I am a literary giant in Japan

At the end of May 1998, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, who had just returned from studying in France, suddenly suffered from severe anorexia and depression.

Dozens of the most authoritative nutritionists and psychologists in Sweden and Norway took turns to treat Victoria, but still failed to cure her two sudden illnesses.

The royal chefs used various methods to prepare exquisite meals, and even hired several chefs from Michelin five-star restaurants to satisfy Victoria's taste buds.

But the results are still unsatisfactory.

Just like that, in less than three days, Victoria lost almost 5 kilograms, making her already slim figure look even thinner.

During a consultation, a certain authoritative psychologist finally found clues from the conversation that the Crown Princess was ill.

Her anorexia and depression most likely stem from her last bad and failed relationship.

After reaching the conclusion and verifying it, the royal family members racked their brains and finally agreed to Victoria's request.

The Swedish royal family agreed to let Victoria change her identity and study at the School of Humanities and Arts at Yale University in the United States as a commoner.

In order to prevent Victoria from suffering secondary psychological trauma in the United States, the Swedish royal family decided to help her find a reliable companion.

Soon, Olivia, who was also under house arrest, was successfully selected.

These secret events in the royal family were widely circulated before they happened.

Arnault had long set his sights on Victoria, this sweet little lamb, but due to her noble status and the heavy guards around her, he was never able to take any further steps.

Now that he heard that she and Olivia were going to faraway America, Arnault's lustful heart began to stir again.

His study companion Olivia is also on his "hunting list" -

This little princess of the Chanel Group perfectly meets his expectations of a loli.

Every European is an "alchemist" and has no resistance to these young beauties who are at the peak of their youth.

Olivia had previously inexplicably hired a large number of internet trolls and media to attack his Arnault private club. It was obvious at first glance that she was a little wild cat that was difficult to tame.

This actually aroused Arnault's competitive spirit.

The two little wild cats who were about to run away from home had no idea that a big bad wolf had been quietly eyeing them.

And this big bad wolf who dares to touch everything doesn't know that the purpose of the two little wild cats going out is to crush him.

In addition to this incident, the most widely circulated news in the literary circles of various countries recently is that Kitagawa Hide was not shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was banned from running by the Nobel Prize Council and the jury.

The board of directors and the jury banned Kitagawa Hide from running for election for five years on the grounds of leaking the list. Anyone who understands the reason knows it; it's purely looking for trouble.

Everyone knows that the list was originally leaked by your people, and the real leaker was Arnault.

They put the blame on Kitagawa Hide and said he was unworthy of the position. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the board of directors and the jury just didn't want him to win the award.

This matter is nothing in itself. Aren’t there enough shady issues surrounding the Nobel Prize?

Leo Tolstoy, one of the recognized top three writers in the world, has never won a Nobel Prize.

I don't know why, but it seems like someone is fanning the flames of this matter, making things more and more complicated. The literary circles and media in various countries are talking about it endlessly, and are trying to make the matter hotter and hotter.

The niche literary circle has always been one of the most popular circles for the elites in various countries.

Under the joint promotion of Tetsutaro Mori and Hiroshi Yamaguchi, starting from Japan, to various regions such as America, Africa, Europe, and then to various countries below, more and more people began to be curious about the truth of the matter and Kitagawa Hide's true literary creation ability.

The six Civet Cat countries, the United States, and South Korea acted the fastest, rushing to purchase the copyrights of "Norwegian Wood", and then printing books and making various adaptations, forcing the novel into the public eye.

"Remembrance of Things Past", "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Old Man and the Sea" were originally more in line with the appetite of overseas readers, but "Norwegian Wood", which caused Kitagawa Hide to be eliminated, was the most talked-about one.

After the literary and literary criticism circles became agitated, it soon attracted the attention of many world celebrities.

Many celebrities had met Kitagawa Hide at the Stockholm Concert Hall before, and once regarded him as a confidant and close friend. After learning about his situation and experience, many celebrities publicly voiced their support for him.

This is the way the world is.

Many times, people who hold power and have the right to speak do not care about the truth or right or wrong of things.

They only care about what their power can bring them.

After enjoying the best services and life, their pursuits become increasingly distorted and hypocritical.

Helping disadvantaged groups and making voices that differ from the mainstream has gradually become their new pursuit.

This group of people like to speak up for some seemingly disadvantaged groups spontaneously, and especially like to confront mainstream groups and power institutions on their behalf.

After 2020, LGBT issues have become increasingly rampant, and the driving forces behind them are those guys who hold power but have nowhere to vent.

Kitagawa Hidemasa noticed this point, so he asked Tetsutaro Mori and Hiroshi Yamaguchi to find ways to attract the attention of these people.

The result is really not important, as long as the process is right.

After all, these people never look at the truth or right or wrong of things, they just do what they want to do!

The voices of a large number of world celebrities and the middle class once again shocked the Swedish and Norwegian governments, as well as the Nobel Prize Council and jury.

They racked their brains but couldn't figure out why these people kept arguing with Kitagawa Hidekazu and themselves.

Over the long period of a hundred years, the Nobel Prize has enjoyed absolute authority and credibility.

The US government's previous remarks that it controlled the Swedish and Norwegian governments and used them to control the awarding of the Nobel Prize failed to break through their defenses.

Unexpectedly, this time, the unbreakable credibility of the Nobel Prize would be questioned by all walks of life because of a young writer!
The scariest one is Norwegian Wood.

After the book was serialized, it was also published as a physical book. It is said that it sold a terrifying 970 million copies in Japan in less than a year.

This is a deluxe hardcover paperback edition that costs 8888 yen!
If the sales volume is correct, this batch of physical books alone has brought Kawade Shobo about 862 billion yen in sales! Even if the final net profit margin is only 50%, "Norwegian Wood" has created more than 400 billion yen in revenue for Kawade Shobo in less than a year!
You know, during the 97 Asian financial crisis a year ago, Kawaide Shobo almost changed hands due to a debt crisis of 300 billion yen!
In addition, "Norwegian Wood" has been translated into 36 different languages ​​​​by various countries, thus establishing Kitagawa Hide's important position in the history of world literature.

In his essay collection "Reflections at the End of the Century", Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee, a Chinese-American scholar, listed "Norwegian Wood" as one of the ten overseas books that had the greatest influence on the Chinese literary world in the 20th century.

“Norwegian Wood uses documentary techniques and poetic language to focus on the dual pursuit of pure love and individuality by young boys and girls in the complex modern life.
Kitagawa Hide's writing has gone beyond the clichés of pure love literature and has a deeper meaning in life." - Paris Daily

“If you want to understand how to redeem yourself in a lonely life, you can read Hideo Kitagawa’s Norwegian Wood.

Since its release in Japan, this masterpiece by Hideo Murakita has quickly resonated with young people, swept the world, and influenced readers in countless neighboring countries." - Asahi Shimbun

More and more print media and television stations began to broadcast similar news and comments.

As if overnight, everyone began to question why the Nobel Prize Committee and the Board of Directors made such a decision.

After public opinion was misled, people gradually stopped worrying about the Nobel Prize winners, the leaked list and the sanctions, and just simply felt sorry for Kitagawa Hideaki.

Just when the Nobel Prize Council and the Jury were in a state of panic, a heavyweight figure in the literary world finally made a shining appearance!
Milan Kundera, a well-known Czech-French writer, is now the undisputed "number one" in French literary circles and one of the recognized top three living writers in the world literary world. In his article, Milan Kundera published a 3-word literary review on "Norwegian Wood" in Les Septuagint, the most famous literary review newspaper in France.

The following are some selected contents of the review:
“.In the interpretation of Norwegian Wood, many people define it as a novel of youth pain, which is a complete misunderstanding of it.

The sense of loss of youth written by Hide Kitagawa is widely recognized among young reading groups, which makes many literary critics ignore the spiritual crisis of Japanese society that it is trying to reveal.

This is an unnecessary misalignment in the process of cultural communication.

In the mid-20th century, Japanese society was in a state where material civilization was developing rapidly but spiritual civilization was relatively backward and deformed. As the global financial crisis occurred, Japan was naturally at the forefront of the economic crisis.

The Japan-US Security Treaty movement, the bursting of the bubble economy, and other events took place one after another. The Japanese people tried to fight against the national power, but after repeated struggles, they ultimately failed.

As a result, the spirit and energy of that generation were completely taken away by the bursting of the bubble economy. Japanese society entered a period of abnormal development in which it abandoned spirit, rejected ideas, and advocated material things. Emptiness and loneliness began to spread.

This is exactly the timeline in which Norwegian Wood is set.

This timeline marks the turning point between turmoil and prosperity, and it is the moment when the seeds of hesitation and confusion are planted in the hearts of many young people.

Most of the characters created by Kitagawa Hide are people of this type who are independent of mainstream society.

Their souls are not yet established, but their bodies are already maturing.

Kitagawa Hide said, 'Their spirits grope for freedom, confusion and hesitation in the boundless wilderness.

I want to depict such a swaying and transforming soul in detail in the container of fiction, to show how a person's spirit will be gathered and formed in a story, and what kind of waves will carry it to what kind of place.'

From this we can see that the early Rat, "I", and Oba Yozo, the middle Shimamoto and Hatsu, and the later Naoko and Midori all showed similar mental states.

They seem moody, but they don't appear to be sick.

Whether from the perspective of literary colleagues, critics or readers, "Norwegian Wood" is a masterpiece that is rarely seen in a century.

Looking back at Kitagawa Hide's creative career, since 1995, in just three years, he has perfected his own "Kitagawa Hide style" to such an amazing degree.

Even without mentioning other works of the same style, such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Confessions", "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", and "Killing Commendatore".

These works of 'Kitagawa Hidefu' alone are enough to make him leave a significant mark in the history of world literature.

I don’t understand why the Nobel Prize Board and Jury would be so harsh on a rising literary star?

He was only twenty-six, and I was sixty-nine. Compared with him, my literary achievements were nothing.

Of course, the Nobel Prize has never recognized me."

Milan Kundera should be a very well-known writer to our readers.

His works "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Life Abroad" were once very popular next door, and the words in the novels such as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "kitsch" became the most popular pretentious terms among literary and artistic youth next door in the 80s.

In particular, the line from "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" "What overwhelmed her was not the weight, but the unbearable lightness of being" was quoted repeatedly, as if literary young people would not be able to prove their literary style if they did not use this line when writing novels.

Milan Kundera has brought a unique literary thought model to the world literary scene. He is also known for his ideological thinking. When people talk about him, they often put him as a thinker before a writer.

Such a top 3 level big shot came out to cheer and support, which immediately sparked heated discussions and attention from the entire world literary community.

The Nobel Prize Council and the jury are really panicked now.

They quickly purchased a group of internet trolls, and had them use the core argument that "Milan Kundera supports Kitagawa Hide because they are both 'abandoned' by the Nobel Prize" to frantically attack Milan Kundera's draft commentary.

Unfortunately, readers and celebrities have sharp eyes.

Whether "Norwegian Wood" is good or not can be seen from its hot sales in various countries.

Maybe Milan Kundera's literary reviews do contain a lot of personal opinions, but so what?
Everyone is now only focusing on the unfair treatment suffered by Kitagawa Hide, who cares about your personal stuff!

Wave after wave of condemnation came one after another, and the Nobel Prize could only play dead, while the Swedish Academy was in an extremely embarrassing situation.

The shortlist has been confirmed and the final winner will be selected soon.

However, the popularity of the award now seems to be less than that of a loser.
a few days later.

1998 6 Month 2 Day.

The world stir caused by the Nobel Prize in Literature has not yet reached mainland Japan.

In Japan, everyone recognizes Kitagawa. They were heartbroken when he was not selected last time, so they simply don't pay much attention to him this time.

For Japanese readers, there is something more attractive in June than the Nobel Prize:

The third issue of "Mass" was released on June 6nd!

They can't wait to see the sequel of "Hanzawa Naoki"! (End of this chapter)