Chapter 637 636 As the Saying Goes, when a Person Becomes Famous, He or She Will Be Surrounded by Gossips. The Same Is True for a Famous Book.

"If there are too many critical articles, it will inevitably affect the novel's reputation and thus its sales." Lei Xuecheng said with a smile: "Among the six books on the Qin Army's Eastern Expedition, "The Wasted Capital" is not necessarily the worst in literary value, but The reputation is the worst.”

"Well, Teacher Minghua reminded us before this book was published that we should pay attention to the social response of this book after it is published." Dai Jiali was not too surprised: "Our company has already made plans internally."

After saying that, Dai Jiali took out a mobile phone from the bag he was carrying and stood aside to make a call.

"Director Liu, I am Dai Jiali. Have you seen the article in Literary Review written by Professor Meng Fanhua from Yenching University criticizing "The Wasted Capital"? You should study it carefully and refute his views."

"Also, have you contacted Mr. Ma Yuan? He was very optimistic about this book at the work seminar. Can you let him write a review?"

Fang Minghua naturally thought that he knew Ma Yuan.

One of the representative writers of contemporary "avant-garde" novels in China, he published the novel "The Temptation of Gangdise" in 1985 and "You Have No Choice" by Liu Sola in the same year, which officially set off the turbulence of avant-garde literature in the mainland.

After Fang Minghua's book signing event at Xuecheng Bookstore, he moved to Bell Tower Xinhua Bookstore the next day. At this point, the entire book signing event was completed.

"Qin Army's Eastern Expedition" became more and more famous, and the sales of several books also increased.

As the saying goes, there are many people who are famous, and the same goes for books that are popular.

There are gradually more and more critical articles in the literary world, especially Jia Pingwa's "The Wasted Capital", which has almost become a target.

Cheng Depei, a scholar in Shanghai, has written articles "Is the critical circle also being "rented"? ""Accidentally created a batch of "epics"" to express strong dissatisfaction with "The Wasted City".

Yang Xianyi, the English translator of "Dream of Red Mansions", wrote a limerick "Feelings": "Suddenly I saw a book stall selling "The Wasted Capital". Jia Sheng's talent is unprecedented in ancient and modern times. The human heart is not enough, and the desire for wealth is hard to fill up."

Among them, ten young critics, students and graduate students from prestigious universities criticized the most intensely.

Li Shulei believes that "The Wasted City" "directly caters to the dark and humble psychology of the cultural public", "has no soul at all" and "is vulgar to the bone."

Chen Xiaoming said: "Jia Pingwa, wearing the robe of 'serious literature', rode a heifer from the northwest, leading a group of modern Ximen Qing and beautiful women with all kinds of amorous feelings and desires, and came here in style. , telling people about the biggest sexual desire myth at the end of the century.”

Han Yuhai said that Jia Pingwa "has become a ridiculous act of teaching a cat to play with a mouse and a cultural accomplice who works for the tiger."

Suddenly, the storm was about to come and the wind filled the building, threatening to drown Jia Pingwa with spit.

Of course, writers in Qin Province's literary circles did not dare to show weakness and wrote articles to support Jia Pingwa. As the publisher of the book, Shengshi Books was also secretly organizing young scholars and graduate students in Chinese departments of universities to write articles praising her. This book.

Fang Minghua also wrote a review published in the "Novel Review" magazine to support it.

"Recently, there has been a lot of criticism about the novel "The Wasted City". Literary criticism is a very normal thing. But these recent comments about "The Wasted City", it is not difficult to see that these views have long gone beyond the scope of literature and art, and It’s a condescending moral judgment.”

"This year is 1993. It has been more than ten years since the reform and opening up. Many Western novels have been introduced into China. For example, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was published in China as early as 1988, and it has introduced Jia Pingwa, Chen Zhongshi and others. It had a direct impact on the modernist classic "Ulysses", which also gave an in-depth description of Bloom and Molly's sexual consciousness. This book has also been published in China. "

"What I want to ask is, these critics think that Western works write about sex in order to better shape the characters and fully display and explore human nature, while Chinese local writers are vulgar, explicit, and immodest when it comes to such descriptions. Woolen cloth?"

""The Wasted City" written by Jia Pingwa is like a sister-in-law wearing a cheongsam to go out. Not only do we have to say that the clothes are not good-looking, but we also have to think about her motives and whether she wants to seduce someone... Of course, I To say that China has only one standard for literature and art now is a vicious slander.”

"What I want to say is that some foreign works will be handed down from generation to generation, and they will not be judged by worldly standards or moral standards. Such standards have never been used for Chinese people. From this we can draw a conclusion:" That is In the field of literature and art, foreigners can do transcendental things, but Chinese people cannot. "

"In the fields of literature, art and other humanities, some people use different standards, that is, they use artistic or scientific standards to evaluate foreign works; while they use moral standards to evaluate Chinese works. Review. I call this phenomenon “double standards.” "

This review can be described as extremely pungent, rising directly to the point between countries and between Eastern and Western literature. Those who criticized it were immediately speechless.

Everyone wants to occupy the moral high ground?

Well, let’s see who stands taller!

Today is August 28th, the beginning of autumn has passed, and the weather in Xijing has begun to become less hot. Especially since it rained yesterday, it seems extremely cool today.

Fang Minghua's house was quite lively today, with several people coming.

Zhang Yimou, Ge You, Gong Li, Zhao Jiping, Du Yuan, Lu Le. These people are the main creative team of the "Alive" movie.

It turns out that "To Live" won the highest award of this year's Venice International Film Festival, the "Golden Lion Award", together with the film "Blue of the Blue, White and Red Trilogy" directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Zhang Yimou returned triumphantly, and Shengshi Film and Television held a celebration party for the film "To Live" in Xijing and invited leaders of relevant provincial and municipal departments to attend. At the same time, a seminar on the film "To Live" was also held.

As a private relationship, Song Tangtang also specially invited the main members of the team to her home, cooked a table of dishes, and directly served Maotai, and everyone chatted happily.

Among them, Zhang Yimou often came to Fang Minghua's house, needless to say.

Gong Li is the queen heroine of Zhang Yimou's movies. The two are now in an ambiguous relationship, and Zhao Jiping and the other three are the core members of Zhang Yimou's film creation team. They are all from Xijing. Shengshi Film and Television invested in several movies and TV series shot by Zhang Yimou. They are the core of the creative team. Fang Minghua and Song Tangtang are relatively familiar.

Only Ge You is working with Zhang Yimou's team for the first time, and he is not from Xijing, so he seems a little unfamiliar.

For this reason, Fang Minghua poured him a few more glasses of wine. Of course, he congratulated him, but in his heart, he thought, it's a pity.

Historically, this movie participated in the Cannes Film Festival in France and won the Cannes International Film Festival Jury Award, which is equivalent to the second prize of the film festival.

But at the same time, Ge You won the Best Actor Award!

And this time, perhaps the Venice Film Festival Jury gave "To Live" the highest Golden Lion Award, and did not give Ge You the Best Actor Award again, only the Nomination Award.

One less actor

So, Fang Minghua had to pour two more glasses for Ge You to express his apology in his heart.

Everyone was eating and chatting in the dining room, and it was lively when they suddenly heard the doorbell outside the courtyard gate.

"I'll go see who's here." Song Tangtang said and hurried out.

"It's probably because my two kids were sent back, and they're about to start school." Fang Minghua explained with a smile, and then invited everyone to eat.

A few minutes later, Song Tangtang hurried back and whispered to Fang Minghua: "Pingwa is here."

"Pingwa? Let him come in, let's have a drink together." Fang Minghua said and left the dining room, and saw Jia Pingwa standing at the gate of the yard, his face not looking good.

"Brother Jia, come in." Fang Minghua greeted with a smile.

"I heard from Tangtang that you have guests at home today?" Jia Pingwa asked.

"Didn't Zhang Yimou's "To Live" win the Venice Film Festival Grand Prize? We invited a few main creative staff to have a meal together, brother Jia, let's have a meal together. You also know Zhang Yimou, Zhao Jiping and others."

"No, no." Jia Pingwa declined politely: "Since you have guests, forget it, I'll come another day."

"Brother Jia, I see that you don't look very good, what happened?" Fang Minghua asked with concern.

"It's still the trouble of writing "Wasteland". If I had known this, I wouldn't have written it!" Jia Pingwa burst into a swear word.

It seems that he has a hard time these days.

Fang Minghua thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to my study. I'll make you a cup of tea to cool you down."

"What about your guests?"

"Tangtang is here. It's fine."

"That's fine."

Jia Pingwa agreed.

The two went up to the second floor. Fang Minghua made Jia Pingwa a cup of Longjing tea and said, "Brother Jia, I told you a long time ago that you should be prepared. Your novel has stirred up a hornet's nest among the literati. It would be strange if they didn't scold you."

"Let them scold me. I'll bear it. But look at this." Jia Pingwa took out a magazine from his briefcase and handed it to Fang Minghua.

"Look, what kind of person is Wang Shuo?!"