Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 246: Authors born to adapt to the international market

The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

The work that Ryukawa Toru wrote for Takeda Maki as a late-night reading.

In fact, Anne Erno is not optimistic about Ryukawa Toru.

Japan's literary style is delicate and sensitive, with dark sentences and more agglutinative language.

Apart from some well-known writers who have a market in the international market, new authors like Ryukawa Toru will have a dead end if they go there.

After translation, the sentences are too long, and some of them feel "very dark and heavy" when read.

But the manuscript in hand is completely different.

"Did you write this?"

Neither Ryukawa Toru nor Takeda Maki understood the situation, and seeing the two of them in a daze, Anne Erno asked again.

"Ah."

The French editor-in-chief slapped the manuscript in front of him, and Long Chuan Che nodded indifferently.

The novel "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" is very interesting. It is the standard for Murakami Haruki's formal maturity of his writing style after "The Youth Trilogy".

This globally popular author, unlike the dark and delicate styles of Japanese writers, is welcomed by readers all over the world for his incisive writing, detailed descriptions and ingenious metaphors.

Someone once commented on him:
In a culture and country that is most sensitive to time, a very conspicuous freak has emerged.

This freak broke the silence of the Japanese literary world with his unique writing style, international perspective, and light-hearted and humorous style, giving rise to the so-called "Haruki Murakami phenomenon."

“You wrote it.”

Holding the manuscript, Longchuan Che saw the woman nodded to him, and other than that she didn't say anything else.

I sat in the guild hall for a while and had dinner, but my wife had not come back yet.

Longchuan Che escorted the visiting guests to the car.

"I will be in Otaru these few days. If you have any questions about your work, I will come and bother you again."

Holding Longchuan's "Listen to the Wind Sing" and "Pinball in 1973".

Anne Erno's tone was very calm.

The interview will involve some literary discussions and introductions to some writers' works.

Before, Anne Erno obviously had no interest in Ryukawa Toru's works, but now for some reason there has been some change.

"These two days I'm only free before 7am and after 6pm."

Because there is a signing event these two days, Longchuan Che said honestly.

I am doing an exclusive interview with him, but he still has a time limit?
After staring at Longchuan Che in front of her for three or four seconds, Anne Erno took a deep breath.

"Okay, I'll try to accommodate your schedule."

The French woman left without hesitation.

Anne Erno gritted her teeth only when she could no longer see Ryuukawa Tetsu.

"Where did you find such a little boyfriend? Don't you know that you can't offend women and editors?"

In addition to Anne Erno, there was also Takeda Maki in the car. When Takeda Maki heard the other party's words, her originally calm expression froze.

"what are you saying?"

It's so embarrassing to find a boyfriend who is younger than me, especially since I once said that I don't know how to fall in love.

In front of her friends, Takeda Shinki turned her head expressionlessly.

"Tsk, I heard it all downstairs."

Anne Erno has a nervous look in her eyes and a face that looks like she is ready to eat as much melon as she can. She studied journalism in college.

"Can I share this with Ruriko and the others?"

It's fine if you just know it, but you also have to bring it up as a topic of conversation.

Takeda Shinki pinched the bridge of her nose.

"You heard wrongly. By the way, why are you suddenly willing to do an interview with him?"

Judging from Anne Erno's attitude before she went downstairs, it was obvious that she was planning to just do things perfunctorily.

But now, not only does he have to do a long-term interview, but he also gritted his teeth and agreed to Longchuan Che's request just now.

Takeda Shinki said casually. "Oh, what a poor way to distract from the topic."

Anne Erno saw through her friend's reluctance to talk.

However, Longchuan Tetsu was not there at the time, and the woman placed several of Longchuan Tetsu's works on her thighs with great interest.

The woman was wearing suit pants, looking slightly elegant.

She watched several works flashing with bright lights.

To be honest, she hasn't read many of Ryuukawa Toru's works. The first reason is that she doesn't like Japanese literature very much.

As the birthplace of postmodern literature, Westerners always have a sense of superiority towards Eastern literature.

Japanese literature feels redundant and complicated, which Anne Erno doesn't like.

"Did your little boyfriend grow up abroad?"

The work Anne Erno opened was "Hear the Wind Sing" by Ryukawa Tetsu, and her finger was pointing at a few short sentences.
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If an old-school refrigerator that has to be defrosted year-round is called cool, then that’s me too.
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By the time she got into bed she was cold as canned salmon.
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Hatfield's tomb is small, as small as the heel of a high-heeled shoe.

"I said everything"

Takeda Shinki frowned and wanted to refute, but then she came to her senses and looked at the other person's happy expression.

Anne Ernault is one of the contributors to the New French Review and has a keen grasp of the international market.

“Is the work good?”

Takeda Shinki raised an eyebrow.

Ryukawa Toru's youth trilogy has a strong Western style, and the metaphors he uses are often Western-style products such as "sheep", "rat" and "unicorn".

"'Good' isn't accurate."

Anne Erno did not answer the question of whether it was good or not.

She picked out a short sentence and read it over and over again, translating it into English, Czech and French.

The concept of world literature was first proposed by Goethe, who drew inspiration from Chinese literature and emphasized world literature that breaks the regional divide. He believed that world literature is to unify the literatures of all nations into a great complex.

"His sentence structure is concise and can preserve the original meaning to the greatest extent possible when translated into various languages."

"Someone once said that the literature of each country is what is lost in the translation process."

Anne Erno finished Hear the Wind Sing and turned to Pinball 1973.

In the international market, the biggest problem hindering literary creators is translation.

If you want to adapt to the international community without having any literary knowledge from your own country, you must try to focus on the world's cultural colors.

The East Sea and the West Sea have the same psychology.

The southern and northern schools of thought have not yet split.

By flipping through the other person's books, Anne Erno seemed to be able to see the other person's rapid evolution process.

From the slightly immature "Hear the Wind Sing" to the simplicity and clarity of "Cold Wonderland".

The other party uses humor as the basis and concise writing style as the touch.

While maintaining its literary quality, it is also readable by readers around the world.

Religious color, Western culture.

Reading each other's works seems to allow me to see that young man sharpening his sword bit by bit and improving his writing style bit by bit.

He is an Oriental.

But we are preparing for the international market.

The works can be translated into various languages ​​at will.

One's core ideas can also be conveyed accurately.

That afternoon when the seagulls cried.

On the edge of the Japanese mainland.

Takeda Maki watched her friend translate her ex-boyfriend's work step by step.

She remembered it clearly.

The last sentence translated by the other party was.
From Cold Wonderland,
till the end of the world.

(End of this chapter)