Spend your whole life writing a book.
This sentence is not Modiano's self-effacing words, but his true inner thoughts.
He really thinks that he has been writing the same work for so many years, because the styles of his works are all similar.
And he didn't think this was a bad thing.
Not all writers have to make breakthroughs and innovations, as long as they can carry forward what they insist on, that's fine.
Gina knew what her father was thinking, and said with a smile on the other end of the phone: "The company has sent me to Jinling for follow-up interviews at next year's deep space annual meeting. Perhaps, are you interested in coming with me? You can take your mother with you.
Let’s go to Jinling together and maybe we can meet YU.”
Modiano thought for a while and said: "You are going to work."
"There is always time after work." Gina said with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for a long time, so we can meet up in Aurous Hill. The Deep Space Annual Conference will not be held for a long time, and you still have enough time to go through the formalities."
Modiano pondered for a while, then suddenly came back to his senses, "Why are we talking about this topic? When did I say I was going to China?"
It's really strange. He just called to ask Gina what she thought of "Curse", but why did the topic suddenly turn to going to Aurous Hill?
"I just think it's good to go to Jinling. It's rare for you to be so interested in a writer. I remember when I recommended "Xiangxi" to you before, you were obviously impatient."
Modiano said harshly: "I am never impatient when it comes to words. Even if I am impatient, it is because of your tough attitude in recommending reading materials, like the after-school reading tasks assigned by elementary school teachers to students."
Gina and Nick were amused by Modiano's metaphor, and Gina asked: "What do you think of the book "Curse"? No one gave you homework this time."
"My point of view."
Modiano looked out the window. Although the sky was clear today, it was a rare cold weather. The TV said that the lowest temperature today was close to zero degrees.
He was thinking that maybe it was because of the appearance of "The Curse" that the weather was so cold.
When many people evaluate his works, they like to mention three key words: memory, history and identity.
In "Curse", there are precisely these three keywords.
But unlike his works, the memory, history and identity in "Curse" are more suspended. Yu Dong seems to have deliberately maintained a fixed distance between the story and the readers. This distance allows people to
I can actually see the story happening right in front of me, but I can't reach it with my hands.
Some novels are like film and television works on television. The story is inside the screen, and the readers are outside the screen, and they develop independently across the screen.
Some novels are like a game, and the story is like flying flowers, like fallen leaves, like the ubiquitous air, surrounding the readers, making them trapped and unable to extricate themselves.
"Curse" is not like either of them. It is more like trapping the reader in a transparent glass cover, and then throwing the glass cover together with the reader into the vast ocean of the story, allowing the reader to drift with the waves of the story.
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There is an invisible layer of glass between the reader and the story, but the distance is still so close.
Modiano looked out the window and thought a lot, but in the end he only came up with one word, "Very good."
Gina smiled and said, "Then let's go to Jinling together. I will help you with the procedures later."
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After "Love Song of Stars and Moon" was aired, news about this TV series was overwhelming. In addition, there was news about the song "Rooftop" and the album "Jay Chou" in which this song is included.
And the only thing that can break out of these news is Yu Dong's new book "Curse".
Compared with "Old Book", the new book "Curse" did not receive much publicity, but when Yu Dong and "Curse" appeared, it naturally aroused a wave of heated discussions.
Many people have not yet gotten over the tragic ending of "Love Song of the Star and Moon", so they walked into the bookstore with red eyes and bought a copy of "The Curse". As a result, they could not laugh or cry.
The cover of "Curse" is very simple, with a solid black background and two large red characters on it: Curse.
It seems that as soon as it comes out, the publisher wants to tell readers that this book is not for good intentions and should be read with caution for the faint of heart.
In fact, this is not a thriller, there are not many scary plots, but after reading it, the depressing feeling makes people breathless.
If "The Old Book" is a novel with infinite warmth and healing, then "The Curse" is a novel that makes people lose their smile.
…
Of course, after "Curse" came out, not only major bookstores, but also scholars in academia were busy.
Nowadays, studying Yu Dong's literature has become a craze in the academic world. Many students have already identified Yu Dong as a key research object while still in school.
This book has only been out for a week, and relevant reviews have appeared in some newspapers, which is not unsatisfactory.
Of course, some of these were indeed produced overtime after the novel came out. Although the quality is average, at least it has content.
As for some review articles, the whole article is in a fog, not only what is said, but it is most likely that the novel has been compiled before it is published.
While those scholars who were not worthy of their name were crazily riding on the popularity of Dongfang, Zhang Zuohai, the real "Eastern scholar", was scratching his head and could not do anything.
Zhang Zuohai began to study Yu Dong a long time ago, and because of several articles, he is well-known both in academia and in deep space research. He is the most famous Yu Dong scholar.
But after "The Curse" came out this time, it put Zhang Zuohai in a very difficult position.
Although Yu Dong's "Curse" seems to be full of old stuff, when combined together, it becomes something completely new.
He read it over and over several times, but still couldn't figure out how Yu Dong did this.
If he is just an ordinary reader, he can simply and crudely attribute this to the charm of Yu Dong's writing, but as a scholar, he must understand the ins and outs.
After researching for a week without any clue, Zhang Zuohai decided to call in foreign aid.
When it came to asking for foreign aid, the first thing he thought of was not the other scholars he worked with, but a netizen he met online, Dong Yudao, known as Lao Dong. He wrote a long email in which he listed all his doubts.
, and hope to have an in-depth chat with Lao Dong about the book "Curse".
Yu Dong saw the email the next morning.
The email is really long.
"Brother Yudao, please forgive me for delivering the mail to you late at night. I have encountered a problem and am in urgent need of rescue. I believe you have read Yu Dong's new book "Curse". In this novel..."
After reading the email, Yu Dong couldn't help but laugh. It was a very weird thing to study oneself with others in a serious manner, and this kind of weirdness made people feel interesting.
Reading through the entire email, it turns out that Zhang Zuohai has indeed encountered a problem, and the problem he is struggling with actually lies in his neglecting the use of perspective in this novel.
Zhang Zuohai was too entangled in the techniques and genres used in the novel, but was lacking in perspective analysis.
Of course, this is not Zhang Zuohai's fault, because Yu Dong did use a lot of techniques in the novel "Curse". Although it is not the main content, it confused scholars like Zhang Zuohai and made them focus on techniques.
above.
After thinking for a while, Yu Dong began to write a reply.
Zhang Zuohai's letter was very long, and Yu Dong's reply was not short either. He focused on elaborating on the work "Curse" from a writing perspective.
Here Zhang Zuohai came home from get out of class at noon and saw Yu Dong's reply.
After reading the reply, Zhang Zuohai felt as if his acupuncture points had been opened.
Lao Dong is right. The success of this novel lies in the selection and transformation of perspective. The reason why Yu Dong is so appropriate and smooth in the selection and transformation of perspective is entirely due to his years of experience and his unique aesthetics.
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Zhang Zuohai has written many articles for research on Yu Dong's aesthetics, so this time, he is going to discuss the perspective shown in the novel.
However, before writing Dongxi, Zhang Zuohai also had some doubts because Lao Dong had written too deeply.
This email is not like an analysis of someone else's article, but rather like my own writing process.
Zhang Zuohai looked at the email and couldn't help but muttered, "Did this old director involve himself so deeply?"
In performance science, there are experiential schools, expression schools, and method schools.
In fact, this situation also exists in academic research. When some scholars are studying a certain artist, they are not always able to stand in the third-person perspective. They often try to observe the world from the artist's perspective and try to enter the world.
Go to the inner world of the artist for more information.
Zhang Zuohai has done this before, but he doesn't think it is a good idea, because the idea of ​​"standing from" the perspective of an artist has strong subjectivity, and subjectivity is something that scholars cannot do when doing academic research.
Undesirable.
Of course, some people do this often.
Perhaps, this old director respects this kind of research method. From this reply, it can be seen that the old director seemed to have inserted himself into Yu Dong's perspective, and even succeeded in doing so.
Zhang Zuohai smiled and shook his head. Although he did not agree with this method, Lao Dong used this method to give him some key inspirations.
"Brother Yu Dao, thank you. I will have the opportunity to treat you to dinner in the future."
After hurriedly replying to an email, Zhang Zuohai began to write his thesis.
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After "Love Song of Stars and Moon" became popular, Deep Space Company received many similar scripts, but most of them were not of good quality, and eight out of ten had similar content to "Love Song of Stars and Moon".
There is still more than a month left before the Deep Space Annual Conference, and Yu Dong previously boasted that Haikou's plan to launch 20 TV series has only been launched so far, and the other eight have not yet been launched.
But Yu Dong is not in a hurry at all, because he still has quite a lot of plans that can be launched. With the sprint at the end of the year, by the time of the annual meeting, even if there are not twenty, there will be seventeen or eighteen.
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The reason why he set a goal at that time was to express an attitude, and being able to launch seventeen or eighty TV series in a year is already a very good achievement.
By next year, their company's TV series will enter a blowout stage.
This year, their company has already filmed TV series such as "Never Close Eyes" and "Looking for Qin", and is currently filming "The True Colors of a Detective", "The Passion Burning Years", "The Flying Man", and the upcoming ones include "In the Name of Outsiders"
"wait.
If nothing else happens, most of these TV series will be launched next year.
Yu Dong briefly looked at the outline list of scripts that he had brought over, and said with a smile: "These screenwriters are really lazy. They just changed "The Love Song of Stars and Moon" and sent it over."
Yuliang also laughed, "I guess these screenwriters not only sent it to us, but other companies should have also received many such scripts. When I talked to Zhao Baogang on the phone yesterday, he also mentioned this matter. They
I received more than a dozen similar scripts in one week."
"He probably isn't interested in this kind of script."
"Boss, you've guessed wrong. He's really interested. Although he doesn't do the filming himself, he can leave it to others. It's just that these scripts are too homogeneous, and their reputation will be affected too much if they are filmed."
Yu Dong nodded, "This may not be a good thing for us. Since some people are willing to invest capital, let them come in. Although they are following the trend, if they can really be produced with care, there may be a few quality films that pass the standard.
work."
"Boss is grand." Yuliang flattered him, and then talked about this year's annual meeting, "This year's annual meeting is different from previous years. In order to attract more ordinary people to participate, the cycle will be lengthened, and then
Some books and film and television works are on display. When the annual meeting was held last year, many of the park’s exhibition halls were not completed, but this year these have been kept up.”
“How many people can the park handle now?”
"There will be no problem in hosting 15,000 people in a single day."
Yu Dong exclaimed: "So many?"
Yu Liang smiled and said: "This is still a conservative estimate. If we let it go, we can receive tens of thousands of people a day. By then, in addition to the theme pavilion, there will be several other pavilions open. These venues can share a lot of people. In order to
To enrich this event, we will hold book signings for some authors or celebrities. Mr. Ji means that this year’s music hall is the top priority.”
The Deep Space Park opened a music hall this year. The space is very large. I have visited it before in Dongdong. There are not many things in it and it is relatively monotonous compared to other halls. Jimmy wants to take this opportunity to open up the Deep Space Music Hall.
, and the key figure in setting up this music hall is Jay Chou.
Jimmy is preparing to arrange for Jay Chou to have his first book signing in his life at Deep Space Music Hall.
"How is the music hall decorated now?"
"The layout is almost complete. There are now a lot of music products stored in this venue. The works of Younes Bo and Jay Chou occupy the main places. In addition, the boss lady's soundtrack album is also included."
Yu Dong nodded and asked: "How long are you going to extend the cycle of this annual meeting?"
Chapter completed!