Chapter 118 Social Responsibility
As Wang Defu's debut short story "Necklace" suddenly caused such a big stir in the literary world, the popularity of the magazine "Red Rose" published by it increased greatly. Wang Defu's literary name naturally became even more famous. The appointments from many newspapers and magazines in the Magic City came like snowflakes.
The biggest reason for this is of course that Wang Defu has already proved his appeal through his works.
Of course, some people in the magazine industry think that his face can help him sell books, so they will definitely not lose money when they ask Wang Defu for an article!
Wang Defu's appeal in the Jiangnan school circle is really scary. As we all know, most of the students are the main force in buying magazines. They study on campus and have a lot of free time to read magazines. Teachers will also encourage students to read high-quality magazines to expand their horizons.
In this era without the Internet, the way to broaden one's horizons is undoubtedly reading books.
Wang Defu has completely opened up his name through his literary and artistic articles such as his essays "Listening to the Snow Night", "The Lotus of Purity", "Fireworks Unbearable to Cut", and his short story debut "Necklace". Even in the eyes of teachers, he is an impeccable writer who can write particularly stylish works.
Of course, the overly controversial article "The Submission Status of Women" was directly omitted. Young readers should not rush to read such ideological work. It is too easy to be incited and brainwashed. When you get older and have enough self-thinking ability, it is the most appropriate to read such articles.
Many high school students now like to imitate Wang Defu's prose when writing essays because they really think that Wang Defu's writing style is really awesome. If such writing style can be used in composition, it will definitely be cool.
As a result, their imitation often leads to the whole essay being piled up in various ways and becoming empty as a whole. It can only be said that their imitation is still too clumsy, and they are typical of being highly keen and low-key.
Works like Wang Defu that can be published in the famous prose magazine "Beautiful Essay", are not just gorgeous words, but the essential things in them are very suitable for readers to appreciate.
After a hundred years, Wang Defu's prose is probably the most suitable article for reading comprehension, so that those teachers who produce papers will have trouble. Of course, the students who are unlucky will be the students who take the exam.
Wang Defu has obviously initially consolidated his literary name. When others mention him, he will not use the nickname "Friends of Women" to make fun of him, but will think that this guy is indeed very capable in writing, not relying on the article "Female Submission Status".
Under such circumstances, it was natural that Wang Defu further received praise from his department director Cao Xuping.
Cao Xuping, a professor who is actually more literary attainments in the Department of Philosophy, still admires Wang Defu's short story "Necklace".
However, he said to Wang Defu in this way: "Your first novel is very well written, but in the genre of novels, if you want to react more profound thoughts, it is still a layer of separation. So you must continue to work harder and publish current events and social comments in major newspapers to directly show your ideological and philosophical nature. This is what can truly impress the above."
Wang Defu had never thought of satisfying the people above through a short story like "Necklace". Even though this novel triggered the interpretation of many literary people, some people thought it was very thoughtful and perfectly showed some aspect of the petty bourgeoisie, criticizing something, and it was a very revolutionary work. Some people thought it deeply reflected human nature and could warn readers not to be vain. In the end, many people insisted that novels were novels, a pure story, and the original author's attitude was absolutely neutral. Why did they insist that those false things were interpreted?
The final interpretation is like provoking the author - how can you, a writer who writes "Necklace" understand "Necklace"?
I can only say that an excellent work has been written. After it was created, its right to interpret may have long been out of the author's hands. Therefore, if the author wants to understand his own articles, he will be educated to doubt himself and wonder whether he really expressed his thoughts and feelings when he wrote this paragraph.
The original purpose of Wang Defu's writing of this "Necklace" was to further increase the influence of "Red Rose". It was inconsistent with the department director Cao Xuping's task.
However, it is obvious that Cao Xuping felt that this "Necklace" was a pretty good answer handed over by Wang Defu, which made him add points to the top management of the school, but this was obviously not enough.
So Cao Xuping continued to encourage Wang Defu, hoping that he would not be proud and complacent, and just stop his own pace. Instead, he should be more enterprising, actively speak out on current affairs and social focus issues, and create more thoughtful and topical works, so that the school's senior management can be completely satisfied.
At that time, it would be very natural to directly ask Wang Defu to graduate from undergraduate studies faster, obtain a bachelor's degree, and study for a master's degree.
Because Wang Defu was famous enough at that time and had excellent professional grades, it was certainly convincing that such a top student graduated early.
Wang Defu himself is still very much looking forward to the big pie drawn by senior executives of the school. After all, the academic community of liberal arts cannot be as straightforward as the academic community of science and engineering. As long as he achieves undisputed results, everyone must recognize him.
Things like liberal arts require too much fame and qualification, and even require you to be good at talking. If you are good at swearing people, it will be a huge advantage. Just shoot at those big guys, and you may be able to successfully hit the car and become famous all over the world.
Of course, the risk of doing this is also very high, and the consequences of failure will be terrifying. Therefore, many literati will not choose specific bosses to attack, but will only choose one group to attack, or just criticize the system. Anyway, this society is so dark, that is the system problem, it is absolutely right!
Cao Xuping hoped that Wang Defu could also write some articles that better reflect the social responsibility of literati, discover and expose the dark side of society, and then expose it to the public's vision. It would be great if you could give constructive opinions. If you can't, it doesn't matter. Just throw them to the public to argue, even if the argument ends, there will be no following.
Chapter completed!