Literary Master 1983

Chapter 57 Fast and Good
After that, Yu Qie devoted all his time to creation.

As Wang Shimin said, he first wants to write more powerful novels. Like a magician holding a magic wand, he is a fragile wizard. Whether he wants to flirt or use the unforgivable curse to kill people, everything depends on his pen.

Three days later, Wang Shimin attended the symposium and brought bad news to Yu Qie.

The communication between Wang Shimin and Liu Xinwu failed.

Liu Xinwu was determined to continue publishing articles, and he was bound to use the momentum of criticizing science fiction literature to strike at young creators represented by Yu Qie.

At this high-level symposium, Wang Shimin found a way to sit together with Liu Xinwu.

Wang Shimin asked privately: "Can you please stop posting?"

Liu Xinwu shook his head slightly: "I can't turn back anymore."

Wang Shimin said bluntly: "Your article will cause misunderstandings, and Yu Qie may be the first to bear the brunt! But it's not just him, there are others who will be criticized - Shi Tiesheng is also your friend, he is learning from Yu Qie, writing novels about the people around him, which is also the fantasy literature you mentioned... and there are many more people."

Liu Xinwu didn't say anything.

Shi Tiesheng was a highly respected member of the Yenching writers community and everyone took good care of him.

Although he had to sit in a wheelchair wherever he went, when he attended various writers' conferences, people rushed to carry him up the stairs, considering it a great honor.

Although the article "My Distant Qingping Bay" written by Shi Tiesheng tells the life of educated youth, it describes the affection between the educated youth and the local villagers, without any resentment. Who can not like him?

Wang Shimin said earnestly: "Please cherish this hard-earned spring."

Liu Xinwu said slowly: "Yu Qie and I have no personal grudges... As the editor-in-chief of People's Literature, I should have gone with the flow. He just stood there, you can't blame me."

"Good! You are really good!" Wang Shimin had a bad temper. He was irritated by this and lost the desire to make peace.

During the symposium, people from the literary and art circles were asked to speak and express their demands or thoughts.

Liu Xinwu stood up and said, "People's Literature is a key literary and artistic frontier and a weathervane for the development of literature. It is responsible for proposing the ideological guidelines and artistic lines that writers should follow in their creation. In the future, we will continue to shoulder this requirement and live up to everyone's expectations of us."

Who will lead the position?

Guided by People's Literature.

Who will lead "People's Literature"?

It's up to Liu Xinwu himself. That's what he wanted to say.

Wang Shimin said: "We all sincerely hope that October can take a new path, have some characteristics, and have some independent and loose creative space. The publication of October magazine before the plenary session is like the fuel injected into a missile before launching. 'There will be a time to ride on the wind and waves, and set sail to cross the vast ocean.' We hope that what will follow us is a magnificent scene of 'thousands of sails competing for the current'!"

These words aroused thunderous applause!
Liu Xinwu's behavior has fundamentally violated the founding philosophy of October. After returning from the symposium, Wang Shimin told Yu Qie: "This is not just your business, it's also our business at October. We should all support you."

Wang Shimin held a vote in the editorial department, asking for full support. There were more than 60 people in the editorial department, and each person had one vote.

“Vote now!”

"One vote!" Wang Shimin raised his hand first, and then "two votes, three votes..." "We must unite and stand together... Ten people can form a death squad to break through the defense line, a hundred people can fight a small battle, and ten thousand people... can dominate the life and death of a small country... How many votes? Seventeen votes!"

"Yu Che is a young writer with ideas. It is something that everyone is happy to see him write novels... Don't think that it has nothing to do with you. Opposing Yu Che is also opposing the founding concept of our magazine. October has always lagged behind Shanghai's Harvest. They are the big brother, but we are not here to create a second-tier magazine..."

“How many votes?”

Wang Shimin took a quick look and felt that more than half of the votes had been cast. He deliberately did not look closely to see who did not raise their hands, but waved his hand and said, "OK, you passed!"

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How to defeat an academic tycoon?

Yu Qie was not controlled by anger and remained sober. He thought about how he had turned the tables on the May Fourth Literary Society when he was alone by the Weiming Lake.

The Little Red Book is really useful and can unite the masses.

Liu Xinwu is very experienced, and the platform of People's Literature is far stronger than that of the May Fourth Literary Society, but the principle is the same.

First, deny his professional level and lead him in, which indirectly proves that the other party is not qualified to evaluate himself.

The second is to use new things to grab its attention, attract more support, and show that what he originally had is not as good as himself.

This forms a closed loop - you can neither do it nor are you as good as others.

The first one is easy to do, because Liu Xinwu has some research ability but not much. He later devoted himself to the study of the Dream of the Red Chamber, and was ridiculed for his research being "subjective and speculative, lacking sufficient historical materials and novel background support, and his statements were too absurd..."

This is the level of his research, and it is full of loopholes.

Last year, Liu Xinwu indiscriminately introduced "magical" realism, which is his key stain, and we must continue to criticize him. Historically, Latin American literature has been very popular, and maybe it will be my turn to go to the central government in the future to provide literary training to the bigwigs.

As for the second one, Yu Qie needs to produce a work that surpasses "Class Teacher" and has a popularity that is no less than "A Moment of Romance".

Wang Shimin told Yu Qie: "Can you finish the New Reality Trilogy in one year? It's normal that you can't, but the faster the better. The faster you are, the more intense the response will be."

A novella usually has between 30,000 and 100,000 words.

It takes writers anywhere from several months to a year or two.

Yu Qie said, "Is it okay for me to write one article a month? Our October is a bimonthly magazine. Starting from February, we will publish two novellas every two months, which is equivalent to one article a month."

Huh? One novel per month?
In the 70s, the printing technology of mainland literary journals still relied on manual lead typesetting, and the printing cycle of a book often took nearly a year.

In the early 1980s, the People's Machinery Factory on the Third Ring Road in the eastern suburbs of Beijing developed a new offset printing machine, which reduced the printing time to less than a week. Taking into account the time for review and typesetting, the fastest way to write a book is to write it that month and publish it the next month.

So Wang Shimin was so shocked when he heard this. Is this human language? He was stunned: "That's great! I just don't know if it will be published in time..."

He couldn't believe it at all. "Yu Qie, how can you write faster than we can print?"

(End of this chapter)