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Thinking of this, he relaxed, and then chatted with Toyama Shuichi about his daughter, and then ended the call.

But what he didn't know was that the publication of this "Rashomon" had a greater impact than he thought...

[Chapter 263.262 Literati are light on each other]

Whether in the world of literature or reasoning, there is a distinct chain of contempt.

From within the literary world, pure literature or traditional literature often despises popular literature.

And the reasoning that is classified as popular literature looks down on the same as popular literature.

Even within the reasoning, according to the different genres, the classical school looks down on the modern, and the original school looks down on the socialist school.

However, Hiroto Akihara's era was still in its infancy, and pure literature and reasoning occupied the mainstream of society.

And between the two, there is also a kind of opposition.

In terms of compulsion, writers and readers of pure literature are often dismissive of reasoning.

However, in the market, the works of pure literature have completely presented the situation of being crushed, so they are despised by reasoners and readers as niche books.

This also makes the authors of pure literature and reasoning "invisible to each other" to a certain extent.

Therefore, after the news that Hiroto Akihara, who is a well-known reasoner, has crossed from the field of reasoning to the field of pure literature, both the field of pure literature and the field of reasoning have caused a lot of repercussions!

In this matter the belles-letter writers are divided into two schools.

One group thinks that Hiroto Akihara is "playing for tickets" in nature, which is a disrespect for pure literature.

From their point of view, if Hiroto Akihara, who is a reasoner, can write good works of pure literature, does it mean that pure literature is vulnerable.

But the other faction expressed a welcome attitude on the contrary.

They believe that pure literature needs more fresh "blood", and Hiroto Akihara's shift from the field of reasoning to the field of pure literature is undoubtedly a way of abandoning the dark and turning to the bright!

This can make the public pay attention to the works of pure literature again!Drive the overall sales of pure literature works!

Under such differences of opinion, many pure literature book reviewers and authors published comments in academic journals or newspapers one after another, and discussed this topic from various angles!

Some people think that Hiroto Akihara is arrogant, some people think that this is a victory of pure literature, but some people think that Hiroto Akihara is just playing tricks.

With such enthusiasm, Akihara Hiroto's "Rashomon" has attracted a lot of attention from the outside world before it was released.

However, unlike the two schools of opinion in the field of pure literature, there is general dissatisfaction in the field of reasoning.

In the eyes of many reasoners, Hiroto Akihara, no matter what genre you write, you are still our "person".

Even if there is any award fight, it is nothing more than an "internal" matter at best.

And now all genres are convinced of you, and it's only a matter of time before you get the Uemura Prize!

But what are you doing now, to write a pure literary work!

Is this a plan to give up reasoning literature and praise the "stinky feet" of those people in traditional literature? !

For a while, young and middle-aged reasoning writers expressed their "dissatisfaction", and even some senior writers expressed criticism in private.

Even Kawai Shinta and Seto Yuzhi called to ask Akihara Hiroto if he planned to give up reasoning.

Facing these doubts, Hiroto Akihara had to explain them one by one, so that people around him believed that he was just "playing around" and would not give up reasoning.

However, after working for a long time, he himself was very puzzled.

In his impression, many neon writers in previous lives created across two fields.

For example, Nishio Isin, the author of "The Monogatari Series", focused on lightness in his early works, and more and more reasoning styles in his later works.

Another example is Honobu Yonezawa, the author of "Ice Fruit". At the beginning, he was light on reasoning, and then there were fewer and fewer daily factors in his works.

But now, didn't I just write a piece of pure literature?Why is there such a big reaction!

He thought about it for a long time, and realized that he might be wrong.

In the previous life, compared with the reasoning, although the sales volume exceeded a lot.But because the audience is all nerds and nerds, the social status is completely inferior.

This makes many Qing family dare not let outsiders know their occupation, let alone have any ability to public opinion.

However, compared with pure literature, reasoning not only sells far more than the latter, but also generally wins the respect of neon people.

Even some literary awards in the literary world have only been awarded to reasoning rather than pure literature in recent years.

This makes the reasoners fully confident to "head-to-head" with the writers of pure literature, and they are full of disdain for the latter's contempt.

Hiroto Akihara frowned, and suddenly felt that he was a bit reckless in writing this "Rashomon".

Now I haven't seen any benefits, and I have somehow offended my old friends.

However, he also thought of a remedy, that is, to "copy" a few good reasoning books later.

After all, as a literati, everything still speaks in terms of works.

If you can prove that you still love reasoning and write "good works", it is estimated that the reasoning community will not have much objection.

In short, I still wait and see what happens.

……

Time passed quickly. When the pure literature school was "talking about it" in the newspapers, Jingfanshe's "Yinuo" soon ushered in the official release date.

But this release left everyone in the editorial department of "Yinuo" stunned!

Within half a day of its release, all [-] copies of the first edition were sold out, directly setting the record for the shortest reprint by Jingfanshe!

So much so that throughout the whole day, the editorial department and sales department kept receiving calls from various bookstores to urge the goods!

In order to meet the huge market demand, Jingfanshe reprinted another 3 copies, but it was sold out in less than 2 days!

Then another 6 copies were printed, and by the end of this week, they were almost completely sold out!

So much so that Kenta Ichimura, the editor-in-chief, let go of his literati arrogance at this time, and specially called to express "thank you" to Hiroto Akihara.

But Hiroto Akihara was not surprised when he learned of multiple reprints, and even felt that the sales volume was lower than he expected.

The sales volume of many of his works has exceeded several million copies.

Even if only one-tenth of the readers are interested in pure literature, it can greatly boost the sales of "Yunuo".

And what he cares about now is not the sales volume of this work, but the opinion of the literary critics on the work "Rashomon".

However, perhaps because of the particularity of this work, many book reviewers did not comment immediately, but only released corresponding book reviews after a full week.