Zhao Zhenkai asked Chen Kaige to speak in front of everyone. He was proud and excited, but also inevitably a little nervous and apprehensive.

On the one hand, it is because he has always been a little transparent in the group and has never been in the limelight; on the other hand, it is also because he lacks confidence in his own level.

Although he was impassioned and eloquent when he stood up to refute Zhao Zhenkai just now, it was all "used doctrine". If he was really allowed to speak for himself, Chen Kaige immediately didn't know what to say.

Because he has never read a few magical realism works, let alone know much about Latin American literature.

Fortunately, after a few anxious seconds, Chen Kaige wisely thought of Lin Chaoyang.

At worst, I'll talk more about Uncle Lin's remarks.

“This Nobel Prize in Literature has made the Chinese people pay attention to the literary genre of ‘magic realism’, but in fact, many people in the academic world have already noticed it a few years ago.

In 1975, the Humanities Society's internal publication "Foreign Literature Situation" devoted a special issue to Latin American literature, which introduced for the first time "Colombia's new genre novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which is Marquez's masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

》The earliest record in China.

At that time, the album did not have a high evaluation of this novel. The main reason was that it was based on political struggle at the time, and it was believed that the realist tendency of the Latin American literary world in the 1930s and 1940s was gradually declining at this stage.

Some writers with progressive tendencies have been corrupted by modern revisionism and the Western bourgeoisie, and have gradually begun to escape reality, deviate from literary tradition, and turn the contents of their novels into magic and mythology.

This view at the time seemed biased, but it also exposed the foundation of magical realism - realism..."

Chen Kaige felt a little nervous when he first spoke because he was also afraid that someone like him would suddenly stand out from the crowd and end up in the same situation as Zhao Zhenkai.

After all, he really didn't know much about what he was talking about. He just recalled what Uncle Lin told him and read it from the script. He had no confidence!

But as he talked, Chen Kaige found that everyone seemed to be very engaged in listening and had no intention of finding fault at all.

Not only that, he also caught some looks of admiration from the eyes of several lesbians, which immediately made him feel more confident, and even made his voice a little louder.

After speaking continuously for more than 20 minutes, Chen Kaige felt that his reserve was about to be exhausted, so he decisively chose to stop as soon as possible.

"The above is my brief understanding of Latin American literature and the genre of magical realism. Thank you all for listening!"

After Chen Kaige said these words, he sat down and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

Tian Zhuangzhuang looked at him with an incredible look in his eyes, "Kege, okay! I didn't expect that your knowledge reserve is so deep now!"

The two grew up naked in the same courtyard, and Chen Kaige did not dare to show too much pride in front of Tian Zhuangzhuang.

He whispered, "I have also been studying with others recently and learned a lot."

Tian Zhuangzhuang nodded after listening to Chen Kaige's words. This was unexpected but also reasonable.

He knew Chen Kaige very well. Although he had some accumulation in literature and his writings were pretty good, he had to talk endlessly in front of everyone for more than half an hour like today, and the content was not familiar to everyone.

Difficult and obscure things are almost impossible.

"Who did you learn this from? Let me listen to it later, it's so good!" Tian Zhuangzhuang said.

"I will take you there when I have time later."

Chen Kaige said this, but he was thinking in his heart, Uncle Lin is my uncle, and giving me lectures is a matter of friendship. What does it have to do with you?

He made up his mind that he would never take Tian Zhuangzhuang to see Lin Chaoyang.

The two were talking, and there was thunderous applause around them, which made Chen Kaige feel proud.

As the moderator of the meeting, Zhao Zhenkai stood up and summarized Chen Kaige's speech, praised him a few more words, and finally asked everyone to ask questions, taking this opportunity to have a good exchange with Chen Kaige.

Hearing this, Chen Kaige suddenly felt nervous. He didn't think he could handle some of everyone's tricky questions.

While he was feeling anxious, everyone looked at each other and found that no one seemed to want to ask questions.

The reason is very simple. In previous seminars, everyone would often ask questions and communicate with each other enthusiastically, and sometimes they would even get red-faced. This was mainly because everyone knew enough about the things being discussed, or thought they did.

But what Chen Kaige just said was a bit too obscure for the fans here who were new to Latin American literature and magical realism works. Even if they wanted to ask questions, they didn't know where to start.

Seeing everyone sitting quietly, Chen Kaige breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt a sense of happiness and joy that he had succeeded in pretending to be successful.

The two-hour discussion ended in a blink of an eye, and everyone was still a little unfinished. After the discussion, they chatted with each other, and some people talked about some recent hot topics.

"Hey, why hasn't there been any news about the Mao Dun Literature Award? Didn't we have a reading class at the beginning of the year? It's been more than a year, right?"

"It should be soon. I heard from my brother that the candidate list will be out in September."

"September is almost three months away, which is too slow."

"The judging panel is all old-timers. They are busy at work and not in good health. How do you expect them to get up quickly?"

"Wouldn't it be a waste of time to hire these old guys for the awards? If you want to tell me, you have to find young people. I can read even a thousand novels, not to mention a hundred."

"Stop boasting, you are just here, but you still want to be a judge? You can't even get into the "Yenching Literature" competition!"

…

The results of the first Mao Dun Literature Award are not only concerned by readers and literature lovers, but also by the literary circles.

After Mao Dun passed away in 1981, the Mao Dun Literary Award was established according to his last wish and became the first authoritative literary award in the Chinese literary world to encourage the creation of full-length novels.

Most readers and literature lovers pay attention out of a sense of fun, but for some people in the literary world, this award is actually related to their own interests.

Writers can win awards, editors can receive awards, and publishers can receive honors. We are all grasshoppers on the same rope.

The award evaluation has been going on for more than a year. Not only readers and literature lovers are anxious, but also writers, novel editors, and publishers who are hopeful of winning the award are also eagerly awaiting it.

Finally, on December 6, 1982, a report about the list of winners of the first Mao Dun Literature Prize appeared in the People’s Daily without any warning.

On the day the report came out, the National Cultural Association also informed the literary associations of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government of the award results.

In just one day, the Chinese literary world was in a turmoil and noisy.

"Xu Mao and His Daughters" (Zhou Keqin), "Dongfang" (Wei Wei), "The General's Song" (Mo Yingfeng), "Li Zicheng" (Yao Xueyin), "The Chess Master" (Lin Chaoyang), "Furong Town"

(Gu Hua), "Spring in Winter" (Li Guowen).

After more than a year of evaluation, the first Mao Dun Literature Award finally selected seven winning works.

If there are eight works in the candidate list according to folk rumors, then the winning rate is terrifying.

While everyone is marveling at these award-winning works and writers, they are also curious about who the only unlucky guy who failed to win will be?

"Oh, you made me laugh so hard. Zhang Manling's mouth is really shameful. Once the award comes out, she doesn't care about others, but she only cares about the unlucky guy who failed to win? This girl is really awesome!"

Shen Jinmei is the deputy editor-in-chief of "Tianjin Literature". Last month, "Xingang" magazine was renamed "Tianjin Literature", which can be regarded as conforming to the current trend of the publications of various literary associations being changed to "XX Literature".

She was originally the person in charge of "Xingang" and an old lady of the Tianjin Literary Association. After the publication was restructured, she became the deputy editor.

"Tianjin Literature" and the Literary and Art Association both work in the same place, and the people in the editorial department and the Literary and Literary Association are also familiar with each other. Shen Jinmei just went to the office of the Literary and Literary Association and said with a smile when she came back.

Listening to her joke, there was a burst of laughter in the editorial office.

Jiang Zilong is now the editor-in-chief of "Tianjin Literature". He asked: "Shouldn't the person she should be most concerned about be Lin Chaoyang?"

Since the last time Zhang Manling and Wu Ziren collaborated to concoct the article that was detrimental to Yan Film Studio, everyone within the Tianjin Federation of Literary and Art Circles knew that her relationship with Lin Chaoyang was so good that she was willing to be a pawn.

There are some people who spread some unpleasant things in private, but these rumors cannot be brought to the stage and can only be circulated in dark corners.

"Lin Chaoyang has won the award, so what else should he care about? He is only in his twenties and won the Mao Dun Literature Award. He is too young!" Shen Jinmei sighed.

Hearing this, Jiang Zilong couldn't help but recall his experience of studying at the Institute of Literature two years ago, "Yes! He even gave us a class that year."

Shen Jinmei joked: "What do you think of this 'little teacher'?"

Jiang Zilong thought for a while and said seriously: "The theoretical knowledge is very solid, much better than our amateur writers. And you can tell that he is really talented. There are some things that I only realized in my thirties."

He came out, but he was only in his early twenties at that time, and he was already speaking eloquently."

Shen Jinmei's original intention was to tease, but when she saw Jiang Zilong's attitude was so formal, she stopped joking.

"Then do you think "Chess" deserves the award?"

Listening to her question, Jiang Zilong asked: "What does it mean to be well-deserved? In terms of the quality of the works, these works that won awards this year are all good. But if you look at them with a magnifying glass, who has nothing wrong with them?"

"I remember that when "The Master of Chess" was published last year, it was criticized for being 'populist', right?

If Yao Xueyin's "Li Zicheng" only had the first volume, it would probably be more convincing if it won the award.

We were classmates in Gu Hua's "Furong Town", and the simple binary opposition design was too crude...

In the final analysis, the final evaluation is about strengths, not shortcomings. What we want to look at is the outstanding aspects of a work, rather than just focusing on its small shortcomings."

Jiang Zilong's words attracted applause from several colleagues around him. Shen Jinmei joked: "As expected of Editor Jiang, he has a pattern!"

Jiang Zilong waved his hand modestly, "What kind of pattern is this? But if you want to talk about the problems of this year's awards, it's not without them..."

Hearing what he said, several other colleagues looked curiously.

"Judging from the results of this year's awards, they are still somewhat ideologically oriented and not free from the influence of politics."

After listening to Jiang Zilong's words, the others couldn't help but nod in approval after thinking about it for a moment.

"The editor is right. Didn't everyone say that Lin Chaoyang's "The Death of Van Gogh" has also been submitted? In fact, I think that in terms of artistic standards, "The Death of Van Gogh" is much higher than "The Master of Chess".

Comparing the two, the advantage of "Chess Master" is obviously ideological."

"The Master of Chess is actually not bad, but The Death of Van Gogh is so stunning. It's a bit far-fetched for "Spring in Winter" to win the award. I might as well give it to The Death of Van Gogh."

"How can one person occupy two places? "The Death of Van Gogh" would be about the same if "The Master of Chess" is replaced. It would be more convincing to the public."

Everyone was discussing with great enthusiasm.

After all, this is the first novel award in China, and it is also the first awards ceremony. Everyone is considered a part of the literary world, so they are naturally enthusiastic after the results come out.

Jiang Zilong looked at everyone's performance and unconsciously thought of Lin Chaoyang's face in his mind.

So young!

Speaking of which, Jiang Zilong became famous relatively early among writers, and he created "reform literature", an important genre of contemporary Chinese literature.

It's a pity that compared with Lin Chaoyang, it's a bit unsatisfactory.

I don’t know if I will have a chance to win the Mao Dun Literature Award in this life!
Chapter completed!