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

Chapter 297: A man can be destroyed but not defeated! The sales miracle of "The Old Man and the Sea"!
Who said there is no great emperor in the human race?
Who says that Chinese writers cannot compare to French writers?

When I saw with my own eyes that Jiang Hai's "The Old Man and the Sea" sold an unprecedented 7.36 million copies in just twelve hours.

At this moment, Tie Ning's blood surged, and he suddenly felt proud:

"That's it???"

“That’s it???”

"I thought you guys were so cruel, but this is what you ended up with???"

Without paying any attention to the strange looks from others, Tie Ning laughed heartily in front of the camera without caring about his image:

"apologize?"

"I apologize to you!"

"Comrades, spring is here!"

"Hahahahahaha."

After all, Tie Ning is also a representative of the China Writers Association and the leader of this diplomatic mission.

You are a leader of the Writers Association at a high level, but you made a big fuss and ridiculed so many foreign writers in public.
Isn't this an attempt to stir up some diplomatic dispute?
As Tie Ning's laughter grew louder, more and more people began to turn their attention to the Chinese writers' delegation.

Someone immediately came up to remind him:
"Chairman, watch your face"

Seven million three hundred and sixty thousand copies?
What concept is this!
This is the sales achievement that many writers dream of, but cannot achieve.
The most important thing is that these 7.36 million copies were just Jiang Hai’s sales in twelve hours!
If he is given another twelve hours, it will make up to twenty-four hours, a full day.
God knows what the final sales performance of "The Old Man and the Sea" will be? ? ? ?

Wouldn't it exceed 10 million copies in one day? ?
Looking at the history of world literature, literary works with sales exceeding 10 million copies in a single day are rare.
No, the word "rare" is not quite appropriate to describe it.

Because there isn't any!

Even though JK Rowling, the current world literary king of sales, has sold an astonishing 500 million copies of her Harry Potter series of books worldwide, setting a Guinness World Record, but...
That’s cumulative sales!
This is not a single-day sales volume!
In JK Rowling's impression, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the best-selling single book in her creative career. The total sales of this book alone reached an astonishing 1.25 million copies, but this is the cumulative sales. In her impression,
The best sales record of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was 5.72 million copies sold in a single day. Looking at the entire world literary scene, this result can be called unprecedented!

However, she set a single-day sales record in just half a day.
It was easily broken by Jiang Hai's "The Old Man and the Sea"?
"What kind of literary work is this???" JK Rowling looked at the computer screen in disbelief, "Twelve hours, seven million copies?"

“This is too crazy.”

Without any preheating, how could such a strong sales record be set simply by relying on the quality of the work itself?
This can no longer be described with the word "crazy".

This is a miracle!

A complete miracle that actually happened right under everyone’s noses!
Don't say you're surprised, coming from JK Rowling, who is known as the sales king in the UK.

At this moment, the French writer who had just been expecting a reversal of the situation was so shocked that he could not believe his eyes.

What about the reversal?
Is this how you reverse it???
French writer Clézio, a Nobel Prize winner in literature whose reputation is resounding both at home and abroad, looked at the sales of Jiang Hai's "The Old Man and the Sea", which were so outstanding that the sales were outrageous and off the charts.

He couldn't even control his emotions, and at one point he lost control of his facial expressions:

"This is unscientific!"

“It’s simply impossible”

You said Jiang Hai is an Asian, and this writer is very famous in Asia, so it is completely understandable that his works are best-sellers in Asia.

No one will doubt it!
but
Shouldn't Europe and America be France's home ground?

According to common logic, people in Europe and the United States, whose language is the same as English, should prefer works from British, American and French writers.

Why can an Asian writer's literary works be so popular in Europe and America?
So popular???

Le Crezio, who enjoys a high reputation in the European and American literary circles, has sales that are not even as good as Jiang Hai in his home turf?
This huge psychological gap made it impossible for Clezio to accept it!
According to the statistics on the screen by the organizing committee, Jiang Hai’s literary work “The Old Man and the Sea”——

In Asia, sales volume reached 3.5 million copies.

In Europe, sales volume was 3.86 million copies.

In twelve hours, sales totaled 7.36 million copies.

Is his improvisation even more popular in the European and American markets than in Asia?

"How on earth could one person sell over 7 million copies of a single book in one day without any pre-promotion?"

“This result is simply appalling.”

Even JK Rowling, who is known as the king of sales, left a best-selling work in the history of world literature, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". After the Harry Potter movie IP was released, she gave readers some time to prepare, and then went through a series of pre-heating. Finally, the paper version of the book broke the terrifying record of five million copies in one day.

But this river and sea appeared out of nowhere without any preheating.
As soon as it came out, it sold seven million copies?
How can I convince others of this?
How can anyone believe this!
Haruki Murakami, a famous Japanese writer, also looked at the statistics screen in the center of the palace with an extremely shocked look:
"With twelve hours as the limit—"

"Clezio, sales of 860,000 copies, this result is quite impressive."

"But this river and sea."

"Klezio can't even compare to a fraction of Jiang Hai???"

Seeing this, Haruki Murakami's tone was filled with endless solemnity:
“Is this the influence of the new generation of writers?”

This time, there is a topic about "courage", and Haruki Murakami also participated. He wrote a short story "Withering" about the life of the chrysanthemum, the national flower of Japan. Thanks to Haruki Murakami's influence in the world literary world
In twelve hours, sales reached 650,000 copies. According to this upward trend.
It is very likely that Haruki Murakami's "Withering" will sell one million copies in a single day after the data statistics are completed.

Logically speaking, single-day sales exceeding one million copies is a very impressive achievement even in the world literary world.

But I don't know why.
The originally impressive results were put next to Jiang Hai.

Is there really an illusion that it is so ordinary that it is not worth mentioning?

It feels like a doctoral student competing with elementary school students in the Mathematical Olympiad. The doctoral student published a top paper in Nature with an impact factor of Q1. The core content of this paper is to solve the Hodge conjecture, one of the seven major problems in mathematics.

I published an alternative analysis of the final question of junior high school in the provincial newspaper of the municipal competition.
The quality of these two is not in the same dimension at all!
The difficulty of these two is not even on the same level!
After a brief shock, Murakami shifted his focus from the shock of the book's sales to the story itself:
“This is The Old Man and the Sea.”

"What kind of story is it telling?"

“Why is it so appealing to readers?”

A good book is not necessarily a best-seller.

But a bad book will never be a bestseller.

There is no doubt about this.

In today's highly developed Internet age, there is no such old saying as "good wine needs no bush".

Many writers think that the reason why their books are not popular is that they are niche.
It's totally because the readers don't know the value of the product!

It’s all because the readers don’t have enough knowledge and are unable to reach the author’s unique artistic conception through words!

Little do people know that for most writers, the reason why their works are not popular in the market is not because their works are too highbrow.
It’s purely because of the garbage I wrote!

It’s just that they are often unwilling to face reality, so they transfer the excuse of failure to the readers.
“What kind of story does The Old Man and the Sea tell?”

At this moment, the Palace of Versailles, the entire palace lobby.

More than one writer has the same doubts as Haruki Murakami.

"What kind of story could move millions of readers in just 24 hours?"

“What kind of story is it that can be recognized by readers in Asia and Europe?”

When I saw some readers write passionate book reviews after reading The Old Man and the Sea:

"This is absolutely the greatest work I have ever read in the 21st century!" "No other"

Suddenly, some people wondered:

"Isn't that an exaggeration?"

"Really? Is it that exaggerated?"

There is no doubt that Jiang Hai's "The Old Man and the Sea" gave a surprise to writers from various countries at the scene in terms of book sales.

An amazing surprise!

No one would have expected that in this era of declining paper reading, there would still be paper books. Within a day, that is, within less than 24 hours -

The sales volume is actually in the tens of millions?
What kind of magic does this book have that it can be recognized by so many readers?

"I don't believe it." A French writer in the palace was the first to raise his doubts, "I seriously doubt the fairness of this literary competition!"

“I seriously suspect someone is cheating.”

You have to know that sales volume can be faked.

If it's not fake
Why is it that a Chinese writer's English works are so popular in Europe?

In just twelve hours, 7.36 million copies were sold directly?

Don't even mention Chinese writers, even if you look at the entire European and American literary world, or even the world literary world -

No one has ever accomplished such a feat!
This is a feat that even European and American writers cannot accomplish, and it is a miracle.
It was actually done by a writer from China?

It is also based on suspicion about this matter.

At the scene, many writers directly began to question the fairness of the competition, and more than one hot-tempered writer even said in front of the camera:

"You don't even have any shame!"

"Cheating!"

"How can this be achieved by human power?"

“This is definitely cheating”

People cannot imagine what they have never seen.

Obviously, the sales record of over 10 million copies in 24 hours in a single day is beyond the imagination of most writers.

Once the cognition is broken, everyone's first reaction is not to believe.
But suspicion.

Among them, quite a few writers from France did not hide their emotions at all, and immediately expressed their opinions to the organizing committee of the event passionately:

"conspiracy!"

“There must be a conspiracy here.”

In fact, the emotions of the French writers are understandable. After all, in their original plan, this proposition writing competition
It should be their personal show, right?

In order to demonstrate the influence of French literature around the world, this time they invited writers including but not limited to: Nobel Prize winners, Medici Prize winners, and Grenache Carver Prize winners.
It can be said that, judging from the strength on paper alone, France is the most competitive group of writers among all the countries in the delegation of writers.

none of them!

However, the script did not develop as they expected, and they did not gain an advantage in this literary competition.
Is it because a young writer from China stole the limelight?

This group of people have become Jiang Hai's background?
When I thought that such a large group of famous people were about to be reduced to a background board for a junior, and even after this competition was over, there would be remarks that belittled my side:
"With so many famous people in France, they can't suppress someone like Jiang Hai?"

"It seems that the French literary world is not as strong as imagined?"

"These so-called French masters are really exaggerating."

Whenever such remarks really appear.

This made the always proud French writers, and France, which has always been called the world's first literary power,
There is no way to accept this!
At the scene, the voices of doubt became more and more intense.

Although the organizing committee staff repeatedly stated:
"There is no possibility of any problems with our system and process. This competition is absolutely fair and just."

But no one was listening.

Once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will spread infinitely among the people.
The Ming Dynasty writer Yu Qian once said in his poem "Lime Chant":

"Don't be afraid of being shattered into pieces. You must keep your innocence in this world!"

Reputation is very important for a writer!

In the absence of any evidence.
You guys just slander the innocence of a scholar out of thin air?
Without any clues.
You just accuse a scholar of cheating out of thin air?

Liu Zhenyun frowned and immediately wanted to refute the people in front of him:
"You are being hooligans."

In the midst of the dispute, in the complicated crowd, someone shouted:
"Whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk."

"Whether it's cheating or not, why don't you just let us read the original text?"

Sales volume can be cheated.

But there is absolutely no way to cheat on the quality of the work!

If a book is well written, it is good.

Whether the text can touch people's hearts, they can immediately feel it after reading a few paragraphs.
All those who can sit here are literary masters from all over the world, and their ability to appreciate literary works is obviously unmatched by ordinary people.

It is precisely because of their confidence in their literary appreciation that more than one writer said in front of the camera:

“Before I read The Old Man and the Sea, I was skeptical about the fairness of this literary competition.”

The force of condemnation is growing stronger.

Out of desperation, the organizing committee could only distribute the manuscript of The Old Man and the Sea to the writer delegations from various countries:
"This is the short story that Jiang Hai wrote over three days."

Books began to be distributed one by one to writers from various countries.

When you are prejudiced against someone, you will subconsciously feel disgusted with everything he has.

When picking up books for the first time, many writers weighed the thin copy of The Old Man and the Sea in their hands and immediately felt disgusted:

"How can such a thin book sell seven or eight million copies overnight?"

“If this isn’t cheating, then what is it?”

When I opened the book, a line of preface suddenly appeared before my eyes:
[A man is not born to be defeated. You can destroy him, but you cannot defeat him.]

[The Old Man and the Sea, a Silent Contest, a Symphony of Time and Fate]

When the two sentences of the preface appeared before my eyes.

The famous French artist Clézio began to fall into a strange state of thinking:
"People can be destroyed but not defeated?"

“This seems to make some sense.”

(End of this chapter)