Ordinary literature lovers are also well aware of this principle.

The two were standing in the courtyard chatting, and Lin Chaoyang asked about the creation process of "The Ordinary World".

The first part of "The Ordinary World" was completed at the end of 1985. At that time, Lu Yao had only completed the first draft of the novel.

After that, he spent several months to complete the copying and revision of the novel. It was not until the spring of 1986 that he began to study the publication, and then he worked on it for several months.

It wasn't until July last year that he started preparing for the second part.

Before that, he went to Guangzhou for a few days to experience the cutting-edge changes in reform and opening up, and to draw nutrients for the creation of the second part of "The Ordinary World".

It was also there that Lu Yao planned the fate of Wang Manyin, the "second-rate man" and "wandering ghost" in the novel, in the second part. He would go to Shanghai to sell fungus, and to Guangzhou to resell cheap electronic watches...

After that, Lu Yao returned to Xi'an to continue experiencing life, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and the home of the Provincial Party Committee SJ... In the name of creation, Lu Yao resembled the "wandering ghost" in the novel. When the preparations were almost complete, Lu Yao

Yao finally picked up his luggage and arrived at Wuqi County in the Yan'an region of northern Shaanxi.

Wuqi County is located in the northwest of Yan'an, with inconvenient transportation, remoteness and backwardness. Lu Yao lived in a dilapidated cave dwelling in the Wuqi District of the county. In that dilapidated cave dwelling, Lu Yao would often stay up all night because he was so obsessed with writing.

Sometimes when he missed his meal, he would simply eat steamed buns to satisfy his hunger.

In his words, the more difficult the conditions for creation, the more inspired he is to create.

But after writing for several months, due to the reverse day and night, hungry meals, full meals, and heavy smoking, Lu Yao's body turned on the yellow light again. His appetite decreased, his physical strength declined, and sometimes he was so tired that he couldn't even sleep.

I can't even lift my head.

Because he smoked too much, his chest ached, and his right eye was inflamed, which never got better, but these still did not stop him from creating. Lu Yao talked about his experiences in the past six months intermittently, and Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but admire his passion for creation.

That kind of selfless enthusiasm.

Lin Chaoyang knew that he would definitely not be able to do it on his own. The two of them chatted until midnight that day.

Early the next morning, Lin Chaoyang drove Lu Yao to the People's Literature Publishing House.

After some intense preparations, the venue for the works seminar was arranged to be held in the conference room of the People's Literature Publishing House at No. 1666 Chaonei Street. When Lin Chaoyang and Lu Yao arrived at the conference room of the Humanities Society, they were invited to attend

Most of the reviewers for the seminar have arrived.

For many unknown writers or less famous magazines and publishing houses, the most difficult people to invite are critics when holding seminars on their works.

But today’s work seminar is different. First, Huacheng Publishing House takes the lead, and secondly, Literary News, Novel Review and China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Company respond. The most important thing is that the seminar is about Lin Chaoyang’s new work "Parasite"

Name.

Many less famous critics even flock to seminars of this size.

Because of the high standards and distribution channels, the speeches these critics attend at conferences can easily be published in authoritative literary magazines or review magazines, which brings fame to these critics.

This can also be regarded as a kind of ecology in the literary world.

For today’s work seminar, Huacheng Publishing House took great pains to unite several units. Both the specifications and scale have become a peak in the seminars held by their publishing house in recent years.

Critics attending the seminar included nearly 40 people from the Chinese Literary and Art Association, the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Social Sciences, local critics from Yanjing, and critics from the Shaanxi literary circle who went to Beijing.

Among them, Bao Chang, Xie Yongwang, Zhu Zhai, He Xilai, He Zhenbang, Radar, Cai Kui, Bai Ye, Zhu Hui, Wang Furen, Meng Wanfu, etc. can be said to be the most authoritative and outstanding group of literary critics in China today.

Home.

Huacheng Publishing House is able to bring so many well-known critics together. In addition to its own fame, it is largely due to Lin Chaoyang's fame. Even the strong support of the Literary Association and "Literary News" also has a relationship with Lin Chaoyang

Inseparable relationship.

Lin Chaoyang became the focus of everyone's attention after entering the conference room, and inevitably exchanged greetings with the critics present. "Teacher Wang, long time no see!"

Lin Chaoyang greeted Wang Furen familiarly. Seeing the curiosity of the people around him, Lin Chaoyang took the initiative and said: "My wife is a student of Teacher Wang." The people around him looked surprised, and Wang Furen's eyes were filled with joy when he heard this.

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Lin Chaoyang's current fame, saying this sentence has invisibly elevated Wang Furen's status and placed him in the position of teacher, which suddenly made him unique among the many critics today.

stand up.

With his face glowing, he exchanged a few words with Lin Chaoyang about family matters, and then sat down with a smile on his face.

Then Lin Chaoyang exchanged a few words with Xie Yongwang from the Cultural Association. He is the director of the Creative Research Office of the Cultural Association. Nearly one-third of the people who came today responded to their call. At nine o'clock in the morning, this

The conference named "1987 Seminar on Chinese Realistic Novels" officially began.

The meeting was chaired by Li Shifei, editor-in-chief of Huacheng Publishing House, and Wang Yu, editor-in-chief of "Novel Review".

At the beginning of the opening ceremony, the two expressed their feelings about today's conference lineup. They bluntly said that the strong lineup of today's seminar is rare in the domestic literary circle in recent years. When it was the turn of the critics to speak, everyone spoke with great enthusiasm.

From the very beginning, the focus of discussion was on the novel "Parasite".

Everyone was eloquent and chatted for more than an hour, but no one discussed "The Ordinary World". This situation made Lu Yao's expression slightly embarrassed.

Although the bumpy publication experience and the response after the publication for more than half a year have made Lu Yao fully mentally prepared for today's seminar, he still felt a little sad when faced with such a dilemma of no one paying attention.

Seeing this scene, Wang Yu, who presided over the meeting, took the initiative to bring the topic to "The Ordinary World".

Compared with the enthusiasm when discussing "Parasite", everyone's reaction to "Ordinary World" was much colder.

Only a few critics such as Radar, Bai Hua, and Zhu Zhai took the initiative to comment, but these people's evaluations made Lu Yao not optimistic at all. Except for Zhu Zhai and Cai Kui, who made comments about "The Ordinary World"

Apart from the positive reviews, the rest of the reviews are not friendly.

You must know that this is at a seminar, and Chinese people have always paid attention to kindness.

In many seminars, even if the critics criticize the work, they will still be scrupulous when speaking publicly and make some comments about it to fool things. However, when facing Lu Yao and "The Ordinary World"

, these commentators who spoke did not do this.

Of course they didn't mean to embarrass Lu Yao, but they were really disappointed.

In Radar's words, "He couldn't believe that the first work like "The Ordinary World" was written by the author of "Life." Anyone could hear the anger in his words, and they couldn't believe it.

It's hard to see the high hopes these critics have for Lu Yao.

If there was no one to discuss it before, Lu Yao's mood was just sad.

So now, Lu Yao's mood is like that of Coach Lin from the "Fengxue Mountain Temple", full of anger and despair.

He understands that these critics are only targeting the novel itself, and they may even express constructive criticism out of love.

But "The Ordinary World" is a work that he created with great painstaking effort and courage. His feelings for this novel even surpassed his feelings for his children. To him, these criticisms were like stabbing him with a knife.

His dagger made his heart ache.

Lu Yao tried his best to suppress the resentment and desire to talk in his heart, because he knew that no matter how much he said now, he would not be able to change the opinions of these critics. He had just written the first part of the novel, and it had not yet been fully developed.

, let alone a huge climax.

Just wait and see!

Lu Yao's face was grim, and he took a breath in his heart, "I will prove it!"

At the seminar, Lu Yao and Lin Chaoyang sat together.

Lin Chaoyang saw that he looked unhappy and knew that no writer would feel comfortable facing this situation, so he asked Lu Yao in a low voice.

"Are you okay?"

Lu Bi kept silent and just shook his head, but there was pain in his eyes.

Lin Chaoyang sighed inwardly when he saw this. After the last critic finished speaking, he signaled to Li Shifei that he wanted to speak.

"Comrade Chaoyang, the author, wants to speak, and we welcome him!"

Li Shifei took the lead in applauding, and there was a round of applause in the conference room.

Lin Chaoyang cleared his throat and said: "Old Li said that I am the author, which is right and wrong. When talking about "Strange Insects", I am the author, but when talking about "The Ordinary World", I am the author along with everyone here.

We are on the same side."

After he finished speaking, there was a burst of relaxed laughter, and everyone understood the purpose of Lin Chaoyang's speech.

"What the comrades just said are very pertinent, and I will also share my thoughts.

I have read the first part of "The Ordinary World", and from my perspective as a writer, the creative level of the novel is quite good.

Many comrades said that the writing techniques of this novel are a bit outdated, old-fashioned, etc., and mentioned many shortcomings, but does the novel have any advantages?

A high degree of historical restoration, a detailed display of social and life styles, the author's profound insight, representative characters, and delicate and moving emotional descriptions...

I think everyone should be able to see these advantages, but I find that everyone seems to only want to focus on the shortcomings, but always ignore the advantages of this novel.

Of course I understand that this is a matter of everyone’s professional perspective, but what I want to say is that the evaluation of a work must not simply look at the unsatisfactory side.

I think everyone is aware of the controversy caused by the publication of "The Truman Show" the year before last. Since this year, the reputation of the novel seems to have improved a lot.

I don’t want to brag here, I just want to ask everyone to be patient with works like "The Ordinary World".

I think everyone might as well wait a few more years for their final evaluation of this work.

Wait until Lu Bi actually finishes writing this work, and wait until it is presented to the world in its complete form, then you can give it your most sincere and fair evaluation.

Lin Chaoyang's tone was sincere and sincere when he spoke. His words made many critics present thoughtful, and the conference room fell into silence for a while.

Lu Yao looked at him with an excited face, and in his eyes there was both the touch of receiving someone's help in times of trouble and the sympathy for a close friend.

"Morning sun!"

Lu Yao couldn't hold back his excitement and held Lin Chaoyang's hand tightly.
Chapter completed!