Chapter 431 Wang Shuo's Confidence

The next morning, Fang Minghua spoke about his views on new realistic novels. The title was "Thoughts, Spirits and Techniques - A Preliminary Study of New Realistic Novels".

Fang Minghua was dressed in a suit and tie and looked energetic.

"Around 1985, when China's avant-garde literature rose and achieved rapid development in the literary world, some people declared that realistic literature in China had reached a dead end. Others, however, took a firm stance to defend realism."

"Of course, the fact itself is more powerful than any eloquence: the creative practice from 1987 to the first half of 1988 shows that after a period of sluggishness, realistic novels finally absorbed new nutrients, jumped into the literary world with a new attitude, and once again occupied a prominent position."

"But this kind of realistic novel is different from avant-garde literature and the realism of the past. It presents a new style, which we call the new realist novel."

The new realist novel is not satisfied with describing the bloody surface scenes of life, but goes deep into the various ugliness hidden in the depths of human nature, describing the confrontation between human nature and animal nature in the depths of the soul, thereby revealing the true meaning of life at a deeper level.

Secondly, the author would rather mix kindness and ugliness, sincerity and hypocrisy, light and darkness, tragedy and comedy, and hide the tendency between the lines, rather than abandon the richness and vividness of life in order to highlight a certain tendency, as in some pseudo-realist works, so that the characters of new realist novels appear more plump and the connotation is more substantial.

Fang Minghua spoke for two hours.

At the end, there was warm applause at the meeting.

This is the first time in the domestic literary world to explain the background, connotation, and development of new realist novels from the perspective of literary theory.

After the speech, Tang Yin, deputy editor-in-chief of "Wenyi Bao", who was invited to attend the meeting, found Fang Minghua.

"Editor-in-chief Fang, your article will be published in our "Wenyi Bao""

"Hey, Editor-in-chief Tang, you can't come out halfway, our "Novel Review" has already booked Editor-in-chief Fang's article, right, Editor-in-chief Fang?"

The speaker is Wang Yu, editor-in-chief of "Novel Review" magazine.

Although Wang Yu and Fang Minghua had some unpleasantness in the competition for the position of editor-in-chief of Yanhe magazine, it has been a few years, and Wang Yu has also made a good progress in Xiaoshuoping, so the previous unpleasantness has gone with the wind.

Fang Minghua is the vice chairman of the Qin Province Writers Association and Wang Yu is a director of the Writers Association. The two often meet at the meetings of the Writers Association, so there is no need to worry about the previous trivial matters.

Hearing Wang Yu say this, Fang Minghua smiled and said: "Editor-in-Chief Tang, Editor-in-Chief Wang is telling the truth. He told me a long time ago."

"Hey, Xiaoshuoping is a monthly magazine, and we are a newspaper, but we are both published at the same time, so there is no conflict." Tang Yin immediately thought of a way: "You still say, right, Editor-in-Chief Wang?"

In the end, the Literary and Art Newspaper was powerful and insisted on getting this article from Wang Yu. It was soon published in full in Literary and Art Newspaper, which caused a heated discussion in the literary world and became an important discussion in the field of domestic literary theory in the late 1980s.

Of course, this is a later story.

The four-day seminar ended, and of course there was one last activity:

Climbing Huashan.

Fang Minghua didn't want to climb.

He climbed once when he was dating Song Tangtang, and later climbed twice with friends. He had no interest in this thing.

But Yu Hua, Li Hongying and a group of young people insisted on dragging him to climb together, saying that you are a teacher and should take the lead.

What kind of teacher am I? I have only taught for a few months.

Fang Minghua had no choice but to prepare for the excitement - military coat, flashlight, climb Huashan at night.

"Bai Miao, you don't climb?" Fang Minghua asked while packing up.

"No, I'm old and can't climb."

Damn!

You are a few years older than me? You are old?

In fact, Fang Minghua also knew that this guy was tired of climbing.

"You guys climb, I want to have a good sleep, I've been busy for so many days." Bai Miao stretched.

"Okay, I'm going to sleep, be careful when climbing." Bai Miao said, leaving the room.

Just as Bai Miao left, another person knocked on the door and came in. It was Wang Shuo.

Fang Minghua also paid attention to Wang Shuo.

In the past few days, Wang Shuo changed his usual style and seemed very low-key. Except for chatting with Liu Zhenyun who worked in Yanjing, he rarely talked to others and looked like he was worried.

Seeing him coming today, Fang Minghua greeted him warmly: "Wang Shuo, are you not going to climb Huashan?"

"No, I'm afraid of heights."

Fear of heights?

Fang Minghua was a little surprised. I wonder if it was true or not?

Of course, Wang Shuo said so, and Fang Minghua didn't ask.

After watching Fang Minghua pack her luggage, Wang Shuo said: "Editor Fang, I have something to tell you."

"Okay, sit down and talk, I'll pour you some tea."

"No, no."

Today, Wang Shuo seemed very well-behaved.

"Editor Fang, your wife is Song Tangtang, the sister of Brother Yuemin, and is the deputy general manager of Xijing Shengshi Book Publishing Company?" Wang Shuo asked.

Brother Yuemin?

It's quite affectionate.

But I heard from my eldest brother-in-law that you are just nodding acquaintances, right?

Fang Minghua didn't say this out loud, but just said, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

"I heard that Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" was actually published by Sheng Company, and they paid royalties?"

Ask this?

Fang Minghua somewhat understood why Wang Shuo suddenly asked him to come today.

"Yes, I did give royalties." Fang Minghua answered very straightforwardly. Some things cannot be covered up, and many people already know.

"It's like this, Editor Fang, we are also friends, I won't beat around the bush." ​​Wang Shuo said: "I have published some novels in the past few years, and I want to compile them into a collection of novels and give them to Shengshi Books for publication."

"Give them to Shengshi Books?" Fang Minghua smiled: "Do you want royalties?"

"Yes, Yanjing Youth Publishing House wants to publish, but I declined."

"They don't give royalties?"

"Yes."

Oh.

Seeing Fang Minghua fall into thought, Wang Shuo further said: "Editor Fang, to be honest, three movies adapted from my novels will be released this year, namely "The Troublemakers", "Floating Out of the Sea" and "Rubber Man"."

Fang Minghua knew that the reason why Wang Shuo asked him for copyright income was that this was his greatest confidence!

He thought for a while and said, "Wang Shuo, I have read all the novels you have published in recent years. I personally think that they can be published according to your requirements, but after all, I am not the boss of Shengshi Books. Let me tell my wife first. After the meeting, please go to Xijing. The boss of the company, Zhao Hongjun, is on a business trip to Hainan. My wife is in charge of the company. You can talk to her. How about it?"

If you agree, will your wife disagree?

Wang Shuo even doubted whether this Shengshi Book Company was Fang Minghua's share?

On the surface, it was run by his good friend and wife, but he was hiding behind the scenes to direct.

Of course, these were none of his business.

So Wang Shuo agreed very happily.