I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 274 A masterpiece recommended by the President of France!

Kitagawa Hide woke up from his sleep and saw 99+ missed calls. He almost thought that there was a premature leak in the Hiroshima nuclear power plant!

Fortunately, after some investigation, it was revealed that what was leaked was the punishment imposed by the Nobel Prize Committee and the Council on Ichiro Tanizaki and others.

Otherwise, he would really have to pick up the bucket at the speed of light and take Mengzi away from this place of trouble!
I guess no one in this world knows better than him how terrible a nuclear power plant leak is!

After calming down, Kitagawa Hide picked up the scattered manuscripts on the table and began to deal with missed calls one by one. How could the "sky" of the Japanese literary world collapse just after a few hours of sleep?
He carefully inquired about the cause and effect of the incident, and finally pieced together the truth from the mouths of Shizuko Kawaide, Rena Saito and Olivia.

He was impressed by the efficiency and seriousness of the Nobel Prize Committee and the Board of Directors.

I originally thought that the other party had at best tacitly approved the French literary world's recommendation of him, and would just smooth over the shady incident. After all, if this matter became a big deal, the most shameful thing would definitely be the Nobel Prize.

You chose rotten fish and stinky shrimp as nominees, which made such a big joke and will inevitably lead to a decline in the credibility of the award.

The Nobel Prize in Literature is recognized as the world's top literary award, and the jury and the board of directors seem to be trying to act as peacemakers.

I didn't expect the other party to be so tough. They would rather issue a public penalty announcement than make things clear.

This is consistent with the top public relations ideas of later generations.

When public figures or organizations make mistakes, their first reaction is to make a big deal out of a small matter, and they will never come out to apologize.

Only very courageous people dare to do this.

In the ancient times, this thing was called "Confession of Sins". Many dynasties would not have this thing appear even once in hundreds of years.

Speaking of refusing to admit mistakes and being stubborn, Kitagawa Hide was reminded of the doctor-patient case in "White Tower", which is recognized as the best Japanese drama in history.

Due to negligence, the male protagonist Goro Zaizen caused the patient to die in pain. When the patient's family found out, the hospital's first reaction was to refuse to admit the mistake and then disperse the patient's family.

Not only that, they also fired the other male protagonist Shuji Satoma, who testified in court for the patient's family.

This is the social norm.

Kitagawa Hide made a note on the draft paper: "White Tower" is not only the pinnacle of Japanese dramas, but the original novel is also very famous and worthy of plagiarism.

the other side.

Professor Osamu Takeuchi also made a rare phone call, saying that someone had asked him to serve as an associate professor at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo.

Mr. Takeuchi's implication is very clear, if you want to go then go, if you don't want to go then forget it. His personal advice is to wait and see for a while, and it's not too late to make a decision after things calm down.

Kitagawa Hide himself plans to stay away from the academic circle for the time being.

He was a graduate student at the University of Tokyo in his previous life, and he knew very well how awesome the professors at the University of Tokyo were.

If you let him give lectures and show off, he will be able to do serious academic research.

First, he doesn't have the time or energy, and second, he doesn't have that much ability.

Those serious old scholars really spend all day in the library reading ancient books and racking their brains to study those theoretical knowledge.

Kitagawa Hide is not afraid of being exposed. With his current ability and fame, it is not an exaggeration for him to be a professor, but he feels that picking peaches in this way is disrespectful to those real scholars.

He doesn't mind the few dollars of salary.

After ten or twenty years, when you have reached that level, it won’t be too late to consider it.

To his surprise, not long after Professor Takeuchi Osamu called, Kyoto University also called him urgently with an invitation.

They did something even more outrageous. Not only did they invite him to be a full professor, they also directly exposed the punishment.

Just as Kitagawa Hidekazu was arguing with the director of human resources at Kyoto University, news that the Nobel Prize scandal had been confirmed by the Nobel Prize officials was already flying all over the place.

The heated discussion on the Internet suddenly overshadowed the murder of the TEPCO OL, which shows that the number of people paying attention to this matter has skyrocketed.

What's even more outrageous is that famous universities such as Keio University, Waseda University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Osaka University also extended olive branches to him. The lowest promise was associate professor, and the highest was even the dean of the Faculty of Literature!

The one who proposed him to be the Dean of the Faculty of Literature was the Tokyo Institute of Technology, an engineering school. Hiring a 25-year-old high school graduate as the Dean of the Faculty of Literature is full of flaws no matter how you look at it!

Kitagawa Hidejo Yumeko thanked these universities one by one for their kindness. Regardless of whether he agreed or not, with this wave of momentum, all the doubts he had previously faced in the Japanese literary world would probably disappear overnight.

People used to say that he only relied on sales and had no talent, that he was young and lacked the qualifications, and that he was a heretic and did not follow the rules. Now, I would like to ask, why would such a writer be hired as a professor by so many top universities?

Because of this, the person who felt the happiest was actually Saito Reina.

The letter of self-recommendation that she had spent so much effort writing for Kitagawa Hide was rejected outright by the Japanese Literature Society, along with all her efforts over the past two years.

But there was nothing she could do.

Now that the Nobel Prize has helped her vent her anger, she really feels proud.

If it weren't for Kitagawa Hide's previous warning that kept echoing in her mind - never open champagne at halftime - she would have come to Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko with beer to celebrate!

Even so, Saito Rena waited until after dinner, but still couldn't help but call Kitagawa Hide again.

"Beichuan! I'm really happy." She held her phone and looked at the explosive news all over the computer screen. She hasn't come back to her senses yet. "I'm so happy. I'm really happy."

"Me too. I actually wanted to thank you and Shizuko in person, but I'm busy with the beginnings of two new novels. You know, when I'm writing, I don't want to leave my study. So wait until I finish."

"Wait. Kitagawa, you just finished "The Dancing Girl of Izu" last month, right?" Saito Rena held her forehead with her hand.

This guy!
Wouldn't he be distracted by such an exciting event?
If people knew that the Nobel Prize officials were helping them, they would be so excited that they would not be able to sleep all night, let alone continue to create.

From the way he sounded, it sounded like he woke up in the morning to eat an egg and found it had a double yolk, so he was happy for a moment, and then he ate, drank, and did what he was supposed to do.

Is this guy really not a robot?

"Yes. To be precise, the second half of The Dancing Girl of Izu was almost finished in early January." Kitagawa Hide nodded and looked at the lower right corner of the computer screen. "March is coming soon. I have had a long break."

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"You are such a jerk! You don't know how to chat! I'm hanging up!"

"Ah."

"I'm really dead!"

"Ah."

".I." Saito Rena suddenly understood how Jabami Rei felt when she sometimes complained to her.

This guy, apart from typing and writing books, doesn't he pay enough attention to other things!
"Thank you anyway." She sighed, then smiled, "I hope I can go to Sweden with you to win the award again this time!"

"Yes!" Kitagawa Hide nodded heavily.

After hanging up the phone, he briefly thought about the possibility of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" winning an award, and finally felt that the possibility was not high.

He remembered that the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Dario Fo.

It is estimated that if you mention the name of this writer, nine out of ten people will have never heard of him.

But he is really amazing.

His main creative direction is drama.

How exaggerated is his drama?

In his works, he dares to satirize religious churches, dares to criticize Jews, dares to speak for the GC party, and dares to write scripts with the theme of the Palestinian people's struggle!

If any of these were to happen after 2020, they would be unacceptable to Western society.

He managed to get these things together.

And the last time the award was given to a dramatist was in 1986.

After 11 years, it is reasonable for the dramatist to win an award.

The works that won Yasunari Kawabata awards for were "Snow Country", "The Old Capital", etc., not "The Dancing Girl of Izu".

But even though he really couldn't get it, Kitagawa Hide didn't mind much.

It is not shameful to lose to such a master, and he still has many opportunities.

If you take it, it will be a huge profit!
Just thinking about it, he put the matter out of his mind. There is no point in daydreaming. What is real is to create more and write more.

Just as he was about to continue typing away on the keyboard, revising the beginnings of "Remembrance of Things Past" and "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland," an international call suddenly came in.

"Hello hello~ Teacher Kitagawa, long time no see~" Olivia's unique loli voice is very recognizable.

"It's been a long time indeed. I remember we just talked on the phone this morning." Kitagawa Hide complained.

Now their relationship is like that of brother and sister. Every time Kitagawa Hide hears this loli voice, he can't help but complain about her magical train of thought.

Olivia was used to this and smiled shamelessly: "Yes, because I missed you! This time I called to tell you a good news!"

"What good news?" Beichuan Xiu scratched his head. He always felt that the "good news" coming out of this girl's mouth was not so reliable.

"Let me read it for you! Maria, quickly bring me the evening edition of Paris Soirée that I just bought!" Olivia waved behind her, and the maid Maria quickly came running over with the newspaper.

She read out the words in a sweet and tender accent: "Shocking! The new work of Mr. Hide Kitagawa, the writer from faraway Japan and the author of Paradise Lost, is once again popular in France!" In late February 1997, the French translation of The Dancing Girl of Izu was launched in some bookstores in Paris.

".This collection of twelve short stories is of extremely high literary quality and quality. It has been recommended to the Swedish Academy by professors from universities such as Paris V and Paris VII. It has a high probability of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature this year!
What’s even more amazing is that despite the disadvantage that only a few bookstores had it on the shelves, “The Dancing Girl of Izu” sold 7.1 copies on the day it was put on the shelves! Nearly 30 copies have been sold so far!

This is the best sales of foreign literature in France in the past ten years!"

After Olivia finished reading, she wanted to put her hands on her hips.

Mr. Kitagawa's readers are all over Paris, most of them are college students.

More than half of her new classmates in the College of Arts and Letters had read Paradise Lost, and almost everyone had bought The Dancing Girl of Izu!
Everyone likes Mr. Beichuan's books from the bottom of their hearts and admires his deeds very much.

As soon as Olivia said that she knew this teacher, everyone came over to ask curiously.

Under her organization, the School of Arts and Literature is also preparing to come to Japan for exchanges and studies in the second half of the year!
Olivia said, continuing to put her hands on her hips for a while, which made her look so proud.

She feels that she has made a small contribution to Mr. Kitagawa's popularity in France!

I am the number one Beichuan fan in France!

Kitagawa Hideya was shocked to hear that the entire page of the Paris Soirée was talking about him.

Even in the evening edition, which has a relatively low purchase volume, it is rare to devote an entire page to one person.

Paris Soir's status in France is equivalent to that of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan.

Despite his high popularity, the Yomiuri Shimbun has never done something outrageous like giving the entire literature section to him alone.

This Paris evening paper gave a detailed account of his life experience and his writing record, and finally mentioned the legendary event that he was denied a recommendation spot in the domestic literary world and was not welcomed, and then this piece of gold shone in France.

This was done to gild the French literary world, but in the eyes of most readers, they only saw Kitagawa Hide's personal legend.

Because of this report, Kitagawa Hide became famous in the Paris literary world, and the news of the scandal spread from one person to another, and even reached the ears of French President Jacques Chirac.

This iron-blooded president who created the golden decade between China and France loved to read literary classics in his spare time. He immediately called his secretary to the bookstore and bought a copy of "The Dancing Girl of Izu".

The President has also started watching "The Dancing Girl of Izu"!

Regardless of whether it was true or not, the media seized the opportunity to hype it up, and the happiest among them was the Chanel Group.

They are the big financial backers behind Kitagawa Hide in France. The higher Kitagawa Hide's net worth is, the higher their wealth will rise.

As a result, the scandal became even more sensational.

Many people originally did not pay attention to the Nobel Prize, but now they are paying attention to this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.

At the Swedish Academy, Knut and others did not expect things to escalate to this point.

The Japanese literary world was in an uproar, the French literary world was also in chaos, and even many writers from other countries called to inquire about the truth of the matter, and asked for a copy of "The Dancing Girl of Izu".

On the Swedish Academy's side, after reading the sloppily translated English version of "The Dancing Girl of Izu", the judges had mixed opinions on the book, but basically acknowledged that it was a masterpiece.

Ma Yueran was able to read the original Japanese version, so he praised it very much and even decided to re-translate the English version himself - he believed that this book had the potential to win an award and should not be ruined by a bad English translation.

that's it.

Time slowly came to the end of February.

On the last day of February, the 18 lifetime judges of the Nobel Prize in Literature discussed and finalized this year's shortlist.

According to convention, the list will remain sealed for fifty years from that day.

But in fact, the moment the list was released, it was secretly sent to all parts of the world, so that the literary circles of various countries would know whether their authors were shortlisted and who was shortlisted.

The next morning.

The penalty announcement and the shortlist arrived at the Japan Literary Society at the same time.

(End of this chapter)