A widower's entertainment

Chapter 230 [His Status] (Subscription Request)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

Although Lin Youcheng will give lectures to students of Lu Xun Academy of Literature in the future, it is not yet the time for the lectures. The School of Literature of Yenching Normal University and Lu Xun Academy of Literature jointly recruited postgraduate students in literary creation from 1988 to 1991, which was truly a special joint recruitment.

Yu Hua and Mo Yan will be classmates in this class.

In addition to these two, there are also writers such as Chi Zijian, Liu Zhenyun, Yan Geling, and Bi Shumin.

In fact, the reason why the Graduate School of Yenching Normal University initially organized this writing class was to express to the higher authorities that although some writers today are talented, their cultural level limits their cultural vision. Therefore, they need systematic course education to learn how foreigners write and how some domestic predecessors write.

This is also the origin of this writing class.

For this reason, Tong Qingyou, the vice president of Yenching Normal University and also a member of the Writers Association, initially mentioned letting Lin Youcheng give lectures.

Although Lin Youcheng's education level is not high, his novels are very popular abroad. Not only is "The Devotion of Suspect X" very popular abroad, it won the island country's literature award, and the adapted movie won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In addition, "Strange Things in the World" which won the Mao Dun Literature Award is also a very good work. It is completely different from the sentimental literature and root-seeking local literature in the domestic literary circle. It has a unique style and is full of fantasy and reality.

In fact, when Lin Youcheng first received the invitation from the Faculty of Arts, he planned to refuse it, and even modestly said that he should also enroll.

However, it is obvious that Lu Xun Academy of Literature would not allow Lin Youcheng, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, to be a student. You must know that the admission threshold this time is quite low. As long as you have graduated from elementary school and have published a work, you will be accepted into the writing class of the Academy of Literature.

Because the initial idea of ​​the School of Arts and Yenching Normal University was that the admission threshold was very low, but the graduation threshold was very high.

In fact, among those who have registered now, there are some very talented writers who are already known, such as two already very famous writers, Liu Zhenyun and Mo Yan. As for those who will become famous in the future, there are Yu Hua, Bi Shumin, and Chi Zijian. Although they are not famous enough, they have also published works.

Because this writers' class was approved by a certain department above, almost all young writers in the country, famous, semi-famous and unknown, came to sign up from all over the country, and the response was very enthusiastic.

Nowadays, everyone thinks that literature is a way out, and if you succeed in literature, you can make a living from it.

People like Mo Yang were the first to sign up. They had attended a training class at Lu Xun Academy of Literature and are now attending the postgraduate class.

Lin Youcheng has also participated in some literary lectures and shared some ideas on literary creation. He is naturally prepared to give lectures to writers who have published works. Of course, Lin Youcheng is not in a hurry now.

Lin Youcheng is not particularly concerned about being a lecturer in the writers' class now, but those students who have signed up for the writers' class at Lu Xun Academy of Literature are quite concerned about the writer Lin Youcheng.

Especially after knowing that Lin Youcheng was likely to give them lectures, they even started discussing the writer Lin Youcheng.

"I heard from Dean Tong that Lin Youcheng has been invited to give us a lecture."

Liu Zhenyun's words surprised many people around him.

"I didn't expect him to come. I particularly like Lin Youcheng's "Strange Things in the World". It's so well written, a combination of reality and fantasy, and the key is that it also buried such wonderful foreshadowing. The "The Sound of the Wind" in it is really shocking." "Yes, his previous "The Time Traveler's Wife" is also full of imagination. Although it is science fiction, it is full of reality and quite touching."

"My favorite movie is "The Devotion of Suspect X". The criminal method is incredible even now. When I first saw the truth, my scalp was numb. It was so exciting!"

"Yes, it's a completely unexpected method. I heard that there is also an unexpected mathematical answer to a real problem in it."

"Although some people say that Lin Youcheng is best at writing romance novels, Lin Youcheng writes about much more than romance. Works like The Sound of the Wind, Tengu, My Captain, My Regiment, and War Meridian all feature wars and realistic social contradictions."

"That's absolutely right. Even when writing about love, Lin Youcheng would try different themes. The key is that each love novel has a completely different story and style. For example, this time's science fiction theme, combined with love, really has the eternal feeling of love in One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Bi Shumin, who was standing by, nodded repeatedly as he listened to the words of the people around him, and couldn't help but say, "The Time Traveler's Wife is really full of imagination. I especially like what he said, that meeting love in the long river of time is a romantic story full of science fiction."

"When discussing Lin Youcheng's literary works, don't forget his Love Letter. It was very popular in Beijing at that time. The postmen during that time had a very hard time."

"Yes, the influence of the work "Love Letter" cannot be ignored."

"It turns out that Lin Youcheng is really trying all kinds of literary styles."

"In fact, this is just like what Lin Youcheng himself said, he does not write scar literature or avant-garde literature, but people's literature."

“People’s literature should allow a hundred flowers to bloom.”

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Liu Zhenyun listened to the people around him discussing Lin Youcheng's literary works, but he couldn't help thinking in his heart that ever since Lin Youcheng published "Under the Hawthorn Tree", there has been discussion about the writer Lin Youcheng in the literary circle, because every work of Lin Youcheng will bring considerable influence to the literary circle.

In the past, some people might have commented and attacked Lin Youcheng for only being able to write romance novels, but now the tone has changed. At most, people say that Lin Youcheng is best at writing romance novels.

But even if someone like Lin Youcheng writes a romance novel, that romance novel is not simple at all.

Although it is not yet the time when writers like Wang Anyi, who wrote about a woman's 40-year emotional experience in her novel "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", will win the Mao Dun Literature Prize, it is obvious that Lin Youcheng, the master of love and writer who has won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, already has a strong influence in the domestic literary circle. When discussing current domestic literature, it is absolutely impossible to bypass the writer Lin Youcheng.

There is no way, Lin Youcheng's works are there.

(End of this chapter)