Chapter 682 The treasures of Asian literary world

After the manuscript of "Celestial Dynasty", Lin Chaoyang completely relaxed and slept until he woke up naturally every day. After getting up and having breakfast, he flipped through the newspapers and browsed the news online. Half a day passed.

"Rabe Diary" has been released in mainland China for almost a month and a half, and its box office potential has basically been exhausted. The final box office landing should be between 230 and 240 million.

There are still reports on this movie in the media from time to time, with the focus mainly on the box office.

The box office of more than 200 million yuan not only broke the box office record of domestic movies, but also greatly improved the record.

The only regrettable thing is that the box office monster "Titanic" ranked first in "Rabe's Diary" was released in 1998.

The box office of 360 million yuan is like a natural disaster, and this record is probably difficult to break within two or three years of sight.

In addition to reporting on the box office, some media also focused on the returns of Lin Chaoyang, a film investor, and seriously analyzed how much money he made by investing in this movie.

Some media said that he made 200 million yuan, and some said that he made 150 million yuan.

But no matter which number it is, it is a great stimulation to the general public.

A movie makes 100 million or 200 million, which may not be noticeable when Chinese movies often cost tens of billions in later generations, but in this era when domestic movies have box offices of over 10 million is a victory, and the income of 100 million or 200 million is like a myth.

Some media also joked about Lin Chaoyang, saying that he made money by investing in movies than writing books. This can only be said that these media really underestimated the money-making efficiency of Lin Chaoyang's works.

In just half a year this year, the sales volume of 5 volumes of "Celestial Dynasty" special accounts and single-line books in China reached a terrifying 18.4 million copies, with sales of 375 million yuan.

As the author, Lin Chaoyang received 75 million yuan in royalties in this item alone.

If we count the royalties created by his other works sold at home and abroad, this number may have to be multiplied by twice.

In addition to the hot news of "Rabe's Diary", there are also many more speculations in the newspapers about whether he will win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year than in previous years.

This situation occurred because of Kensaburo Oe’s exclusive interview, and because of the continuous praise of the literary world after the publication of "Celestial Empire", it also brought him great reputation.

These public opinions have created an atmosphere that is expected of the public.

Lin Chaoyang hadn't taken the prize too seriously, but if public opinion continues to be hyped up like this, he will not win the prize. It would be embarrassing to think about it. This wave was aroused.

He closed NetEase's web page with a little depressed depression, and he logged into the Asia Pacific News website. The big title that caught his eye was the preview of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.

According to data from the International Olympic Committee cited by Asia Pacific News, 10,651 athletes from 199 member countries and regions will participate in this Olympic Games.

The Chinese delegation also sent 311 athletes to participate in the competition this time. In Lin Chaoyang's memory, the number of medals won by this Chinese team seems to have set a new record for participating in the Olympics.

However, the specific events that have won medals are already a little blurred.

Time flies, National Day, all the children are on vacation, Tao Yushu has also put down his busy work, and the family has gone out for a few days.

During this period, Tao Xiwen and Zhou Mei held a wedding, saying it was a wedding, but in fact they invited both families to have a meal together.

The Zhou family came to Yanjing the day before the wedding. More than 20 people came, all of Zhou Mei's close family.

Apart from a few close relatives, these relatives didn’t know much about Tao Xiwen’s situation. They only knew that Zhou Mei had found a scholarly overseas student.

The Zhou family is an ordinary rural family in Ji County, and the family members generally focus on farming and working.

Zhou Mei, a girl with a junior high school education, was already a big impact on everyone's husband with such conditions, but the real impact was after they came to Yanjing.

Regarding the wedding, the couple didn't want to be extravagant and planned to choose the wedding location at the Changzheng Restaurant.

There is a place where the two met, and it has a special significance to them.

But Zhao Li disagreed, so her son got married like this.

What's more, she also notified her family that the wedding must be held with a little more gloriousness.

For the sake of his mother's face, Tao Xiwen and Zhou Mei had no choice but to work hard. The wedding venue was finally set in the high-top banquet hall of Shangri-La Hotel next to Zizhu Bridge on the West Third Ring Road.

The day before the wedding, Tao Xiwen rented a bus and picked up the Zhou family from Jixian to Yanjing, and checked directly into the Shangri-La Hotel.

"Oh, let's live here?"

After getting off the bus, Zhou Mei's aunt saw the magnificent and modern appearance of the hotel and was the first to scream.

"Don't make a fuss!" Zhou Mei's mother pulled her aunt and signaled her not to show that she had never seen the world and would make her daughter unable to save face.

The eldest aunt had to whisper: "Sister, Zhou Mei's partner's conditions are really good!"

Not only my aunt, but also a group of relatives in the Zhou family were shocked by the spectacular buildings of Shangri-La Hotel.

"No wonder, he is a returnee, and his family's conditions must not be bad."

There are many high-rise buildings in reality, and we have not seen them before, but seeing them is completely different from walking into them.

"Uncle, aunty, this is my grandpa and my grandma."

Tao Xiwen introduced Tao’s father and mother to everyone who were greeting them at the door of the hotel.

The Zhou family was picked up by Tao Yucheng and Tao Xiwen. Tao’s father and Tao’s mother had been standing at the hotel door before the Zhou family arrived, and they were very courteous.

"Welcome, welcome, no matter how far you are!"

Tao's father was over 80 years old and leaned on a cane. He exuded a scholarly temperament and a kind smile to the Zhou family.

Because of the preconceived shock, Tao's father's humble and polite attitude made the Zhou family feel flattered.

After entering the hotel, the Zhou family was so magnificently decorated by the hotel, and the Zhou family met Zhao Li and Tao Yumo one after another.

After checking in, several relatives surrounded Zhou Mei’s parents.

"Sister-in-law, I think Zhou Mei's in-laws' family doesn't look like an ordinary family."

"Yes, sister, tell us what the specific situation of their family is, so that we can avoid losing etiquette at that time."

"Brother, you didn't say that their family was from a university before. Can't college teachers be so rich, right?"

Several relatives of the same generation as Zhou's parents kept asking around the two of them, which made them feel very troubled.

In fact, let alone these relatives, even if they had Zhou Mei's prior knowledge, they were at a loss when they saw the wedding ceremony held by the Tao family.

Zhou Mei was called out by Zhao Li. After several relatives of the same generation, Zhou's father and mother had to talk more about the situation of the Tao family.

After more than ten minutes, Zhou Mei came to ask her family to have dinner, but they saw that these relatives looked at him with strange eyes.

She asked her parents, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. Your uncle and others asked about the situation of Xiwen's family, and they all said that you had found a good family." said Zhou's father.

In front of all the relatives, Zhou's father's words were hard to say too straightforward, but Zhou Mei immediately understood what his father meant.

Regarding the Tao family's situation, Zhou Mei did not deliberately conceal it, but just wanted to keep a low profile.

She is about to enter the marriage hall with Tao Xiwen, and her mentality is no longer the ignorant little girl she used to be.

Zhou Mei showed a faint smile on her face and called on her relatives to have dinner.

The next morning, Tao Xiwen and Zhou Mei's wedding was successfully held. With Zhao Li's arrangement, hundreds of relatives and friends came to the Tao family.

In contrast, there are much fewer people coming to the Zhou family.

Seeing the guests in the hall either rich or noble, Zhou’s father and mother were happy and responded to the envious jokes of relatives, but they were a little worried.

When Zhou Mei told them before, she had no idea. Today's wedding made them truly realize the difference between the family backgrounds of both parties, and they were inevitably worried about their daughter's married life.

On the afternoon after the wedding banquet, the mother took Zhou Mei's hand and gave a sincere advice. The mother and daughter were crying as they spoke.

Tao's father saw the concerns of Zhou's parents and comforted him: "Zhou Mei married into the Tao family and will be a family in the future. Don't worry, she just had a group of relatives."

Listening to his words, Zhou's parents were in a happier mood.

A few days later, on October 10, according to Xinhua News Agency, this year, the Nobel Prize Committee changed its practice of being the first to announce the list of literary prizes in previous years.

First, the winner of the Medical Prize was announced yesterday, and today the winner of the Physics Prize was announced.

This news not only attracted attention from the domestic cultural circle, but also immediately became the hottest topic in the cultural circles and scientific circles of various countries.

As for the ownership of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which the Chinese people are most concerned about, according to the Swedish Daily, the winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on the 12th.

At present, the academicians of the Swedish Academy of Literature have not reached an agreement on the winning results. It seems that the competition for the Nobel Prize in Literature this year is very fierce.

As the results of the awards are announced, just like in previous years, rumors from the literary circles of various countries are flying everywhere.

It is widely rumored in the Swedish literary world that this year's Literature Award winner will not be Europeans.

Senior commentator of the Swedish Daily believes that this year's Literature Award winner is likely to be the writer Vidiada Sulep LS de Naipaul, who is now based in London.

Vidyada Sulep LS de Naipaul is an English-American writer with his main work "The Masturbator of the Spirit"

"Revisiting the Caribbean" and "Mask of Africa" ​​have won the Booker Prize, Maugham Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature and other awards, together with Ishiguro Kazuo and Rushdie, who are known as the "Three Immigrants in the British Literature" in the British Literature.

British critics elected Nigerian writer Chinnua Achebe, who is known as the "father of modern African literature."

In recent years, African literature and writers have received widespread attention in the European literary world. The reason why European literary world has this concern is mainly because there are countries in Africa that use English, French, Spanish and other languages ​​as official languages.

The words are connected and the baptism of colonial culture is also in a sense created by the blood and tears of the African people.

Naipaul and Achebe have a reputation in the international literary world and are highly praised by the literary circles of various countries, but they are not the most popular candidates in the reserve for the Nobel Prize in Literature this year.

Perhaps because of his many years of running, Lin Chaoyang's call for awards this year was particularly high.

Not only that at home, but also at international level. The New Yorker published an article in the first week of October to discuss the ownership of this Nobel Prize in Literature.

"In the second half of the 20th century, there was no novelist better than Lin. He was a treasure given to the Asian literary world by God. It is time for the Nobel Prize in Literature to turn his attention to China."

Japanese magazine "Literature and Art" is also singing hymns for Lin Chaoyang:

"As Mr. Kenzaburo Oe said, Lin Sang deserves a Nobel Prize in Literature. His writing has profoundly influenced billions of Asian readers and has made an indelible contribution to the Asian literature going to the world."

A commentator from the French Le Figaro believes that the Nobel Prize in Literature has now become the Elderly Prize. Lin, who is rumored to be shortlisted for many years, has never been awarded the award. Does it really have to wait until he becomes an old man before he will be given a trophy? This is obviously unfair to a great writer.

These news was reproduced by domestic media and returned to China, which immediately caused heated discussions in the domestic cultural circle.

Compared with the public opinion before the public announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature in previous years, Lin Chaoyang's international call has become much higher this year.

Naturally, domestic news and public opinion also had higher expectations for Lin Chaoyang's award.

"Yes, do you think Lin Chaoyang can really win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year?"

"Who knows, I have been with you for so many years. It's not uncommon to have nothing to do, and it's not uncommon to have something to do."

"Of course it's the best to get it. China has never produced a Nobel Prize winner in literature."
To be continued...