A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 255 The tragic ending is online! The masterpiece of lost literature "The Sun Also Rises"! A true masterpiece

Eight o'clock in the evening.

A hotel used by government departments to entertain guests.

Jiang Hai was sitting at his desk, thinking about what he needed to do next.

He lit a cigarette, his eyes full of thought:

"Should I copy a book or not? If I were to copy a book, which one should I copy first?"

“That’s a problem.”

Normally speaking, in this contest and competition between top Chinese and Western writers, since I am not at the center of public opinion, I should not feel much pressure.

But.
If I want to make further progress in the field of literature, go beyond the country, break out of Asia, and influence Europe and the United States, this situation is the problem I must face.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls?" After thinking for a while, Jiang Hai shook his head and said, "This book is indeed a good book, and it can be regarded as a world classic."

“However, it does not quite fit my current reality.”

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a novel written by Hemingway in 1940. It mainly tells a series of events that happened when Americans participated in the Spanish People's Anti-Fascist War during World War II.

The general plot content can be summarized as follows:
[Robert Jordan, an American youth, arrived behind enemy lines and prepared to cooperate with the guerrillas in the mountains to blow up a strategically important bridge when the Republican Army attacked in order to disrupt the enemy's counterattack. After going through all kinds of hardships and overcoming all kinds of difficulties, Jordan finally overcame his psychological barriers and finally completed the task of blowing up the bridge. However, he was seriously injured in the process of performing the task. It was under this circumstance that he decided to sacrifice himself to cover the guerrillas in the mountains to evacuate the battlefield.]

This is a long story about war. It doesn't mean that this novel is badly written, on the contrary -

It is very well written!
When "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was published in the United States, it immediately caused a sensation in the American literary world. From the end of 1940 to the end of 1941, the sales volume exceeded copies, becoming the best-selling book in the United States at that time.

Almost every American soldier who participated in World War II, that is, Allied officers and soldiers fighting in the European battlefield, had a copy of the book.

With this book, Hemingway also inspired millions of soldiers in the anti-fascist camp, and it was called a hymn of human courage by the Western literary world!
The book is a good book, but
This thing is indeed a bit incompatible with the national conditions!

You want me, a Chinese, to praise the bravery of American soldiers?
This is a dangerous political stance.
In addition, many literary works can only shine with their due brilliance in a specific era.

During World War II, For Whom the Bell Tolls encouraged thousands of warriors in the anti-fascist camp, but now in peacetime, you are writing this kind of war book again.
Then the effect may not be as good as imagined?
After much deliberation, Jiang Hai finally set his sights on Hemingway's other two masterpieces:

"The Old Man and the Sea"

"The Sun Also Rises"

"The Old Man and the Sea, needless to say, is definitely a classic among classics." Jiang Hai kept thinking in his mind, "This is a story about courage. An old man in his twilight years fights with a huge marlin on the sea surface in a storm."

This is a story about hope.

This is a story about courage.

If you don’t know how classic The Old Man and the Sea is, then you only need to know the honors this literary creation has won. When Hemingway created The Old Man and the Sea in his later years, he won the most supportive award with an unshakable approval rating.

Won the Pulitzer Prize, which is a very prestigious award in the Western journalism community!

Moreover, when The Old Man and the Sea entered the mainstream and was selected by the Western literary world as one of the 32 books that have influenced the course of humankind, it directly achieved the highest honor and achievement in the literary world:

Nobel Prize in Literature!

This is a great work that surpasses "One Hundred Years of Solitude"!

"In 1986, in France in the last century, once The Old Man and the Sea was released, sales reached 48 million copies within 530 hours, setting a miracle in the history of literary sales." Jiang Hai kept recalling the achievements of The Old Man and the Sea in his mind.

"To this day, this record has not been broken, and it is highly praised by the Western literary community as one of the most influential novels in European literature in the 20th century."

Do you want to ask whether this book is awesome?
There is no doubt that this book is absolutely awesome!
So awesome!

So awesome that it’s incomparable!

This is a literary miracle that even Hemingway himself could not replicate!

However, after pondering for a while, Jiang Hai rejected the idea of ​​plagiarizing "The Old Man and the Sea":

"It's awesome, but this book is still not suitable."

You ask why it is not suitable?
The reason is simple.

Have you ever seen someone playing Landlord and throwing the royal bomb right at the start?

Without knowing the other party's bottom line and what famous people will end up like on the other side, you come right up with a copy of "The Old Man and the Sea".
What if there is too much space?
Wouldn't this be a bit too brutal?
This is like attending a literary exchange meeting and competing with others in your creative ability.

The opponent threw a copy of "Douluo Dalu" at you.

Without further ado, you directly brought out a copy of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Compare the four great classics with "Douluo Dalu"?
Compare Cao Xueqin's writing skills with "Rise, My Love"?
Isn't this a bit of an exaggeration?

"It takes a certain amount of time for a writer's literary works to settle down, so that people can be convinced."

After much deliberation, Jiang Hai finally turned his attention to Hemingway's last work, which is also known as Western Lost Literature. Hemingway was also called the "Representative of Lost Writers" by the Western literary world because of this work.

"The Sun Also Rises"

"Compared to the previous two literary works, this work seems to be more in line with my current situation."

The content of "The Sun Also Rises" can be roughly summarized as follows:
[In 1924, in Paris, the romantic capital after the First World War, a group of retired soldiers who had suffered serious emotional or love trauma and suffered serious psychological or physiological dysfunction in the war began to live a bohemian life after the war because they could not integrate into the peaceful society. This book describes the bohemian life of this confused generation after the war and the emotional entanglements between them.]

The theme of this book is -

The war gradually awakened the consciousness of a generation, but being caught in the torrent of history, no matter how awakened their consciousness was, they were powerless to change everything around them.

It is precisely because of this kind of pain after awakening but feeling that there is no way out, full of sadness and despair, that critics call the common people represented by the protagonist Barnes in the book -

The lost generation!
The same background after World War I
They are also clearly suffering, and in their daily interactions, people wear masks of hypocrisy.
It is also a tragic literature. The protagonist has a bohemian life. The whole book is filled with debauchery and decadence that are difficult to conceal.
The story is also developed through [sex]
A single element may be difficult to identify, but you have to combine all these elements together.
Does the content of this book look strangely familiar?

Does it feel like you’ve seen it somewhere before?
That's right!

Dazai Osamu, "Disqualified in the World"!
"No Longer Human" tells the story of the decadent generation in Japanese society after World War II, headed by the protagonist "Ohba Yozo".

"The Sun Also Rises" tells the story of a lost generation in French society after World War I, led by the protagonist Barnes, who lost hope in life.

Two books with similar story backgrounds!
Both books also use a depressing atmosphere that is difficult for ordinary people to understand to express the theme of the story.
It is worth mentioning that.

The final endings of writers Hemingway and Dazai Osamu are also extremely similar.

After writing "No Longer Human", Dazai Osamu chose to end his life by jumping into a river.

After writing The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway committed suicide with a double-barreled shotgun at his home in Idaho.

"With the whole book of No Longer Human as a foundation, I chose to write The Sun Also Rises. At least it won't give people a very abrupt feeling?" Jiang Hai pondered in his heart, "At least, from the perspective of subject matter and writing style, these two books——"

“They are all relatively close.”

The subject matter style established by "No Longer Human" is mourning culture, which is the so-called decadent style.

The literary work "The Sun Also Rises", although judging from the title, it does give people a very positive feeling?

However, don’t be fooled by its appearance.
This book shows unprecedented confusion in terms of outlook on life, world view and society.

If you delve into it and feel the thoughts the author has given to the characters in the book, you will soon be in the mood of the book and begin to doubt the authenticity of this world.

"If the meaning of human existence is destruction, then why should we be given a new life?"

"Why do people live?"

“Is there a possibility that death is not the end of life, but the beginning of another ideology?”

How could "The Sun Also Rises", a book that created an entire literary genre and is considered the culmination of the Lost School, be just as simple as its title suggests?
This is exactly the same as writing an online article about "Bring an umbrella but not a knife on a rainy night"
First, use the labels of "refreshing article" and "warm and healing" to attract readers.

then
Then trick people into coming in and kill them!

"Literary exchange, huh?" With a good book in hand, Jiang Hai felt a little more confident. "I want to see what it's all about."

Without stopping, Jiang Hai sat in front of the computer and began to type line after line:
[The Sun Also Rises]

[Prologue] [Act 1, Scene 1.]

Jiang Hai was attending a literary exchange meeting, thinking about what kind of works he should produce to compete with the upcoming foreign writers.

Chenghai Drama Academy.

The staff at the animation studio were also busy.

The publicity and promotion department, headed by Chen Hanying, a top student from CAFA, is busy collecting audience suggestions for improving the animation on the Internet.

in the office.

Chen Hanying, who was dressed in casual clothes but still exuded a sweet and youthful aura, instructed the dozen or so student-like staff in front of her:
“Record some reasonable and meaningful comments. These are direct feedback from the market.”

"Remember, be serious."

The happiest thing in the world is when you are at school or working.

In the classroom, there is someone you like.

In the office, there are beautiful colleagues who are good-looking and meet my aesthetic standards.

Everyone must have had this feeling.
When the girl he liked was sitting in the classroom, by chance, the teacher moved Bai Yueguang's seat next to his own.

At this time.
Even eight in the morning is really hard to endure.

Even though I have my most hated math class today.

Even so, on the way to the classroom, I will become very happy, and the air on the road will become incomparably sweet.
Apparently, this is the case now.

Chen Hanying is a famous senior from CAFA. I don’t know who made the ranking of campus beauties. On the CAFA campus beauties ranking list——

Chen Hanying has long occupied the first place on the list with her pure looks, sweet temperament and stunning beauty.

Now, this beautiful senior sister who only existed in legends has become a colleague that he works with day and night?

even.
Can you still talk to yourself from time to time?
How could these new trainees who had just joined the animation studio not be excited?
"Understood!" As if they were injected with chicken blood, this group of excited animals quickly replied to Chen Hanying, "Senior Hanying, don't worry--"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

After he finished speaking, he immediately got down to work.

After one and a half months of continuous broadcasting, "The Divine Chef Xiao Fugui", a healing animation containing tragic historical elements -

The finale has finally arrived!

Although, as the producer of the animation, everyone already knows the ending.

But the audience doesn’t understand!

When the finale of "The Divine Chef Xiao Fugui" was broadcast, a considerable number of viewers immediately said that they couldn't stand it and complained bitterly under the official account of the animation studio:

"abnormal!"

"This is so fucking perverted!"

What is the ending of "The Divine Chef Xiao Fugui"?

One minute to briefly explain -

The protagonist Xiao Fugui's beloved grandfather, Lao Hongtou, was in prison when he heard news from the outside world. He mistakenly thought that Xiao Fugui had obtained the position of chief imperial chef. He was so excited that he died suddenly.

Both good and evil, throughout the animation, the eunuch Xiao Lizi, who serves as Xiao Fugui's friend, went crazy in the end because he could not accept the ending of being exiled to the cold palace.

The old doctor who had helped Xiao Fugui was finally killed in a fight with the killer in order to protect Xiao Fugui.

Little Bee is one of the few close friends of Xiao Fugui and is also the adopted daughter of Lord K (the prototype of Yuan Shikai). With the reminder of Xiao Fugui, she recognized the true face of her adoptive father Lord K. It was also thanks to Xiao Fugui's reminder that Little Bee began to oppose Lord K, and was finally killed by the assassin raised by Lord K.

Xiao Fugui's lover, Little Feidie, is missing.

The master who taught Xiao Fugui cooking, Lao Caitou, was thrown into death row.
It is hard to imagine that a "healing animation" aimed at children would actually have a finale that focuses on -

Some died and some were injured?
All the good guys who helped the protagonist are fucking dead.

But all the bad guys who are against the protagonist have better lives than the other???

When CCTV Children’s Channel broadcast this ending.

In an instant, the audience's comments exploded:
"I'm going to report this to the central government! I'm going to report this to the central government!!! This is what you call a healing animation, this is what you call an open ending??? I can't fucking accept this"

"As an adult, I feel uncomfortable watching this, and I feel so upset. Are you sure children can accept it???"

"So what kind of ideology is this animation promoting? The main idea is that everyone must die, and the main idea is that good people don't get rewarded???"

"I'm so fucking fed up. Who on earth recommended this crappy cartoon to our child? It's 11 o'clock at night, and he's crying. I can't stop him. He keeps saying, 'The little bee is dead, the little bee is dead.'"

"Friends, I feel so bad, I don't think I will be able to sleep today"

"You're not the only one who can't sleep. My whole family can't sleep when my child makes a fuss. Who came up with this crappy ending? I'm really impressed."

The ending was released.

Suddenly, there was a flood of heated discussions.

As if to avoid arousing public outrage, the official account of the animation studio also issued a statement specifically for the ending of the animation:
[The torrent of history is like a rolling wheel. China's modern history is itself a history of humiliation. In this era, no one can be immune, and the same is true for cartoons.]

In this statement.

The animation studio explained in detail why "The Divine Chef Xiao Fugui" had a tragic ending.

However, this kind of tragic ending is rare in the global animation industry.

But in order to fit the theme and the background of the times, it highlights the cannibalistic nature of the old times and the corruption of the Qing government.
These characters with flesh and blood and different personalities——

Must die!

He has to die too!
In order to distance itself from the massive outcry from the audience, the animation studio also mentioned this at the end of the statement:
[The final right of interpretation of this production shall be borne by the animation screenwriter and literary consultant]

For a long time, in the animation field, it seems that few people mention the term "literary consultant"?
In the common people's cognition, the so-called cartoons.
The production studio sets up a project, then finds a group of painters who are good at painting and screenwriters who are good at writing stories, brings them together, and then produces the work.

It seems that few people have heard of it.
Literary consultant?

What is this literary consultant?
In response to everyone's doubts, the studio gave a direct answer:
“A literary consultant is a professional who gives depth and soul to a work.”

"Literary consultants play a decisive role in the extension of the work in terms of creative form and dissemination content."

The answer given by the studio was very official and professional.

Although everyone doesn't quite understand it, you can feel from his words that what he wants to express is -

"This tragic ending was not decided by us. All of this came from the guidance of the literary consultant, who had the final say on the ownership of the work."

After hearing the studio's response, viewers who didn't know the truth immediately started searching online:
“Who is the literary consultant for “The Divine Chef, Little Fugui”?”

"Showing these messed up things to children, are you still a human being?"

I don’t know if I don’t search.

After searching, I was shocked:
"The literary consultant of "The Divine Chef Xiao Fugui"

"It's actually him?"

"If it's this guy, then it's no wonder."

(End of this chapter)