Literary Master 1983

Chapter 193 Yu Hua's Three Replies

Yu Qie also saw this reply:

Damn, isn’t this some plot from “Xu Sanguan Selling Blood”?
It turns out that people in the 1980s were really so outrageous! Yu Hua is not talking nonsense.

During this period, Yu Hua felt the treatment he received from writer Yu Qie.

Fourteen publishing houses plan to reprint "Big Scatter" and also publish the second editions of the following two volumes, "The Two of Us" and "Together with You".

In order to publish the "New Reality" collection at one time, five publishing houses even had their pulp misappropriated. This masterpiece, with a total of nearly 500,000 words, is undoubtedly a grand production that must be fought for.

Publishing houses borrowed pulp from their brothers and sisters and bid against each other, each claiming that they had sufficient supply. Finally, Hunan Provincial Publishing House obtained the copyright because it expressed its determination by cutting the poems of Pushkin, Shelley, Eliot and others from its Shiyuan Translation Forest.

With an initial print run of 100,000 copies, this publishing house alone can bring Yu Qie more than 100,000 in revenue in the next two years.

The "Nanyang Two-part Series" and the "New Reality Three-part Series" were all recorded on radio stations and broadcast at different times on different local radio stations. Whether it was the Laoshan front or the garrison base on Zhenbao Island, there were Yu Qie's novel columns.

When the announcer read some of the plots, he often couldn't help crying on the spot, and the listeners covered their faces with their hands, with tears sliding down from their hands.

Zhang Shouren told him: "Yu Qie has entered the fast lane. All the novels he had written before have been given back to him in various forms with double the honor."

Yu Hua was extremely envious: "Why is Yu Qie so amazing? What makes him so amazing?"

"He is good at writing in large quantities." Zhang Shouren said it incredulously. "Have I ever met such an author? Yes, for example, after Li Cunbao wrote "The Wreath under the Mountain", he was as good as Yu Qie in the one or two months; for example, Liu Xinwu, who is not very famous now, everyone valued him for a while..."

Yu Hua asked, "Where's Yu Qie?"

"Yu Che has written so many things. Every time I think these are very successful, he writes something else, and then writes some more, and I find something different again... Many of us know that he may be a truly different person."

When Wang Shimin, the editor-in-chief of October, heard these words, he recalled his expectations when he first met Yu Qie: a certain literary trend would be led by a certain person, and this person must first have a huge amount of creative output.

Yu Qie certainly did it!
So that's how it is! Yu Hua felt that he understood. Yu Qie is a writer whose level is maintained at the first-class level, and whose creative output is unprecedented.

Yu Hua began to change his thinking. He read carefully all the novels written by Yu Qie throughout his life, and then imitated them to write his own novels.

At first, Yu Hua was completely confused. After a week, he began to write some decent imitation essays that read very much like what Yu Qi wrote. Then he sadly discovered: this was really too difficult.

As his level improved, he felt more and more that I was not a human being. Unfortunately, he did not understand the saying "a frog in a well sees the bright moon, a mayfly sees the blue sky", but he vaguely felt this state of mind.

The harder he worked, the more he discovered his own shortcomings.

Damn, how can you write so fast and so well?

Some anecdotes about Yu Che's creation were circulated in the "October" magazine: When Yu Che was writing the "New Reality Trilogy", he submitted a novel almost every month, during which time he was still attending classes normally.

Yu Qie wrote the novel "Reunion" in just two nights. Zhang Shouren spent a day and night reading his novel, a night writing the manuscript review report, and another afternoon submitting it to the editorial department for a meeting.

The review process is slower than the writing process. The traditional newspaper and periodical publishing system can no longer accommodate Yu Qie.

After listening to a concert, he immediately changed the ending of "Together with You", and made another young writer think of quitting the circle on the spot.

In other words, the writer's faith in the Tao was crushed.

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Yu Hua always inquired about Yu Qie's news tirelessly, and on behalf of Yu Qie, together with Zhang Shouren, he replied to his countless readers' letters. Every time Yu Hua signed "Yu Qie", he had a sudden feeling of enlightenment.

It was like a new player who ranked among the top ten most expensive accounts in the country, which brought him a great sense of accomplishment, but also endless emptiness.

Yu Qie appeared in two forms in front of him: one was the one he had seen with his own eyes, this person always lost money playing cards, cheated in playing table tennis, but really loved to treat people to meals, and was a well-deserved big brother!
The other is what we see in his works. Sometimes he is an emotional master, sometimes a military writer, sometimes concerned about the history of Chinese suffering, and sometimes writing about martial arts masters, as if he really knows kung fu. Readers all regard him as their closest person.

He is everywhere and he has opinions on everything.

Yu Hua stayed in the guesthouse for a whole month! He hardly left the house except for the editorial office of October.

His girlfriend wondered why Yu Hua didn't come home, and she wrote to him three times to ask about Yu Hua's situation, each time with a more serious tone.

The first time, his girlfriend said, "You should come back." Yu Hua simply explained his situation, "This place is well paid, has a place to live, and food is free. It's simply heaven. I'd rather stay here forever."

The second time, my girlfriend said, "I haven't seen you for a long time. What are you doing? The Cultural Center is a very small unit. People around you say that you have had an accident. Yu Hua, after being with you, I have lost my face..."

Yu Hua wrote back saying that he had entered a critical moment in his creation. Indeed, he was imitating Yu Qie's novels at that time and began to feel the gap between him and other writers.

Yu Hua was not a professional, and there was no one in the entire county who could write novels better than him, which made it impossible for him to communicate with others and make progress.

Yu Hua still remembers that at the beginning of this year, he was absent from work for a month because he came to Beijing to revise his manuscript. What he was greeted with was not blame but cheers: from the county leaders to the local cultural figures, everyone was surprised that this county finally produced a "literary star" who could go to Beijing to finish his manuscript.

Therefore, he was immediately valued by the leaders and went from being a small dentist to working in the cultural center, and he no longer had to worry about going to work every day. Even if Yu Hua didn't come to work until 11 o'clock, he was still the earliest and most hardworking young man in the entire cultural center.

However, the capital is completely different!

In the editorial department of October alone, there are seven Yenching University graduates and two Yenching University teachers - no matter ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, there is always someone who understands a certain category of literature better than him, and he can benefit a lot from communicating with anyone.

The third time, his girlfriend couldn't stand it anymore and told him, "If you don't come back and don't call me, and you always disappear from the face of the earth, let's break up."

separate?

Yu Hua recovered from that crazy mood. At this time, he had an untidy beard and messy hair, and looked like a completely sloppy puppy.

(End of this chapter)