Chapter 637 636 The so-called popularity of people is wrong, and the same goes for books that are popular.
“If there are too many critical articles, it will inevitably affect the reputation of this novel and thus affect its sales.” Lei Xuecheng said with a smile: “Among the six books on the Qin Army’s Eastern Expedition, the literary value of “The Wasted Capital” is not It must be the worst, but the reviews are the worst.”
“This, Teacher Minghua reminded us before this book was published, we should pay attention to the social response of this book after it is published. Dai Jiali was not too surprised: "Our company has already made plans internally." After speaking, Dai Jiali took out a mobile phone from the bag he was carrying and stood aside to make a phone call. Come.
"Director Liu, I am Dai Jiali. Have you seen the article in "Literary Review" written by Professor Meng Fanhua from Yenching University criticizing "The Wasted Capital"? You should study it carefully and target his Opinion to refute.”
"Also, have you contacted Mr. Ma Yuan? He was very optimistic about this book at the work seminar. Can you ask him to write a review?"
Fang Minghua naturally thought that he knew Ma Yuan.
One of the representative writers of contemporary "avant-garde" novels in China. He published the novel "The Temptation of Gangdise" in 1985 and "You Have No Choice" published by Liu Sola in the same year, which officially launched the avant-garde literature in the mainland. hurricane.
After Fang Minghua’s book signing event at Xuecheng Bookstore, he moved to Bell Tower Xinhua Bookstore the next day. At this point, the entire book signing and signing event ended.
The "Qin Army's Eastern Expedition" is becoming more and more famous, and the sales of several books are also rising.
As the saying goes, there are many people who are famous, and the same goes for books that are popular.
There are gradually more and more critical articles in the literary world, especially Jia Pingwa's "The Wasted Capital" has almost become a target.
Shanghai scholar Cheng Depei, who has written articles "Is the criticism world also being "rented"? ""Accidentally created a batch of "epics"" to express strong dissatisfaction with "The Wasted City".
The English translator of "Dream of Red Mansions" Yang Xianyi's limerick "Feelings": "Suddenly I saw "Abandoned Capital" being speculated on a book stall. Jia Sheng's talent is unprecedented in ancient and modern times. The human heart is not enough, and the desire for wealth is hard to fill with ghosts."
Among them, ten young critics, students and graduate students from prestigious universities have the most intense criticism
Li Shulei believes that "The Wasted City" "directly appeals to the dark and humble psychology of the cultural public", "has no soul at all" and "is vulgar to the bone."
Chen Xiaoming said: "Jia Pingwa was wearing the robe of 'serious literature', riding a heifer in the northwest, leading a group of modern Ximen Qing and beautiful women with all kinds of lust in their wild bodies. People come in all shapes and sizes to tell people about the biggest sexual desire myth at the end of the century."
Han Yuhai said that Jia Pingwa "has become a ridiculous act of teaching a cat to play with mice and a cultural accomplice who works as a provocateur for the tiger."
For a time, the storm was about to come and the wind filled the building, threatening to drown Jia Pingwa with spit.
Of course, writers in the literary world of Qin Province did not dare to show weakness and wrote articles to cheer up Jia Pingwa. As the publisher of the book, Shengshi Books was also secretly organizing young scholars and college Chinese writers Graduate students in the department wrote articles praising the book.
Fang Minghua also wrote a review published in the "Novel Review" magazine to support it.
"Recently, there has been a lot of criticism about the novel "The Wasted City". Literary criticism is a very normal thing. But these recent comments surrounding "The Wasted City", it is not difficult to see that these views have long gone beyond The category of literature and art is a condescending moral judgment. "
"This year is 1993, and it has been more than ten years since the reform and opening up. Many Western novels have been introduced to China, such as "Lady Chatterley's Lover". It was published in China as early as 1988 and had a direct impact on the creations of Jia Pingwa, Chen Zhongshi and others. The modernist classic "Ulysses" also influenced the sexual consciousness of Bloom and Molly. With an in-depth description, this book has been published in China a long time ago. "
"What I want to ask is, do these critics think that Western works write about sex to better shape the characters and fully display human nature? It explores human nature, but Chinese local writers are vulgar, explicit, and immodest when it comes to such descriptions?”
“The Wasted City” written by Jia Pingwa is like a sister-in-law wearing a cheongsam to go out? , we not only say that the clothes are not good-looking, but also think about her motives and whether she wants to seduce someone... Of course, I say that China now only has one standard for literature and art, and that is vicious slander."
"What I want to say is that some foreign works will be handed down from generation to generation, and they will not be judged by worldly standards or moral standards. Such standards have never been used for Chinese people. From this we can draw a conclusion:" That is In the field of literature and art, foreigners can do transcendental things, but Chinese people cannot. "
"In the fields of literature, art and other humanities, some people use different standards, that is, they use artistic or scientific standards to evaluate the works of foreigners; while they use the standards of art or science to evaluate the works of Chinese people. , then use moral standards to evaluate. I call this phenomenon "double standards."
This review can be described as extremely pungent, rising directly to the point between countries and between Eastern and Western literature. Those who criticized it were immediately speechless.
Want to occupy the moral high ground?
Okay, let’s see who stands taller!
Today is August 28th, the beginning of autumn has passed, and the weather in Xijing has begun to become less hot. Especially since it rained yesterday, it seems very cool today.
Fang Minghua’s house was quite lively today, with several people coming.
Zhang Yimou, Ge You, Gong Li, Zhao Jiping, Du Yuan, Lu Le. These people are the main creative team of the "Alive" movie.
It turns out that "Alive" won the same award as "Blue, White, Red Trilogy: Blue" directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski at this year's Venice International Film Festival. The highest award of the film festival, the Golden Lion Award. After Zhang Yimou returned triumphantly, Shengshi Film and Television held a celebration party for the "Alive" movie in Xijing, inviting leaders from relevant provincial and municipal departments to participate. A seminar on the "Alive" movie was also held.
As a personal relationship, Song Tangtang also specially invited the key members of the team to his home, cooked a table of dishes, and went directly to Maotai, where everyone chatted happily.
It goes without saying that Zhang Yimou often comes to Fang Minghua's house.
Gong Li is the heroine of Zhang Yimou's movies. The two are currently in an ambiguous relationship, and Zhao Jiping and the others are the core members of Zhang Yimou's film creation team. They are all from Xijing. Shengshi Film and Television has invested in several movies made by Zhang Yimou and They are the core of the creative team for TV series, and Fang Minghua and Song Tangtang are both familiar with each other.
Only Ge You is working with Zhang Yimou’s team for the first time, and he is not from Xijing, so he seems a bit unfamiliar.
For this reason, Fang Minghua poured him a few more glasses of wine. Naturally, he expressed congratulations on his lips, but what he was thinking in his heart was that it was a pity.
Historically, this film participated in the Cannes Film Festival in France and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, which is equivalent to the second prize at the film festival.
But at the same time, Ge You won the Best Actor Award!
But this time, perhaps it was the Venice Film Festival jury that gave "Alive" the highest Golden Lion award. It did not give Ge You the Best Actor Award, and only received the nomination award.
There is one missing actor
So, Fang Minghua wanted to pour two more cups for Ge You to express his apology.
Everyone was eating and chatting in the dining room, which was busy, when suddenly they heard the doorbell ringing from outside the courtyard door.
"I'm going to see who's here." Song Tangtang said and walked out quickly.
"I guess my two children have been sent back, and they will start elementary school soon." Fang Minghua explained with a smile, and invited everyone to eat vegetables.
A few minutes later, Song Tangtang hurried back and whispered to Fang Minghua: "It's Pingwa here."
"Pingwa? Let him in, let's have a drink together." "As Fang Minghua said, he also left the dining room and saw Jia Pingwa standing at the gate of the courtyard, her face not looking good.
"Brother Jia, come in." Fang Minghua greeted with a smile.
"I heard from Tangtang that you have guests at home today?" Jia Pingwa asked.
“Didn’t Zhang Yimou’s “Alive” win the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival? We’ll invite a few of the creative staff to have a meal with Brother Jia, and we’ll have a meal together. You also know Zhang Yimou and Zhao Jiping.”< br>
“No, no.” Jia Pingwa declined: “Since you have guests, forget it, I’ll come another day.”
“Brother Jia, I think you don’t look good. What happened?" Fang Minghua asked with concern.
"I was still in trouble when I wrote the book "Abandoned Capital". If I had known this, I would have never written it again!" Jia Pingwa said a curse word.
It seems like he is having a hard time.
Fang Minghua thought for a while and said: "Let's go to my study and make you a cup of tea to calm the fire."
"What about your guest?"
" There is Tangtang, it’s okay.”
"That's okay."
Jia Pingwa agreed.
The two went up to the second floor. Fang Minghua made a cup of Longjing tea for Jia Pingwa, and then said: "Brother Jia, I told you a long time ago to prepare you mentally. This novel of yours It would be strange if people don’t scold you if you are a literati.” Handed a magazine to Fang Minghua.
“Look, who is this Wang Shuo?!”
(End of this chapter)