The book is over and everyone comes to congratulate Lin Han’s fans are very glad that they live in this era and can see with their own eyes a literary classic gathering in front of them from the preface to the end, which is a level that no one can reach.

Most of the works circulating in the literary market are written in the past. In modern times, where the literary atmosphere is becoming increasingly sparse, almost rarely produces works that both readers and critics believe!

It seems that the last literary classic was a few decades ago. Not only Chinese literature, but also world literature has fallen into a relatively embarrassing situation. Literary classics that have not been eye-catching for decades have been born. Now the Nobel Prize in Literature is just a resurgence.

When literature was declared dead countless times, American critic Hillis Miller recently visited China and communicated with some Chinese writers and literary critics, and sent a horrifying news: "In the 21st century, there is no literary classics!"

Yes, critics at home and abroad all agree that the new century is the end of literary classics!

The point that was repeatedly emphasized in that article is that since the new century, although China has produced a number of good novels, the pessimistic and unavoidable problem is that the glorious era of narrative literature, including novels, has been summarized in this way.

This is like an authoritative Chinese medicine doctor taking the patient's pulse, then shook his head helplessly. He was already terminally ill and had no medicine. The record novels in the 21st century are hopeless and cannot be more brilliant than the 20th century or before. We can only experience the classics through repeated reading, just like experiencing the glory of Tang poetry as we read now!

Hillis Miller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Meng Fanhua, the writer who is responsible for publishing this article, is also a leading figure among literary critics. He has been engaged in contemporary literary research and commentary for a long time. He knows the history of Chinese literature well and writes with ease and is well-founded. The 21st century is really not the fertile ground for the birth of literary classics.

In fact, not only readers are puzzled by this issue, but the authors are also the first to be affected. Do they believe they can write enough classic literary works?

If in this new order, literary writing must first be recognized by the "cultural majority" before it can survive, can literature still be creative?

If the meaning of literary writing must be recognized by the "cultural majority" to be effective, can literary writing still have doubts about reality?

If the direction of literary changes cannot be recognized by the "cultural majority", it will only stop moving forward. Then will there be the development of literature?

Looking back at history, almost every era has called for great works to appear, and no matter how many debates have occurred in the past and today about the issue of classicization, in fact, at the beginning of each century, or at the end of the century, there will always be some literary works that are recognized as great, unexpectedly rising from people's sight, like a few mountains pouring out from the sea waves.

So what about the 21st century? Will there be a peak of literature emerging out of thin air in this century?

At least we have not seen the so-called literary peak in the first decade. On the one hand, we are worried about the current situation of literature and are deeply uneasy and frightened by the near-distance end of literature. On the other hand, the increasingly strange and brilliant imagination of literature in the new century has injected unprecedented vitality and charm into literature.

Although there are no literary classics, the development of online literature is almost on the high-speed rail development, which is an unexpected idea.

In the history of the development of Chinese literature, every genre has its heyday. Poetry, lyrics, music, essays and prose have all led the style and have all shown the superiority and inability to surpass a genre. But it is also inevitable that these glorious genres finally met their own decline unexpectedly.

Therefore, the styles that were once brilliant and declining were taught in university classrooms as knowledge of literary history, and were confirmed and existed as a symbol of cultivating and even identifying national identity. They are concrete and sensible history. Through the glory and decline of these styles, we recognize the long history of national culture.

No matter how you evaluate the creation of modern Chinese novels in the past century, no matter what achievements this genre has made, its glorious era has become history. Its classic works will be read repeatedly through the narrative of literary history, just like other genres that have declined.

New novels may be produced in large quantities, but when people talk about this genre, they may be more likely to be deeply tribute and nostalgic.

In that horrifying article, the author believes that humans will definitely write great novels, but I don’t know if they belong to this century!

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Lin Han originally had nothing to do after writing the novel, but when he saw this article being published by Chinese and foreign scholars in exchange and discussion, it was a bit heavy.

Everyone in the writers group is talking about this matter, after all, it is closely related to them. Although they think Meng Fanhua underestimated the world, their rebuttals are particularly powerless because this is indeed the truth!

"This Lao Meng is so confused. How did he know that literary classics will not be born in the next few decades?"

"You can do it, you can do it. If you have the ability to write a book to slap him in the face. I will sing you the conquest!"

"It shouldn't be that. Although the literary market is declining now, the money you make and the books you sell are not bad. I have a positive attitude, so this prediction is definitely not true."

"This is so pessimistic. No one could have thought that there would be so many classics in the early 20th century."

"But his words make sense. The old and young people in our literary world now have almost few of them. The older generation talks about their qualifications all day long, and the younger generation is unruly. When will a leader come out?"

Compared to the worries of these writers, netizens' ideas are much simpler, laughing, scolding, and doing everything they can. It is obviously a very serious matter, but Lin Han can't help laughing.

"I have long said about Chinese literature pills, but now it is a world literature pill!"

"Who said we can't find classics of this century? Have you read "Tiny Times"? Do you know how hard he worked?"

"Anyway, I can't understand those literary works, it's better if I don't have one. But there must be someone who can write them, and the series of lifetimes!"

"To be honest, I really don't know what literary classics we have in the new century. All I think of in my mind are all kinds of novels. After reading them, I'll lose them after reading them... I'm terrifying to think about them carefully!"
Chapter completed!