained it again.

"Bad guy! How do you know so much?!" Song Tangtang was so angry that she punched Fang Minghua's chest with her little fist.

Fang Minghua chuckled twice and grabbed Song Tangtang's fist.

"Okay, that's what you call a bottom." Song Tangtang said finally.

"No wonder, this guy looks so feminine. Didn't Lili feel anything before marriage? Didn't Chen Jian ask for that?"

Song Tangtang rolled her eyes at Fang Minghua and said, "Do you think other people are like you and I before we got married? Chen Jian is very well behaved and honest, and Lili has never been in a relationship before, so she thought all boys are like this."

Why.
"Since Chen Jian is a little bottom, why did he marry Lili and take the initiative to pursue Lili?" Fang Minghua asked again.

"To hide it from others. Mainly because he doesn't want his parents to know, because his parents are Christians and they are Chinese Americans. Based on Chinese tradition, they are firmly against homosexuality." Song Tangtang continued.

"After getting married, Chen Jian confessed his sexual orientation to Li Li and said that they could be husband and wife in name only, but each would live their own lives and would not interfere with the other's private lives."

"Fuck!"

Fang Minghua couldn't help but complain: "What do Lili think?" "At first Lili felt very upset. She didn't expect that her husband would be such a person. But now she has figured it out. She didn't like Chen Jian very much in the first place, but her family forced her too much. Now it's good for them to live their own lives. This way, they can focus all their energy on work."

After hearing this, Fang Minghua sighed and didn't know what to say.

"Li Li said that your novel Skywalker has been published in the United States. Although it is not as popular as the two romance novels, it still has a lot of readers, especially in the literary world. The famous American writer, Mr. Saul Bellow, praised the book for bringing him a great shock. He said that the humanitarian thoughts of intellectuals described in the book moved him deeply."

"Saul Bellow? Is he the American writer who wrote Humboldt's Gift and won the Nobel Prize?" Fang Minghua asked back.

"Yes, that's him. He won the Nobel Prize in 1976 and also won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction."

oh.
Saul Bellow seems to be less famous in China, but many people in the American literary world compare him with another giant in the history of modern American literature, William Faulkner, and believe that the two of them are the main founders of modern American novels.

"Also, Lili said that she would take the collection of essays you wrote back and translate it as soon as possible. I think Lili cares more about translating your work than anything else!" Song Tangtang said finally.

This is true.
Fang Minghua nodded and said, "I really should thank him, but I can't help her in any way."

After hearing what her husband said, Song Tangtang raised her head and glanced at him, but said nothing more, just sighed softly.

After seeing Li Li and her husband off, Fang Minghua's life became leisurely again, but there was still one thing he had to do.

Write another romance novel and publish it in the United States.

To be honest, writing a best-selling novel in the United States is still very profitable.

What should I write about?
How about writing Twilight?
In the United States, it is one of the best-selling beautiful and romantic books.

"Twilight" is a series written by American writer Stephenie Meyer. It focuses on the emotional entanglement between Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen, a pair of star-crossed lovers. It incorporates various elements such as vampire legends, werewolf stories, campus life, horror suspense, comedy adventure, etc.

Including "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse", "Breaking Dawn" and several spin-offs, such as "Twilight Reborn" and "Midnight Sun".

This series is known as the magical masterpiece of the "Harry Potter era" and has become the representative international magical series after "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", "Harry Potter Series" and "The Chronicles of Narnia".

Fang Minghua has read all four books of the main drama, including the movies adapted from them, but she has not read the extras.

When talking about novels like Twilight, we have to mention a very important category of Western popular novels - Gothic novels.

The originator of the Gothic novel is The Castle of Otranto written by the British writer Horace Walpole in the 18th century. It pioneered the Gothic style that combined mystery, horror and supernatural elements, forming an important stage in the British Romantic poetry movement.

Horror, mystery, supernatural, doom, death, decadence, old house inhabited by ghosts, madness, and family curse have become labels of this novel.

But it is obvious that in this "Twilight" there is a bold innovation and transcendence of traditional Gothic novels.

In the Gothic literary tradition, vampires represent evil forces. They are synonymous with the devil. They have pale skin, hideous faces, and live by sucking human blood. The image of vampires adds a terrifying atmosphere to many Gothic literary works.

In the Twilight Quartet, the image of vampires is more diverse. The vampire world created contains both good vampires and evil vampires, forming a sharp contrast between the two types of vampires.

Also, the heroine turning into a vampire is a common theme in Gothic literature. In these works, the heroine is hunted by vampires, and in fear and despair, she becomes a vampire. For readers, the heroine's transformation into a vampire is a dreamlike process of turning from a human into a demon. In the Twilight Quartet, the heroine Bella voluntarily becomes a vampire!
Although the process was painful, I did not feel despair or fear.

The process of the heroine Bella becoming a vampire is the process of changing from a human to an angel. After becoming a vampire, Bella has an angelic and perfect appearance. With her beautiful appearance and elegant temperament, she is simply a goddess.

Also, the Twilight Saga trilogy, "Breaking Dawn", actually uses the stream of consciousness writing technique!

This is also something Fang Minghua is very familiar with.

But I’m not sure whether I will write to the fourth part. I will write the first part, “Twilight”, first to fill this gap.

(End of this chapter)