Chapter 535 "Twilight"
After sending Li Li and his wife away, Fang Minghua couldn't restrain his curiosity. When the couple slept together at night, Fang Minghua asked his wife again:
< br>"Tangtang, what happened to Lili? Instead of staying in the hotel when she came back, she wanted to sleep with you at night?"
"You'd better not ask about the affairs between our sisters!" Song Tangtang was angry. answer.
Seeing that his wife was unhappy when she mentioned this, Fang Minghua had no choice but to say: "Okay, okay, I won't ask."
As he said that, he picked up a book from the bedside table and started flipping through it.
After a while, I heard Song Tangtang sigh quietly.
“Alas, Lili’s life is really miserable.”
Fang Minghua glanced at Song Tangtang, but did not answer.
Song Tangtang paused and said, "Minghua, why don't you speak?"
"Didn't you just let me ask?"
"I'll let you ask now!"
Seeing that his wife's mood was obviously not right tonight, Fang Minghua put down the book and gently hugged Song Tangtang. Asked softly in his arms.
"Tangtang, what happened?"
"Minghua, do you know GAy?" Song Tangtang asked quietly while lying in Fang Minghua's arms.
"Of course I know, it's just homosexuality," Fang Minghua replied with a smile, suddenly thinking of something, his eyes widened:
"Tangtang, you said that Chen Ji'an is GAY?"
" Yeah." Song Tangtang nodded.
Holy shit!
"Is he attacking or receiving?"
"What do you mean by attacking or receiving?" Song Tangtang was a little confused.
Fang Minghua explained it once.
"Bad guy! How do you know so much?!" Song Tangtang angrily hit Fang Minghua's chest with his small fist.
Fang Minghua chuckled twice and grabbed Song Tangtang's fist.
"Okay, that's what you call feeling." Song Tangtang finally said.
"No wonder, this guy looks so feminine. Didn't Lili feel it at all before getting married? Didn't Chen Ji'an ask for that?"
Song Tangtang gave Fang Minghua a blank look after hearing this: "Do you think everyone else is like you? Like me before we got married? Chen Ji'an is very polite and honest. Lili has never been in love before. She thought all boys are like this. "Since Chen Ji'an is a petty lover, Then why do you want to marry Lili and take the initiative to pursue Lili?" Fang Minghua asked again.
"It's a cover-up. The main reason is that he doesn't want his parents to know, because his parents believe in Christianity and are Chinese. Based on Chinese tradition, they are firmly opposed to homosexuality." Song Tangtang continued.
"After getting married, Chen Ji'an confessed his sexual orientation to Li Li and said that the two could be a couple in name only, but they would live their own lives and not interfere with each other's private life."
"Holy shit. !”
Fang Minghua couldn’t help but complain: “What about Lili’s thoughts?” “Lili felt very uncomfortable at first. 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 was forcing her. Now it’s good to live each other’s lives, so that she can devote all her energy to work.”
Fang Minghua listened. He let out a long sigh, not knowing what to say.
"Li Li said that your book "Skywalker" has been published in the United States. Although the sales volume is not as good as the two love novels, it still has a lot of readers, especially in the literary world. The famous American writer, Mr. Saul Bellow praised This book shocked him greatly. He was deeply moved by the humanitarian thoughts of the intellectuals described in the book. "
"Saul Bellow? He wrote "Humboldt's Gift". , that American writer who once won the Nobel Prize?" Fang Minghua asked rhetorically.
“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 not to be well-known in China, but many people in the American literary circle compare him with William Faulkner, another giant in the history of modern American literature, and think that the two of them are the main figures of modern American novels. Founder.
"Also, Lili said that she would bring this collection of essays you wrote and translate it as soon as possible. I think Lili is more interested in translating your works than anything else!" Song Tangtang finally said.
That's true.
Fang Minghua nodded and said, "I really should thank him, but I can't do anything to help her."
After hearing what her husband said, Song Tangtang raised his head and glanced at him, but said nothing more, just sighed softly.
After sending off Li Li and his wife, Fang Minghua's life became leisurely again, but now there is still one thing to do.
Write another romance novel to be published 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 ranks among the bestsellers of aesthetic romance.
"The Twilight Saga" is a series by American writer Stephenie Meyer, which takes the emotional entanglement of a pair of star-crossed lovers, Isabella Swann and Edward Cullen, as the main line. It combines vampire legends, werewolf stories, campus life, and horror. Suspense, comedy adventure and other elements.
Including "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse", "Breaking Dawn" and several extras, such as "Twilight Rebirth" and "Midnight Sun".
This series is called the magical masterpiece of the "Harry Potter era" and has become the representative of the international fantasy 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 film, but has not seen the extras.
For novels like "The Twilight Saga", I have to mention a very important category of popular Western novels - Gothic novels.
The originator of Gothic novels is "The Castle of Otranto" written by British writer Horace Walpole in the 18th century, which pioneered the Gothic style that combines mystery, horror and supernatural elements and formed the British style. An important stage of the Romantic poetry movement.
Horror, mystery, supernatural, doom, death, decadence, old houses inhabited by ghosts, madness, and family curses have become the 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 and ferocious faces, and they live by sucking human blood. The image of vampires adds a terrifying atmosphere to many Gothic literary works.
In the Twilight Saga tetralogy, the image of vampires is more diverse. The vampire world created includes both good vampires and evil vampires. The two types of vampires are in stark contrast.
Also, the heroine turning into a vampire is a recurring theme in Gothic literature. In these literary works, the hostess is hunted by vampires and becomes a vampire out of fear and despair. For readers, the heroine's transformation into a vampire is a dream-like process from human to demon. In the Twilight tetralogy, the heroine Bella voluntarily becomes a vampire!
Although it was painful during this process, 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 the perfect appearance of an angel. With her beautiful appearance and elegant temperament, she is like a goddess.
Also, in "Breaking Dawn" of the Twilight Saga tetralogy, the writing technique of stream of consciousness was used!
This is something Fang Minghua is very familiar with.
But it’s not certain whether I’ll write the fourth part or not. I’ll write the first part “Twilight” first and then take advantage of this pit.
(End of this chapter)