Chapter 314 Neon Record
Let’s talk about the record of “Flowers for Algernon” in China.
320,000 copies on the first day.
750,000 copies in the first week.
1.68 million copies in the first month.
Since 2007, it is the fastest book to reach one million copies (13 days).
It has been on the market for almost two months now, and its sales have exceeded two million, even surpassing the sales of "The Little Prince". After the royalties were paid, King Gulu's finances became abundant again.
How about traveling overseas?
The translator, Taishan Kobayashi, was sleeping at home. Even though it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, he still didn't get up.
Working overtime every day to translate "Flowers for Algernon" was so tiring that he had to take a good sleep after finally getting rid of the heavy burden.
But not long after, the doorbell rang outside the door.
Under normal circumstances, if you live alone and have friends, the place is remote, and no one will come except the pay staff of NHK TV station.
Maybe I found the wrong one? Kobayashi Taishan, who was feeling intensely sleepy, did not get up.
I don’t know how long it had been, but the sound of vehicle horns and the noise of human voices outside the door kept him awake.
What's going on? Don’t you know that vehicles honking their horns can cause uneasiness to people?
Taishan Kobayashi jumped up from the tatami and rushed to the window with a stiff expression on his face, silently closing the curtains.
He was scared. There were people outside, and more than twenty long guns and cannons were set up. The person who honked the horn just now was a reporter, so that’s okay. Journalists often do this kind of thing.
"Are there any famous people in this area?" Kobayashi Taishan couldn't help but think.
Without a clue, the noise became even louder the next moment, and he could still vaguely hear——
"Teacher Xiaolin Taishan, do you have time for an interview?"
"Readers are very curious, Kobayashi-san."
"I am a reporter from "Weekly Bunshun"."
......
Come to interview me? Are you calling my name? Kobayashi Taishan seemed to have been hit in the head with an air hammer.
Yes, the huge battle outside is all because of him.
The reason why the scene was even more heated was because the reporters had just seen him from the window, which seemed to add fuel to the fire.
After thinking for a long time, Xiaolin Taishan opened the door.
A magazine tabloid immediately caught up with the question. Before the main character could ask the question, he had already received the question, "Xiaolin-san, did you communicate with Teacher Gu Lu when you were translating?"
< br>Teacher Gu Lu, during translation? Kobayashi Tarzan seems to understand again. The "Bouquet for Algernon" sold this morning is a hit?
""Flowers for Algernon" is the first novel you have translated. Why can you translate it so well?" The reporter from Weekly Wenchun not to be outdone, also pushed forward.
Is it exciting? Xiaolin Taishan feels that he works the same way he usually does now.
At the beginning, Kobayashi Taizan’s translation is: ストラウスはかせわぼくが卡えたことや思いだしたことやこれからぼくのまわりでおこたことわぜんぶかいておきなさいといった.
The correct way to write it should be 覚えている (remember), but he used 思い (remember).
Everyone knows that the protagonist Xiaolu in the book made a lot of typos at the beginning.
The English version has one or two letters wrong, just like Progress.Report (Progress Report) becomes Progris.Riport, which is extremely simple.
In Chinese, it can be exchanged with homophones, such as progress report becomes a near-step report, to express that the protagonist's IQ is not high at the beginning.
Then why the Japanese is "wrong" is a great test of the translator's ability. Kobayashi Taizan chose to misunderstand the meaning of similar words, and the progress report was also translated as "けえかほおこく".
It must be said that Kobayashi Taizan is talented in translation. Even the Japanese version has 1+1 greater than 2 levels.
"Professor Ryonose thinks that you are a rising star in the field of translation. What do you think of this?"
He continued to ask.
Rising star?
Who is Ryonose?
Xiao Lin Taishan feels that this world is so strange.
Why does it feel like everything has changed when he wakes up from his sleep? The story begins in the morning.
"One liter of tears. If I shed a tear today for a science fiction novel, I will lose." Liang Huali thought to herself while buying the book.
She has a single surname and her ancestors served as good officials. Of course, this is not important. The important thing is that she has seen many pure love works. My favorites are "Calling for Love in the Center of the World" and "Love in the Sky", and I am familiar with all kinds of sensational scenes.
Just to see how Hua Xiacai put knives in his works, I bought science fiction that I would not normally read.
Of course, another reason why Lianghuali is so sure is that she has never cried while reading a science fiction novel.
Getting on the subway, Lianghuali didn’t grab a seat. Under normal operation, except when starting the train during commuting time, the probability of grabbing a seat is not much higher than the probability of winning a lottery ticket.
The office workers in the carriage seemed to be stuffed with sausage meat, so stuffed that they were about to burst.
Many people were watching, and Lianghuali saw a familiar cover - a white mouse in the middle, surrounded by colorful flowers.
Looking around, there are at least three people holding "Bouquet for Algernon" in their hands. This ratio is very scary, two tall girls and one working dog.
Since there are so many people reading books, Lianghuali feels that if she takes out a book, she will not become an outlier.
Leaning on the handrail, although Neon’s subway shock-absorbing technology is not as good as that of Huaxia, it will not sway at all when people are crowded.
The story is very simple, the story of the mentally retarded deer.
Lianghuali was immersed in reading the story. From the beginning, I will definitely not cry, to I will definitely not cry in the carriage.
In the end, I will be able to bear it!
Neon's pure love tears the beautiful love into pieces, just like in "Love in the Sky", where Meijia was raped and walked down slowly with Hiroki's company. Later, Meijia became pregnant with Hiroki's child, thinking that sweet love was coming, but...
The most amazing thing is the end of the novel. The author stated that "Love in the Sky" is her autobiography, and the whole story is Really, the author is Meijia in the story.
However, this book does not outline many beautiful scenes. On the contrary, the deer becomes smart and looks down on the people around him, which makes Lianghuali dislike it. This book depicts helpless despair - but the little deer is already miserable, why should we plunge him into despair?
Is this really the author who wrote "The Prince of That Time"?
Tears were streaming down her face, but Lianghuali finally couldn't hold it back.
It was really rude to cry in public, so Lianghuali hurriedly covered herself. But she saw from the corner of her eye that the other two female high school students who were reading had their heads buried behind their books. I also don’t want people to see it.
But Lianghuali understood instantly that she was not the only one who didn't hold back.
Lianghuali came home from get off work today and immediately gave her father Amway. Her father is Ryonose.
"Father, read this article, it is very exciting! You must read it."
Professor Ryonose is a professor at the Faculty of Literature at Tokyo University and has in-depth research in the fields of literature, Chinese, and translation.
Written "An Examination of Object Sorrow in Neon Literature", "Literature Influenced by Tang Poems" and "Do We Need to Learn Chinese?" " and other works. Some books are even neon textbooks, so their words and deeds are still quite influential.
Ryoganose, who was relatively busy, still did not force her daughter to take time to read.
The process of reading for almost three hours is as follows:
"The Chinese scholar Gu Lu's book "The Little Prince" is of high artistic value."
"Huh? Who is the translator and why are there so many typos?"
"I seem to understand. Yes, the author is taking advantage of typos."
"Who is the translator who actually translated the typos like this?"
"Life is full of despair, and for the person involved, it is even more desperate. It’s no big deal.”
After reading it, the professor knew that this book would definitely sell well in Neon. He took off his reading glasses and wiped them carefully with a glasses cloth.
Because it is somewhat in line with the neon national character of material sorrow.
So when Professor Ryonose published his evaluation of "Flowers for Algernon", he first praised his own family member, Taizan Kobayashi, who was the translator.
As a professor, he can understand the Chinese version. Liangose praised it from many aspects, including the accurate translation of professional terms, the maintenance of consistency in the style of the work, and the consideration of the readers' reading needs. The next step is to review the books.
["Flowers for Algernon" is a very popular book recently. You can see it whenever you pass by a bookstore, so I only know the name, but this time it was recommended by a relative, so I took on the challenge.
After reading it in one sitting, I almost cried.
Probably it will vary depending on the person reading it, everyone has desire, arrogance and deception in their heart.
In the face of desperate answers, cruel tenderness is better than harsh truth. I recalled the moment when I was deceived as a child, and the forgotten memories were forced out again.
Books provide in-depth reflections on the universal theme of relationships with others...]
After reading the entire review, I always feel that praising the book is incidental, and my love for Kobayashi Taizan is the main thing. This is why a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets. Ryonose is more interested in translation because of his own research major. Coupled with his populist character, he will talk less about Gu Lu.
It doesn't matter, it's not the last time Gu Lu was in Neon. He needs a celebrity recommendation to take off.
Gu Lu is now famous.
Sato of Haku Dosha had 500,000 copies in the first printing.
His courageous gamble won!
On that day, two neon forum hot words were created: "Translation Star" and "Glad Fiction".
No need to explain the former. In the afternoon, reporters were already there to "harass" them. The latter is because many readers are glad that the experiments in the book are fake after reading the book. At the same time, many people understood what a certain celebrity said. Seven things that can destroy human beings: 1. Politics without principles; 2. Knowledge without personality; 3. Wealth without hard work; 4. Science without humanity...
"Wrong, I really Wrong. Sci-fi tragedies are completely different from pure love novels. It’s heartbreaking.”
“Although I just finished reading it, I cried at the last sentence, and I couldn’t calm down for a long time. I am good at writing reviews, but I still want to recommend it to you. This is a masterpiece, and Gu Lu, you can never doubt the creativity of a genius."
"There is not much love content in the book, which may also be related to the author. It’s related to his young age. But his description of love is so profound. Without the intelligence and education supported by love, it is worthless.”
"Give the little deer a bouquet of flowers too. This is a devil's book with a cute cover. He tricked me into it with the cover of a fairy tale work, and then I cried. When the smart little deer said 'I am a little deer too', I was thinking, Is the deer who has become smart the same person as the deer whose IQ was only 60? "
"I am very excited. I am a nurse in a special hospital. This book describes special groups that have not been noticed in other works. Views on sex. The little deer couldn't control himself, so he was beaten and kicked by his mother in the book when he was a child, and even put him in a cage to let him have more intimate contact with women. This memory will come to mind, making Xiaolu dare not do this at all. Caring for special groups has been a long-term topic in society. Thanks to Teacher Gu Lu for writing such a book, and thanks to its translator. More people can pay attention to special groups.”
……
Rave reviews! There were negative reviews, but they were drowned out.
On this day, Gu Lu opened the Tianmen with a "sword" and returned to Neon to discuss hot topics.
"How is the progress of your manga?" Fujimaki Tadatoshi asked Tsukuda.
"The character design has been finished." Futian said, "Ma Xuanyou will become one of the Ten Heroes of Yuanyue. As for Mr. Gu Lu, I have arranged a very magical identity."
It's good to have an eye for it. Fujimaki Tadatsuki nodded, "It will be better to release it recently. Have you read Mr. Gu Lu's new work?"
"Of course I know. There are even people queuing up at the bookstore opposite my apartment." Tsukuda said, "The last time I saw people queuing up at a bookstore, it was when an idol group released an album."
"With continued popularity, new manga serials can take advantage of the east wind, which is a very good start." Fujimaki Zhongjun doesn't need it now, because Kuroko's basketball reputation has already risen, so he won't take the No. 8 Lieutenant Colonel team out for a walk.
But unintentionally, just this summer vacation, the Neon High School varsity team played basketball with No. 8 Middle School and actually lost.
The media began to report that "China No. 8 Middle School Basketball Club has double walls, and only the killer Lu Ping plays! Has Neon High School basketball become so corrupt? Gu Lu, a writer on one of the double walls, simply "
At that time, the high school basketball team was severely criticized, and then Tadatoshi Fujimaki did nothing, and the manga became popular for no reason.
"I will do it as soon as possible." Tsukuda added, "If I have a chance, I really want to go to No. 8 Middle School and have melon stew. I can't make that effect at all."
At first, Tadatoshi Fujimaki felt that this was a dark dish, but when his friend kept thinking about it, he started to wonder - could it really be delicious?
Go back and try it! Fujimaki Tadoshi thought.
Should I say it or not, if my friend’s new work becomes popular, then the reputation of China Fog No. 8 Middle School will definitely be further improved...
No one knows what will happen in the future, but at the moment Bai Tongshe Someone has definitely made a lot of progress.
“President Sato is far-sighted!”
“I said President Sato’s vision cannot be wrong.”
"Can you believe it? There are actually queues at the checkout counters of some bookstores."
"Why is Gu Lu so good at writing? There is no obstacle to the transformation from fairy tales to science fiction."
>The editorial board of Baidongsha all praised Sato.
The bigger the wind and waves, the more valuable the fish. Sato is the first beneficiary of this wave, and the second is definitely his immediate boss.
Accept these compliments with satisfaction. In Sato's opinion, he deserves everything.
"Is it possible for "Flowers for Algieli" to win the Naoki Award?" Sato asked another question.
The editor who just spoke was silent at this time. No one has ever obtained it before. How can it be said accurately?
Neon’s record will be checked in two days, and the country is not at peace.
First day back home.
In the morning, "Teacher Zhang, thank you for your hard work and travel. Let's take advantage of the jet lag when you return to China."
In the afternoon, "Students don't have to worry, the substitute teacher is here to help."
In the evening, "Have you had enough rest? Please compile a copy of Dao Xiaogu's information about her stay in the UK and send it to me."
Just by looking at the title, you can tell who cares so much about Zhang Hanli.
Director Hu himself is not in a hurry at all, but he can’t stand the impatience of his immediate boss!
"There is a lot of information and needs to be sorted out. So it may take two days." Zhang Hanli responded.
This response - the information is so good, Director Hu is so kind and approachable, "That's hard work for Teacher Zhang. It's such a long trip to London."
"It's not hard work." Zhang Hanli said.
It’s really not hard, it’s more like a public trip. The agent named Yao arranged things very properly, and Gu Lu didn't need him to take care of him at all.
The only trouble is that Teacher Zhang has to choose more appropriate news.
It took four days to organize the collected reports into a document package and send it over.
The director immediately reported it to the principal. After all, Principal Chang was very concerned about this matter.
Browsing through Teacher Qizhang’s information, the last time Principal Chang was so serious was when he was inspected by the leadership.
"The Little Prince" was put on sale in the UK and caused a huge response, so Puffin Books invited Gu Lu to hold a book signing.
The signing event was reported by the Guardian, The Times, the Daily Mail and many other newspapers, with photos as evidence.
The people of London were very excited about the arrival of China's first talented writer, and even gathered downstairs in the hotel where Gu Lu lived.
What the teacher in the above chapter said is all supported by photos.
Can photos be fake? Principal Chang was very satisfied.
Not only are there photos, but there are also data sheets.
Nielsen swept the weekly list of thousands of books, and the data is clearly visible.
It is obvious that since Gu Lu went to the book signing event, daily sales have increased for three consecutive days.
"Teacher Zhang is very careful in his work," said Principal Chang.
He silently dialed the number of an old friend, from the Global Times. You all know this newspaper, it is a newspaper under Renren Daily that reports international news.
Principal Chang thought, that is to say, for such a big matter, it is better for reporters to investigate it more clearly and then report it.
“I don’t know if the principals of Bashu Middle School and No. 3 Middle School were mad to death.” Principal Chang drank tea, and what he drank was Yongchuan Premium Xiuya.
Why? Because having Gu Lu is simply a win-win situation. In terms of sports, which high school can exchange with overseas high schools during the summer vacation?
No!
As for clubs, it goes without saying that the school magazine "Youth" is the pinnacle of clubs. To put it bluntly, if No. 8 Middle School failed, "Youth" would have to be there. This represents the youth power of the new era.
On the contrary, as a writer, Gu Lu himself brought the reputation bonus to the school in this aspect, which is really the least worth mentioning advantage.
These are all political achievements!
You must know that Gu Lu almost joined Bashu Middle School. Fortunately, he had a sharp eye and offered better conditions.
The more Principal Chang thought about it, the more he felt wise and powerful.
(End of this chapter)