I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 240: Kitagawa kills Arima with wine

10 month 15 day.

The 1996 members of the Swedish Academy announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature:

Wislawa Szymborska, a 73-year-old poet from Poland.

The academicians gave her the award speech: Because of her brilliant and subtle irony in poetry art, which has unearthed the profound meaning of historical changes and biological evolution behind every bit of human real life, we have decided to award her the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Wislawa's fame in the East is almost zero, but in the history of world poetry, she is a name that cannot be ignored.

She is recognized as the most popular poet in Poland and the third female poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The first two were Gabriela Mistral from Chile in 1945 and Nelly Sachs from Germany in 1966.

He is also the fourth Polish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Her winning of the award also caused a stir in the Japanese literary world.

Poetry has always been at the top of the literary contempt chain.

Unfortunately, the tradition of Japanese poetry has long been lost, and it still relies on the haiku craze started by Kitagawa Hide last year.

Now that a poet has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and there are no Japanese writers on the list of nominees, Japanese poets have immediately jumped out to call on the public to rediscover the beauty of poetry, and at the same time condemn the short-sighted local nominees.

Naturally, Arima Yoshiyoshi's failure to be nominated was taken advantage of by some people.

Originally, if Ichiro Tanizaki and others nominated a "Tenka No. 1", no one would stand up and say anything.

After all, these seven people represent the highest level of the current Japanese literary world. If you don't nominate them, would you nominate those lower-class upper-class writers?

But in the past two years, the variable Kitagawa Hide suddenly emerged.

You say he has little experience, but now he is also the best in the world.

You say his works do not meet the Nobel Prize standards, but he has restored the glory of haiku and is currently recognized as the number one poet (previously it was Mutsuro Takahashi), and this year's winner is a poet!
Ichiro Tanizaki and his colleagues had no way to defend themselves, so they simply kept silent about the nomination and even contacted a number of newspapers controlled by conglomerates to suppress public opinion.

But they can shut up the newspaper industry and domestic mouths, but they cannot control the self-willed Internet and overseas public opinion trends.

Shortly after the Nobel Prize in Literature winner was announced, a hot post appeared on the Yahoo Japan forum, talking about the nomination situation in France.

It turns out that the Académie Goncourt nominated local writer Combesco.

This French writer, who is 30 years older than Kitagawa Hide, won the Prix Goncourt just five years earlier than him.

The most important thing is that at the award ceremony of the Goncourt Prize last year, Combesco admitted in front of countless reporters that the up-and-coming artist Kitagawa Hide was better than himself and highly recognized his literary creation ability.

Hide Kitagawa's Paradise Lost lived up to expectations and became the best-selling foreign pure literature novel in the history of French literature. So far, about 40 copies have been sold, and the annual sales volume is estimated to reach more than 60!
This achievement is even better than "Devil's Tattoo" back then!

These things have nothing to do with Japan.

The bigwigs in the Japanese literary world are now collectively pretending to have lost their memory. They do not mention Kitagawa Hide's winning of the Prix Goncourt, nor his growing reputation overseas.

Anyway, as long as domestic public opinion is well controlled, you have to coil yourself even if you are a dragon.

But in France, Combesco happened to be on the final list of nominees and was just one step away from winning the award.

He felt extremely regretful for not winning the award, and was also confused as to why Kitagawa Hide, who won the award this year, was not nominated?
Although "Paradise Lost" is this year's work, he became popular in Japan in March last year, and those works are good enough to be nominated.

Combesco even told the media that if Kitagawa Hideya was nominated, he would definitely be on the final list and would have a chance of winning the award!
Winning an award is so mysterious that everyone just thinks it's just commercial flattery.

It can be selected into the long list of nominees. Many Westerners actually believe this!
The reason is also very simple.

Combesco, who is weaker than you, got in. They openly acknowledged your strength. If you don’t get in, are all the members of the Swedish Academy fools?

It was the 90s, and these academicians were not so isolated. When reviewing the nominees, they would also take into account their influence in the country and internationally, as well as the gap in strength between them.

In short, Combesco's complaints were brought to China by Japanese netizens.

And this matter has already spread widely overseas.

Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko checked online and found out that the person behind the public opinion was the Chanel Group - it was probably the little Princess Olivia who wanted to throw herself into Kitagawa Hide's arms.

I owe someone a favor for no reason again.

Kitagawa Hide now had no choice but to write "Remembrance of Things Past".

The Internet in Japan is now developing rapidly, and the Prime Minister's cabinet has gradually realized the scale of this new platform. At the parliamentary meeting held in October, some members proposed the formulation of the "Internet Law", which was also passed.

Various major forces have gradually set their sights on this new track, and the Internet has become more developed.

The number of Internet users is increasing by tens of thousands every day, and it is estimated that personal computers will be popular in Japan before 00.

Under the impact of one hot post after another, the latest issues of "Gun Xiang" and "Literary World" were released one after another. "Gun Xiang", which once kicked Kitagawa Hide out, is now the most popular when people gather around to watch the execution when each issue is released.

The October issue of “Group Portrait” lived up to expectations, selling 10 copies on the first day of publication, a “good result” that even “Group Star” couldn’t surpass!

The completely rubbish "Group Portrait" can continue to refresh the sales limit every time and keep working towards the opposite record, which is also a "grand event"!
"Literary World", which was released on the 16th, is doing well. "The Burmese Harp" has a large number of manuscripts in stock, and has been steadily gaining momentum. The reader turnover rate is normal. However, it was affected by not being on the list of nominees, and the sales on the first day of this issue were lower than the previous one.

"It has dropped from 11.7 copies to 8.4 copies. The number of copies of The Harp of Burma has reached the upper limit."

After getting the first-hand data, Rena Saito finally felt relieved.

The best news is that the other party is getting worse.

She never expected that "The Burmese Harp" would be a huge hit, as that would be an underestimation of the value of "the best work in the world".

There is no doubt that as long as the name Arima Yoshiyoshi is released, he can beat all the "upper-class writers".

Unfortunately, his opponent this time is not an ordinary person, but an ultimate monster!

As she expected, when "Wenyi" was released on the 18th, the daily sales of "Literary World" had dropped to less than 5 copies per day. If Bungeishunju does not invest a lot of marketing costs this month, the monthly sales will definitely not exceed 150 million copies.

Kitagawa Hide also did not disappoint.

"The Strange Bird Chronicle" directly released all the chapters of the second part of the prophecy bird, and "Killing the Grand Master" also posted the latter chapters of the first part.

Two-thirds of the space in this issue of "Wenyi" was occupied by Kitagawa Hide alone.

If a general literary magazine did this, the editorial department and the author would be criticized by readers - we want to see a hundred flowers blooming, and if they only publish his book, then why shouldn't I buy the individual books? !
But the readers of "Wenyi" not only did not feel disgusted, but also cried out that it was not satisfying enough!

"Wenyi" should publish all of Mr. Beichuan's books!

Such outrageous remarks are prevalent on the Internet.

The October 1996 issue of "Wenyi" also set a new record of selling 10 copies on the first day of printing.

Kitagawa Hideshi is really strong, and this is something that everyone in the Japanese literary world now knows. Since his debut, he has continuously created one astonishing achievement after another, but this is far less intuitive than what is reflected when the Oricon chart is posted.

Various lists related to pure literature magazines are almost dominated by his name alone.

When readers were flipping through the newspapers and saw the long list, they spent several minutes looking at Kitagawa Hide's name, which shows how terrifying his fighting power is.

A year ago, Kawade Shobo was still a bully, and its biggest goal was to avoid falling out of the ranks of the top five pure literature publishing houses and becoming second-rate.

But after Kawaide Shizuko recruited Kitagawa Hide, it was like winning a fully broken limited SSR in a game. This card graduated on its own and instantly brought Kawaide Shobo from the last place to the top of the list!
Now if someone said that Kitagawa Hidetoshi had dominated the list of pure literature this year, no one would find it strange.

There are indeed people in this world who can suppress everyone in an industry with their personal strength, no matter whether you are a century-old enterprise or a new enterprise with countless geniuses, they will all be suppressed together!

Put it in later online novels.

When it comes to the Japanese literary world, Kitagawa Hideki has a tendency to be autocratic and unparalleled.

In their hearts, Japanese people admire the strong. The strength displayed by Kitagawa Hide has attracted countless fans. His private website has gained another 50 followers and is heading towards the 500 million mark!

This was 1996, the number of fans was not exaggerated.

There are 2 million die-hard fans among the 500 million Japanese, not counting those book fans who cannot access the Internet. Rounded up, the number is million, which means that one out of every Japanese is his die-hard fan.

Isn't this scary?

A kind of funny picture has also appeared on the Internet.

Kitagawa Hide rode his horse in armor, clasped his fists and said to Kawaide Shizuko behind him: "President, wait a moment, Hide will be back soon!"

The next painting shows Kitagawa Hideki chopping off Arima Yoriyoshi's dog head with a sword.

The Japanese like and admire the Three Kingdoms very much, but the one they basically watch is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

I don't know which netizen changed the story of "Guan Yu kills Hua Xiong with warm wine" into "Beichuan kills Arima with warm wine", and it actually received a lot of applause and reposts.

These emoticons also officially opened the "emoticon era" on the Japanese Internet.

Arima Yoshiyoshi probably never imagined until his death that one day he would be recorded in history for this reason.

The Internet was flooded with praise and compliments - no one understood how Kitagawa Hide did it, they could only look at him from afar with admiration, slowly lower their heads, and acknowledge from the bottom of their hearts his strength.

genius.

Only genius can cover everything.

After all, only a genius would run over everyone so unreasonably.

(End of this chapter)