I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 310: Rising in Fame and Becoming Famous All Over the World

"Isn't this nonsense?"

When Takeuchi Osamu heard this, he hurried to the living room and turned on the computer that Jabami Rei gave him as a birthday gift.

Just open the official forum of Yahoo Japan, and you don’t even have to go to the literature section, and you will see Tetsutaro Mori’s review at the top of the homepage.

". Is Mr. Kitagawa Hide the number one person in Japanese literary history?"

Takeuchi Osamu finished reading the review as quickly as possible and immediately showed the same expression as Kato Shuichi.

After he read it through several times and confirmed that it was not a reverse villain, he fell into a daze.

In this review, which has been viewed over 2.7 million times and collected 798 million times, Tetsutaro Mori praised Kitagawa Hide to the skies.

He actually said without blushing or feeling any heart beating that Kitagawa Hide crushed a number of literary masters such as Akutagawa Mayu and Naoki Sanjugo, and was the well-deserved "No. 1 in history" in Japanese literary world!
Comments by literary critics are often highly subjective, and Mori Tetsutarou is widely recognized as the No. 1 Kitagawa fan, so what he says does not carry much credibility.

Even if Takeuchi Osamu and the other two present announced this conclusion publicly together, it would probably be difficult to convince everyone in the Japanese literary world.

But everyone in the industry knows that Tetsutaro Mori’s real purpose is to bring the topic into the public eye.

What he said doesn’t count, and what Takeuchi Osamu and a group of other current literary giants don’t count either. But what is recognized by all Japanese people must count, right?

Therefore, at the end of the commentary published on the Internet, Mori Tetsutarou added: "Such a conclusion is of course just my personal opinion and has no authority at all.

But I believe that this doubt must have been repeatedly mentioned in the minds of many people, and perhaps you in front of the computer screen are one of them.

Is Mr. Kitagawa worthy of this title?

My opinion doesn't count, and neither does what other people say.

But you have the final say!"

Osamu Takeuchi scrolled the mouse wheel. This pinned post currently has more than 20 replies, and hundreds more appear every time he refreshes it.

Just as Tetsutaro Mori said, netizens have enthusiastically participated in this topic. Some are positive, some are negative, and some are waiting and watching, but the popularity of the topic has indeed dominated the entire Internet!
With the release of the final chapter of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", readers' admiration for Kitagawa Hide has increased even more.

Judging from the reactions of these netizens, there are quite a few people who support Kitagawa Hidetoshi as the “historical number one” in Japanese literary history!
"He is only twenty-five years old. Even if he retires at fifty-five, he still has a full thirty years of writing career.

Will this kind of flattery kill him?"

Kato asked worriedly on Monday.

With Kitagawa Hide's current achievements and works, even if he stops writing now, he will still be firmly in the top three in the history of Japanese literature.

But Kato Shuichi, who is very optimistic about him, hopes that this young man can achieve a feat that no Japanese writer has ever achieved:

Won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

No one can say whether "Remembrance of Things Past" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude" can win awards.

But as long as he keeps writing like this, how many more years can the Swedish Academy hold him back?

Even if he just lived longer, Kitagawa Hide was so young, he would definitely live much longer than those lifelong judges!
He didn't want such a genius to perish because of overpraise.

"It's hard to say, but based on my understanding of him, it shouldn't be the case."

Takeuchi Osamu shook his head.

He can't see through these three little guys: Kitagawa Hide, Agatsuma Yumeko, and Jabami Rei.

A person with great talent but who doesn't care much about many things in the literary world, who only thinks about money and life, and who treats creating literary works as if he were eating or drinking. It's unreasonable.

He felt quite sorry for the fact that a woman who was equally talented resolutely gave up her career after getting married and became a housewife taking care of her husband and children.

There is another one that is even more outrageous.

Relying on his excellent physical condition, he gave up his qualification for continued study in the Faculty of Literature of the University of Tokyo and ran off to join the entertainment industry!

"Anyway, let's find a way to notify him."

Fumio Niwa is more cautious, and he is currently the acting president of the Japan Literary Society. He is currently restructuring the Japanese literary world and does not want any major event to disrupt the fragile literary world.

"I'll call him later." Takeuchi Osamu nodded.

He has been busy with the study recently.

His old friend Keiko Kimura suddenly asked him to borrow money a while ago. After asking, he found out that there was a problem with the funding chain of Kawaide Shobo.

Keiko Kimura is his first love, childhood sweetheart and close friend of many years, so it is natural for him to help.

Takeuchi Osamu finally raised 1 million yen with great difficulty, but before the money was transferred out, he was told that the problem was solved!
After repeatedly confirming that everything was fine, he returned all the money. He has recently had some free time to read a book.

Mori Tetsutarou's sudden move disturbed many people's minds, but it also coincidentally helped Kawade's study.

With the investment from Kitagawa Hide and the overwhelming reputation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Kawaide Shizuko was finally able to stabilize her family and company.

She is now busy cleaning up those unstable elements and needs some big news to attract people's attention——

Otherwise, the family infighting within a chaebol with assets exceeding 2800 billion yen would definitely make headlines.

In the eyes of the public, the family affairs of chaebols are just topics of conversation after dinner. The more they are talked about, the faster the mystery and status of the chaebols will be lost.

For an emerging consortium that wants to challenge the status of the six major consortiums in the future, such enthusiasm is obviously unnecessary.

After seeing Tetsutaro Mori's draft commentary on the Internet, Shizuko Kawaide spent money to help him vote overnight, so that the draft would be pinned to the top of various forums day and night to distract public attention.

Of course, the purpose of doing this is not just for oneself and the family.

Shizuko Kawaide was deeply grateful to Hide Kitagawa for saving her life. She remembered what she said, "I can do anything as long as you are willing to help."

Mr. Kitagawa is married, and he and sister Yumeko are deeply in love. It seems unrealistic for him to pledge himself to her, so let's do our best to make him the "historical number one" in the Japanese literary world!

the other side.

As Kitagawa Hide's long-time editor, Saito Rena had to attend several meetings to explain the ending of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" to many readers and industry insiders.

As Kitagawa Hide said, the popularity of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" will become higher as the ending is released.

Kitagawa Hide did not give her the manuscript in advance this time, and she was also busy with the company's financial crisis and did not communicate much with Kitagawa Hide about this matter.

did not expect!
The ending of this masterpiece is so amazing!

In the novel, the first generation of the Buendía family came to the town of Macondo to avoid the gossip of the villagers.

Cousins ​​getting married will give birth to children with pig tails.

This curse has been haunting the Buendía family. Unfortunately, at the end of the story, the curse is fulfilled.

Aureliano Buendía and Amaranta Úrsula's child was born, a little guy with a pig's tail.

After the child was born, Amaranta Úrsula hemorrhaged and died.

Aureliano felt unprecedentedly lonely. He walked out of his home and found someone who could listen to his pain in a deserted brothel.

When he returned home to look for his child, he discovered that the child had been eaten by ants.

Aureliano finally deciphered the mystery of Melquíades' parchment manuscript and found that it said that the first person in the family would be tied to a tree and the last person in the family would be eaten by ants.

At this time, Macondo was swept off the ground by a hurricane. Along with the demise of Macondo, the Buendía family, who had suffered a hundred years of loneliness, also completely disappeared.

This sense of loneliness and fate made Rena Saito shudder.

The same is true of the fate of Latin American countries over the past century: moving forward in struggle, feeling lonely in moving forward, and becoming extinct in loneliness.

It can be said that such an ending raises the style and literary quality of the entire "One Hundred Years of Solitude" to a higher level.

Of course, a lot of troubles also come with it.

Readers who like to read about the fate of the Buendía family sighed and felt that Mr. Kitagawa’s writing was too cruel!
The residents of the small town of Aracataca were inexplicably panicked about hurricanes, worrying that an unknown hurricane would come one day and blow away the entire town.

The Buendía family, which had always strongly supported Kitagawa Hide, was also embarrassed. The patriarch Okelon repeatedly comforted his descendants not to worry about being eaten by ants, saying that it was just a literary expression by Mr. Kitagawa.

In short, there were a lot of messy things that made Saito Rena, whose swelling had just subsided, become swollen again.

However, the edema and insomnia this time are good things. She would rather be bothered by these trivial matters than to go to the company one day and see another person in the boss's office and sitting in the boss's chair.

While Japan was in an uproar over the ending of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Hide Kitagawa was having a very comfortable trip in the western United States.

At the literary master exchange meeting hosted by the Autry family, Kitagawa Hide met dozens of famous senior predecessors in the world literary world.

Everyone praised him highly and believed that Kitagawa Hide had the ability to carry the banner.

The affirmation and encouragement from the senior predecessors gave Kitagawa Hideo more motivation to write the book.

After staying in the western United States until the end of August and seeing many strange people and things, Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko set out again and came to the bustling metropolis of Los Angeles.

Yumeko's due date is October 10th, so it's impossible for her to travel any further.

Los Angeles has convenient transportation, is backed by the sea, and has excellent medical conditions. With the assistance of the Autry family, Mengzi was admitted to the best hospital, where she was cared for by several professional nurses 24 hours a day in the ward.

As her husband, Kitagawa Hide could not disturb her daily life too much, so he bought an apartment next to the hospital, where he wrote and wrote books during the day and sneaked into the hospital to see Yumeko at night.

1997 9 Month 2 Day.

The August issue of "Wenyi" has been on the market for half a month, and its total sales in Japan have exceeded 8 million copies. In a country with only about 600 million people, it is a miracle that a pure literature magazine can achieve such sales.

The streets and alleys are full of people sighing and praising "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

White-collar workers in office buildings will put a copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" on their desks. There is no physical Japanese version yet, so they ask someone to buy the Latin American version, which makes them look very classy.

The second volume of "Remembrance of Things Past" also sold well in France.

No Japanese writer's works have ever achieved such dazzling results in the French literary market.

Oudmeison, who wrote the preface to the work, also became famous throughout the ages.

Now in his seventies, he could never have imagined that his life-long hard work was not as good as the few hundred words he wrote before the main text of "Remembrance of Things Past"!

The popularity of the two books has led many overseas markets to scramble to grab the copyrights of Hide Kitagawa's other novels.

This also allowed Hechu Shufang to make a lot of money.

9 month 5 day.

Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea.

The prosperous night scene, the extravagant scene, and the bustling streets.

Just looking at the scenery here, it is hard to imagine that this is a country with a debt of up to 1100 billion US dollars and foreign exchange reserves of only 300 billion US dollars.

In fact, in another month, the Asian financial crisis will completely spread to South Korea. At that time, this country that calls itself the Korean nation will collapse faster than anyone else.

But now, the people didn't feel it. Chen Juncan, who was walking on the street and saw a large group of people rushing towards the Wenxue Village Bookstore under the huge billboard, didn't feel anything either.

At this moment, the only thing on his mind is money, money, money!

After successfully convincing Executive Director Han Sang-chul to purchase the Korean copyright of "Remembrance of Things Past" for 7 million won, he urged the distribution department and printing factory to print the book without delay.

I originally thought I would have to do advertising for another month or two. After all, literature is a niche entertainment in Korea and cannot be compared at all with the entertainment industry controlled by chaebols.

Pure literature is still the younger brother in the literary market.

But I didn’t expect that Teacher Hide Kitagawa was so awesome!
Last month, major video concession stores in Korea imported a batch of live video recordings of an exchange meeting of American Western literature masters.

Koreans, who are extremely interested in the lives and daily lives of Americans, will naturally not miss this hot news.

Within a week, at least half of Koreans had watched the video and got to know the only Asian face at the exchange meeting.

Korean dramas are not fully popular nowadays and are all imitating the Japanese dramas next door.

Several chaebol-controlled entertainment companies and TV stations purchased "Long Vacation" and "Tokyo Love Story."

The response to these two TV series was very good. The huge billboard above the Wengchukura bookstore was a poster of Takuya Kimura.

And these two dramas are also written by Mr. Hide Kitagawa!

Then Kitagawa Hide became the first foreign writer to become famous in Korea before publishing a book in Korea.

Wenxuecun Publishing House took advantage of the victory and moved forward the release date of "Remembrance of Things Past", with the first print run reaching 100 million copies!

Just as Chen Juncan thought, even 100 million copies seemed to be able to sell out easily!
Seeing people pouring into the bookstore in waves, he felt happy, and more images of that bitch Choi Young-sil appeared in his mind.

As long as "Remembrance of Things Past" maintains this popularity for one month, he will be resurrected in the company!
Managing Director Han Shangzhe will definitely defeat Executive Director Xue.

By then, won't Choi Young-sil, this woman, have to climb into his bed obediently?
"It would be nice if I could meet Mr. Kitagawa."

Chen Juncan's eyes were full of desire.

Just like those crazy Koreans, they had no idea that a huge disaster was about to happen!

(End of this chapter)