Why do writers love to write about enmity and hatred, and can still write brilliantly that makes you want to show the volume? Of course, it is because the head is broken and bleeding, and the love and hate fight is the life they have experienced.
The old saying goes: "Literati are light, since ancient times." "Literary masters fight the Fa, which is a hundred times more sensational than the palace fight, the implicit faction twists and turns, the sharp and sarcastic does not lose literary style, and the fiery faction slanders and insults, and gushes endlessly.
Besides, writers know hatred better than anyone else. Victor Hugo said, "Literary hatred is the truest hatred." Political hatred is simply not worth mentioning. ”
Why did Master Hugo say that? Because he is the melon-eating masses in the "noble chaos" circle of French literature.
However, people are afraid of being famous pigs are afraid of being strong, the circle is too small, he tree big wind, it is easy to force you and me under the tree, eat melon and eat to eat their own home. One of the most bitter and bitter melons was his delicate relationship with St. Beauf, who was two years younger. The latter was one of the most influential literary critics of his time.
Saint-Beuve (1804-1869), a representative of Nineteenth-century French literary criticism. During his lifetime he wrote a large number of critical works of classical and contemporary literature. It was only after Saint-Beuve that French literary criticism flourished as a specialized field.
In July 1834, Saint-Beuve published the novel Lust, a work based on his emotional entanglement with Adele Hugo (Victor Hugo's wife).
Once upon a time, Saint-Beuve was also a guest at Hugo's residence. However, as Hugo devoted himself to the cause of Romantic literature and became more and more famous, Saint-Beuve looked back at his namelessness and felt only bitterness. In 1830, when Hugo's work Anani became a sensation and a great success, Saint-Beuve finally established a mournful premonition that his friendship with his old friend would grow darker. He wrote to Hugo like an out-of-favor woman:
Judging from what has happened recently, your life is being tortured by those around you, you have lost your happiness, your hatred has increased unabated, your old friendships have left you, and you are replaced by a group of stupid and crazy people... I am bitter about this, but I can only miss the past, and I have to wave goodbye to you, hiding in some unknown corner...
Immediately after, the plot took a sharp turn like a Korean drama, as if missing three episodes, Saint Beuve had secretly sent it with Hugo's wife Qiu Bo, and sparked.
According to later speculations (gossip), Saint-Beuve's affection for Adele may have been just trying to take something away from Hugo, and Hugo's preoccupied focus on work caused the lady to be shaken that she was no longer loved by her husband. So, the two came together.
Lust heralded a complete break in the friendship of Hugo x St. Boulev CP. Saint-Beuve's former love and respect for Hugo also translates into equal revenge, and in September 1843, hugo's eldest daughter drowned while boating on the Seine With her new husband, saint-Beuve published a book of love with Adele as his muse, with ambiguous intentions. Hugo, because he was mindful of the appointment of the deputies, did not want to arouse the house of representatives, so he had to swallow his anger.
Gold medal screenwriter "Destiny" naturally knows the routine of slapping a date and immediately arranging for the Avengers to appear.
Taking "Lust" as an opportunity, among those who saw this work, there happened to be a heavyweight literary hero who had been criticized by St. Bouve, who was the great writer Balzac who laid the foundation for European critical realist literature.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist known as the "father of the modern French novel"
Naturally, Balzac did not appreciate the works of Saint-Beuve.
Balzac the Hulk was transformed.
He hated the pseudo-literati who did not recognize his talents the most in his life, and Saint-Beuve's criticism was like declaring war. He decided to teach Saint-Beuve a lesson in Lust. Is there a greater insult than writing an opponent's novel?
According to the book "The History of the French Literati":
"I'm going to get revenge, I'm going to rewrite Lust!" Balzac shouted in front of Jules Sandor. Then he said, "I'm going to pierce his body with my pen!" ”
It was because of Balzac's hatred of Saint-Beuve that we had the privilege of reading the famous book Lily of the Valley, published in 1836. In fact, Balzac added a lot of his own experiences and memories of his youth to the novel, so this famous work has little to do with Lust.
As expected, Saint-Beuve shouted that Balzac was copying his own work. But at the same time, Saint-Beuve was well aware that the literary achievements of The Valley Lily surpassed his own Lust, which completely shattered his vanity and decency. It is only by seeing that Balzac's novels have also been criticized that some psychological balance can be regained.
If it is said that this kind of emotional melee in the French literary circles can still be won or lost, then the enigmatic events of love and hate are really out of the mind.
In recent years, the Japanese literary circles have been keen to explore "violence without cause" and "indiscriminate violence".
The 2016 film "The Deranged Generation", based on real people's deeds, tells the story of the indiscriminate fight of young people who have no hope in life, and accelerate the dangerous journey of self-destruction. In his work "Anger", the writer Shuichi Yoshida constructed a despicable image of a prisoner, and the murderer was angry because he was treated well by others, so he killed the other party and left the word "anger" written in blood at the scene of the crime, which made the reader indignant.
Screenshot of the Fury movie
And some love-hate mysteries are with the death of one of the parties, just like if the box is lost, the truth inside will be sealed forever. The most appropriate pair are Junichi Watanabe and Keigo Higashino.
Junichi Watanabe hated Keigo Higashino's novels as something that was famous in the Japanese literary world.
It is reasonable to say that Junichi Watanabe, as a popular writer, focuses on the literary creation of male and female love, and cannot compete with Keigo Higashino, who focuses on the creation of speculative fiction, from the field of entry to the readership. But the reality is a bit absurd. Since 1999, Keigo Higashino has been nominated for the Naoki Literature Prize five times, passing by five times. It is rumored that the most important reason was due to a bad review by Junichi Watanabe, one of the judges.
Wasagawa Prize: The best works of pure literature published in various newspapers and magazines (including fan magazines) are selected for the purpose of encouraging new writers.
Naoki Prize: Awards are given to popular literature writers who have published books in various newspapers, magazines (including fandom magazines), or short and long popular literary works that have been published as a single book.
In 1999, Junichi Watanabe commented on Keigo Higashino's "Secret": "Novels that think of where to write, there is no sign of fermentation from within. ”
via Douban, the same below
In 2000, Junichi Watanabe commented on Keigo Higashino's White Night: "Killing people is written like a game, it is not a novel at all. ”
In 2001, Junichi Watanabe commented on Keigo Higashino's "Unrequited Love": "As a subject of homosexuality, the overall impression is thin, and the lazy idea of making up a good story is a good novel makes the work inferior." ”
In 2003, Junichi Watanabe commented on Keigo Higashino's "Letter": "This time the technique is still too deliberate, let people read it, but it still ends in mediocrity." ”
In 2004, Junichi Watanabe commented on Keigo Higashino's "Phantom Night": "If you want to win an award, what you need most is that the writer should have the courage and enthusiasm in his heart that he can't write. ”
Even in 2006, when Higashino Washino won the award, Junichi Watanabe commented on his award-winning novel The Dedication of Suspect X: "I express my dissatisfaction, if he wins this time, it will be equivalent to lowering the threshold for knocking on the door of the Naoki Literature Prize with speculative fiction, and that's it." ”
Very sharp and ruthless.
So why is Junichi Watanabe so opinionated on Kei Higashino's work?
The various gossip media in Japan have two ways of saying it.
One is that Junichi Watanabe once had a relationship with an actress named Naomi Kawashima, and Naomi Kawashima expressed her affection for Toano for a certain period of time, but Higashino ignored it. Junichi Watanabe thinks that his face is not good, so he has a lot of opinions about Higashino.
Another theory is that Junichi Watanabe and Keigo Higashino were once keen to patronize a bar loved by a literary figure in Ginza. Because Higashino's works began to sell well after the divorce, Higashino was more popular among the PR ladies at the bar, and even took away a top female PR that Junichi Watanabe liked. So the two men formed a bond.
Of course, all of the above news comes from gossip magazines.
There is also a voice from a literary perspective:
It was only natural that Kawabata, who had been helped by Kikuchi, a friend of Kikuchi of Wasagawa and a friend of Mishima, opposed Dazai's victory over the Wasagawa Prize, and The fact that Junichi Watanabe, who was greatly influenced by Kawabata, opposed the Naoki Prize that Higashino Keigo had set up for Kikuchi also had good public and private reasons.
via Douban "Your circle is too messy! Pickpocketing the Love-Hate Love and Hatred of the Japanese Literary Circle" by Lu Ye
In fact, there have always been rumors about Japanese literary awards such as the Naoki Prize, which "swayed the votes for personal reasons of the judges." Especially when Junichi Watanabe openly expressed his disapproval of the form of "speculative fiction", some irrational prejudices against impartiality were born. In fact, the Naoki Prize has a number of judges, and it is difficult to influence the attribution of the award by the will of one person alone. Therefore, the real reason for Higashino's five failures has completely become the unsolved mystery of the literary world.
However, no matter how much Junichi Watanabe disliked Kiyo Higashino, in 2013 Keigo Higashino became the new judge of the Naoki Literature Prize. In 2014, Junichi Watanabe passed away. Looking at this cause and effect today, there is some Japanese cold joke meaning.
via People's Daily Japan Channel "Japanese Writer Kaoru Takamura Keigo Higashino Becomes New Jury Member of naoki Prize"
When you say hate, you have to talk about love. Since ancient times, talented writers have always been particularly sensitive and affectionate, the number of lovers is no secret, and challenging the moral bottom line is only a small meaning. So you shouldn't be too surprised when you see Junichiro Tanizaki marrying his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clem. Because there are more curious and secretive - such as Ms. Mori Jasmine, who is in love with the father and son of the literary hero.
A grand introduction to Ms. Jasmine Mori, a Japanese female writer (1903-1987). Born in Tokyo, she is the eldest daughter of Heromori Andomi and his second wife. Her father, Mori Ouwai, was particularly fond of her. Most of her works revolve around her father, she is good at describing fantasies, and is the founding father of Tammy novels, her novels "Lovers' Forest" and "Bed of Dead Leaves" opened the era of women describing male love.
People who are more familiar with Japanese literature are not unfamiliar with the name of the literary titan MoriOkawai, who is one of the founders of modern Japanese literature in terms of literary achievements, and he is on a par with Natsume Soseki.
Young Mori Gull outside
Mori Okuwai is a very Westernized person, as can be seen from the names of the five children, whose Japanese names are translated from Roman sounds, and all of them are foreign names. The eldest son, Mori Yusuke (Otto), the eldest daughter Mori Jasmine (Maria), the second daughter Mori Xingnu (Annu), the third son Mori (Louis), and the second son Mori (Oliz).
Mori Jasmine (second from left), the rest of the members are the eldest brother Mori Yusuke (first from right), sister Mori Kono (second from right), and younger brother Mori (first from left)
As the daughter of a german officer, Mori enjoyed both material and spiritual abundance from birth, like a princess living in a castle. Mori Ou pampered her and hired servants and tutors to take care of her personally. When Mori Ouwai was writing, no one should disturb her, only Jasmine would run into her father's study, and his father would hold her on his lap and feed her expensive and exquisite pastries one by one.
Father's knee was her little universe, another womb, where Jasmine was willing to curl up forever. These are mentioned in her novels and essays: those snacks and picture books from Europe, exquisite children's dresses, and even the sweet lemonade she brought to school will become the focus of her classmates...
From this the extravagance she maintained throughout her life, she once recalled:
"Since I was born in this world, the first thing wrapped around my neck was a mosaic necklace given to me by my father. The chain, bought from a shop in Berlin, bears the name of Taro Hayashi, passes through the Siberian wilderness and is sent to his home in the town of Sendagi. The golden lock, with five mosaics, white, rose, green, and big red, was brilliantly colored. I also wear this necklace when I wear a kimono. ...... However, this was a special preference of my father, who chose the color and pattern of the kimono in order to have a style of women's suit. ”
Mori jasmine with her brother
Mori Ouwai once said that Jasmine's growing up years were the happiest days of his life. In Mori's eyes, the appearance of happiness began to approach love infinitely.
"Although my parents love each other, my father's love is too broad, and my mother is too worried, so that the two people are not always harmonious when they get along, so sometimes I play my father's lover, and my feelings with my father have a bit of a love flavor." 」
- "Father and Me"
Even when Mori was 15 years old and engaged to Yamada, the son of a handsome industrialist, she would still sit on her father's lap in front of her fiancé, which was jaw-dropping.
At the age of 16, Mori married Yamada, and her husband was well-off and handsome, specializing in French literature. A year after the marriage, Jasmine gave birth to a son, and a year later, she left the son in Japan, handed it over to a nanny, and traveled to Paris with her husband for a year.
At that time, Mori's kidney disease worsened, and he endured the pain of illness and eventually died of illness. That year, it just overlapped with Mori's study trip, and she did not serve her father's side. The failure to see her father for the last time became the biggest knot in Mori's life. But because of this, in Jasmine's mind, her father will always be a tall and handsome soldier, a polite and loving father, an ageless middle-aged man, and the only lover in her life.
"That gentle rose thorn, in the middle of my heart, is now tossed and pierced. It's a horrible love affair. Fifty years later, Jasmine wrote.
Jasmine Mori with her first husband, Tsuki Yamada
The death of her father had a huge impact on Mori's life, and Mori's marriage collapsed. "When you have a child, you can't take care of it, you can't do the housework such as cleaning, laundry, tailoring, etc., and you also commit luxury." Such a life requires a little magic. ”
At the age of 24, Mori Mori took the initiative to divorce, and at the age of 27, Mori remarried, married a university professor, and settled in Sendai. The marriage lasted only a year, and one day, her husband asked her to go to Tokyo to see a play, and when she returned to her hometown after the play, she found her luggage left outside the door, and a letter of resignation was attached to the box.
"There are no Ginza and Mitsukoshi department stores in Sendai, so let's go back to our hometown and watch a play." This was the last sentence that her second husband said to her.
At the age of 28, Mori Jasmine, who has ended two marriages and stumbled, returns to her mother's house, not knowing that the superior life created by her father will gradually be stripped from her.
Divorced from the age of 28 to the age of 45, Mori has been unemployed. Before Mori's death, the inheritance was divided into two parts, one for the eldest son and the rest for his wife and other children. Mori lives off these royalties.
At the age of 48, Mori Jasmine's eldest son, Lord Yamada, returned again, at this time, his son was also more than thirty years old, which was the age of the middle-aged man that Jasmine was most obsessed with, and she was like a depraved love network. Jasmine and her son have a honeymoon-like life, and she, under the persuasion of her son, takes out most of her savings to build a house. Unbeknownst to Mori, it was a fraud, and after squeezing out everything from her mother, her son refused to see her again.
Overnight, Jasmine had nothing and lived on only 10,000 yen a month, but she still had to eat an expensive imported chocolate that needed to be bought on a two-kilometer walk every day, and lived as "luxuriously" as possible.
In 1953, Mori came to an end in her life of living on her father's royalties. At the age of 50, Mori began writing about her father for the "Monthly Newspaper" (a pamphlet that accompanied the publication of the large set of books) for the Complete Works of Gull Wai and the Complete Works of Modern Japanese Literature. In 1957, at the age of 54, Jasmine wrote her first collection of essays, Father's Hat, in a delicate style, about a daughter's longing feelings for her father, and won the Japan Essayist Club Award.
Since then, Mori Jasmine has embarked on the literary world and entered a career as a writer after the age of fifty. Until her death at the age of eighty-four, she did not quit farming, and for about thirty years Jasmine wrote eight volumes of novels and essays, the most important of which was always her "love" with her father.
As an essayist, she writes about childhood memories, what she saw in Paris, and her poor life in her twilight years. But the novelist Jasmine is another matter, each of her novels is a cruel and beautiful love between a handsome middle-aged man and a beautiful teenager, falling in love, hurting each other, inseparable and unable to keep Sauvignon Blanc. At the end of "Bed of Dead Leaves", the male protagonist kills his beloved person, puts his body on the dead leaves, and then lies next to him and enjoys this happy moment...
Kaoru Kurimoto, who is also a writer of Tammy, analyzes her work this way: In fact, in Jasmine's universe, there are always only two people, her and her father. Although homosexuality is taboo, father-daughter love is a bigger taboo, so it is necessary to replace the big taboo with a small taboo. The two men, old and young, are actually the embodiment of father and daughter. Why teenagers and not teenage girls? Because, Mori does not allow other women to invade her and her father's small world.
At the age of 72, Mori wrote her most important work in the history of creation, "Sweet Room", which nakedly and delicately described the incest-like emotions of father and daughter. In "Sweet Room", the young Zaoluo is beautiful and loved by men, but she willfully lies and plays with the feelings of others, which is a mixture of angels and demons.
At the age of 84, Mori finished the road of her life and became her father's youngest daughter again at the age of 84.
On Mori's desk is a picture of her father, Mori Ogura
There are no love-hate relationships between literati, but those who like to be alone are not "normal", geniuses and madmen are a step away, and in private, writers usually have certain special hobbies.
For example, the British writer Dickens once said: "I am not writing, I am on my way to the morgue." ”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer. His major works include "David Copperfield", "Orphans of the Mist", "A Tale of Two Cities" and so on.
Dickens was an out-and-out necrophilia. When not writing novels, Dickens would visit the morgue in Paris to see the shattered corpses. But not out of curiosity. Dickens had said that he always felt a mysterious force pulling him to the morgue. Dickens never wanted to go there, but eventually appeared in the morgue.
And the "contrast" of human design seems to be a major spectacle of writers' work and private.
Although the novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has created the most logical characters in literature, he himself is far from rational. After his son's death in World War I, he became obsessed with spiritualism and frantically tried to communicate with the dead, which was opposed by his friend Harry Houdini.
Houdini and Doyle movie poster, which depicts the real-life friendship between Sir Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series of novels, and the famous magician Harry Houdini.
Houdini is an atheist, often mixed in with the séance of the gods to expose the deceitful gods. But when his friend Conan Doyle publicly declares that "Houdini has magic", Houdini almost became autistic. Forced to do nothing, he had to find a way to prove that his magic was fake.
"He can spoil food!" "No, I can't."
"He can escape." "Fake, all fake!"
The enmity between the literati and the blood of the dog is the first productive force of writing, who and who love and hate with the wind, who and who I am born and old, in the pen of the witness, the fireworks in the world have become the reader's heart list, this is the skill of the writer.
As Zola begins with My Hate:
Hatred is sacred. It is the anger emanating from a tenacious heart, the contempt of an angry warrior for mediocrity and stupidity. Hate is love, the perception of the fiery and generous nature of the soul, the disdain for shame and incompetence... If I have achieved anything today, it is because I am unruly and have hatred in my heart.
It is hatred and love that inspire writers to pursue higher literary achievements until they become the brightest stars in the vast literary sky. There are many reasons for the mutual jealousy and hatred between literati, but it is precisely because of the existence of these jealousy and hatred that the literati can provide inspiration for literary creation, stimulate their creative talents, and have a prosperous situation of vitality, juxtaposition of genres, and a hundred flowers.
"I'm honored to be someone who is hated." The elderly Hugo said this in 1866.