I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 298 It will become Mr. Kitagawa's new masterpiece!
8 pm.

After washing up and reading the latest issue of "Wenyi", Kaoru sat down on the sofa in her pajamas, wiping her still wet hair with her hands while turning the TV channel to Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS.

Starting from tonight, two episodes of "Tokyo Love Story" will be broadcast on time every Saturday prime time.

This is another new masterpiece by the well-known film and television director Shunji Iwai after "Long Vacation".

When she was in Izu, Kaoru had heard of this romantic TV series that was popular all over Japan. The handsome Takuya Kimura in the series was the second choice that all young women in Japan wanted to marry - the first choice was Mr. Kitagawa, who was equally handsome and more talented and charming.

However, after Kitagawa Sensei got married, Kimura Takuya successfully replaced his position and became the man that all Japanese women most want to marry!
Kaoru heard from her sister Rena Saito and others that the script of "Tokyo Love Story" was actually written by Mr. Kitagawa.

She and her friends love to read pure literary romance novels written by Mr. Kitagawa, so they are very curious and looking forward to "East Love".

At the same time, her good friends Chihaya Ruri and Kyoko also turned on the TV, waiting for the broadcast of "Tokyo Love".

The three JKs couldn't watch the show together, but the wealthy Chihaya Ruri bought a computer for each of Kaoruko and Kyoko in order to pursue the fun of watching it together.

The three of them chatted while typing in the Internet chat room and watched TV series, and the experience was very good!

[Hey, I wonder how Kitagawa-sensei is spending his honeymoon overseas. I wish I could be the bride~——Cute Ruri-chan]

[Ruri-chan is daydreaming again~ Sister Yumeko is so pretty, how could Mr. Kitagawa choose you over her? —The poisonous-tongued Kyoko-chan]

[I heard that Mr. Kitagawa is now in a small town in Colombia. I wonder what the local customs are like there. Will he and Sister Yumeko be uncomfortable with the food? - Xunzi, who likes to read quietly]

[Colombia? I don't think I've been there yet. Why don't we go there together during this fall break? Maybe we can even run into Mr. Kitagawa. - Cute Liuli-chan]

[Stupid Liuli-chan, by the time we get to the holiday, Mr. Kitagawa and the others will have already left! The silly daughter of the landlord. - The poisonous-tongued Kyoko-chan]

[You are the idiot, you are the landlord’s silly daughter, you @#￥%——Cute Liuli sauce]

Kaoruko dried her hair and looked down to see Kyoko and Chihaya Ruri, who had always been at odds with each other, arguing again. At this time, "East Love" happened to start playing, so she stopped them and crossed her legs to watch the TV series with great interest.

The story atmosphere and overall feeling of "East Love" are very similar to "Long Vacation", so it instantly captured the hearts of many viewers as soon as it was broadcast.

Takuya Kimura, who has honed his acting skills through several works by Hideyoshi Kitagawa, has swept away the image of a young idol on the screen. The character he plays, Kanji Nagao, has the temperament of an honest and melancholy young man, no worse than Yuji Oda.

The plot of the first episode is very compact. It tells the story of a young man named Nagao Kanji (played by Kimura Takuya) who ran to Tokyo from the countryside of Ehime Prefecture to find a job. He was very restrained as he was unfamiliar with the place. Thanks to the care of Akaname Rika (played by Kudo Shizuka), who was also a new employee of the company, he gradually calmed down.

Kenji develops a crush on Rika, but he still can't forget his high school crush, Satomi Sekiguchi (Yami Arimori). By chance, Kenji, Satomi and their high school best friend Kenichi Mikami (Yosuke Eguchi) meet again in Tokyo after five years, and Rika happens to attend the party.

During the meal, Rika discovered that Kenji had feelings for Rimi, but Rimi liked Kenichi Mikami, which made Kenji heartbroken and distressed.

On the way back, Rika suggested to help Wanzhi to make some connections, but was rejected by Wanzhi.

Wanzhi returned to the rental house alone, but unexpectedly ran into Satomi and Kenichi Mikami kissing passionately!

The structure of this drama is still the "love polyamory + melodramatic plot" that is most commonly used in romantic TV dramas, but Hidetsu Kitagawa wrote the plot very deeply in the hearts of the people, and at the same time, Shunji Iwai paid great attention to the audience experience during the filming and controlled the rhythm of the plot very well, so the final effect is extremely amazing.

"It's so good! It's no wonder that Mr. Kitagawa is the main writer! I really want to know how Kenji would react when he saw the girl he secretly loves and his best friend kissing in the street!" Kaoru's gossipy soul was burning.

When she thought about having to wait until next week to find out the follow-up, she felt itchy and wanted to call brother Iwai Shunji and sister Jabami Rei immediately to ask about the subsequent development of the story!
After watching the first and second episodes, countless viewers, like Kaoru and the others, were instantly captivated by the ups and downs of the plot of "East Love" and were completely immersed in the love triangle of the four people.

At the same time, small chat rooms like Kaoru's were all discussing this newly aired TV series, and the fate of the hero and heroine in the series always touched the hearts of the audience.

As the conversation went on, the topic turned back to Mr. Beichuan's new book.

As expected, what Mr. Kitagawa writes about "Kitagawa Hidefu" is the best!

Soon, some fanatical book fans on the Internet suggested that everyone write a joint petition, urging Mr. Kitagawa to write another pure literary love novel in the style of "Kitagawa Hidefu".

Once the petition was launched, millions of netizens responded immediately!
The next morning, a petition email carrying the wishes of 120 million netizens was sent to Rena Saito's inbox.

Seeing her mailbox almost exploded, Saito Rena was shocked.

She just received the data report of "East Love" from Shunji Iwai.

This annual blockbuster, which cost more money and had a more luxurious cast, did not disappoint anyone.

On the first day of the broadcast, the average viewership ratings in each time period were 29.1%, the highest ratings for the first episode were 36.8%, and the highest ratings for the second episode were 38.9%, which directly crushed the following ones!
It looks like this is another national phenomenon-level hit drama!
While expressing her admiration, Saito Rena turned her attention back to the manuscript of the novel sent by Kitagawa Hideki and the huge petition.

Shizuko Kawaide mentioned this a few days ago. The Ministry of Education also hopes that Hide Kitagawa will write a "pure Japanese" novel, preferably in the "Hide Kitagawa style" that he is most famous and proficient in, in order to stabilize the Japanese literary world and the hearts of the people.

However, no one could influence Kitagawa Hide's thoughts. He saw and heard something in Colombia, but he was determined to write a foreign literature based on the Colombian town of Aracataca.

"Remembrance of Things Past" is very successful and is very popular in Japan and France, but many people do not think that Kitagawa Hidema has enough ability to compete with writers from other countries.

France is not so difficult to deal with. After all, the previous works "Paradise Lost" and "The Dancing Girl of Izu" were also very popular, which shows that the French literary market is similar to the Japanese literary market.

What the hell is Colombia?

The time difference between Latin American countries and Japan is fourteen months, it feels like they are even different species!

However, Kitagawa Hide is such a writer who likes to challenge his limits.

Saito Reina, who is very familiar with him, of course fully supports his new book.

Anyway, now that things have come to this, let’s read this book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” first!

Saito Reina opened the email and found that Kitagawa Hide had attached a detailed summary of the content and a family list! Seeing the densely packed, countless foreign names, she had a headache. It was a little hard to imagine how Kitagawa Hide had sorted out the messy Buendía family tree.

Using a traditional Latin American Indian family that has been thriving for a hundred years as a starting point to showcase the customs and culture of Latin America as a whole and the overall picture of the country is an idea worthy of being recorded in history. If it is well written, together with "Remembrance of Things Past", I am afraid that next year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be more likely to win!
Thinking of this, Saito Rena couldn't wait to read it.

I'm coming!

Kitagawa Hide's most original and classic work has no chapter titles!

Unlike most of her previous books and Remembrance of Things Past, One Hundred Years of Solitude does not have any chapter titles. The first thing that catches her eye is the three big characters of the first chapter, exactly the same as when she first saw Hear the Wind Sing.

“Years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

At that time, Macondo was a village with only 20 households. The mud houses were built on the river bank. The river water was clear and flowed along the riverbed full of stones. The stones in the river were smooth and white, just like prehistoric giant eggs.

".A tall gypsy who called himself Melquíades, with a full beard and fingers as thin as bird's claws, performed for the audience a brilliant demonstration of what he called the eighth wonder of the world created by the Macedonian alchemist.

Iron pots, iron basins, iron tongs, and small iron stoves fell from their places as they walked from house to house. Wooden boards creaked as nails and screws struggled to break free. They rolled around behind the two pieces of magic iron.

The story of the novel begins in the ordinary town of Macondo, where Aureliano Buendía is taken by his father to experience the gypsies' magical alchemy and the ice that he had never seen before.

As she read on, Saito Rena's originally quiet mood gradually became agitated.

She suddenly pulled back to the beginning and read it carefully again, and finally discovered the "clues" hidden in the text of the novel.

“Years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

The way this sentence is written is actually looking back at the past from the perspective of the future! This is a completely new narrative method that has never appeared in the history of literature! "

Saito Rena's heart was pounding as she repeated it over and over again, becoming more and more aware of the ingenuity of this peculiar narrative method!

At the beginning of the story, Colonel Aureliano, who seems to be the real protagonist, is still a child. He does not know his future destiny. At the beginning of the novel, Kitagawa Hide has already hinted at his ending.

Facing the firing squad, the colonel recalled the past.

This moment makes the reader very curious about how Aureliano got to that situation step by step.

"Once this opening is released, it will surely be imitated by countless authors." Saito Rena was filled with emotion and didn't know what to say for a moment.

How could Kitagawa Hide write such a brilliant novel just by going to Colombia for his honeymoon?
How exactly is his brain structured?

Another thing that also shocked Rena Saito, and she realized it only after reading it dozens of times, was the scene where the gypsies performed alchemy.

She didn't feel much when she first read it, but when she read it again and savored it carefully, she was shocked to find that Kitagawa Hide used an extremely magical description and method to present the plot.

The perfect combination of magic and reality?

Saito Rena had never seen this kind of writing in any novel.

This seems to be another new writing technique that Hideichi Kitagawa came up with on the spur of the moment.

Kitagawa Hidefu, mono no aware literature, war literature, critical realism, rascal school
Kitagawa Hide broke her cognition time and time again, so much so that later on, Saito Rena was actually numb and felt that she would no longer be shocked by anything Kitagawa Hide wrote.

But after reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" he sent her, Saito Rena decided to take back the idea.

It turns out that the best writers can break inherent cognition time and time again and constantly refresh their thresholds!
"This is a work that is more likely to be favored by the Swedish Academy than "Remembrance of Things Past"!" Saito Rena spent a full three hours carefully reading the first five chapters of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and then thought so in her heart.

The frustration of not winning anything despite being nominated for The Dancing Girl of Izu was completely gone.

The uneasiness that Shizuko Kawaide felt due to her crazy expansion of overseas markets also disappeared completely.

Judging from the current quality of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", not only can it sweep the Latin American literary market, it is also very likely to counterattack the United States and other strongholds of the world literary world!

She opened the thick petition again and took a look at it. After much hesitation, she forwarded it to Kitagawa Hide and attached the ratings data of "East Love".

As for her evaluation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", there is only one word: "God"!
After doing all this, Saito Reina let out a long sigh, picked up the coffee cup and was about to take a sip of black coffee when the office door was suddenly pushed open.

The one who hurried in was Shizuko Kawaide.

"Reina-chan, I heard that Kitagawa has sent you the manuscript of his new book? How is it? Which one is better than "Remembrance of Things Past"? " Shizuko Kawaide was urged online and offline every day and she really couldn't bear it anymore. She hoped that "One Hundred Years of Solitude" could be serialized as soon as possible in "Wenyi" in July.

Reina Saito turned the computer monitor in front of her, and the big word "God" was particularly eye-catching.

"It's great! Very great! And with just the beginning, Beichuan has used two writing techniques that I've never seen before. If nothing unexpected happens, this book should become his new masterpiece."

Saito Reina said with a smile.

Shizuko Kawaide was stunned.

She had seen a lot of how strong Kitagawa Hide was.

Every time a new book is published, it can give people a brand new shock.

But since "No Longer Human", even "The Dancing Girl of Izu" has not received such high praise from Rena Saito.

In Japan, "No Longer Human" has always been Kitagawa Hide's only representative work.

Can "One Hundred Years of Solitude" replace "No Longer Human"?
Now she couldn't remain calm anymore!
(End of this chapter)