A widower's entertainment

Chapter 227 [Various Loves of a Widower] (Please subscribe)
Compared with People's Literature magazine's disagreement over Lin Youcheng's novel "The Time Traveler's Wife", it should be said that the entire magazine underestimated the influence of this novel, or that it underestimated Lin Youcheng's novel. The influence of this writer's love novels is really not just a sensation in the literary world.

On November 11, "Literary Review" published a review article about "The Time Traveler's Wife" by critic Zhang Hui, who made no secret of his appreciation and praise for Lin Youcheng's love novel. The review wrote : "Once, after reading Lin Youcheng's "Love Letter," I felt that the most touching love in the world might be this kind of intertwined love. We were obviously in love, but unconsciously, missed it in the end, leaving regrets. But it is so precious and worth it We miss it for a lifetime. The ending of "Love Letter" left a deep impression on me. Only now, after watching "The Time Traveler's Wife", do I understand that we should be brave enough to love this kind of love. More touching."

""The Time Traveler's Wife" shows the opposite of love. Even if you can only meet once in a lifetime in a hurry, and then continue to wait for the next meeting in ignorance and helplessness, you must cling to such painful love. . Lin Youcheng is so talented. It is obvious that science fiction should be divorced from reality and it is difficult to get involved. However, this love is so real and profound. In ordinary days, waiting for your husband seems as if he has just left for a moment. , go to work in another city, go to find friends two streets away, or even just go to the grocery store downstairs to sell rice, just wait and wait, wait for ten years... I love this ending, Jiang Xue is as he has been for decades. , sitting elegantly and comfortably in her living room, waiting for her dead husband to return again, and fate told her that it was today as it had been for decades..."

Such a comment undoubtedly resonates with many readers, and this is what they are thinking.

In other words, it is not just the sentimental female literary youth and critical scholars who are pursuing Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife". Many literary newspapers and periodicals have reprinted and published relevant review articles.

The 54th issue of "Beihe Literature" reprinted Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife" and published a review article, "This is a strange book that is embarrassing and impressive from all angles, because of the intersection and absence of time and space. , the hero and heroine are placed in repeated gains and losses. Although it is a surreal setting, the mood and dialogue are all familiar, and the plot is intriguing and even more touching. It is difficult to imagine how Lin Youcheng came up with such an amazing narrative. Method, the novel is very logical, well-organized, and well-conceived..."

A literary critic commented on the article in "Wen Lun Bao" and wrote: "The compact plot and climax of Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife" gradually emerge as the novel deepens, just like being caught by a rope. Tangled, getting tighter and tighter, from feeling soft to being moved to breaking down and crying at the final ending. It’s hard to tell whether it’s the charm of the words or the charm of the plot. The whole words and imagination are quite dazzling and amazing..."

A review article by a literary critic in the "Young Critics" magazine praised this as another realistic story with a fairy tale color by Lin Youcheng after "Fairy Tales of the World", saying: "This is a novel that will make people laugh when they first read it. This dazzling novel is not so much a science fiction novel or a love story as it is a touching adult fairy tale that gradually disappears on the horizon of the industrial metropolis of this century. ... All the clues jump and shake throughout the novel. The story is like a fragmented and disordered puzzle, which gradually becomes complete under the delicate telling. What remains unchanged is that the relationship between the hero and heroine Fang Hui and Jiang Xue transcends time and space. love, and Jiang Xue’s attitude throughout, that is, waiting..."

The "Shanghai Wenbao" newspaper also immediately published a review article by literary critic Huang Hui, saying: "This is not a science fiction novel, this is a love novel. Therefore, the time in the book should not be interpreted The crudeness of the description of time travel makes too much of a comment, because we all know that the theory in the text is just a scaffolding for describing the story. A man keeps going back to the past and the future, and why so many times? They all appear next to the house where my wife lived when she was a child, and sometimes they appear in strange cities? The unique philosophical ideas in the book can also bring about deep thinking..."

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Although it is late autumn, Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife" really amazed countless literature lovers, just as thrilling as when Lin Youcheng brought "The Devotion of Suspect X" Love in general can be said to have brought about an earthquake in literature.

Because just like the waiting tree in the poem, the trembling leaves are the passion of waiting. Similarly, what falls to the ground is not the petals, but the hearts of readers who are moved by it.

These discussions about "The Time Traveler's Wife" in the entire literary circle should be said to be just the tip of the iceberg.

No one would have thought that after writing "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" about the innocent love that leads to death in the educated youth years, the ultimate secret love in "Love Letters", the fantasy love of rejuvenation in "The Strange Things in the World", and "The Devotion of Suspect X" After reasoning about love, Lin Youcheng will bring such a novel science fiction love novel.

You must know that the entire literary circle is not just novels. For example, many poets used the song "A Blossoming Tree" about waiting to praise Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife".

Quite novel and stunning.

Literary youths in the literary circle are all moved and amazed by Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife". Similarly, many big names in the literary circle are also paying attention to Lin Youcheng's latest love novel.

Yu Hua was really amazed after reading Lin Youcheng's article "The Time Traveler's Wife" in the latest issue of "People's Literature".

Such an imaginative plot design was incredible and made him extremely amazed. Of course, more importantly, he had to sigh that Lin Youcheng was really good at writing love novels. "I really have to admire Lin Youcheng. He is really good at writing about love. Such a novel about a completely different kind of love is obviously science fiction, but it is extremely real and touching. It is really strong."

"To be honest, after reading his "The Time Traveler's Wife", I am really curious, what other romance novels can he write?"

A colleague on the side heard Yu Hua's words and said with a smile: "No matter what kind of love novels he can write, they will definitely not be published in our "Misty Rain Tower" magazine."

Yu Hua is now transferred to the Jiaxing Federation of Literary and Art Circles as the editor of the magazine "Mist and Rain Tower". He also needs to ask the author for manuscripts, but just like Yu Hua himself originally started writing manuscripts, he was aiming for top literature such as "People's Literature" and "Harvest" When submitting articles to magazines, I will not submit articles to prefecture-level city-level literary magazines at all.

After all, that was Lin Youcheng who won the Mao Dun Literature Award.

Yu Hua heard what his colleague said and said, "Of course I know, but I just sigh that he can actually come up with such a story. The encounter between different times, the perfect combination of science fiction and reality, is really amazing."

"This kind of literary creation is so original."

"You're right. Lin Youcheng's literary creation is really novel. It's obviously science fiction, but it doesn't have those complicated science fiction designs. What it has is just amazing imagination and moving descriptions."

Just like Yu Hua's feelings, Lin Youcheng's "The Time Traveler's Wife" really made many literary workers in the literary circle shine. It turns out that science fiction stories can still be written in this way, and it is even said that they just borrowed science fiction. The concept tells the core of the traditional love story about waiting, which is really novel.

Of course, there will be some comments here, just like the original People's Literature magazine's differing opinions on "The Time Traveler's Wife". There will also be some people who think that although the novel is novel, it is too popular and is mainly about love. , the theme is not thick enough.

However, such an evaluation seems relatively weak in light of the enthusiastic evaluation of Lin Youcheng's novel, and it did not cause a particularly big stir. It was more of a compliment. After all, the literary era in which a hundred flowers bloom requires different and innovative literary creation techniques. .

Yu Hua glanced at the "People's Literature" in his hand, and couldn't help but think that he would go to the capital's liberal arts college to study later, and said: "When I go to the capital later, I must ask Lin Youcheng for advice on literary creation. Every time he All novels can bring special surprises, especially romance novels.”

"I really don't know what other amazing novels and amazing loves he can write."

Although he didn't know the answer to this question, Yu Hua felt that he admired every novel and love story written by Lin Youcheng, a widower writer. You must know that there were all kinds of different kinds of love.

The only thing that may be the same among all kinds of love is that no matter what kind of love is written by a widower, it's all——

As touching as ever.

(End of this chapter)