Chapter 141 Soaring to the Sky
People are in high spirits when happy events happen, and good news really keeps coming!
The current statistical system is not as developed as in the short video era, so the first-day sales of "The Little Prince" are not available nationwide on the second and third days. We can only wait for the first week to see again.
The statistical cycle is like this.
Although I don’t know the situation, President Jian has found a relationship, and the feedback from the first batch of “insiders” who watched it exploded!
Let’s talk about the former first. Yu Xinyao published it in his own column in the People’s Literature Journal with the title “Yu Xinyao’s Brief Review of ‘The Little Prince’”. The format of his title is very fixed.
The content depends on the subtitle: The fairy tale island in my heart, I sincerely hope that adults will become little princes one day and do not pay attention to numbers.
[When were children as “landscape” discovered?
Was it in "Emile" published in 1762? Rousseau is considered by Europe to be "the first person in human history to truly discover children." He believes that childhood is an inseparable stage of life. So he abandoned his child in the foundling hall to let the child experience the hardships of France in the eighteenth century in advance.
We internalize the concept of "children" and then pay attention to them.
"I" as the pilot in "The Little Prince" is from an adult perspective, while the Little Prince is from a children's perspective. The writer Gu Lu made a very simple binary differentiation. He wrote about children's views of the world. It is the externalization of "child".
Concerning this, starting from the prologue of the stage, Gu Lu's dual differentiation is reflected.
At the beginning of the story, "I" had my first failed communication with an adult when I was six years old. As a child, "I" has a rich inner world. I drew two paintings that require full use of imagination to understand. painting.
However, adults judge paintings by their quality and are unable to enter the world of imagination. They are also taught to tell "me" not to indulge in imagination and to compose the picture according to the method that can draw well.
Is this a familiar conversation that could fit into any family’s conversation?
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Yu Xinyao started to use Lakoff’s conceptual metaphor to analyze from the middle part, analyzing the structural metaphor, directional metaphor, and ontological metaphor of the whole text.
Snake, fox, and rose are all structural metaphors, snake is the god of death, fox is a friend, etc.
The first sentence the protagonist says when he sees the fox is "Come and play with me." "Play together" is the most common element in the concept of "friends" and so on.
This part is a bit complicated, and no ordinary reader should be willing to read it slowly. Anyway, Yu Xinyao has a good hand and analyzed the meaning of the entire article clearly.
It's even too clear, giving the impression of dismembering the work.
Jump to the end of Yu Xinyao’s comment——
[Adults always care about numbers. If a child says, “I went to pick flowers with my friends today,” the adult will ask, “You How many flowers did you pick?”
And if children share “I got a good grade in the test today”, adults will care about the specific score.
The little prince said many times in the book, "Adults are so weird", which directly satirizes the ridiculousness of adults and sympathizes with them.
Because adults occupy a productive position in society, they have to care about accurate numbers. Behind the numbers is efficiency!
As an adult, I am very grateful that there is such a fairy tale that adults can watch, which brought me to the fairy tale island for a short time. ]
The sales volume of "People's Literature Journal" has not been high. It is far behind Juvenile Literature and Art and Time Mystery, let alone compared with the Story Society, but its influence cannot be measured by the number of copies it has published. describe.
Ordinary netizens have not even heard of this newspaper, but it doesn’t matter, it will let you see it in another way.
It doesn’t even matter whether you understand the full text of Yu Xinyao, the media will “take it out of context”!
A physical book writer posted on Weibo: "It is rare for a fairy tale novel to be published in the People's Literature Journal and receive extremely high praise. Even Teacher Yu was grateful for such a book and must buy it."
Sina Portal: "If you understand the metaphor of "The Little Prince", then I'm sorry, you have become the 'I' in the story."
Dangdang.com: "The fairy tale island for adults, "The Little Prince" ", click to purchase and enjoy 50% off on the first day"
Phoenix News: "The newly launched fairy tale "The Little Prince" has sparked heated discussions, and 'Adults are so strange' has touched the hearts of many people"
The power that burst out instantly spread in two or three days, covering not only the Internet, but also radio stations promoting books.
Would people who are not used to listening to radio think that radio is not a product of the 1980s and 1990s? It began to end in the 2000s, and "Zhang Chen Storytelling" was the last glory of the radio station.
The era of “universal access to electricity” has indeed come to an end, but there is still a small group of people who retain the habit of listening to radio stations, and this habit even lasted until 2017... The key is that this group and the group of people who buy and read books There is a very large overlap, so for promoting physical books, radio stations are actually a link that must be fought for.
The radio program FM95.5 "Voice of Literature and Art", this channel has steps for reading books——
The host said, "Welcome to continue listening to FM95.5 "Voice of Literature and Art", today we The book I want to recommend to everyone is "The Little Prince", written by Gu Lu, a new writer in China. More and more new writers are coming to the fore, which is good for our book market. The theme of "The Little Prince" is a fairy tale novel. When many people talk about fairy tale novels, they have the impression that they are for children. However, "The Little Prince" is written for both children and adults. , you will even be grateful for the existence of such a fairy tale novel. ”
"Gu Lu's writing method is very concise, but he accurately describes the atmosphere from a child's perspective. I immediately bought a set for my niece after reading it. Finally, I recommend it with one sentence: What is taming? Taming is to create a bond, and There is a certain risk in that.”
The radio station “Voice of Literature and Art” recommends books. In a few cases, the sponsor father pays for publicity, but in most cases, you need to find books to recommend.
Don’t be perfunctory and just find a book at random. This will damage the credibility of the channel. If the audience is no longer willing to believe your recommendation, you will have no value to the sponsor.
The planners and hosts of "Voice of Literature and Art", even though they have read many books, they have already recommended them all, but for the new one - they have to go to work and don't have that much time at all.
Therefore, famous book reviewers and "People's Literature Journal" and "Phoenix Newspaper" are the sources of information they focus on.
Needless to say, Yu Xinyao even recommended books with such a vicious tongue. Just read it with your eyes closed. There were even many times when I didn’t have time to read the book and directly changed the content of Teacher Yu’s book review to make it easier to understand. Can muddle through.
This kind of secondary filtering of essential information, turning it into "interesting ordinary information" and pushing it to the audience, can also make money with poor information. Later short videos took this trick to the extreme.
The worst thing is not to dilute a nutritious meal, because many people are malnourished and cannot eat as well. The worst thing is secondary cooking, which not only loses nutrition, but also contains poison...
The sales volume of "The Little Prince" has hit a peak!
"Is there any "The Little Prince"? Yes, give me a copy."
"I bought a fairy tale for my child, and it's called The Little Prince."
"What's sold out?!"
"Here's a book with children, foxes, and roses. What’s the name of the book?”
The scene in bookstores is similar, many bookstores are sold out.
The initial printing of "The Little Prince" is 50,000 copies, which sounds like a lot, but think about it, how many Xinhua Bookstores and Sanlian Bookstores are there in the country?
In addition, there are more bookstores in big cities and prosperous areas, so each bookstore scattered in small cities only has a dozen or twenty books.
“It has skyrocketed!” President Jian received calls from secondary wholesalers and bookstores in various cities to add more copies.
“I originally thought we would have to wait until Christmas for a big promotion, but now I see that we don’t need to wait so long at all.” President Jian was in a good mood.
It’s not that books make money, of course there are certainly factors that make money, but the main factor that makes me happy is that I am optimistic about the writers and they really perform well.
"That was President Jian's help, and he asked Yu Xinyao to do it, and he sacrificed his face to promote it." said the president's secretary Xiao Zuo.
President Jian frowned, "I'm just the icing on the cake. Yu Xinyao has the spirit of a literary critic. He won't praise "The Little Prince" just because he has a good relationship with me. He will only praise "The Little Prince" because of the excellent quality of the work."
"As for the promotion of Weibo news, it is actually a double-edged sword. Literary people look down on each other. If the work of "The Little Prince" cannot hold up, then he will receive a storm of criticism." President Jian said.
Obviously, the president's secretary's flattery hit the horse's hind leg and he was kicked by Ji Qi.
"Have you watched "The Little Prince"?" President Jian suddenly asked.
"I just bought the book yesterday and I haven't had time to read it while sorting out the files." Xiao Zuo responded immediately.
"You can take a look." President Jian nodded, "Gu Lu used his unfortunate life to write works that make people happy."
President Jian is not a gossip, but the editor of "Story Club" Li Shi, many people in journals and publishing circles know that the family situation of the young writer Gu Lu is relatively bad.
If you can combine your life experience to understand the reasons for creating the little prince, it will definitely be clearer. President Jian thought so, but he didn't want to expose the boy's scars.
“You can take a look at my feed below, the first batch of feedback after watching "The Little Prince". You will understand why I only played a role in fueling the flames." President Jian said.
“I’ll go and see it right away.”
"There's no need to wait right away, finish the work first."
(End of this chapter)