I am a literary giant in Japan

“It’s rare to find children’s literature that adults can enjoy reading.

If nothing unexpected happens, Mr. Beichuan's book "The Little Prince" will set off a new trend. "

The current Tetsutaro Mori is no longer the No. 1 Kitagawa fan who could only mindlessly praise Kitagawa Hide.

In order to match the excellence of Teacher Beichuan, he has studied like crazy in the past few years and forced himself to read a large number of classic literary works from home and abroad.

The learning process is extremely painful, but the effect is also very significant.

If he were to argue with an academic literary critic like "Ichiro" again today, Mori Tetsutarou could defeat him purely with his writing skills without any external help!

It was because he saw more and learned more that he gradually realized what a mountain Teacher Beichuan was.

He couldn't stand the fact that such a high mountain was being blacklisted by the world literary community!
In the middle of next month, the Nobel Prize Board and Jury will announce the list of winners of the 1998 Nobel Prizes.

Mori Tetsutarou will never allow Mr. Kitagawa to become a laughing stock in the mouths of those scoundrels!
He decided to ask his overseas literary critic friends to promote this children's literature after reading The Little Prince.

This year, Mr. Kitagawa has produced many excellent works, and his book "Norwegian Wood" almost shook the entire Japanese literary world.

He really couldn't think of anyone else who could compete with Mr. Kitagawa for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

If someone says his works are too Japanese in style, then this book "The Little Prince" is just the right thing to slap those people in the face.

After venting some of his resentment through thinking, Tetsutaro Mori turned his attention back to "The Little Prince".

After leaving the planet where there were only lamps and lamplighters, the little prince came to the sixth planet.

This planet is dozens of times larger than the previous one, but it is only inhabited by an old man who is writing a huge book.

The old man told the little prince that he was a geographer and that he wrote books to record all the knowledge he knew.

The little prince felt that this was the real business. The people before him were all weird, just like adults whom he could not understand.

When talking about the planet where the little prince lived, the old man said that his geographical encyclopedia would not record flowers.

Because flowers are ephemeral things.

What he wanted to record were things like mountains, rivers, and streams that were almost permanent.

The little prince could not understand what transience meant, and the old gentleman told him that transience meant there was a risk of disappearing soon.

"So what you mean is that my flowers will disappear soon?" the little prince asked worriedly.

"Yes," the old gentleman replied.

"My flower is short-lived," said the little prince to himself, "and it has only four thorns to defend itself against enemies. And yet I leave it all alone at home!"

This was the first time he felt regretful, but he quickly pulled himself together: "Can you suggest something I can watch?"

"The planet Earth," the old gentleman answered him, "is very interesting. You will like it."

So the little prince went away, thinking about his flowers as he walked.

When he arrived at the seventh planet, Tetsutarou Mori realized that the climax of the book was about to arrive.

After stopping and walking many times, the little prince finally arrived at "Earth" after traveling everywhere.

This planet is the most familiar and also the most unfamiliar to all readers.

The little prince traveled around the earth and made an astonishing discovery.

The Earth is not an ordinary planet!
There are hundreds of kings, tens of thousands of old gentlemen, tens of millions of industrialists, hundreds of millions of vain people, and countless drunkards on it.

Apart from that, the most bored and miserable people are still the lamplighters.

However, there are two exceptions among the lamplighters.

The two lamplighters at the North and South Poles lead a lazy life and only need to work twice a year.

Then the little prince met "me" in the Sahara Desert, and the story of drawing sheep at the beginning happened.

When the little prince was telling me stories about his travels around the planet, I noticed that he always mentioned the flower at home.

He regarded her as his life, his everything.

Then the two of them crossed the desert and came to a garden full of blooming roses.

The little prince looked at the roses, and saw that they were all like his own flower.

He felt very unfortunate.

His flower once told him that she was the only one of its kind in the entire universe.

Yet, in just such a small garden, there are five thousand flowers exactly like her!

"If she saw this, she would be very upset. She would cough even more and to avoid being laughed at, she would pretend to be dead.

Then I have to pretend to nurse her, because if I don’t, she might actually die just to embarrass me.”

The little prince looked at the five thousand roses and said to himself.

Then the little prince walked through the garden again and met a little fox.

The little fox told him that he couldn't play with him because the little fox had not been "tamed" yet.

The little prince didn't know what taming meant, so the little fox told him: "Taming means establishing a connection. For example, to you, I am just an ordinary little fox.

You are just an ordinary little boy to me.

But if you tame me, then we shall be indispensable to each other.

You will be the only one in the world to me, and I will be the only one in the world to you."

"I have come to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower, I think, which has tamed me."

"Taming? What a wonderful metaphor. Is Kitagawa-sensei alluding to love?
No, it should be a bond that is broader than love."

Tetsutarou Mori was fascinated by the show and was overwhelmed by the concept of "taming".

In the novel, the little fox told the little prince how to "tame" -

“It takes a lot of patience to tame a person.

At the beginning, just sit a little distance away from her. She may glance at you out of the corner of her eyes, so just don't say anything.

Because words are the source of misunderstandings, if she doesn't speak, she won't be frightened and run away.

Then you quietly sit closer to her every day.

By the way, also remember, it’s best to come and sit down at the same time.

In this way, if you come over at four in the afternoon, she will start to feel happy at three in the afternoon, and the closer the time is, the stronger her sense of happiness will be.

But if you haven't come by four o'clock, she will become restless and she will find that happiness comes at a price.

From that moment on, she was completely tamed by you.

Of course, if you come at irregular times every day, her expectations won’t be strong, and her sense of happiness won’t be strong, and your taming will become a distant dream.”

The little prince successfully tamed the little fox using this method.

But he decided to leave anyway.

He wanted to go back to his own planet to see his own rose. Before leaving, the little fox cried and told him: "Go look at the roses in the garden again. Now you will definitely understand that your rose is the only one in the world."

The little prince left as promised.

When he saw the five thousand roses again, he really understood.

No one has ever tamed those roses, and they have never tamed anyone, so they are just ordinary roses.

"You are beautiful, but you are empty. No one can die for you.

Of course, to an ordinary passer-by, my roses look just like yours.

But, in my eyes, she is unique.

Because I was the one who watered her, I put her in the flower cover, I protected her with the screen, and I killed the caterpillars on her body.

I have listened to her complaints and her silence. She is my unique rose. "

By the time he saw this, Tetsutarou Mori had been completely "tamed" by Mr. Kitagawa's writing style and story.

I thought this was the climax of the novel, but I didn’t expect that what the little fox said to the little prince next made him experience what the climax was!

“Substantial things cannot be seen with the eyes.

It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.

You are now responsible for everything you have tamed, and you are responsible for your roses. "

These three sentences made Mori Tetsutarou tremble all over.

"I am responsible for my roses"

"My rose."

"Everything I have tamed."

When closing the magazine that smelled of ink, Tetsutaro Mori's hand was still lingering on the portrait of the Little Prince on the cover.

How can this just be a healing fairy tale written for children?

This is clearly a dark allegory that puts human nature under a microscope and burns it.

In the eyes of children, "The Little Prince" is interesting and cheerful. It has a childlike plot woven with wild imagination, including a silly and cute little prince, a loyal little fox, and a rose that has never appeared but has always been on the little prince's mind.

In the eyes of adults, "The Little Prince" exudes the atmosphere of a dark fairy tale.

It is irony, it is reality, it is human nature, and it is also a textbook that teaches people to understand "bonds".

Mori Tetsutarou recently received a new job from Mr. Kitagawa——

Write a high-quality literary review for "The Convenience Store of Sorrow".

Tetsutaro Mori has also read Keigo Higashino's new book.

To be honest, if he wasn't familiar with Keigo Higashino and others, Tetsutaro Mori would have had no interest in pure literary novels written by these mystery novelists.

"Secret", "White Night Walk", "The Wandering Blade" and "The Suspect" have already established the impression of Keigo Higashino in their minds.

If he serializes a mystery novel, seven out of ten readers will be willing to buy it and read it.

Even though his creative ability is very unstable and he often writes some "defenses", everyone is still willing to pay for his fame in the mystery literature world.

But when the subject matter is changed to pure literary novel, probably only one out of ten readers would be willing to give it a try.

This is human nature and is something that can easily happen when the overall economic environment is bad.

Tetsutarou Mori is one of the nine readers who are unwilling to pay for the pure literary novels written by Keigo Higashino.

But after watching "The Convenience Store of Sorrow", his mind changed completely.

This is a rare and high-quality pure literary novel.

More importantly, after Mr. Kitagawa began to wreak havoc on the Japanese literary world three years ago, there hasn't been an excellent pure literary novel that was not written by Kitagawa for a long time.

Nowadays, many older generations in the Japanese literary world secretly say in private that Mr. Kitagawa has absorbed the fortune of Japanese literary history. He alone has been the master of all times, while other pure literary novelists have become piles of bones on the ground.

Now, at last, there is another excellent pure literary novelist who can speak out.

It is reasonable for Tetsutaro Mori to be willing to write promotional materials for "The Convenience Store of Sorrow".

But now.

After reading "The Little Prince", his mind was filled with the classic quotes and plots in it.

I can't recall any details of "The Convenience Store of Sorrow".

The latter is also a good healing book, but both in terms of concept and writing style, it is far inferior to "The Little Prince" written by Mr. Kitagawa.

"Let's wait until I finish writing the review of The Little Prince."

Tetsutaro Mori held the copy of "MOE" and resolutely rushed out of the bookstore in the drizzle.

He wanted to go home as soon as possible and retell the wonderful content of "The Little Prince" to his wife!

His wife is also a student in the Faculty of Literature, and she chose this major after reading the "Youth Trilogy".

There are many college students who have similar experiences as my wife.

Therefore, Tetsutaro Mori does not agree at all with the "plundering luck theory" of his predecessors.

They only saw Mr. Kitagawa stepping on old-school writers to climb the mountain, only saw him bombarding the Japanese and overseas literary markets with one book after another, and only saw him sitting proudly on the throne of "the best in the world" and looking down on everyone.

They did not see that Mr. Beichuan's book inspired a group of young people to join the industry, did not see that many grassroots authors survived with difficulty because of the benefits of "Beichuan", and did not see that the release of "Dazhong" gave countless authors who wrote popular literature the motivation to continue to persevere.
The luck and benefits that Mr. Beichuan took away do not belong to the vast majority of grassroots authors.

"Let's use a more formal title for the book review this time."

Tetsutarou Mori looked at the book MOE in his arms and thought of the title of his new book review.
"The Little Prince is half of the history of Japanese children's literature!"

On the evening of September 9, the day after the magazine went on sale, MOE's editor-in-chief Iwaya Kohashi received an encouraging call from the president of Hakusensha.

As soon as the call was hung up, the appointment letter from the human resources department was sent via email.

He successfully won the bet agreement with the board of directors, and the sales of 8 million yen now seems like a drop in the bucket.

Iwatani Koba was promoted to the new director of Hakusensha's board of directors.

The news also spread quickly in the industry.

Some people envy, some people are jealous, and some people curse.

More and more people began to promote their own magazines to Beichuan Entertainment, hoping that one day Mr. Beichuan would suddenly take a fancy to their magazines and serialize a novel.

The successive successes of the Nikkan Sports News and MOE finally convinced people in the publishing industry.

What is powerful is not Kawade Shobo, but the man who can lead the novel trend!

The next morning.

Oricon announced the first-day sales data of "MOE" as soon as possible.

Unlike the previous issue of "Wenyi", which was in a terrible state, this issue of "MOE" sold 96.1 copies, double the previous issue's data, and the stamina is even more terrifying! (End of this chapter)