Chapter 489 Short Chapter 1
Chapter 489 Short Story No.
Only Casanova, whose life experience was legendary enough, could write such a work. Yuan Kong thought that his life had been nothing but success, without any twists and turns. Alas, it was totally inappropriate!
Gu Lu didn't want to show off originally, but he was forced to do so.
He continued: "The second stage is the psychological stage, which is what Professor Yuankong talked about, Stendhal, and is a higher stage of self-expression. In this stage, the writer is no longer satisfied with simple retelling, but conducts dissection and research to find the real motivation for action and why to give up action, thus achieving the inner drama of the character."
"I put Stendhal in the middle, not to underestimate him. On the contrary, the second level of creation is the most important stage of writing. 'Who was I in the past? Who am I now? I can't tell clearly.' I borrowed this sentence from The Life of Henri Brulla to express Stendhal's writing career. He has been dissecting himself and studying the world with himself."
A rather radical idea, the French literary giant Stendhal has been writing about himself... The meta-fantasy young people are still a little young.
But if you think about it carefully, it seems to make sense, because Stendhal himself said, "What I like most is to put on a mask and change my name."
Think about it again, why is Stendhal so good at improvisation? It is to write about himself
pass!
“Stendhal began a new view of the self: the self as subject and object, conducting a dual observation, achieving a dual description of the inner and outer self.”
"Double observation is a judgment of oneself, examining and checking one's own emotions. I would like to add that this is also the reason why Tolstoy is placed at the top of my writing. Tolstoy's self-observation, combined with ethical and religious judgment, has reached the highest stage of observation."
It has begun. If students did not listen carefully at the beginning, they would find it difficult to understand.
Not to mention the students, even the teachers and professors present realized that whatever Gu Lu said could be used to start a class.
He is indeed an outstanding student of Peking University. No wonder Vice President Ruan always mentions him. Vice President Wu thought to himself that Casanova is an Italian writer, Stendhal is a French literary giant, and Tolstoy is a great writer from the Bear Country. It takes a lot of knowledge to bring these three writers together.
"I'd like to add that in the sequel to Tolstoy's posthumous play "Light Shines in the Darkness", I expressed Tolstoy's pain. The core reason comes from the great writer's highest level of observation, observing the truthfulness of every word in life and the purity of every image." said Gu Lu.
This is not Gu Lu's self-justification, because this perfect ideological system itself comes from the world citizen Stefan Zweig. At the same time, he also has a deeper understanding of the sequel, why a deception of his wife in his later years would become the fuse for Tolstoy to run away from home. To be more precise, Tolstoy's judgment on himself has reached its extreme!
“Self-description goes beyond curious self-study and becomes self-judgment.”
“After hearing this, some students may have questions in their minds: Is the self-description of Judgment Form more real than Casanova’s simple self-description that details every detail?” Gu Lu asked.
Brother, no one here asked!
The fat man understood and felt a familiar feeling. Isn't this the way a professor teaches, thinking that students can follow the rhythm and talk quickly?
"No! Of course not! Because a simple self-description will change fate. Casanova's memoirs add a lot of spices to stimulate sexual desire."
"It is more difficult for writers to face themselves than anyone else, because they are good at making up stories, often self-deceiving and deliberately forgetful." Gu Lu said, "So I admire Mr. Ba Jin very much, and the greatness of Random Thoughts is no less than the three great confessions in Europe and America."
Gu Lu then made a brief analysis of Stendhal’s works.
And his mouth was quite venomous, what a mediocre, rough, pug face, round, red, fat, petty-bourgeois, ah, that person's nose was so disgustingly thick and garlic-like across the face of a provincial! He also explained that the word "province" was invented by Parisians, referring to areas outside Paris, and in fact it is more standard to translate it as "countryman".
Stendhal was particularly anxious about his appearance. In his letters to friends, he called himself an Italian butcher. In his works, he comforted himself by saying, "You are ugly, but you have an extraordinary appearance."
He believed that talent could make up for appearance, which was one of the reasons that prompted Stendhal to observe himself both subjectively and objectively.
"This is unprepared. If you are prepared, are you going to go to space? Take Peking University students to the moon?" Yuan Kong hates Versailles the most.
The content is very cohesive, especially the frequent quotations from the works of the three writers. Yuankong felt deeply that he knew Stendhal better than he did.
With his mouth a little dry, King Gollum felt that time was almost up, so he ended with a sentence: How many adventures do I have to go through before I can walk towards the goddesses like Faust and say, "I see my heart clearly!"
Wow! The applause was thunderous.
The applause did not mean "Well said, it made me interested in all three writers."
But it was an inexplicable applause!
"He can be replaced. How much effort does it take to be like Teacher Gu Lu, who is almost the same age as me?" said a senior student in the audience while applauding.
The Fat Man in the Mirror responded, "Based on the hardware conditions for this lecture, at least you have to be familiar with the works of Casanova, Stendhal, and Tolstoy. To say that you are familiar with them is quite basic, because Professor Gu Lu has reached the level where he can write a sequel."
“…Forget it, it’s too tiring.” The senior student gave up decisively.
The total number of words of the three writers is less than 10 million, which is roughly equivalent to two fantasy novels on the Internet. Reading two fantasy novels is easy and can be done, but even Peking University students are afraid of the former.
Think about it, this is the content of Gu Lu's lecture. If it is cut into slices, it will really attract netizens, for example, how the Italian romantic Casanova wrote, and who is better between the French literary giant Stendhal and the Russian literary giant Tolstoy.
When the slices are scattered, they look like stars in the sky, but when they are put together, they become complicated and difficult to understand, which is very strange.
"I don't know if it's because I grew up listening to Gu Lu's stories, but why do I feel like Gu Lu tells stories better than Teacher Yuan Kong?"
"You are not alone! But I have to say something for Teacher Yuankong. Although you have been listening to Gu Lu's stories since you were a child, Teacher Yuankong's face is full of stories. The accidents are 50-50."
"Why are you swearing at people upstairs? How come you are not a human being?"
"Our Chinese teacher said that Gu Lu's literary qualities have always been underestimated. His work "The Battle for Antarctica" has been selected into textbooks, which is the most selected textbook works among all living authors. The reason why he is underestimated is also related to his passion for writing bestsellers. Can you imagine that Mo Yan likes to write bestsellers..."
Speaking only of writing skills, Mo Yan is one level higher than Yu Hua. Here we are only talking about writing skills.
"The key is Gu Lu's godly writing style, which changes with each book he writes. His best-selling books don't have much literary quality!"
After seeing the slice, netizens started discussing it, and the main topic of discussion later became how Gu Lu could rank in the field of writers.
Writers such as Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, Alai, Wang Shuo, and Chi Zijian were mentioned.
Anyway, it was a huge fight.
Most of these writers don’t pay much attention to the Internet, because they were born in the 20s, became famous in the 50s and 90s, and became famous in the s. They are all in their s and s. Many of these famous writers have been out of touch with the masses for a long time.
But there is one person who is an exception, and that is Alai, who wrote "Dust Settled" and "Mushroom Circle". Alai is a genius, and his first novel "Dust Settled" won the Mao Dun Literature Award. And he is not as hostile to online literature as other traditional writers. He himself is the honorary chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Online Writers Association. Basically, he will go to any event to give a speech on his views on online literature.
"Dad, netizens ranked you 13th among writers currently alive," said Yang Linlin.
"What's your rank, Uncle Mo?" asked Alai.
"It should be in the top three, but the details are still controversial," said Yang Linlin.
"Who has a dispute with him?" asked Alai.
Yang Linlin responded, "Aunt Chi Zijian, Aunt Tie Ning."
Oh, these two can indeed compete for the top spot. Tie Ning is not to be mentioned, she has been the chairman of the Writers Association since Ba Jin. And Chi Zijian has no weaknesses in long and short stories and prose, and is a rare writer who is as strong as a hexagonal warrior.
Ale originally wanted to see who were in the top ten, but after thinking it over he gave up. After all, it would make him seem like he cared a lot about this list.
I had not paid attention to him at first, but Alai suddenly thought of someone, "What about Gu Lu?"
"Gu Lu? This is a ranking of serious writers, right? He doesn't seem to be in the list, at least not in the top 20. Let me look for him..."
"Found it, ranked 47th, barely making it into the top 50." Yang Linlin responded.
"?" Alai's mind was full of question marks, and he finally exhaled a breath of exhaust, "The readers who sorted it don't understand either."
Yang Linlin disagrees with this point. It seems that she is quite knowledgeable. In her comments, she lists all the awards and honors the writer has won.
"I only have a vague idea about it. If you ask the top ten writers, everyone, including me, will tell you that Gu Lu will definitely be in the top ten." Alai responded.
Ah? Why? Yang Linlin said, "Could it be that Young China says that social status and literary status cannot be equated?"
"The Lu Xun Literature Award has been held for so many years, but the biggest problem is that Gu Lu has not been awarded. His writing style in the New Meaning of Liaozhai series can reach the first echelon of the literary world, and his short stories such as Wall-Walking, Bronze Statue, Survival Card, and Dwarf, which were serialized in People's Literature, are also first-tier in terms of literary quality. So he is very strong in the field of serious short stories."
"If we add in historical biographical short stories such as the diplomatic series 'The Immortal Fugitive', 'One Night Genius' and 'The Battle for Antarctica', it's no problem to say that he is the best short story writer of his time," Alai said. "Even if he has never written a serious novel, his achievements in short stories alone are enough to put him in the top ten. Just like Mr. Lu Xun, who only wrote short stories and miscellanies, but never a long novel. But his position as the best in modern literature is unshakable."
I have to say that professional writers are still professionals. It is not a big problem for Aimee + Wang Zengqi + Zweig to win the first place in domestic short stories.
It was very counterintuitive. Gu Lu was only in his twenties. How could he be the number one writer of serious short stories in China? Yang Linlin subconsciously opened his mouth to refute.
But the writing style has the new meaning of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, the connotation has the series of short stories serialized in People's Literature, and the epic feeling has the series of short stories on diplomacy. It seems that this is really the ceiling.
He has representative works in terms of writing style, connotation and epic sense. In the field of short stories, even Liu Qingbang (the original novelist of the movie Blind Shaft starring Wang Baoqiang), who is known as the king of short stories in the world, would not be able to compete with him, right?
Gu Lu is awesome! Yang Linlin asked, "Dad, Gu Lu is the top writer of short stories in China. Is this your personal evaluation, or is it..."
"All the writers I know think so, but many newspaper editors and column literary critics don't think so," said Ale.
It is generally recognized in the writer circle, but he has not won a Lu Xun Short Story Award - this joke is really funny.
Alai asked again, "I seem to remember that he is also good at writing science fiction short stories, right?"
Yang Linlin nodded. The two short story series, "The Wandering Earth" and "Yesterday's Park", are difficult to surpass after the millennium in terms of both reputation and sales.
"So, in terms of short stories, Gu Lu has dominated both serious and popular fields?" Yang Linlin was amazed.
Awesome!
Now looking at the rankings of netizens on the Internet, Yang Linlin also feels that they are unreliable.
Since the country has awarded Gu Lu the "Five One Project" Award, why is the Lu Xun Literature Award so unquestionable?
Why?
As for the Lu Xun Literary Award Organizing Committee, generally speaking, they would "surrender" when they see this kind of signal from the country.
The answer will be revealed soon.
Back at the Peking University campus, after the lecture, Yuan Kong, Gu Lu and school leaders chatted as they walked.
Mainly Yuan Kong, he has wanted to meet Gu Lu for a long time, and today’s lecture gave him a direct first impression.
As they chatted, Yuan Kong suddenly said, "The New Fairy Tale Series co-published by Teacher Gu Lu and the Writers Association is very good. When are you going to forgive the Writers Association?"
Gu Lu's eyes were a little confused. What should he forgive?
"It is indeed a problem that the Writers Association did not select The Little Prince for the National Excellent Children's Literature Award," Yuan Kong said
The Writers Association has four major awards: the Junma Award, the Lu Xun Literature Award, the Mao Dun Literature Award and the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award.
"However, Teacher Gu Lu will no longer participate in any awards presented by the Writers Association. The Lu Xun Literature Award cannot be awarded to Teacher Gu Lu, which has a great impact on the fairness of this award." Yuan Kong did not notice the other party's expression and continued.
What's going on? Why don't I know? Gu Lu restrained his expression, then tried to find out what was going on indirectly.
He complained about the fact that the little prince didn't win the award in front of Director Zhao. Yes, that's Director Zhao from the United Front.
When Director Zhao heard this, he thought, hey, the shady dealings have been exposed to Gu Lu? This is outrageous! Then he severely criticized the Writers Association.
As the rumor spread, it became known that Gu Lu would no longer accept any awards from the Writers Association.
The Writers Association wanted to give out the award, but without Gu Lu’s consent… they didn’t dare!
Anyway, the Children's Research Office, which is the organizing committee of the National Outstanding Children's Literature, held an internal meeting to criticize the incident, and several people were removed from their positions.
Vice President Wu, the school leader, was listening nearby and could not help but be shocked. What does it mean to be so prestigious? If they are not happy, the Writers Association will not even dare to make a move to ease the relationship.
(End of this chapter)