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"Let's do this first," Akihara Yuto thought for a while, and asked Asano Aiko to pay the rest.

Immediately afterwards, he and Asano left.

Back home, Hiroto Akihara thought about what to write next. After thinking for a while, he decided to continue writing Akutagawa Ryunosuke's short story - "In the Bamboo Forest"

This one tells the story of a samurai and his wife, Masa, who encounter the robber Tajomaru on their way to Wakasa.As a result, the samurai was bound, and the samurai's wife Masa was abused by the gangster.

The result of the incident: the samurai died, Tajomaru was arrested, and Masa fled to Kiyomizu Temple.

The story seems simple, but the narrative is very unique—a narrative fog is organized with other people's words, that is, the story is constructed with 7 people related to the event.

But the most strange thing is the cause of the samurai's death: the witch said that the samurai committed suicide, and Tajomaru and Masa each admitted that they killed the samurai.

So in the end, it is not known who killed the samurai.

This work looks very simple, but it is actually full of satire on the samurai class.

Putting it here just fits his mood.

However, this work has a lot to do with Huaxia in history.

At the time of creation, Ryunosuke Akutagawa himself traveled to various places in China as an inspector of the Osaka Daily News.

Before setting off, he believed that China should be prosperous and prosperous from the praise of his friend Junichiro Tanizaki and his favorite classics.

So he excitedly even wrote to other friends, saying that he was going to find the "greatness" of Huaxia

But he didn't expect that after he came here, he found that China was full of wars, poverty and chaos (also inseparable from the pot of neon).

When he was in Modu, he saw prostitutes openly seduce him, and saw citizens defecate everywhere.

After discovering that an American soldier trampled over the old lady's vegetable basket and walked away, he took the initiative to give the old lady money, but he was caught up and asked for more money.

After being exposed to these situations, his longing for the ancient civilization was shattered, and he even wrote a lot of bad reviews, which were compiled into "China Travel Notes", which wrote:

"What is there in modern China? Isn't politics, learning, economy, and art all degenerate? Especially when it comes to art, since Jiaqing and Daoguang, is there a work to be proud of?"

"I don't love China, and I can't love it if I want to. After witnessing the depravity of its people, if you still love China, you are either a decadent sensualist or a shallow China Advocates of fun."

In later generations, many people took this sentence out and said that he was an anti-China member.

However, in Lu Xun's view, Akutagawa Ryunosuke was a real "friend".

Lu Xun said a word at that time, the meaning is roughly as follows, anyone who praises the beauty and prosperity of China is all out of desire for profit or even full of malice.On the contrary, those who dare to criticize China's ugliness are our true friends.

Not only that, he also became the first translator to translate Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Moreover, their works are full of deep criticism of human nature.

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While recalling history, Akihara Hiroto finished writing "In the Bamboo Forest" and stuffed the manuscript into an envelope, ready to send it to Toeisha's traditional literary journal "Gem".

Because of his distaste for Kenta Ichimura's "lobbyist" incident, he no longer plans to cooperate with the other party's "Yinuo".

But to his surprise, he received a rejection of his confident work...

[Chapter 266.265 Aestheticism]

"Mr. Akihara, sorry, your "In the Bamboo Forest" does not meet the requirements of our journal..."

Hiroto Akihara frowned suspiciously while reading the rejection letter.

He was a little puzzled, and even wondered if the editorial department of Toei's "Gem" was "crazy".

You must know that my previous cooperation with its competitor "Yinuo" has easily allowed the other party's books to be reprinted many times and sold out!

In addition to this, this work of mine is also one of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works before his death, and was even highly praised by many writers at the time.

He thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a reason, so he asked Aiko Asano to send this manuscript to "Cultural Travel" in the classroom through his acquaintance.

Although the sales volume of "Cultural Travel" is only 1 copies, it is currently his only choice.

And judging from his relationship with the classroom, he doesn't think his submission will fail this time.

But what is surprising is that three days later, the editor-in-chief of the editorial department of "Cultural Travel" called and said in an apologetic tone: "Mr. Qiuyuan, sorry, we cannot publish this manuscript."

"Why?" Hiroto Akihara was even more puzzled.

"We also have our own reasons. In short, I hope you can try other journals."

After apologizing repeatedly, the editor-in-chief hung up the phone hastily.

Hiroto Akihara was silent for a while, and could only pick up the phone again to call his only "acquaintance" in the traditional literature circle, that is, Shuichi Toyama.

Before and after telling the story, Toyama Shuichi gave an explanation, "Mr. Akihara, you should have been boycotted by the traditional literary world."

After a pause, he continued to add.

"Compared with reasoning, the traditional literary world is a very small circle. In this circle, although there are literary genres, the struggle is basically not as obvious as reasoning."

"So after you refused to learn from Mr. Yoshikawa, many people in the traditional literary world may put colored glasses on you, thinking that you are not 'one of your own'."

After hearing these words, Akihara Hiroto thought of his identity as a reasoner.

Presumably what happened to me is also inseparable from this identity.

It seems that the contradiction between pure literature and reasoning literature in this world is greater than I imagined.

"Thank you."

After thanking him, Hiroto Akihara hung up the phone and thought about what he should do next.

Originally, in his plan, he was to find a pure literature journal, and through continuous contribution and entry into this circle, he would win various pure literature awards.

Just like some well-known neon writers in the previous life, they won the Newcomer Award, Newcomer Award, Junichiro Tanizaki Award and other awards when they debuted, and then won the Naoki Award and Akutagawa Award after becoming famous, and finally became a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

But I didn't expect that when I took the first step, I was resisted by the traditional literary circle just like Haruki Murakami.

In Akihara Hiroto's memory, Haruki Murakami has won many domestic and foreign fans and won some well-known awards in the 40 years since his debut.

But it is undeniable that he has never won the Naoki Award and the Akutagawa Award, which represent the highest level of the neon literary world, and has even been repeatedly criticized by authors and critics in the traditional literary world.

For example, for the work "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland", a writer named Shusaku Endo criticized it like this: "First, the female characters are too similar; second, the content of the story is too bloated; third, the description of daily life is too lengthy."

In discourse, he even claims that it cannot be "recognized in the true sense".

After his speech, many literary critics also published criticism one after another, believing that he betrayed the neon traditional literature.