Literary Master 1978

"I even feel that in the field of stream-of-consciousness literature, there is no one better in China."

Liu Yin talked about her psychological feelings when she first read "Lai Zi's Summer", and her tone became a little excited. Her praise for this novel and its author Lin Chaoyang was even more evident in her words.

She is an editor of Renwen Press. She has been in the industry for many years and has excellent professional qualities. If she does not really recognize it, she will never easily give such a high evaluation to a work and a writer.

Her idea is also the consensus of her colleagues in the editorial department of "Contemporary". If they are not collectively optimistic about the novel "Lai Zi's Summer", the editorial department will not give it the treatment of "headline" and "first issue publication". Such treatment is not available for the publication of ordinary novels.

"The development of stream-of-consciousness literature in China is indeed very slow. It is only in the past two years that it has gradually gained some fans.

In addition, our domestic general readers are influenced by classicism and historical novels, and they pay special attention to the story of literary works, and their acceptance of stream-of-consciousness literature is not high.

Compared with general stream-of-consciousness literature, "Lai Zi's Summer" is much stronger in story and readability. I believe this is Lin Chaoyang's concession in creation and also an innovation.

I read his "The Shepherd", "The Little Shoes" and "The Wreath under the Mountain" before, and I can feel one thing. He has a reader's mindset, which is very rare among our writers."

Yan Gang continued his wife's words and chatted for a few words. When he mentioned Lin Chaoyang's "reader's mindset", Liu Yin suddenly became excited.

"Yes, yes, yes, your suggestion is very good.

Literary creation is originally a very personal matter, and stream-of-consciousness literature is even more so. Some works even read as the author's personal fantasies and ramblings. It is actually quite difficult to explore them in depth.

But Lin Chaoyang's ideas seem to be different from many writers. He seems to be looking for a way to seek common ground while reserving differences, so that readers can maximize their acceptance of the concept of stream-of-consciousness literature and his novel."

Yan Gang was inspired by Liu Yin and continued her words:

"Yes. Reading "Lai Zi's Summer" is indeed very different from many foreign stream-of-consciousness literary works. At first, I thought this might be because there is no problem of translating the original text into Chinese. After all, so many novels we read are actually second-hand creations.

But after you Having said that, I have some ideas.

He intentionally combined the stream of consciousness technique with the cultural and linguistic characteristics of a specific region to form a stream of consciousness literature with a strong national cultural color. This is a brave attempt.

For example, Kafka's "Metamorphosis", while showing the inner alienation of the characters, also incorporates the urban landscape of Prague and the metaphor of Jewish culture.

He integrated the Eastern literary tradition on the basis of the tradition of Western stream of consciousness literature, so that the novel has significant stream of consciousness literature characteristics while also having a strong readability and appeal to readers. "

Yan Gang became more and more excited as he spoke, and couldn't help picking up the pen, "I have an idea, I have an idea. What title should I give it? Let me think about it... I got it!"

As he spoke, he picked up the pen and wrote a line of text on the first line of the manuscript paper.

Seeing that her husband was immersed in his creation while talking, Liu Yin no longer disturbed him.

A few days later, Lin Chaoyang received a bill of royalties from Warrior Publishing House and a letter from editor Liang Junshu. In the letter, Liang Junshu introduced to Lin Chaoyang the performance of the single volume of "The Wreath Under the Mountain" after more than three months of publication.

The first print run of the single volume of "The Mountain" was 300,000 copies, which were sold out in less than a month after it was released, and then reprinted and reprinted.

As of the time Liang Junshu wrote to him, the total print run of the single volume of "The Wreath Under the Mountain" had reached an astonishing 1.2 million copies.

Excluding the 300,000 copies of royalties that Warrior Publishing House paid to Lin Chaoyang at the beginning, this time they paid Lin Chaoyang all the royalties for 900,000 copies of royalties.

After reading Liang Junshu's letter, Lin Chaoyang picked up the bill of royalties again, and the bright numbers on it were dazzling.

2,178 yuan.

This is the largest amount of royalties Lin Chaoyang has received so far in his writing career, even more than the royalties for the 200,000-word novel "Lai Zi's Summer".

It's good if the novel has high sales!

This is just the print-number remuneration calculated based on the basic remuneration. If it is converted into royalties, how much money would it be?

Lin Chaoyang thought about it and suddenly felt a little heartache. He lost a lot of money!

Today is Saturday. Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu have an appointment to go back to her mother's house for dinner in the evening.

After work, he rode his bicycle to the direction of Langrun Lake Apartment. When he arrived at the downstairs of the apartment building, he saw Wu Zuxiang smoking alone downstairs, and his figure was a little bleak.

Seeing him, the old comrade's eyes were a little resentful.

After Lin Chaoyang moved away, his cigarettes were cut off, and life became more and more difficult.

Lin Chaoyang stepped forward and refilled the old man's cigarette, "You look as if I did something bad!"

Wu Zuxiang took a puff of the cigarette and signaled with his eyes. Lin Chaoyang tactfully put the remaining half box of cigarettes into the old man's pocket.

"You are so old, smoke less!"

"You are so old, smoke less."

Lin Chaoyang shook his head. These old men always have a lot of twisted ideas.

After eating at Tao's house, Lin Chaoyang and his wife rode back to the Overseas Chinese Apartment. He took out the manuscript fee receipt he received during the day.

Over the past year or so, Tao Yushu has collected manuscript fees countless times, and his performance has gradually turned from the initial surprise to mediocre.

It's not that she's unhappy, she's just getting used to it.

But when she saw today's royalties bill, she couldn't help but feel happy.

Because including this amount of money, the money in the hands of the couple is enough to pay for the remaining payment of the house.

"I didn't expect that in just a few months, we have already saved up the house payment!"

Tao Yushu's tone was full of appreciation and surprise. The overseas Chinese spent 10,500 yuan to buy the apartment, which was an astronomical sum for the working-class people of this era.

At that time, the couple was under great pressure to pay. Tao Yushu believed that the couple could afford the house payment, but there was no guarantee that they would be able to pay off the balance within a year, so she had already made plans to apply for support from her parents. preparation.

It is completely acceptable to borrow some money from your parents and spend two or three years paying it off.

After all, buying a house is a major event in life, and the couple enjoy superior housing conditions that are not available to most citizens in Yanjing today.

But she never expected that less than four months after buying the house, she would have enough money to pay the final payment for the house.

She touched Lin Chaoyang's face and said, "Chaoyang, thank you for your hard work!"

Lin Chaoyang hugged her, "It's not too hard."

Tao Yushu said emotionally: "How can it not be considered hard work? Studying, going to work, writing... You have been working hard every day for the past few months, and you have lost weight."

Listening to his wife's words, Lin Chaoyang subconsciously touched his cheeks. It seemed that the fat was indeed a little less than before.

"It's not bad. The first half of the year is almost over. I wrote a novel and a script. It's busy and fulfilling."

Tao Yushu said with some distress: "We don't have to worry about the house payment. Haven't we not paid the script fee yet? It's equivalent to our savings. You can take a good rest during this time."

Lin Chaoyang was quite surprised when she, the king of scrolls, suddenly discovered her conscience, but still nodded, "Yeah, okay."

At this time, Tao Yushu said again: "Writing is a process of constantly absorbing nutrients from the outside world and then giving feedback. If you always write in silence, it will not work if you do not improve yourself.

When you have time, read more books, communicate more with people, and go out more to observe life, so that you can maintain your inspiration and writing state. "

I said why did you change your gender? Are you waiting for me here?

The scroll king will never change his nature, even if he is recuperating, he must have a way to recuperate and recuperate.

In the blink of an eye, it is mid-June, and "The First Floor in the World" has been performed at the Capital Theater for 29 days.

According to the conventions of drama performances, public dramas rarely perform for more than 15 consecutive days.

Because the workload of drama performances is very high for actors. When the performance lasts for a long time, the actor's voice cannot bear it, and the actor's physical strength cannot keep up, which will directly affect the performance effect.

Since its premiere on May 15, "The First Floor in the World" has been warmly welcomed by the Yanjing literary and art circles and the general public. In addition to its excellent reputation, its influence is also reflected in the number of theatergoers and ticket sales.

During the performance, the Capital Theater was always packed, and the ticket booth at the entrance of the theater was squeezed twice.

There is no online ticket sales at this time. Audiences who want to watch the drama have to queue up to buy tickets.

Since "The First Floor" is so popular, many people have to line up in front of the Capital Theater in advance in order to grab tickets.

The result of this is that the audience queuing up at the entrance of the Capital Theater comes earlier and earlier, but the queue gets longer and longer.

Everyone wants to watch the play and buy tickets, so you have to come earlier than others and be able to endure it.

You see, this is a vicious cycle of involution.

Since mid-May, there has been a long queue at the entrance of the Capital Theater from morning to night every day. Some people even queue up in the middle of the night just to buy two tickets for "The First Floor in the World". This scene has become a phenomenon in recent times. A scene from Wangfujing Street.

Originally, according to the performance plan, the performance time of "The First Floor in the World" was only half a month.

But after performing it for a few days, the effect was so good that it set off a craze among Yanjing drama fans.

There are many viewers queuing up to buy tickets, but there are even more viewers who can't buy tickets and can't see the play.

Some dissatisfied audience members blocked the entrance of the Capital Theater, intending to report the situation to Renyi. One day, they happened to block Su Zhi, the vice-president.

"The First Floor in the World" has been extremely popular since the day it premiered, so Zhiya knew the audience's love for this drama. When Renyi saw this situation, it was also discussing whether to perform a few more performances.

However, Renyi's annual performance plans are set at the beginning of the year. Once there are temporary changes, it means that all subsequent plans will be disrupted, so Renyi's leadership has been hesitating.

As a result, Zhi was blocked by a group of audience members at the entrance of the Capital Theater, and after witnessing the audience's enthusiasm for "The First Floor in the World", Tianrenyi decided to perform fifteen more performances of "The First Floor in the World".

Drama performances are physically demanding for actors, but the highlight of a theater like "The First Floor" is the A and B roles, so there is no problem in rotating performances.

The only uncomfortable thing is the repertoire that Renyi will rehearse in the second half of the year. The number of performances will inevitably decrease under the pressure of "The First Floor in the World".

Today is the last performance of "The First Floor in the World", so Zhizhi specially sent Lin Chaoyang two tickets.

A good drama that you will never tire of watching.

Many drama fans still enjoy watching it many times.

Lin Chaoyang and his wife watched "The World's No. 1 Restaurant" for the second time in a month. In addition to being impressed by the superb acting skills of the actors of the People's Art Theater, they were also amazed at the audience's enthusiasm for this drama.

The performance has been going on for a month, and the Capital Theater is still crowded. The audience cried and laughed with the actors on the stage as if they were possessed.

One can't help but sigh that this is the charm of a good drama!

After the performance, all the audience knew that today was the last performance of "The World's No. 1 Restaurant" this year. The applause and cheers lasted for more than ten minutes.

The actors on the stage bowed several times, and the applause continued. Even many old actors couldn't help but shed tears in the face of such love from the audience.

"Encore!"

"Encore! Encore!"

I don't know who shouted the first sentence in the theater, and then quickly got the audience's response.

In an instant, a huge wave of sound was set off in the theater, and the audience's call for "encore" resounded inside and outside the Capital Theater.

The audience shouted for several minutes, which frightened the actors on stage and the leaders of the People's Art Theatre.

They never thought that after 15 days of extra performances, this group of audiences were still not satisfied and asked for more performances.

If they wanted more performances, they would not schedule the rest of the plays this year.

But they had to listen to the voices of the masses. The People's Art Theatre, the People's Art Theatre, the full name is the People's Art Theatre, and the word "people" is at the forefront. How could they not consider the public opinion?

Several leaders of the theater gathered together and decided that the Capital Theater must not be used anymore. If it was occupied again, the work of the theater this year would not be done.

The only solution now was to go to a theater outside. Fortunately, there were enough theaters in Yanjing, and they were all brother units, so it was not a problem to coordinate the performance venue.

After deciding on the idea, Zhi represented the theater and went on stage.

Inform the audience that the performance of "The World's No. 1 Restaurant" at the Capital Theater has come to an end for the time being, and the People's Art Theatre will perform in other theaters in Yanjing next. For specific information, please pay attention to the subsequent announcements issued by the People's Art Theatre.

His words finally calmed the audience's excitement. Seeing that their demands were responded to, the audience began to leave one after another.

After leaving the Capital Theater, Tao Yushu held Lin Chaoyang's hand.

"Proud, right?"

Lin Chaoyang smiled, "Yeah."