Ordinary people don't care about the literary world, because for most people, watching film and television dramas is the best. Some film and television dramas are based on the original work, but everyone will only watch film and television dramas, not the original work. Whether there is a difference between the original work and **, everyone doesn't care. Reading is a hobby for a very small number of people. Most people like to watch film and television works that reflect the bottom layer, and they cry when they see this kind of work.
For the middle class, a lot of them want writers to be able to express their aspirations. I hope they can express the bitter feelings of the middle class, and at the moment it may be that except for Haruki Murakami in Japan, it seems that Chinese writers cannot express their demands. In fact, I think it is possible for Shuangxuetao's ** to express the bitterness of the middle class, although he wrote a lot of ** that reflects the people at the bottom, but there is a taste of middle-class depression in his bones. He has said before that he imitated Murakami's style.
Ban Yu actually reflects the depression of the middle class, although the ** he writes also reflects the people at the bottom. In fact, many middle-class or elite writers (and directors) are keen to reflect the life of the underclass. But reflecting the ** of the bottom, the temperament revealed is the taste of the middle class.
The Siege reflects the lives of a group of intellectuals, and the characters are all PhDs, or just fake PhDs studying abroad. These intellectuals are supposed to be middle class as well. I wrote about the middle class, but it gave people the feeling that it did not have the pretensions of the middle class. Qian Zhongshu did not sympathize with these intellectuals at all, criticizing and mocking them.
Some people in the literary circle pursue literary language, and these people are already very wealthy, so these people are more concerned about whether the literary language is unique and whether the narrative is unique. These people especially like "Ulysses", "Reminiscences" and so on, which are particularly obscure. The less storytelling and obscure it is, the more these people like it. So these people are after pure art.
I pursue literature that represents the interests of a very small number of people, such as online violence, school bullying, and so on. It's just that there are no good works in this area right now.
"Disqualification in the World" and "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" reflect the lives of a very small number of people, but Osamu Dazai and Lin Yihan are both rich people, and Osamu Dazai is a rich second generation, but he fell later. Lin Yihan is also a petty bourgeoisie.
In the literary world now, literary works that "reflect suffering" are the most prosperous, but in fact, literary works of suffering have always been prosperous. Works that represent the interests of other people, and there are no good works yet.