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

Chapter 258 The sun really rises! After the night, dawn will finally come! No one is optimistic about you, but you are the most competitive
The book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book has its own golden house.

The ancients often said that one should read more books, and ordinary people can gain strength from reading.

It takes you a day to read a book.

It may take a writer a lifetime to create a book.

Use one day to understand the truth and life experience that the writer has spent his whole life to understand. Such transactions and sales
Isn't it worth it?
It is precisely with such thoughts and ideas that Jiang Hai, in recent days, while creating the classic work of confused literature "The Sun Also Rises", did not forget to read widely.

The China-West Cultural Exchange Year has officially begun, and many books by Western writers have received attention and been published in the country.

Among them, the book he is reading, "This Book Can Help You Quit Smoking", a popular literature work written by British writer Aaron Carr, has a considerable audience in China.

Actually, at the beginning, Jiang Hai had no intention of reading this book. He thought that such novels were just gimmicks.

Can reading this book help him quit smoking after more than ten years of smoking?
how can that be!

However, looking at the reviews of this book given by many readers on the Internet.

He immediately changed his mind:
"Five-star praise. I have never read such amazing popular literature! After reading this book, my legs really don't hurt, I don't smoke, and my heart doesn't beat fast anymore."

"I really can't describe how I feel right now! After 30 years of smoking, I only regret why I didn't read this book earlier!"

"Reading really can change your destiny! I didn't believe it before, but now, I really believe it! At least my husband really doesn't smoke in front of me now! But then again, where is my husband?"

"Aaron Carr deserves to be called the father of smoking cessation! I read his book and used the method he gave to quit smoking, and I found that it really works! It's amazing."

It was with a skeptical attitude that Jiang Hai opened the legendary popular book by Aaron Carr, the father of smoking cessation, which is said to have helped 2500 million smokers quit smoking.

Looking at the slogan on the cover of the book——

[This is a legendary book that 2500 million smokers will never forget]

Jiang Hai immediately expressed doubts:

"Really? I don't believe it."

"Let me find out what's going on."

Three hours ago, Jiang Hai scoffed at the book, thinking it was pure false propaganda.

Three hours later, Jiang Hai felt like he had found a treasure and regarded it as a Bible.

"That makes so damn sense!"

I read the book that defines smokers as "addicts" and made the following conclusion: "Smokers do not enjoy smoking. They smoke only to relieve the withdrawal reaction caused by the previous cigarette. In turn, smoking this cigarette will bring new withdrawal reactions, so they can never stop smoking."

I understand the theory in the book about why addicts cannot quit smoking.

As if deeply touched.

Jiang Hai slapped his thigh and lit a Liqun cigarette:
"Why the hell didn't I see this book sooner?"

In fact, sometimes Jiang Hai is not deliberately making trouble. Everyone has different reading habits when reading.

Some people like to eat some snacks and listen to some music while reading.

Some people like to have a small cup of coffee or a small beer while reading.

Some people like to do nothing when reading and just read quietly.

Obviously, Jiang Hai is not among the above.

Jiang Hai likes to use nicotine to numb himself when reading, forcing himself into a state of concentration and selflessness.

Do you think the author writes well and agree with the views expressed in the book?

I'll have a cigarette.

The plot of the book is fascinating and has entered a thrilling climax?
I'll have a cigarette.

The article ends with the theme, and the foreshadowing that the author has laid out in the book is finally concluded?

I'll have another cigarette
Even though this popular literature work written by British writer Aaron Carr is titled "This Book Can Help You Quit Smoking", when Jiang Hai was reading this book -

He smoked one cigarette after another without stopping for a moment.

Even while he was puffing out smoke, he still praised:

"Yes, that's right! That's exactly what it tastes like!"

“I completely agree with the author’s point of view”

As a result, a strange scene appeared in the reading room:

Jiang Hai sat in the smoking and reading area, reading "This Book Can Help You Quit Smoking" while smoking fiercely, enjoying it very much.

This appearance of puffing out smoke immediately dazzled the other people in the reading room:

"Will this happen?"

“It’s a bit too abstract???”

It was at this time that China Writers Association leader Tie Ning and writer Liu Zhenyun walked side by side, shoulder to shoulder.

When the two passed by the reading room.

By chance, I saw Jiang Hai, who was inhaling nicotine crazily while immersing himself in it and praising the smoking cessation book:
"Great, well written"

Tie Ning is the leader of the China Writers Association and the ceiling of the domestic literary and art circles. Her position is very high. She is the person who can sit in the center of the stage and speak at meetings in the People's Hall.

As high-level writers in the Writers Association, well-known writers like Jia Pingwa and Liu Zhenyun, who have created a literary genre, are more or less restrained by a few big leaders behind the scenes.

But there is really no one above Tie Ning.
"This person." Looking at Jiang Hai smoking and reading a book, Tie Ning frowned, "Who is it?"

Again, Jiang Hai's name may still be of some use to the young generation in China.

However, in front of a real leader, it really doesn't leave any impression.

As for the reason, it is simple -

Because I'm standing too high, I can't see you at all.
"Jiang Hai." Liu Zhenyun glanced at Jiang Hai, then smiled at Tie Ning with satisfaction, and said concisely, "A newcomer with great potential."

“Xu Sanguan Selling Blood is the book he wrote.”

Domestic literature has always been dominated by serious literary genres. Compared with Jiang Hai’s other works such as "No Longer Human", "The Crucible" and "Hope", Jiang Hai's "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is more widely circulated in the domestic traditional literary circles.

"Ah, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood." Hearing this, Tie Ning nodded thoughtfully, "I seem to have some impression of it."

"But." Tie Ning felt puzzled when he saw Jiang Hai smoking and reading at the same time.

"Has he always been like this?"

Liu Zhenyun helped Jiang Hai promote his books, but he had little contact with Jiang Hai in private.

"Not really sure." Liu Zhenyun smiled and shook his head, then casually discussed with Tie Ning, "I heard that Jiang Hai has also been preparing a new work recently for this Sino-Western cultural exchange seminar."

You may ask why even other people know that Jiang Hai wrote a book?
There is only one answer -

Because children are precious!
That is Su Tong, the famous chief writer of "October", honorary professor of Beijing Normal University, and honorary vice president of the China Writers Association!
In the past week, almost every evening, Su Tong would go to Jiang Hai's room on time to communicate and discuss creative issues with him.

It is normal for writers to communicate with each other about the difficulties they encounter in writing or the future market trends.

But a man would always go into another man's room for no reason?
If it weren't for Su Tong's age and status.
Everyone around them would start to wonder if the two were practicing fencing.

It is worth mentioning that.

Every time Su Tong came out of Jiang Hai’s room, he would fall into unprecedented confusion.

He always keeps mumbling some random questions:
"Why do people live? Or what is the meaning of life?"

"If lovers lose the 'sex' aspect and start a platonic relationship, can such a relationship really not last long?"

"Is classical literature really in decline? If we want to integrate into the Western market, can we really only start with tragedy?" In Tie Ning's impression, Su Tong has always been a very old-fashioned writer, and he is a representative figure of the domestic avant-garde literary school.

Logically speaking, such writers—

He should have his own opinions and ideas.

But now
An old comrade was almost driven crazy by a young comrade???

"Is it that exaggerated?" Tie Ning was surprised.

"Whether it's an exaggeration or not, I'm not sure." Liu Zhenyun stood next to Tie Ning, with a smile on his face. "However, Lao Tong will also attend the meeting later."

"If you really don't believe it, why don't you just ask him in person?"

Upon hearing this, Tie Ning raised his right hand and looked at the watch on his wrist. There were still ten minutes before the meeting started.

Seeing this, she did not stop and started heading towards the conference hall.

"Let's not talk about this for now."

"We're going to be late"

Jiang Hai rarely recognizes an author so much.

This quote from British writer Aaron Carr almost perfectly describes the psychological state of smokers:
"Smoking is not just about nicotine addiction. For addicts, smoking has become a habit. Even if they know that smoking is harmful, the power of this habit still forces them to continue smoking and harm their health."

Grandmaster!

This is definitely a true master!
Smoking is not an addiction, it is a habit!

"I said I'm not addicted to smoking. I smoke every day but I don't seem to be addicted."

While Jiang Hai was marveling at Aaron Carr's exquisite description of the psychological state of smokers, he smoked three packs of cigarettes without any preparation.

What forced him to stop was not because he had finished the book, but because -

He has run out of cigarettes he brought!

“This book really got me hooked.”

Jiang Hai admires Aaron Carr, a smoking cessation master from the UK, very much for his ability to describe the psychology of smokers so exquisitely and compile it into a literary work.

This person is definitely a well-deserved talent!

Out of admiration for the author, Jiang Hai began to search for personal information about the writer Aaron Carr on Baidu.

You wouldn’t know unless you searched. Once you searched, you were stunned.

【Writer: Aaron Carr】

[Representative work: "This book can help you quit smoking"]

【Year of death: 2006】

Cause of death: lung cancer

Well, the expert who teaches people to quit smoking died of lung cancer due to smoking?
The moment he saw Baidu Encyclopedia, Jiang Hai sighed, not knowing whether it was because of the unpredictable nature of life or because he couldn't hold back:
"It seems."

“This book doesn’t seem to be very useful, does it?”

While commemorating the death of writer Aaron Carr, Jiang Hai raised his head and looked around.

I found that there were only a few people left around the reading room, as most of them had gone to the conference room in the government lobby for a meeting.

Obviously, Jiang Hai was not the core of the meeting, so.
This is why all the important people went to meetings, leaving him alone in the reading room, and no one even notified him.

What does it feel like when a person is left out?

It's just a group of three, two people are in the front chatting enthusiastically, and you are the only one following behind them without being able to say a word.

You don’t even dare to stop to tie your shoes.

Because you know that once you stop to tie your shoelaces, the two friends in front of you will walk away while chatting, and they will not stop to wait for you, or even notice your disappearance.
When you finish tying your shoelaces and look up to see your friends, you will find that your friends are nowhere to be found.

Obviously, this is Jiang Hai's current situation.

He was the one who was left out.

The focus of everyone's attention was not on him at all. In this Sino-Western cultural seminar, the leaders of the China Writers Association placed their hopes on those well-established literary masters, so they didn't care at all whether a small figure like him attended the meeting or not.

However, he was ignored and even snubbed by the leaders of the Writers Association.

But Jiang Hai didn't care:
"It is precisely because everyone does not think highly of me that I want to fight for my reputation."

It is precisely because of the gradual relaxation of the above policies that the degree of integration of cultural exchanges between China and the West has gradually deepened.

Therefore, popular literary works like "This Book Can Help You Quit Smoking" by writer Aaron Carr will be gradually released into the book market, and there are still many popular books like this circulating in the market.

Jiang Hai did some in-depth research and found that for this cultural exchange between China and the West, many well-known domestic literary figures have launched their own new works and published them for readers in the European and American markets, such as -

Jia Pingwa, a representative of Northwest folk literature, summarized his life experiences over the years and wrote a serious literary work "Hometown" suitable for the Western literary market.

Zhang Lingwan, a writer of Shanghai-style literature who excels in describing love novels set in foreign lands, has written a masterpiece of Western-style love, "The Hazy Love by the Lake of Anos Town", through a deep understanding of overseas readers' reading habits and her own years of studying abroad experience. She will also submit her work to the North American market after the conference.

Liu Zhenyun's "Reviewing the Past to Learn the New", Su Tong's "The Great Wall Autobiography", Ma Boyong's "The Antique Bureau Game", etc.
Whether serious literature or popular reading.

Whether local celebrities or literary masters.

These literary celebrities who are highly expected by the China Writers Association will officially enter the European and American markets after today's meeting!

This is a contest between top writers from China and the West!
Even though he was ignored by his leaders and not favored by the outside world, Jiang Hai was not discouraged at all.

On the contrary—

He is full of fighting spirit!
"It's interesting to play against the wind. It's boring to have everything go smoothly."

Return to your room from the reading room.

Jiang Hai turned on his computer and looked at the completed manuscript of The Sun Also Rises. On the title page of the book were written these two sentences:

[It's easy to pretend to be indifferent during the day, but there's no escape at night.]

【Different youth, same confusion. However, youth will grow, confusion will dissipate. After the night, the sun will rise as usual. 】

Don't know why.

Whenever Jiang Hai reads these two sentences, he feels deeply touched:
"After the sun rises, what's next?"

"After the sun rises, there will be a new dawn."

In fact, not all of Jiang Hai's literary works are depressing, such as "The Sun Also Rises", although the plot of the book once made people feel uncomfortable -

[The protagonist Barnes was seriously injured in a battle on the Italian front. Because the injured part happened to be his crotch, he suffered from sexual dysfunction. Therefore, although he had sexual desire, he did not have the ability to make love (harmony), which made it impossible for him to live a normal life with his beloved woman.]

[Because of his impotence, Barnes could only tolerate his beloved woman having fun in front of other men. Because of his physical inferiority, he almost pervertedly satisfied all the demands of her lover, and even arranged for her to have a tryst with other men, and watched his beloved become someone else's fiancée, and even willingly became a lover.]

Even so, the plots of these minotaurs are definitely poisonous in the field of online literature. If the author dares to write about them, readers will curse the whole family, or even come to the door with a knife to threaten personal safety.
but!

If these plots were set in the 1920s after World War I, you might be able to understand them a little better?
In the field of traditional literature, if you want to appreciate a work, you can't just look at what the author wrote, you have to combine the plot with the time period of the book and analyze it on a case-by-case basis.
The Sun Also Rises does not want to express the decadent carnal desires of human nature, but rather satirizes the rise of consumerism and hedonistic values ​​in the United States in the 1920s by describing the experience of the little man Barnes.
The entire article has 140,000 words, which can be considered a long novel in the field of traditional literature.

Jiang Hai looked at the completed manuscript of "The Sun Also Rises" and without hesitation, he decisively noted his author information and submitted it to Simon & Schuster, the largest publishing company in the United States.

Looking at the computer screen, the reply message [Submission successful] is displayed.

Jiang Hai's eyes flashed with a strange look, and he whispered secretly:

"It's time to give you a little shock."

(End of this chapter)