I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 84 Help me up. I still want to continue watching "No Longer Human". If possible, I want to see him once more.

If Takeuchi Osamu were asked to define the current Japanese society in one sentence, he would unabashedly use the most vicious, bloody and inhumane words to express his true thoughts.

"Thoughts are confused, morals are decadent, customs are corrupt, and people are confused. This society makes people see no hope and future;

Militarism, Bushido spirit, nationalism, they are all despicable means used by the upper class to better enslave the lower class!"

This is the most well-known and most criticized sentence in a paper that Takeuchi Osamu was invited to submit to the Academy and the Ministry of Education forty years ago.

Forty years ago, he was in the prime of his life, and with his outstanding literary research ability and high literary knowledge, he dominated the Japanese literary world at that time.

Some people once evaluated him and Ichiko Sadatsugu as the young writers with the greatest hope of becoming "the best in the world" in the "50s".

At that time, many of the current “best products in the world” were not yet famous.

Just when everyone thought that Takeuchi Osamu would climb step by step to the highest pinnacle of the Japanese literary world, he suddenly suffered from "literary youth disease" and openly criticized the society and the Japanese government of the time in the manuscripts he submitted to the Ministry of Education and the Academy!
In the 50s, Japan had just entered the post-war period. Due to a series of post-war problems, social order was in chaos, the value system collapsed, and the entire society seemed extremely chaotic and decadent.

However, the military government has a tight control over public opinion and the media, and will never allow contemporary intellectuals to engage in any behavior or speech that criticizes society.

Because they wanted to continue to create the illusion that the Empire of Japan was prosperous and were unwilling to accept the fact that they were a defeated country.

At this time, Takeuchi Osamu, who had a great influence in the literary world, actually criticized the government in the manuscript he used to be selected as an academician of the Academy. In the eyes of the literati at that time, this was simply "insanity."

That incident caused a big stir.

Thanks to the protection of several literary giants and his teacher, as well as the intervention of the family of his childhood sweetheart Keiko Kimura, he was lucky enough to save his life.

But his future also plummeted because of this.

For forty years, Takeuchi Osamu has lived in seclusion in a corner, working diligently as a full professor in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo. His life seems glamorous, but in fact it is miserable.

At that time, his family and friends all severed ties with him. His former classmates and close friends left one after another. He had no wife or children, and no one in the industry dared to work with him. Even his best childhood sweetheart had to obey the family's arrangement and flee to the United States with her fiancé. When they met again, everything had changed.

For forty years, Takeuchi Osamu has been doing the same thing.

He vigorously criticized the bad trends in the literary world and criticised the government's incompetence and the cruelty of society.

No matter whether others accept, approve or believe it, he has been the same for forty years and has never let anyone go, including himself.

After criticizing the Akutagawa Prize repeatedly in the past few years, Takeuchi Osamu has become a real "mascot" in the literary world. He is just there for show, and no one will come to him when there is really something going on.

In fact, he has regretted it over the years, and more than once.

But whenever feelings of frustration and loss welled up in him, he would think of his group of disciples at the University of Tokyo. He was their teacher and their role model. If the role model was crooked, how could he expect the people below to stand straight?
I watched "No Longer Human" at a convenience store on Saturday. Oba Yozo's life brought back countless memories for him. When he saw the protagonist's pure wife being defiled, all the emotions that had been accumulated over the years finally burst out.

What is the difference between his literature and his path over the past forty years and that of the tainted Liangzi?

After waking up, Takeuchi Osamu felt as if he had aged a few years. He was in a daze for a day or two until his favorite student Jabami Rei and Agatsuma Yumeko came to visit him, and then he felt a little better.

Then I was almost fainted by another incident.

Agatsuma Yumeko secretly handed him a letter while Jabami Rei was away. Takeuchi Osamu was quite confused at the time, but when he opened it, he found that it was a thank-you letter from his long-cherished teacher Kitagawa Hide!

Mr. Hide Kitagawa, who wrote "Youth Trilogy" and "No Longer Human", is only 23 years old. He used to be a security guard, graduated from high school, and never went to college!
He is also the live-in boyfriend of his student Agatsuma Yumeko!
In order not to affect his own judgment of the novel, Takeuchi Osamu has always avoided knowing any information about the author of the novel, so he did not deliberately ask Kodansha about Kitagawa Hide's true identity. During the Group Portrait Newcomer Award selection event, when others started discussing Kitagawa Hide, he also quietly ran away.

Now that he had learned everything from the other party's thank-you letter, Takeuchi Osamu found it a little hard to accept for a moment.

He had spent Sunday afternoon and evening, and now Monday morning, trying to digest the contents of the thank-you letter.

Because this short letter of less than a thousand words shattered the literary concepts he had built up over forty years!

"I am libertin, I rebel against restraint, I laugh at those who are proud of themselves for a while."

This is Kitagawa Hide’s own interpretation of the unique writing style of the book “No Longer Human”.

He wrote the three Chinese characters "无赖汉" next to the foreign word libertin.

Takeuchi Osamu asked Jabami Rei to look up the Chinese dictionary, and only then did he roughly understand the meaning of these three words.

Kitagawa Hide also explained in his thank you letter: "The original posture of this writing method is a rebellious spirit, or perhaps it can be called a destructive thought. It is not a thought that begins to sprout after the elimination of oppression and restraint, but a thought that occurs simultaneously with oppression and restraint as a reaction and has a combative nature."

The original meaning of the word libertin in English is libertine, which originally referred to non-believers in medieval Europe and "free thinkers" who pursued free thought.

Kitagawa Hidenori called him a "rogue".

In Takeuchi Osamu's view, Kitagawa Hide's original intention in writing "No Longer Human" was to expect and call for the emergence of a generation of literati with independent personalities who were willing to face up to the current social situation, respect human nature, and pursue individuality, and to challenge the existing Japanese literary traditions and the established literary system.

In other words, Kitagawa Hide is doing the same thing he did forty years ago!
But Kitagawa Hide's approach is gentle and restrained, and is more easily accepted by others.

He did not shout hysterically like Takeuchi Osamu, trying to uncover the scars of the hypocritical world with his own hands.

On the contrary, he chose to use a completely new creative approach and his own unique way to implant the connotation of criticizing the existing order into the life of a modern "worldly person".

He used "Oba Yozo" to hide the core of his thoughts.

This is similar to the decadent literature of France and Europe.

Judging from the content that we know about him so far, Kitagawa Hide likes to use exaggerated, funny, sarcastic and distorted expressions in "No Longer Human". He pretends to be stupid and willing to be a "clown". He deliberately sings a different tune in an anti-conventional and anti-routine "rebounding lute" posture, and then engages in a meaningless struggle against the hypocritical life and society.

This almost self-abuse writing style and way of conveying emotions actually has a wonderful effect.

Readers will not actively mock "the ridiculousness of the clown", but will actively look for "the reason why the clown appears".

The students who came to visit Takeuchi Osamu these days all mentioned one thing.

College students from the University of Tokyo and several other well-known universities have begun to spontaneously boycott cults, taking the initiative to produce some anti-cult propaganda materials, and distributing them free of charge in all walks of life, so that more people, especially the "Oba Yozo" who are most likely to follow the crowd, can clearly understand the cruelty and horror of cults!
Takeuchi Osamu held the thank-you letter tightly in his hand. The letter paper was crumpled and the handwriting on it was ugly, not like the handwriting of a writer.

But it was this thing that solved the problem that had puzzled him for forty years.

It turns out that criticizing society does not necessarily require using harsh words, but can also be done in a gentle and unusual way.

"This guy only used 200 words to explain to me what libertin literature is, but ridiculously used nearly 800 words to express his gratitude to me!" Takeuchi Osamu was so angry that he laughed instead. He wanted to get up immediately and find Kitagawa Hide, and then give him a few big beatings.

"You clearly have a treasure in your hands that is enough to shake up the Japanese literary world, and you also have the talent to raise Japanese pure literature to the world level, but, but, but you only think about some insignificant shit!"

"idiot!"

"asshole!"

"absurd!"

He cursed three times in a row on the hospital bed, and then started to cough dryly because he was too excited.

Agatsuma Yumeko and Jabami Rei, who were guarding outside the door, immediately rushed in to check the situation.

"Professor Takeuchi! Are you okay? I'll go call a doctor for you!" The gentle my wife Yumeko didn't wait for his reaction and hurried back to the corridor to call the nurse.

Jabami Rei, who wanted to go along, was fixed by Takeuchi Osamu's sharp eyes. She shrank her neck, wondering if she had done anything to upset her mentor again.

"Ahem, Jabami-san." After reading the thank-you letter, Takeuchi Osamu suddenly felt a little sorry for his beloved disciple.

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.

Kitagawa Hide is my wife Yumeko's live-in boyfriend, but Jabami Rei, who is the biggest Kitagawa fan at the University of Tokyo, doesn't get along with him and doesn't even know his true identity!
Knowing his beloved disciple's character well, Takeuchi Osamu's first reaction was to help conceal the truth. He also didn't want to see his beloved disciple looking like a clown who was so ashamed that he wanted to jump into Tokyo Bay.

But once this white lie is started, it will take countless lies to cover it up.

poor child.

Let the young people solve their own problems!
"Yes! Mr. Takeuchi, do you have any other instructions? I want to eat an apple." Jabami Rei, who was dressed like a hippie, stood up straight immediately, like a soldier being reviewed by the commander.

"Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eating! Have you finished reading No Longer Human? Have you written the long review I asked you to write? If you take it to Kyoto University and embarrass yourself, you'll have no good consequences!"

Takeuchi Osamu got angry when he heard her speak.

No wonder I felt so depressed when I saw the thank you letter. It turns out that Mr. Beichuan and my beloved disciple have similar bad habits.

He has such great talent that he ignores everything and I wonder what he is thinking about all day long!
He thought he had no talent for literature, and he hated to see these geniuses wasting the talents given to them by God!

"I've finished reading it. I'm writing it now." Jabami Rei couldn't act arrogantly in front of Takeuchi Osamu. She just lowered her head tremblingly and agreed.

During the two days of taking care of the teacher, she had nothing to do, so she finished reading "No Longer Human".

My feeling after watching it is just one word - absolutely amazing!

As expected, it’s Teacher Kitagawa!

Even if he suddenly changed his track, he still had top-notch creative ability.

As long as she can endure the previous pain and understand Oba Yozo's life thoroughly, the sense of redemption that wells up from the bottom of her heart will continue to nourish her soul.

She did have the urge to write a good review.

"Well. Go get me a copy. I want to finish reading it." Takeuchi Osamu's expression improved a little.

Seeing that he was about to get up, Jaburi Rei immediately ran over and helped him up, then picked up a pillow to help cushion his back.

"Yes. But Mr. Takeuchi, you didn't watch this. Why don't you wait until you feel better and continue watching?"

When Jabami Rei learned that Takeuchi Osamu had fainted, she was more anxious than anyone else. After asking around, she found out that the culprit was "No Longer Human".

All of a sudden, my anger turned into helplessness.

Her mentor and her idol were in conflict, so she had no choice but to keep silent and act like a coward, otherwise she would have to give a big beating to the guy who caused her mentor to become like this!

"By the way, bring two more pieces of writing paper and a pen. I need to write a letter." Takeuchi Osamu was too lazy to say more to her and directly sent her to work.

"Yes." Jabami Rei had no choice but to run to get something, and then planned to stay with the teacher for another night. In case the teacher fainted again after watching "No Longer Human", she would be able to rescue him immediately.

Soon, my wife Yumeko came back with a nurse and a doctor. After a round of examination, the doctor said that Takeuchi Osamu had fainted due to sudden emotional excitement and could be discharged from the hospital after some more rest.

After learning that her mentor was not ill, Jabami Rei breathed a sigh of relief, sat obediently on the other side of the bed, took out a pen and paper and began to write her thoughts.

Osaka Takeuchi first spread out the letter paper and wrote a lot of words, preparing to send them to several old friends of his who held important positions in the Ministry of Education and the Academy of Sciences.

He believes that "No Longer Human" has created a new writing genre, which can be named "Rogue School", but the specific details still need to be carefully studied and considered. He hopes that these old friends will help him promote this new genre.

He has been alone for forty years, but many people owe him a lot of favors.

He felt it was time to use these favors to do something.

His literature, his life, has come to an end, and it is a dead end.

But Teacher Kitagawa is not like that, nor is the naughty girl on the other side of the hospital bed who doesn’t know how to cherish her talent, nor is the little girl next to her who looks weak but is actually strong and intelligent.

He should do something for these better descendants before he dies.

Instead of being like some people who cling to some useless awards and live for money, power and status.

After writing the recommendation letter, Takeuchi Osamu picked up another piece of brand new letter paper and wrote on it stroke by stroke:

From Mr. Beichuan himself.

My name is Takeuchi Osamu, a professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.

If possible, I would like to meet you once.
The last chapter will probably be after 12 o'clock. If you can't wait, you can read it tomorrow.

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(End of this chapter)