Chapter 77 New Snow
Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, Okinawa.
Except for central Japan, reports of additional printing came from everywhere.
Such an urgent demand for additional printing means that all the books on the shelves yesterday have been sold out.
This has never happened with New Wave.
"What did you do?"
Muro An's neatly combed hair was messed up by the wind that broke into the conference room, and his eyes stared at Editor Ono, who was also covered, in confusion.
There is something strange about the snow this year.
The heavy snow first fell on the calm sea, and then slowly spread towards central Japan.
The powdery snow, which contains almost no moisture and looks like cotton candy, is sprinkled one after another, from the romantic Otaru in "Love Letter", all the way down to Asahikawa and then to Shiretoko.
When it started to snow, several young people who had just experienced the New Year walked towards the small town library.
They left shallow footprints on the ground. This place across the sea from the Russian island of Sakhalin is the place where it snows earliest every year.
"Come on, hurry up, Fuyumi, if you don't hurry up, you won't be able to buy "The Wolf and the Spice of Country"."
Several girls pushed each other and occasionally wiped the thin snow on the roadside to form snowballs.
The northernmost part of this island country is extremely cold when heavy snow falls, and the long coastline seems to be sprinkled with a layer of ice.
The foggy white sky is also exceptionally quiet.
"Ah, I'm going to die, Haruhi."
The girl walking in front screamed, and a few scattered snowflakes slipped into her warm shirt.
"Oh, Fuyumi, you have grown up, and you need to be tighter when dancing in the future."
When the girl trembled, her breasts under the tie also trembled. Kasuga Yumi laughed and pulled her friend towards the distant bookstore like a gangster.
A group of girls are students who are about to take the college entrance examination this year. They have just celebrated the New Year, and today they made an appointment to go shopping at a bookstore in the town.
Hokkaido is a particularly romantic place in winter, with dimly lit cabins and endless coastline.
When several girls walked to the door of the bookstore, a group of boys were quarreling there.
"Nitta, you traitor, didn't you read Professor Gong Cheng's article some time ago? "New Wave" can no longer keep up with mainstream literature, we should boycott it!"
A large group of boys surrounded a student with clenched fists.
Kasuga Yuu has met them before, they are from the literature club of their school.
"Are these guys bullying?"
There was a large group of students surrounding one person, and it didn't look good no matter how you looked at it. Kasuga Yumi pushed her friend and signaled to leave quickly.
"It seems not."
Even the girls from the dance club had occasionally heard of the magazine "New Wave", where Fuyumi with bobs came and a few friends came to watch the fun.
"I buy every issue of "New Wave", and I am also following Mr. Onda's "The Bee and the Distant Thunder". Just because of Professor Miyagi, do you want me to stop reading literary works in the future?"
The boy didn't know whether it was because he was angry at being blocked and threatened, or he really wanted to watch "The Bee and the Far Thunder".
He stood in the snow with a red neck, looking at the classmates in front of him without giving an inch.
The white snowflakes fell on these young people and were instantly evaporated. The young man with freckles at the head patiently tried to persuade them.
"You have also read "New Wave". The previous works were lukewarm. It no longer speaks for those of us who have suffered from economic recession. Have you forgotten what Professor Gong Cheng has done for us before?"
This group of young people who used to wander around the campus with books now had very aggressive expressions. Kasuga Yumi curiously poked her friend's fleshy arm.
"Professor Gong Cheng. What does he do?"
Not everyone cares about things in the literary world. These little girls who love dancing usually read shoujo comics and occasionally light novels.
They were different from this group of very radical reserves in the literary world. They had no idea who Gong Cheng was, let alone why they were quarreling like this over a magazine.
"It seems that he is one of the representatives of the current literary world. When the government suppressed the literary world more than ten years ago, he sat at the door of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture and Sports building for three days with a handful of money."
The girl named Fuyumi listened to the information she heard from her father. She also promised her father to buy a copy of "New Wave" today. Will she be stopped later?
The girl's worries were unnecessary. As she watched the boy put the white magazine back, the group of young people whose heat almost evaporated the heavy snow left.
They seem to have drawn a circle for themselves. As long as they are not people around them or people who are not exposed to pure literature, they will not care too much.
"It's really scary, no different from those radicals."
Kasuga Yumi stuck out her tongue, the girl's flaxen hair was very beautiful.
In the quiet winter sea next to the bookstore, there stands a white building that looks like a hydropower station. On a bleak winter day, this is the only scene left in the morning light outside the window.
Several girls came to the bookstore and each purchased their favorite books and comics.
A girl named Kasuga Yumi slowly stopped in front of the bookshelf of today's new issue to look at it.
"Yeah, trendy, trendy."
She and her friend reached out to the white magazine at the same time.
"Hate it, Fuyumi, I got it first."
Seeing that Natsume Fuyumi got the book with a nice cover first, Kasuga Yumi made a move to attack. "Must kill, silent knife."
Natsume Fuyumi struck the opponent's forehead with an expressionless palm, and the heavy feeling in front of her body trembled again.
"What are you doing with this?" Natsume Fuyumi dutifully completed her father's task. This new trendy book should be caused by the people from the literature club. There are many curious people, and there are only a few books on the bookshelf at this time.
"I just took a look, those people are too scary."
There were opened magazines in the bookstore. The girl with flaxen hair picked up the opened magazine next to her and looked at it briefly.
She didn't plan to buy it, but the group just made a big fuss.
Hokkaido is already a place with relatively few literature lovers. I really don’t know what kind of commotion it will be like when I go to Tokyo.
She had just chatted with her friend and knew that the further you went to the central region, the greater the influence of Professor Gong Cheng.
It is authoritative in itself, and recently the Akutagawa Prize is building momentum.
Even Kasuga Yumi, a member of the dance club who doesn't read much, knows that the Akutagawa Prize is an important literary award every year.
"Who on earth would let that old professor target him like this?"
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With this kind of curiosity in mind, Kasuga Yumi opened "Snow Country".
There are many similar situations.
The sales in Tokyo made people at Shinchosha think they were the same reader purchases as last month.
But they didn’t know that with the strong promotion of people like Kodansha and Ichitaro Miyasei, the entire literary world formed a wave of resistance when "New Wave" was released.
The wave started with Miya Seiichitaro, the founder of class literature, and was instigated by a woman in Kodansha.
Unconsciously, the public formed a momentum to resist the "New Wave".
This momentum was huge, starting from Tokyo and spreading around, but when it hit the snowflakes slowly falling from the sky, a wonderful chemical reaction occurred.
"Through the long county boundary tunnel, you will reach the Snow Country."
Kasuga Yumi opened the book and was stunned.
Unlike Tokyo, where the snow melts, children in the snow are particularly sensitive to the beginning of an article.
The background of the night turns white, and the snow burns in the mirror.
The girl's fingertips will glow with beautiful colors, and the twilight in the mirror will flow with the fluorescence.
The more people who have not been baptized by class literature, the more they can feel the beauty of the text.
"Snow Country" is hardly a top story.
A cruder person would say it was just a man looking for sex in the snow.
But it's not like that.
Kawabata Yasushiro changed many magazines when he serialized "Snow Country".
Each time the length is incoherent and fragmented.
This book doesn't have too many criticisms or too many concepts.
It itself is nihilistic, just like the non-existent "Snow Country" itself.
Sitting and working without food is futile and hopeless.
The beauty of nothingness, the beauty of purity.
Before the serialization ends, when the beautiful leaves are splashing like water in the Milky Way.
Its rhetoric alone has the power to move people's hearts.
It cannot, for the time being, wash away those literary creators who have been influenced by class literature.
As Ono Taro said, the literary world has long been a transparent and morbid world.
He can't change, he can only rely on "Snow Country".
Sales in Tokyo area are actually not good.
But when that group of scholars collided with each other and sparked.
There were ripples around the literary world.
With heavy snow drifting from the north.
It first infected those people who had little exposure to serious literature like a virus.
Gorgeous words are floating like ice and snow, and a hazy world of ice and snow seems to be invading the real world.
Because of curiosity, because of watching the fun.
People passing by picked up the snow-colored magazine.
Heavy snow blows from north to south, ruffling every traveler in need of comfort.
The ultimate literary beauty began to impact the Japanese literary world.
(End of chapter)