1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 585

Lin Weimin laughed and said, "Of course. I contacted you on my own initiative, can I still joke with you? Why would you ask such a question?"

"To be honest. Some time ago, my friend actually recommended my prose to a publishing house, hoping that they could publish it. But the publishing house refused after reading my work, saying that the prose was not written by me.

Later, another publishing house contacted me and said that it could be published.But the manuscript must be revised according to their requirements, and the revisions are very large. Basically, my prose is regarded as a brochure similar to a travel guide. "

When Yu Qiuyu said this, he couldn't help but smile wryly.

It turned out to be the case.

Lin Weimin said: "Your essays were published in "Harvest". There is no doubt that the level is high. We will publish it in a collection and have to go through editorial review, but there must be extensive changes."

Hearing what he said, Yu Qiuyu felt relieved and said happily, "That would be great."

The two discussed for a while, and Lin Weimin invited Yu Qiuyu to come to Beijing to discuss the specific matters of publishing, and Yu Qiuyu readily agreed.

After talking on the phone with Yu Qiuyu, Lin Weimin went to Cheng Zaochun's office again, and talked with him about what he had just talked about with He Qizhi.

After hearing what Lin Weimin had said, Cheng Zaochun nodded and said, "Shi Tiesheng's "Ditan and I" has indeed sparked a wave of prose craze. Then let "Contemporary" investigate first, and if the reader's acceptance is high, we can do one. Not bad, we will discuss it later when the results come out.”

He asked again: "When is the martial arts novel publication you mentioned earlier going to be launched?"

"I asked them to contact some authors recently. The style of most authors of martial arts novels is still not beyond the category of Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng's works. Just do it."

"Okay, you can handle it yourself."

A few days after the two chatted, Yu Qiuyu came to Yanjing from Shanghai, and Lin Weimin met him in person.

For domestic writers, the Guowen Society is a glorious palace. If their works are selected or published here, it means that their works have reached the level of entering the room.

When these writers come to the Guowen Society to talk about things, they usually meet the editor-in-chief, and the editor-in-chief.

If the work is exceptionally outstanding and is valued, you may even meet the deputy editor-in-chief.

But like Yu Qiuyu, the editor-in-chief called and interviewed in person after arriving, but it was rare.

Although Yu Qiuyu is now a well-known scholar and has an official status, but he is a fledgling in the literary world, and he is flattered to receive such treatment.

When talking about the royalties, Lin Weimin gave 8% on behalf of the Guowen Society, and explained: "You don't have any representative works in the literary world, so the royalties can only be this standard for the time being. If the collection of essays is published and sold well , we can adjust the royalty share after a period of time.”

Yu Qiuyu published a book for the first time. He used to only get royalties, but now he could get royalties, which he had never thought about before, so he never thought about the problem of royalties. Everything was arranged by Lin Weimin.

After the two discussed it, Lin Weimin asked again: "After a while, our agency may publish a prose publication. How about providing us with some works?"

Yu Qiuyu was taken aback when he heard the words, and then happily said: "I can't wish for this."

So far, the Guowen Society has run three publications, one is "People's Literature", the second is "Contemporary", and the third is "New Literature Historical Materials".

That publication is not well-known in the domestic literary world. The works published by "People's Literature" and "Contemporary", like "Harvest", represent the highest level of domestic literature.

The "New Historical Materials of Literature" focuses on recording the history of modern literature, which is the only historical material publication recording the modern and contemporary literary world.

These three publications represent the height of domestic literary publications. If the Guowen Society wants to publish new publications, the level should at least not be much lower than these three publications, right?
For Yu Qiuyu, an amateur writer who has only written some prose and never published it, how rare is this opportunity to contribute to a new publication of the Guowen Society?

He naturally agreed in haste.

Lin Weimin looked at Yu Qiuyu with a smile on his face. He didn't want to comment on this guy's character, and his works had some shortcomings, but his literariness and popularity couldn't be denied. It couldn't be more appropriate to invite him to escort a new prose publication.

Publishing a collection of essays and asking for manuscripts along the way can kill two birds with one stone.

Yu Qiuyu's prose is getting thinner and thinner. If you don't squeeze it now, you will have no chance to squeeze it in the future.

After sending Yu Qiuyu away, Lin Weimin had a few days of leisure from his busy work.

In the fifth issue of "Contemporary" in May, his new work "The Story of Promotion to Officials" was published. As Lin Weimin's new work published after more than a year, "The Story of Promotion to Officials" has attracted countless attention since its publication.

Domestic readers have become accustomed to reading Lin Weimin's new novels every year on "Contemporary", regardless of whether the novels meet everyone's reading taste, buy it first before reading.

In the first issue in January, Yu Hua's "To Live" was released, and the sales volume exceeded 200 million copies.

In this issue, there is Lin Weimin's "The Story of Promotion", and the sales reached the peak again.

Accompanied by more and more readers, "The Story of Promoting Officials" has aroused great repercussions among the readers within less than half a month after its publication.

Many readers wrote letters to the editorial department of "Contemporary". In addition to praising Lin Weimin's novel, some people also described similar incidents around them in the letters, which made people's teeth itch with hatred after reading it.

Compared with the simple welcome and love of readers for this novel, the perception of this novel in the literary world is a bit complicated.

Less than two months have passed since the Yanbing Literary Award, and the public case is still in front of everyone. How can everyone not see who the content of the novel is satirizing?
But the problem is, it's fine if you satirize Liu Feiyu and Yan Bing for the Literature Award, but did we provoke you?
The novel "The Story of Promotion" was born out of a domestic movie that Lin Weimin watched in his previous life.

Speaking of this movie, I have to mention a director-Huang Jianxin.

In later generations, many viewers who like to watch movies should be familiar with this name.

Peach sex news, Shan Ye's little follower, and the main theme professional account, these three labels are probably attached to Huang Jianxin.

But older moviegoers, to be precise, are moviegoers who watched movies in the 90s. This group of people should still remember Huang Jianxin fresh.

A "Black Cannon Incident" shocked the Chinese film industry. It can be said that before Zhang Yimou took the lead, Huang Jianxin was probably the only young director in China who could break the wrist with Cheng Kaige.

Taking stock of China's fifth-generation directors, Huang Jianxin should be the most embarrassing one.

Huang Jianxin is an outlier among the fifth generation of directors. Every work in the early stage of his directorial career can be regarded as a mark of the era in the early stage of domestic reform and opening up.

His film expressions always show the characteristics of realism and humor that sees the big from the small. He can often make sharp irony in real and plain stories, analyze the hearts of small people in the grand era background, and reflect strong humanistic care.

"Movie World" once compared Zhang Yimou, Cheng Kaige and Huang Jianxin together——

To a certain extent, both Zhang Yimou and Cheng Kaige are allegorists, and they both pursue the sense of clarity and clarity.Relatively speaking, Huang Jianxin is more like a sociologist. He pays attention to the details of the internal operation of a system, and his films are like a kind of sociological fieldwork.

Huang Jianxin does not have the talent of Zhang Yimou and Cheng Kaige in film screen and camera scheduling, but his films have a different approach. If he persists, he may become a generation of famous directors.

pity……

And "The Story of Promotion" written by Lin Weimin was born out of Huang Jianxin's film "Back to Back, Face to Face" in 1994.

The story of "Back to Back, Face to Face" is not complicated. It is the story of Wang Shuangli, the deputy director of a cultural center in a certain city who has never been allowed to become a full-time official.

During the period, there were arm wrestling with the official curator, intrigue with colleagues, and trifles with parents.

Lin Weimin's "Promoting Officials" focuses on workplace struggles. In his novel, the protagonist works hard, is serious and responsible as the deputy curator, and wants to become a full-time official. Unable to become a full-time curator, he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​becoming a curator, thinking that he would have a chance to become a full-time curator only if he got rid of the new curator.

For the position of the curator, the protagonist and the new curator have all kinds of intrigues, and all colleagues and family members are involved.

The climax of the novel is that Xinguanzhang will hold a literary award event, and the final winner can enter the cultural center to work and get a cash reward of 500 yuan.

The protagonist inquires and learns that the new curator wants to take this opportunity to arrange his nephew into the cultural center, so he sabotages the new curator's wishful thinking and makes the new curator's calculation public. The new curator loses face and is soon transferred away.

The protagonist went to the leader to give gifts in advance, thinking that this turnaround was a sure thing, but a few days later the new director took office, and it turned out to be the secretary of the Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau.

After fighting for a long time, the protagonist was empty-handed except for chicken feathers all over the place.

"Promoting Officials" continues the character names and place names in "Rooting Officials", so that people can know at a glance who Lin Weimin wants to connotate.

Especially the literary awards set up by the climax, one can think of the Yanbing Literary Award that ended some time ago and is still discussed by many people in the literary circles and readers.

The 90s was the era when realism themes broke out in Chinese literary works and film and television works. A series of excellent works satirizing intellectuals, bureaucracy, formalism and corruption were born. The birth of these works naturally has its own development law and internal logic.

Over the past ten years of reform and opening up, the strides have been made bigger and bigger, the atmosphere has become more and more loose, corruption and bureaucracy have been rampant, and this batch of literary and artistic works has been created.

In Lin Weimin's novels, the hypocrisy and treachery of cultural people, the exhaustion of institutions, and the small intestines are vividly displayed. At the time of [-], many places have been in decline. Readers are very satisfied with the bureaucracy, Formalism and petty corruption feel the same way.

In "The Story of Promotion", Lin Weimin not only scolded Liu Feiyu and the Wenxie who had been against him.

What's more, those sanctimonious intellectuals, literati and bureaucrats were scolded bloody, and the scope of the attack was simply outrageous.

After reading the novel, many colleagues in the literary world and academics in colleges want to praise the novel, but when they think that this novel is scolding people like them, they feel worse than eating flies.

This Lin Weimin, disgusting person really has a hand!
　In the past few days, the illness has not recovered, but has worsened, and the condition is very poor.

　　I went to the hospital for a review today, and I was a little speechless.

　　The last time I checked, it cost almost a thousand, and I was told that I had methamphetitis, and that I would change the treatment method if it didn't get better in a week.

　　As a result, I went today and asked for an inspection, saying that I wanted to confirm whether it was submethoditis.

　　I'm so fucking...

　　I have to make an appointment for the examination, and it will take half a day tomorrow. I'm really afraid that I will recover from my illness in another two days.

　　What a fucking magical reality!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)