I am a literary giant in Japan

“The three of us are like shooting stars, flying aimlessly, and we don’t know where we will burn up.

But no matter what, there will always be a bond that closely connects us: the murderer must be killed!

——In order to watch the Perseid meteor shower, three young siblings secretly went out late at night, but unexpectedly their parents were tragically killed at home.

Their childhood was taken away from them and their life trajectories were completely deviated from the norm.

In the name of shooting star, the three siblings vowed to find the murderer.

After that, the three ill-fated siblings made a living by fraud and lurked in the gray area of ​​the city.

Sad memories and bitter nightmares always follow me.

Fourteen years passed in the blink of an eye, the statute of limitations for the case was about to expire, and their painstaking search suddenly led to an astonishing discovery.

However, their carefully planned plan was jeopardized by a fate that was heart-wrenching."

The title of "Meteor Kizuna" has a very long introduction to the novel.

This was very rare in Japanese literary magazines in the 90s.

Because at that time, the Japanese literary world still advocated the writing concept centered on "hiding".

Most authors believe that the deeper they “hide” the most exciting parts during the writing process, the more expectations and curiosity readers will have.

Only popular literature that can't wait to throw everything to readers at the very beginning would "shamelessly" put the essence of the novel in the opening, or even in the very beginning introduction.

After joining Beichuan, due to the publishing house's tone issues, Xunzi received the most orthodox publishing house editing training.

Serious, demanding, unsmiling, treating works and authors equally.
This is an essential quality that the editor-in-chief repeatedly emphasized when giving her individual training.

Although in March 1995, Mr. Kitagawa emerged out of nowhere and single-handedly broke the cage of the Japanese literary world where all works tended to tend towards a complicated and obscure style.

But there is only one Mr. Kitagawa, but there are thousands and thousands of ordinary authors.

To this day, most publishing houses still believe that authors should not be allowed to stray from the right path and take new paths with uncertain prospects.

The risk is too great for one or two people to bear.

Therefore, this battle between the "Beichuan Party" and the conservatives is also a focus of attention for countless people in the industry.

The future direction of Japanese literature will be officially revealed after this war!
It is shocking to see that Hechu Publishing House, the leader among traditional publishing houses, actually allows its top writers to "leak selling points" so bluntly in the introduction.

Xunzi was quite surprised and felt that her professional philosophy had suffered another challenge.

In fact, she was very distressed during her previous training.

The editorial department of "Beichuan" generally seeks stability, and only dares to go all in when faced with the works of Mr. Beichuan.

Like her, a group of new editors in the new era are more inclined to radical operational strategies and believe that new blank writers should also be treated equally.

Teacher Kitagawa also strongly supports her on this point and believes that her ideas are ahead of their time.

However, Kaoru still has little influence in the editorial department. Even though she has the killer weapon "Asakusa Red Group" when she just debuted, and there are many blank writers who have achieved some success, in the eyes of the seniors in the editorial department, she is still an intern who has not even graduated from high school.

Seeing that the editorial department of "Wenyi" was so open-minded, Xunzi was a little envious of the editors there.

After sighing, she continued to read with her head down, concentrating on appreciating the new work of Mr. Keigo Higashino.

As introduced in the introduction, the plot of "Meteor Kizuna" is not complicated. It tells the story of three siblings who have been searching for the murderer of their parents for many years.

The setting and world view of the novel follow the ones that Keigo Higashino is most familiar with.

The opening throws out a strong suspense, and then the protagonists are in trouble for various reasons, but they did not give up, and insisted on solving the case and staying alive.

The overall tone of the novel immediately reminded Kaoru of a very popular mystery novel by Keigo Higashino, "The Wandering Blade".

At that time, "The Wandering Blade" was released right after "Confessions", and it took a huge amount of traffic from Young Offenders, and its popularity was close to his most popular "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X".

After these three masterpieces, Keigo Higashino rarely wrote mystery novels.

After reading the first five chapters, Xunzi breathed a sigh of relief, but was a little unsure how to evaluate it.

If I have to say it, it’s just one word: “neat”.

Yes, Keigo Higashino’s book “Meteor Kizuna” is written in an extremely “neat” way.

From the world view and character settings to the opening plot, character conflicts, and then to the ups and downs and subtle clues in the chapters, everything is as "regular" as an industrial assembly line.

If this was a novel written by a "middle-rate" writer, Xunzi would give him a thumbs up and tell him that the publishing house needs talents like you.

Writers who produce steadily and efficiently are the type of text creators that publishing houses love most.

But this novel was written by Keigo Higashino, and he also had the masterpiece "The Wandering Blade", which made Kaoru a little unacceptable.

“No wonder Mr. Higashino is serializing three new books at once this time.

It's just a book called "Ryusei no Kizuna". It's definitely not at the level of being able to compete with the old-school writers."

Kaoru continued to flip through the pages.

In fact, she, Keigo Higashino, and even all the people who read the book don’t know that another important reason why Kitagawa Hide chose "Ryusei wa Kizuna" from a bunch of novels for Keigo Higashino was that its film and television adaptation was relatively successful.

In the original history, the original novel of "Meteor Garden" was not too popular among readers because it had a strong taste of industrial saccharin, just like it does now.

People who are not fans of Keigo Higashino's books would say that this novel is neither good nor bad, and is just something that can be mass-produced.

Even those who are fans of his books were more disappointed than expected by this novel.

But in 2008, Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS restarted the film and television adaptation project of this novel, and then spent a lot of money to hire Yasuharu Ishii as the director and Kankuro Kudo as the editor, and also found first-line big names such as Kazunari Ninomiya, Ryo Tonishi, and Tomokazu Miura, who were very popular at the time, to star in the film, and made "Ryusei no Kizuna" as popular as a TV series.

The average viewership was 18%, and the highest viewership was 22.6%, which was considered very good in the Japanese television industry in 08.

Of course, we cannot tell them that the work will become popular again through adaptation in the future. Therefore, even Keigo Higashino was a little confused as to why Mr. Kitagawa chose "Meteor ga Shinobi" instead of "Naniwa Detective Boys" which has more mystery elements.

Kaoru quickly browsed through "Detective Galileo Part 1" again.

It seems that due to the popularity of "The Devotion of Suspect X", Mr. Keigo Higashino decided to write Galileo into a series.

This is still a good thing for editors at publishing houses.

If I had a writer like Keigo Higashino, I would probably ask him to try doing this.

Thinking so, Xunzi was still looking forward to this first part that was made up.

“The origin of “The Devotion of Suspect X”!

This is the first unabridged version authorized by Keigo Higashino! " She looked at the much simpler novel introduction with a smile on her face.

Mr. Keigo Higashino is moving further and further down the commercialization path.

Perhaps in order to whet the readers' appetite, "Detective Galileo Part 1" was serialized into only two chapters.

Content
It’s that word again, “regular”.

What is certain is that the first film is definitely not as exciting as "Suspect", and it is likely that it can only attract a wave of audiences by relying on the popularity of the previous film.

Of course, this is understandable.

Apart from Mr. Kitagawa, Kaoru has never seen any other author who can maintain his peak state for a long time while being highly productive.

That's too perverted.

As long as the quality of the novel does not deviate seriously from the track, many die-hard book fans are actually willing to pay for their idols.

Mr. Keigo Higashino obviously understood this point and did this.

But a lot of disappointment has accumulated in my heart.

Kaoru looked up at Kyoko and Chihaya Ruri and found that they were also quietly appreciating the work of Keigo Higashino——

After all, the three novels take up almost half of "Wenyi". If you have bought this magazine, it is impossible not to read his books.

"The only thing left is the last one, "Laplace's Witch."

This is the book that Kaoru is most looking forward to among the three works.

The title of the novel inevitably reminds people of a scientific hypothesis proposed by French probabilistic theorist Laplace in 1814, "Laplace's Demon" -

According to the theory of classical physics, an intelligent creature with infinite computing power (completing infinite calculations in a limited time, although this also violates classical physics, let's assume it exists) can, as long as it grasps the state of all atoms in the universe at a certain moment, infer the state of all atoms in the universe at any time forward and backward, and thus know what happened at any time and any place.

Simply put, as long as the computing power is sufficient, an intelligent creature can know everything and become "omniscient and omnipotent."

Similar settings have appeared repeatedly in later Japanese literature, Japanese anime and games, and are often imposed on the final boss.

For example, "Bleach", one of the three most popular anime after the millennium, has the final boss, the King of the Quincies, who has the ability of Hambach, which is to know the present, past and future, and is omniscient and omnipotent.

This setting was extremely novel in 1998 and immediately aroused Kaoru's curiosity.

However, previous detective literature would at most make the case difficult to solve, or innovate in the method of killing and play word games with the readers.

Now that Mr. Keigo Higashino is using "superpowers" directly in his mystery novels, will he die suddenly?

"It seems that the current 'Kitagawa Party' all have similar writing tendencies? The same is true of Mr. Aso's book."

Xunzi captured this point keenly.

Maybe this is the new trend in the literary market?

She decided to record this and then have her writers try their hand at similar topics.

Anyway, after Mr. Kitagawa broke the boundary between popular literature and pure literature, readers and industry insiders are no longer so demanding on the boundaries of subject matter.

After the demise of the Akutagawa Prize, only the Kitagawa Prize remains standing in the field of pure literature awards.

But it seems that the overlap between the Kitagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize is increasing.

It can be expected that as the literary world continues to develop in the future, there will only be a unified literary award, and there will no longer be excessive distinction between pure literature and popular literature.

As an editor of the new era, Xunzi must definitely consider the market trends for her new staff.

After briefly recording this thought, she turned her attention back to "Laplace's Witch".

After half an hour.

“This novel is so interesting!”

“This novel is unexpectedly good!”

"It turns out that superpowers, reasoning and pure literature can be cleverly combined!"

The three of them said in unison, then looked at each other, and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

Sure enough, this issue of "Literature and Art", even without Teacher Beichuan, is still of superb quality.

Compared with the newly launched "New Literary Image", this issue of "Literature and Art" is obviously better!
Xunzi held the magazine in her hand, and suddenly looked forward to the first-day data that would be announced tomorrow.

1998 11 Month 20 Day.

New Tokyo International Airport.

Kitagawa Hide was holding Kitagawa Midori, Kitagawa Yumeko was holding Kitagawa Toru, and the family of four were dressed warmly, covering their faces completely, and arrived at the terminal like an ordinary family.

At the beginning of the second half of the year, after consulting with Shizuko Kawaide, Kitagawa Hidezai had already booked several private jets and helicopters from overseas airlines in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries.

Airplanes, yachts and other unusual means of transportation are standard for top wealthy people, but Kitagawa Hidekazu Yumeko has never liked to integrate into the life of the upper class, so they still maintain a normal pace of life.

Especially Kitagawa Hide, he particularly likes to take the subway and tram in Japan. Every time he is in such a place, watching the people coming and going, he will have endless inspiration.

A writer's creative source comes from life.

If you are completely detached from the lives of ordinary people, how can you write novels that people can relate to?

In his previous life, many of the writers that Kitagawa Hide liked became crooked because they became rich, their quality of life improved, and they completely escaped from the lower class and became petty middle-class bourgeoisie.

He remembered reading an online article in which the protagonist, after learning that prostitutes in brothels were oppressed, did not simply ban this illegal business after gaining the ability to do so, but instead formalized and scaled it up.

Under the euphemism of allowing those working in the sex industry to work with dignity, just like normal people!
Kitagawa Hidetoshi could no longer understand the author's train of thought.

He didn't want to be that kind of author, so he was determined not to be separated from the lives of ordinary people.

Buying private jets and helicopters is purely for the convenience of traveling sometimes.

In the VIP waiting room, Mengzi secretly talked to Kitagawa Hide about the first day data of "Wenyi" announced yesterday.

"76.2 copies is also a very good result. And the sales of New Literature and Image, which was released on the 15th, was 61.4 copies, which can be regarded as a small victory."

After listening to this, Kitagawa Hide said to Mengzi with a smile.

"Yes, Reina-san and Shizuko-san are both relieved. But then again, the first-day data of the two magazines are not as good as that of Kitagawa. It seems that without Xiujun, even Wenyi can't maintain its top market appeal."

Mengzi looked at him with admiration, her eyes full of little stars.
"I am looking forward to the new book my dear will write next month~" (End of this chapter)