Chapter 351 Yu Hua won the Outstanding Novella Award of the Year
Fang Minghua didn’t know that the two girls were talking about him behind his back. In the past few days, besides eating and sleeping, he had been revising "The Ordinary World" to spare time. Then write about "A Fighting Sword in the Snow" - a move that hangs on one's life.
Of course I will never forget to go to a large state-owned store near the cotton factory not far from the school and buy more than a dozen packs of San Xian Yi noodles.
Today is Thursday, and there will be classes tomorrow afternoon. In the afternoon, Fang Minghua temporarily stopped coding work to prepare for tomorrow's classes.
Tomorrow we will talk about stream-of-consciousness novels, so it is natural to give specific book examples. On Monday, he mentioned so many book titles in one go. The main purpose is to broaden the students' horizons and expand their knowledge.
There are actually only two novels used as examples, one is "The Sun Also Rises" written by myself, and the other is "Spots on the Wall".
This is a short stream of consciousness novel written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1917 and is also her first stream of consciousness work.
The novel is written in an inner monologue. The heroine triggers free association from a spot on the wall, using a psychological structure that "records" the flow of the character's consciousness.
It has no plot. The main structure of the novel is based on the order in which the dust falls into my mind after "I" see the "spots", in order to show "my" "inner truth" at this moment. , and puts the character's flow of consciousness into the main position of the work.
Typical stream of consciousness writing technique.
He had read this novel, but unfortunately he did not have it on hand now, so he went to the library to borrow it. The staff told him that the library had two collections of novels by Virginia Woolf, but they had both been borrowed. Until now Haven't come back yet.
Fang Minghua probably borrowed it from the students in the workshop. Generally no one would read this kind of niche novel.
"Which student borrowed it?" Fang Minghua asked.
The administrator took out the loan book and quickly looked up the name of the borrower: "It's Yu Hua from the workshop."
Oh, it's him.
"I'll go find him." Fang Minghua turned around and left the library.
Yu Hua lived above Fang Minghua's head on the fourth floor. He went up to the fourth floor and walked in the corridor. Before he reached the door, he heard lively sounds coming from inside.
"Yu Hua, why don't you treat us to such a big happy event?"
"Yes, if it were me, I would treat everyone for three days!"
What a good thing? I want Yu Hua to treat me.
Fang Minghua walked over curiously. The door was open. There were already six or seven students inside, all from his class.
When they saw Fang Minghua coming, they all said hello.
"Yu Hua, what are you doing? Are you asking for a treat?" Fang Minghua asked.
"Teacher Fang, you don't know?" He Liwei said first: "This year's list of National Short and Medium Story Excellence Awards has been announced. "1986" written by Yu Hua won the Outstanding Novella Award!"
"Really? Where is the newspaper? Let me see it."
Immediately, a practitioner handed over a copy of Guangming Daily.
Fang Minghua took a closer look. In addition to Yu Hua's "1986", Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum" and Wang Anyi's "Little Baozhuang" won the Outstanding Novella Award, and Zou Zhian wrote The article "Party Secretary Steps Down to Sing a Big Opera" won the Best Short Story Award.
Not bad.
"Yanhe" magazine recommended a total of six novels, four of which won awards. This achievement is a beautiful report card for any magazine.
Fang Minghua smiled slightly and looked at Yu Hua, who was a little excited: "You have to invite this guest."
"Teacher Fang said, then I'll invite you! Just tonight! It's the same restaurant in the free market." Yu Hua agreed immediately.
Anyway, if you win, you will get a bonus of 300 yuan, which is enough to treat you.
"Teacher Fang, I also invite you to go."
Fang Minghua nodded, he must go to this invitation.
But why is it like in Xijing, with Jia Pingwa and the others?
Always eating and drinking.
Of course, he did not forget about business. He asked Yu Hua to borrow the book "Spots on the Wall" and left.
Drinking at night, I have to prepare for my lessons.
Upstairs, Yu Hua decided to treat a guest. Those students who encouraged him left one after another, leaving Yu Hua and He Liwei alone in the dormitory. When treating guests, you need to decide who to invite.
Although he had not been in Luyuan for a long time, there were obviously small groups among the more than 30 people in the class. Yu Hua invited people he could usually talk to. Naturally, he would not invite people who had not said a word or could not even be called by name.
Under the advice of He Liwei, Yu Hua quickly came up with a list of people to treat, a total of eight people.
These eight people have something in common: they all come from local cultural centers or the Federation of Literary and Art Circles!
With the same work unit and experience, we can naturally chat together.
Including Fang Minghua, there are only nine people, and there seems to be one less person to sit at a table of ten.
"How about we call Liao Runbo? I heard that he is also from the local cultural center." He Liwei suggested.
But Yu Hua shook his head and explained.
"I haven't said a word to him. Do you think I'm showing off by inviting people to dinner? Forget it."
He Liwei felt that what he said made sense, so he let it go.
Actually, Yu Hua has his own ideas.
He stood in front of the desk, looked at the small mirror on the desk, smoothed his messy hair with his hands to make it look neater, and then walked out the door.
"Yu Hua, why are you going?" He Liwei asked.
“Something happened.” Yu Hua said and walked out of the room.
He went downstairs, walked straight to the second floor opposite, went up to the second floor and knocked on the door of a dormitory.
“Who is it?”
"I am Yu Hua."
The door opened and Li Hongying came out.
"Yu Hua, what's going on?"
"Is Chen Hong here?" Yu Hua glanced into the room.
“She went to the library, are you looking for her?”
"No, no, I'm looking for you two." Yu Hua said quickly: "That's what happened. One of my novels won the Best Outstanding Novel Award this year, and several classmates in the class insisted on letting me treat them. I also want to invite you two to participate."
"Congratulations on winning the prize, are you going?" Li Hongying asked.
"Of course, my novel was submitted to "Yanhe" and Teacher Fang reviewed it personally."
"Okay, I'll go too!"
"Okay, when Chen Hong comes back, you must tell her that we will still be at the restaurant in the Free Market at six o'clock tonight."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen to you."
"Okay, goodbye!"
Shortly after Yu Hua left, Chen Hong came back from the library with a book in his arms. Li Hongying was surprised when she heard about Yu Hua's treat.
"Yu Hua's novel won an award? Is it so awesome?"
"Yeah, to be honest, I admire you very much. It's really not easy to win this award. The guy looks slovenly and has no hair. I think he is quite talented," Li Hongying also said with emotion.
"Yeah." Chen Hong nodded quickly.
"Chen Hong, let's go together later. Yu Hua is here to invite you specially."
After hearing what Li Hongying said, Chen Hong hurriedly edited: "Why are you specially invited to me? "And you, aren't we two invited?"
"Huh, how can I not see that guy's little thoughts?" Li Hongying snorted: "Okay, let's not talk about this. I have to read quickly, there is Teacher Fang’s class tomorrow afternoon!”
(End of this chapter)