Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 536 My Daughter Also Wants to Hear Vampire Stories

"Twilight" tells the romantic love story between two middle school students, Bella and Edward.
After Bella moved to the small town of Forks to live with her father, she met Edward, a mysterious and handsome male classmate. He has a charming appearance and a super ability to read other people's minds. He is a vampire from the Cullen family. However, he cannot perceive Bella's thoughts, but is deeply attracted to her. As a vampire, he wants to suck her blood, but for love, he is desperately suppressing his desire to suck blood.
In fact, this is a film about a strange love story between a man and a vampire, set against a vague Gothic background.

A campus love story wrapped in fantasy!
Although Fang Minghua had only read the original novel once and watched the adapted movie, it was not a difficult task for him since he had read so many vampire stories and various melodramatic campus romance novels and movies before he traveled through time.

It doesn't have to be exactly the same as the original, and I can't do that either. It just has to be roughly the same, and you can write the details yourself.

Another thing is that the writing style of the Twilight novel is relatively poor. However, Fang Minghua read the Chinese translation, and some people said that because the translation is so poor, it is basically a literal translation, and the original is still good.

Fang Minghua thinks this is something that needs attention. How can a very romantic love novel be good if the writing is poor?
As for translation, Fang Minghua believes that Li Li, who holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and has translated so many books, will definitely do a good job.

Take your time writing.

The first vintage of the 90s has passed.

The biggest event in the country during that year was the successful hosting of the 11th Asian Games, which greatly enhanced national pride.

In the field of literature, the novel world seems to be calm, except for the craze caused by the novel "Skywalker" written by Fang Minghua at the beginning of the year, the rest is calm.

Mesozoic writers such as Chen Zhongshi, Jia Pingwa, and Feng Jicai have closed their doors to visitors and devoted themselves to their creations. Young writers such as Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Chi Zijian, etc. are still studying on the campus of Yanshi University. Avant-garde novels have declined in the literary world, and new realism novels have taken over.

But the prose world, which had been deserted before, suddenly became active. In the middle of the year, Fang Minghua's "Fragments of Civilization" came out of nowhere and created "cultural prose". It was magnificent and had obvious differences from traditional prose, creating its own unique style of prose.

At the end of the year, the young man in the wheelchair once again refreshed people's perception of him with an essay "I and the Altar of Earth".

Full of philosophy and extremely humane.

Writer Han Shaogong once commented: "I think that even if 1990 was the only year of his work, "I and the Altar of Earth," it could be considered a good year."

The long-dormant prose world began to become active again.

After several requests, the dean of the Shanghai Drama Academy finally resigned from his position and began to travel around the country, systematically investigating important sites of Chinese culture.

He didn't want to be Xu Xiake and write "Xu Xiake's Travels", but wanted to be Fang Minghua and write cultural essays.

At this time, Fang Minghua was typing in the study.

Today is New Year's Day. I had planned to take my two children to the zoo to see the giant pandas, but it was windy and snowy outside. I guess the giant pandas are afraid of the cold, so the family of four hid at home.

My daughter was practicing piano alone in the piano room on the second floor.

twinkle Twinkle Little Star
The sky is full of little stars

Hanging in the sky and shining

Mozart's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

My son was lying on the coffee table, writing very seriously.

In fact, a child over three years old does not need to practice writing, but Lele seemed very interested in this thing, so Fang Minghua let him do it.

The dog Dou Miao was running around his little master, while the cat Dou Ya was dozing off under the radiator by the wall.

Fang Minghua was writing in the study on the second floor, and his wife Song Tangtang was sitting next to him reading the printed chapter contents.

"Minghua, the style of the vampire story you wrote is quite different from that of "Interview with the Vampire"? " Song Tangtang said as he read the content.

"Interview with the Vampire" is a novel written by American writer Anne Rice in the 1970s. It is the first in the "Vampire Chronicles" series.

There is no Chinese translation of this book in China, but Song Tangtang went to the United States last year and bought an English original. She was so fascinated by it that she would tell Fang Minghua about it from time to time.

After hearing what his wife said, Fang Minghua stopped typing, turned around and said with a smile: "Of course they are different. Interview with the Vampire is a horror novel, while Twilight is about campus life, with vampires in their skin and focusing on emotions. Otherwise, how can it be called a romance novel?"

"Dad, Mom, I want to listen to vampires too!" Suddenly a childish voice sounded at the door of the room. The two turned around and saw their daughter Ruirui standing at the door, holding a Barbie doll, followed by the little bean sprout wagging its tail.

Ruirui is now over three years old, which is the age when she likes to listen to adults telling stories. When she comes home on weekends, she pesters her parents to tell her stories.

A few days ago, Fang Minghua was in high spirits and told his daughter about the plot of the vampire novel he wrote. Although his daughter didn't quite understand what he said, she was not afraid of vampires. Instead, she was very excited and kept asking her father to tell her more!
Now that she heard her daughter talking about this again, Song Tangtang quickly said, "Ruirui, this is a novel for adults, not for you kids."

"But vampires are fun."

Fun?

Fang Minghua and Song Tangtang looked at each other. Wasn't their daughter too bold?

When other children heard about ghosts or something like that, they were all scared, including my son Lele, but she just giggled when she heard it!
Of course they knew in their hearts that this novel was in no way suitable for kindergarten children.

"Ruirui, have you practiced the piano? Can you play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"? " Song Tangtang quickly changed the subject and asked seriously.

"Mom, I've already mastered it. Teacher Zhao even praised me." said the little girl.

"What about ballet? How is the splits practice going?" Song Tangtang asked again.

"Mom and Dad, I already know how to do it. Look." The little girl said as she stretched out her legs and actually did a beautiful split on the ground.

Fortunately, I was wearing loose home clothes, otherwise my crotch would have been torn.

Fang Minghua felt very proud.

My daughter learns everything quickly. She is better than her peers in playing the piano, dancing, drawing, swimming and even fighting.

In addition to learning to write and practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

My son is just the opposite. He is not good at anything except writing and arithmetic.

Just learn whatever you like, Fang Minghua takes a laissez-faire attitude.

Seeing his daughter like this, Fang Minghua had no choice but to come over and pick up his daughter: "Baby, these books are really not suitable for you children to read. How about this, when I have time, Dad will write you a book for you children to read, okay?"

"Dad, you have to keep your word!" The little girl stretched out her cute little finger.

"Let's make a promise and hang ourselves. If we don't change for a hundred years, the one who changes is a puppy!"

The father and daughter talked and laughed together.

"Okay, Ruirui, Dad is writing a novel, don't disturb him." Song Tangtang took the opportunity to take his daughter away from Fang Minghua's arms.

"How about this, Ruirui, Mommy will teach you martial arts, okay? Let's go downstairs."

"Great." The little girl clapped her hands happily immediately: "Is it the military boxing that uncle taught my brother? That's really fun!"

"Yeah, so can mom."

As they walked down the stairs, their voices became quieter and quieter.

Fang Minghua smiled and shook his head, then continued writing.

After New Year's Day, Fang Minghua focused all his attention on writing "Twilight". In addition, the weather outside was cold, so he seldom went out. He was too lazy to attend some meetings of the Writers Association and would take leave whenever he could.

However, although the north wind was howling outside today and the weather was very cold, Fang Minghua had to go out, because the TV series "Ordinary World" directed by Zhang Yimou had been completed, and Shengshi Film and Television Company invited him to watch it in advance.

(End of this chapter)