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Hiroto Akihara interrupted him.

Japanese society regards Dogeza as a great shame, and the one who is begged has some obligation to forgive the other, but he does not think so.

Although all this was promoted by Jing Fanshe, the attitude of this Kenichi Gemoto before was very problematic.

Especially when I received a gift from TSUTAYA BOOKS, but didn't have anything to say, it's a typical case of receiving money and doing nothing.

"Teacher Akihara!"

Kenichi Kuzumoto tried to ask again, but Hiroto Akihara turned around and left.

Everyone is an adult, and if you do something wrong, you will have to pay for it. I will not sympathize with him just because of a few words.

And now that the distribution rights are handed over to Tokyo for sale, it will undoubtedly break the commercial layout of Tsutaya Bookstore.

He returned to the hotel room, closed the door, and took out a local English newspaper in Ireland to read.

But he was surprised to find that the poem he read to the president yesterday was published this time...

[341.3 Forty Chapters The Troubles of Happiness]

The poem that Hiroto Akihara read to the president and his wife was written by William Butler Yeats.

William Butler Yeats was the leader of the "Irish Renaissance Movement". He created gorgeous styles with romanticism and was good at creating dreamlike atmospheres.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature during his lifetime.

And the poem "When You Are Old" is Yeats' most famous and most widely circulated poem.

The content of the poem is as follows:

"When you are old and gray and sleepy

Nap by the fire, please take down this poem

Read slowly, remember the softness of your eyes in the past

recall their heavy shadows of the past

How many people love your youthful and happy moments

Admire your beauty, false and true

only one loves you pilgrim soul

Love the painful wrinkles on your aging face

Bow your head, by the glowing stove

Sorrowfully and softly tell about the disappearance of love

On the hill overhead it paces slowly

Faces are hidden among the stars. "

In this poem, Yeats expressed his unremitting pursuit of the actress Maud Gonne, full of his affection.

And the domestic song "When You Are Old" in the previous life was also adapted from this poem, and won the love of the people.

Hiroto Akihara smiled wryly and shook his head, then put down the newspaper.

When he had dinner with the president and his wife, he really didn't know what to talk about, so he "carried" this poem.

It's just that I didn't expect it to be published in the newspaper by the accompanying reporters.

"Forget it, it's just a poem."

But what Hiroto Akihara didn't know was that the impact of this poem on Irish society was greater than he thought.

As the winner of the Dublin Prize, Ireland's highest literary award, Hiroto Akihara has already attracted the attention of many people.

However, many critics still express a mentality of "not knowing the severity" about the profound and complicated thoughts of mourning in "Snow Country".

Some people even think that it should be awarded to other Anglo-American works.

But after the poem was published, most of the doubts disappeared immediately.

Without him, this English poem is too in line with the national temperament of Ireland.

Whether it is the beautiful verses or the lingering words, it is enough to make some people deeply empathize.

Especially some readers who have hazy fantasies about love, after reading the poem, they are even more immersed in it, deeply unable to extricate themselves.

For a while, Hiroto Akihara, a "strange author" from a foreign country, became more famous in Ireland.

Many local reporters have contacted the Japanese embassy in Ireland, trying to interview Hiroto Akihara.

However, due to Akihara Hiroto's "low-key attitude", all interviews were rejected.

He didn't have many poems in his mind, and he came to know this poem by accident because he was chasing a female classmate in his previous life.

If any reporter interviewed the motivation behind the poem and the creative intention, he would undoubtedly have his eyes darkened.

Even so, outside UCD, more and more universities have sent invitations to him to give lectures.

Even people from universities in nearby England and France called.

Hiroto Akihara sighed deeply, feeling that his visit to Ireland this time was not for vacation at all.

However, he still agreed.

Before the Dublin Literary Awards officially started, Hiroto Akihara started the process of giving several university lectures.

In fact, he also has his own little thoughts, which is to get acquainted with well-known writers from various European countries.

If I want to win the "Dynamite Award" in the future, someone must nominate and vote.

So what he is doing now is paving the way for the future.

……

While Hiroto Akihara was busy, Yuriko Tachisawa fell into anxiety.

In order to find out who Akihara really is, she sat in the coffee shop downstairs of this luxury apartment for several days.

But the flow of people coming and going did not have a familiar face.

And the phone that could be reached, but for some reason, can't get through.

"Is it Ms. Tachizawa?"