"I even feel that in the field of stream-of-consciousness literature, there is no one better than it in China."

Liu Yin talked about her psychological feelings when she first read "The Summer of Raiko", her tone became a little excited, and her words of praise for the novel and its author Lin Chaoyang were overwhelming.

She is an editor of the Humanities Society. She has been in the industry for many years and has excellent professional quality. If she does not sincerely approve, she will never give such a high evaluation to a work and author.

Her idea is also the consensus of colleagues in the editorial department of "Contemporary". If they were not collectively optimistic about the novel "Raizi's Summer", the editorial department would not give it "headline" and "published in one issue" treatment. Such treatment, It is not possible to get published for general novels.

"The development of the genre of stream-of-consciousness literature in China is indeed very slow. In the past two years, it has only gradually gained some fans since it has spread from the west to the east.

Moreover, our domestic public readers are deeply influenced by classicism and novels, they attach great importance to the storyline of literary works, and their acceptance of stream-of-consciousness literature is not high.

"Raizi's Summer" is much more story-telling and watchable than other ordinary stream-of-consciousness literary works. I believe this is a concession made by Lin Chaoyang in his creation, and it is also an innovation.

I have read his "Wrangler", "Little Shoes" and "Wreaths Under the Mountain" before, and I can feel one thing. He has a reader's mind, which is very rare among our writers."

Yan Gang continued his conversation with his wife and mentioned Lin Chaoyang's "reader's thinking", which made Liu Yin suddenly excited.

"Yes, yes, your suggestion is very good.

Literary creation is inherently a very personal matter, and stream-of-consciousness literature is even more so. Some works even sound like the writer's personal thoughts and ramblings. It is actually quite difficult to delve into them deeply.

But Lin Chaoyang’s ideas seem to be different from those of many writers. He seems to be looking for a way to seek common ground while reserving differences so that readers can maximize their acceptance of the concept of stream-of-consciousness literature and his novel.”

Yan Gang was inspired by Liu Yin and continued what she said:

"Yes. Reading "Raiko's Summer" is indeed very different from many foreign stream-of-consciousness literary works. At first, I thought this might be because there is no problem in translating the original text into Chinese. After all, so many novels we read are actually All are second-hand creations.

But after what you said, I have some ideas.

He deliberately combined the stream of consciousness technique with the culture and language characteristics of a specific region to form a stream of consciousness literature with a strong national cultural flavor. This was a brave attempt.

For example, Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" not only shows the inner alienation of the characters, but also incorporates metaphors of Prague's urban landscape and Jewish culture.

He is based on the tradition of Western stream-of-consciousness literature and incorporates the Eastern literary tradition, making the novel not only have obvious characteristics of stream-of-consciousness literature, but also have strong readability and appeal to readers."

The more Yan Gang talked, the more excited he became. He couldn't help but pick up the pen, "I have an idea, I have an idea. What title should I give it? Let me think about it... I have it!"

As he spoke, he picked up a pen and wrote a line of text on the first line of the manuscript paper.

Seeing that her husband was immersed in creation as he spoke, Liu Yin stopped disturbing him.

A few days later, Lin Chaoyang received the manuscript fee slip from Warrior Publishing House and a letter from editor Liang Junshu to him. In the letter, Liang Junshu introduced Lin Chaoyang to Lin Chaoyang more than three months after the release of the single volume of "Garland Under the Mountain"

results.

The single volume of "High Mountain" was first printed at 300,000 copies, and it was sold out within a month of its release. Additional printings followed, and then more printings.

As of the time Liang Junshu wrote to him, the total printed volume of the single volume of "Garland Under the Mountain" had reached an astonishing 1.2 million copies.

In addition to the initial payment of 300,000 copies to Lin Chaoyang from Warrior Publishing House, this time they paid all the royalties to Lin Chaoyang for the 900,000 copies.

After reading Liang Junshu's letter, Lin Chaoyang picked up the fee slip again. The bright numbers on it were dazzling.

2178 yuan.

This is the largest royalties Lin Chaoyang has received so far in his writing career, even more than the royalties for the 200,000-word novel "Laizi's Summer".

It’s good if the novel sells well!

This is just the remuneration for the number of copies calculated based on the basic remuneration. How much would it cost if converted into royalties?

Lin Chaoyang thought about it and suddenly felt a little heartbroken. He had made a lot less money!

Today is Saturday, and Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu have made an appointment to go back to their parents' house for dinner in the evening.

After getting off work, he got on his bicycle and headed towards Langrun Lake Apartment. When he got downstairs of the apartment, he saw Wu Zuxiang smoking alone downstairs, his figure looking slightly bleak.

Seeing him, the old comrade's eyes looked a bit resentful.

When Lin Chaoyang moved away, his supply of tobacco and food was all gone, and life became increasingly difficult.

Lin Chaoyang stepped forward and refilled the old man's cigarette, "You look like I've done something bad!"

Wu Zuxiang took a puff of the cigarette and signaled with his eyes. Lin Chaoyang wisely put the remaining half of the pack of cigarettes into the old man's pocket.

"You're so old, stop smoking!"

"At such an old age, one cigarette is less than one cigarette."

Lin Chaoyang shook his head, these old men were always full of nonsense.

After eating at Tao's house, Lin Chaoyang and his wife rode back to the Overseas Chinese Apartment, and he took out the manuscript payment slip he had received during the day.

Over the past year or so, Tao Yushu has collected manuscript fees countless times, and his performance has gradually turned from the initial surprise to mediocre.

It's not that she's unhappy anymore, she's just getting used to it.

But when she saw today's royalties bill, she couldn't help but feel happy.

Because including this amount of money, the money in hand of the couple is enough to pay for the remaining payment of the house.

"I didn't expect that in just a few months, we have already saved up the house payment!"

Tao Yushu's tone was full of appreciation and surprise. The overseas Chinese spent 10,500 yuan to buy the apartment, which was an astronomical sum for the working-class people of this era.

At that time, the couple was under great pressure to pay. Tao Yushu believed that the couple could afford the house payment, but there was no guarantee that they would be able to pay off the balance within a year, so she had already made plans to apply for support from her parents.

preparation.

It is completely acceptable to borrow some money from your parents and spend two or three years paying it off.

After all, buying a house is a major event in life, and the couple enjoy superior housing conditions that are not available to most citizens in Yanjing today.

But she never expected that less than four months after buying the house, she would have enough money to pay the final payment for the house.

She touched Lin Chaoyang's face and said, "Chaoyang, thank you for your hard work!"

Lin Chaoyang hugged her, "It's not too hard."

Tao Yushu said emotionally: "How can it not be considered hard work? Studying, going to work, writing... You have been working hard every day for the past few months, and you have lost weight."

Listening to his wife's words, Lin Chaoyang subconsciously touched his cheeks. It seemed that the fat was indeed a little less than before.

"It's not bad. The first half of the year is almost over. I've written a novel and a script. It's busy and fulfilling."

Tao Yushu said with some distress: "We don't have to worry about the house payment. Haven't we not paid the script fee yet? It is equivalent to our savings. You can take a good rest during this time."

Lin Chaoyang was quite surprised when she, the king of scrolls, suddenly discovered her conscience, but still nodded, "Yeah, okay."

At this time, Tao Yushu said again: "Writing is a process of constantly absorbing nutrients from the outside world and then giving feedback. If you always write in silence, it will not work if you don't improve yourself.

When you have time, read more books, communicate more with people, and go out more to observe life, so that you can maintain your inspiration and writing state."

Why did I change my gender? Are you waiting for me here?

The scroll king will never change his nature, even if he is recuperating, he still needs to recuperate and recuperate.

In the blink of an eye, it is mid-June, and "The First Floor in the World" has been performed at the Capital Theater for 29 days.

According to the conventions of drama performances, public dramas rarely perform for more than 15 consecutive days.

Because the workload of drama performances is very high for actors, if the performance lasts for a long time, the actor's voice will be unable to bear it, and the actor's physical strength will not be able to keep up, which will directly affect the performance effect.

Since its premiere on May 15, "The First Floor in the World" has been warmly welcomed by the Yanjing literary and art circles and the general public. In addition to its excellent reputation, its influence is also reflected in the number of theatergoers and ticket sales.

During this period of the performance, the Capital Theater was always packed, and the ticket booth at the entrance of the theater was squeezed twice.

There is no online ticket sales at this time. Audiences who want to watch the play have to queue up to buy tickets.

Since "The First Floor" was so popular, many people had to line up at the entrance of the Capital Theater in advance in order to grab tickets.

The result of this is that the audience queuing up at the entrance of the Capital Theater comes earlier and earlier, but the queue gets longer and longer.

Everyone wants to watch the play and buy tickets, so you have to come earlier than others and be able to endure it.

You see, this is a vicious cycle of involution.

Since mid-May, there has been a long queue at the entrance of the Capital Theater from morning to night every day. Some people even queue up in the middle of the night just to buy two tickets for "The World's First Floor". This scene has become a phenomenon in recent times.

A scene from Wangfujing Street.

Originally, according to the performance plan, the performance time of "The First Floor in the World" was only half a month.

But after performing it for a few days, the effect was so good that it created a craze among Yanjing drama fans.

There are many viewers queuing up to buy tickets, but there are even more viewers who can't buy tickets and can't see the play.

Some dissatisfied audience members blocked the entrance of the Capital Theater, intending to report the situation to Renyi. One day, they blocked the deputy director Su Zhi.

"The First Floor in the World" has been extremely popular since the day it premiered, so Zhiya knew the audience's love for this drama. Seeing this situation, Renyi was also discussing whether to perform a few more performances.

However, Renyi's annual performance plans are set at the beginning of the year. Once there are temporary changes, it means that all subsequent plans will be disrupted, so Renyi's leadership has been hesitating.

As a result, Zhi was blocked by a group of audience members at the entrance of the Capital Theater. After witnessing the audience's enthusiasm for "The First Floor in the World", Tianrenyi decided to perform fifteen more performances of "The First Floor in the World".

Drama performances are physically demanding for actors, but the highlight of a theater like "The First Floor" is A and B roles, so there is no problem in rotating performances.

The only uncomfortable thing is the repertoire that Renyi will rehearse in the second half of the year. The number of performances will inevitably be reduced due to the squeeze of "The First Floor in the World".

Today is the last performance of "The First Floor in the World", so Zhizhi specially sent two tickets to Lin Chaoyang.

A good drama that you never tire of watching.

Many fans of the show still enjoy it even after watching it many times.
To be continued...