Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 433 March Belongs to Science Fiction
If the plot is introduced in such a simple way, most people may think that this story has nothing to do with mystery novels except for the death of a person.

But in fact, this book does have reasoning factors in it, because Marquez used his most classic way of narrative in the book, the circular narrative method.

Some people say that Marquez likes to play with logic when telling stories, and he is good at using logic to attract people.

At the beginning of each of his stories, he will throw a thread to the readers, not a background of the times, not a grand scene, but a micro-scene, a small thread close to the characters themselves.

The circular narrative method is the name given by Zhang Zhong himself, which comes from the beginning of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

"Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia will remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice..."

Before "One Hundred Years of Solitude", no one has ever used this kind of narrative method-recalling the past from the perspective of the future.

It's a bit of a mouthful to say, and it sounds a bit difficult to understand.

But this kind of narrative just brings together the starting point and focus of a story, and then creates a sense of dislocation in space and time, so Zhang Chong calls him a circular narrative.

Before, everyone told stories in a straight line, but Marquez walked in a circle.

And in this "A Premeditated Murder", he used this method again.

"Santiago Nasar got up at 05:30 on the day he was killed, because the bishop was coming by boat and he was going to meet him."

A masterful and captivating narrative.

In the novel, it was pointed out at the very beginning that Santiago Nasser would be killed, and he also said what he would do on the day he was killed.

After that, it was pointed out who the murderer was, but there were two strange things, why did they kill him, and how did they kill him? Didn't everyone in the town stop it?

This is where the reasoning element lies. Even though the murderer and the victim are already in front of the readers, Marquez can still lead the readers into the story with superb narrative techniques and a strong sense of logic.

Throughout the whole story, readers may feel that Nasser's death was too coincidental. If one of the coincidences was not right, he would not have died.

This is indeed the case, which also shows that Nasser's death can be easily avoided.

If the bride didn't say his name, if the battle stopped the Vicario brothers in time, if he didn't go to his fiancée's house, if his mother didn't close the door... Any assumption that becomes a fact can make this story go another way. one direction.

And the easier it is to realize these assumptions, the more absurd the coincidence.

And in the absurdity, there is a sense of fate that makes people sigh. It seems that Nasser's death is his fate.

Zhang Zhong recalled his thoughts, he had already returned home from Fortune, and "A Murder Case Publicized Beforehand" was on his computer.

But he was not in a hurry to send the book to Chen Qing, because he wanted to change the story.

Change the story far away in Latin America to China.

This matter is not difficult. Such an absurd story is placed in a small place in China, and there is still no sense of disobedience.

……

It was not until the morning of the release of "Ander's Game" that Zhang Zhong sent the revised "A Murder Case of Premature Publicity" to Chen Qing's mailbox.

However, Chen Qing must be very busy and didn't bother to check the mailbox. Otherwise, according to Chen Qing's personality, he would definitely call Zhang Zhong to ask Zhang Zhong as soon as he saw the email.

In fact, Chen Qing is really busy, because today is not only the release time of "Ander's Game", but also the day when Qin Zhao was interviewed by Nanhuai TV.

In order to cooperate with the publicity, Chen Qing found Nanhuai Satellite TV and asked their reading column to do an exclusive interview for Qin Zhao.

Because of the cooperation between the two sides, this matter was reached without any resistance.

"Opening a Book is Good" is a new program in Nanhuai Lane last year. The content of the program is to introduce a book or interview an author.

This column has introduced several books by Zhang Zhong, and they have always wanted to interview Zhang Zhong, but Chen Qing helped Zhang Zhong refuse.

This time the director directly issued the task, saying that he would interview a new author. Although the director Luo Ji promised happily, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

Everyone in the station is preparing to collaborate on "The Ordinary World", so have you ever thought of inviting Zhang Zhong?Now also to interview new authors. Don't let all of the reputation that "Opening the Book is Good" accumulate with great difficulty be consumed.

Later, when Luo Ji heard that the new author to be interviewed was Qin Zhao, who was also the author of the article "Swift" recommended by Zhang Zhong last time, he felt a little better.

But one day before the interview, he suddenly got another big news - the author they want to interview is only 11 years old!
Roger's first reaction was disbelief, how could this be possible?
But after thinking that it was impossible for Chen Qing to give fake news, he became excited. For an 11-year-old writer, this gimmick is no less important than interviewing Zhang.

On the day of the interview, Luo Ji looked at Qin Zhao who was resting in the lounge through the glass.

The 11-year-old child is holding a book in his hand, which he bought at the bookstore on the way here. Although Chen Qing is his manager, he has not been granted any special privileges—— For example, I read Zhang Zhong's book in advance.

"Is the protagonist a six-year-old child? This should be a science fiction novel."

Qin Zhao muttered to himself, in fact, if he had paid attention to "Ender's Game" online before, he wouldn't have said that, because the previous trailer had already said what kind of book it was.

He judged it from the "monitor", the monitor inserted from the neck to the stomach - it was different from the one in the corner, Qin Zhao looked up at the monitoring position.

Luo Ji raised his eyebrows outside. He noticed Qin Zhao's movements, and thought that the child was resistant to the monitor, or even something with a lens.

This is difficult, but I will be interviewed in a while.

Oh, by the way, he came here to find Qin Zhaoqiao's procedures, why is he standing outside in a daze?
It may be that seeing the seriousness of the other party's reading, I can't bear to disturb him.

……

"Ender's Game", before the Nebula Award was announced, Zhang Zhong published another science fiction novel.

Some people say that this is Zhang Zhong's strategy in order to enhance his competitiveness in the Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards.

But most people disagree with this statement, because according to Zhang Zhong's speed, it has been a long time since this science fiction novel.

But no matter what, Zhang Zhong finally wrote science fiction again, and the science fiction parties raised their banners one after another, and even shouted slogans: Let Poirot go to hell, March belongs to science fiction.

(End of this chapter)