After knowing the mentality of the woman in the hunting suit, although countless gazes were still scurrying and then quickly moved away with some deep meaning, Yang Yi's feeling became much more normal. After looking around, he simply accepted the other party's invitation generously and walked away with a happy look on his face.

The next day, he woke up in the soft velvet bed in the castle guest room. Before he could enjoy the soft sunshine of Danfeng Town, Yang Yi was pulled up by Edward and said that he had to wash and take care of him.

"Why, let me see the time... It's only 7:30. You know, the jet lag is not an easy task for me. Although I did wake up, please understand my mental fatigue." The boy expressed confusion about Edward's overly excited state.

But this blonde and blue-eyed man did not give Yang Yi a chance to defend himself, but told him loudly: "The lifelong honorary academician of Gongguer College and the current chairman of the selection committee have come to bring the castle. I must take you to see them. Believe me, this will definitely not be a waste of time. Once you meet them, you will understand why I am so sure. Today, when this award is increasingly questioned, these two gentlemen are synonymous with justice. Because of their existence, the Gongguer Award has not become a joke in the literary world, so you must go!"

What Edward said, the Goncourt Award became a joke, and Yang had already learned something when he set his goal for the book "Tough Stone".

Although this literary award is the most famous and authoritative of the various literary awards in France. It is also one of the few most prestigious literary awards in the world besides the Nobel Prize in Literature, the judges often miss the case since the first award of the Goncourt Literature Award in 1903, which has caused some works that should have been well deserved to fail. Many winning works are difficult to become famous.

For example, the Gongour Award in 1932 was awarded to Guy Mazrina's "Wolf" but not to Selinna's "Wandering the Night", and in 1936 it was awarded to Maxans Van der Melsh but not to Aragon's "Good Blocks". As for Reon Frapier's "Kindergarten" (1904) or Elnester Perotchon's "Nina" (1920) probably only go to the old book stall to buy it.

When the Goncourt founded the Goncourt Academy, the Goncourt Academy was to challenge the lifeless French Academy of Literature to challenge the monopoly of literary honor, discover new people, and encourage innovation. However, contrary to the Goncourt brothers' wishes, the Goncourt Award's century-old history is not always known for rewarding innovation. Marcel Emme, Selina, Aragon, Bhutto, and Pelec and other writers with great personality and innovative consciousness are considered too weird and have no chance of getting the award. Another contradiction is. In France, Nobe

Among the many winners of the Er Prize, such as Moriac, Camus, Sartre, Claude Simon, etc., none of them have ever won the Goncourt Award. Lemoncourt Gnoyn, but his rebellious literary experiments have received praise from the critical community. Although the evaluation of the quality of literary works is different and wise, as the highest-profile literary award in France, it is not a small regret that it misses the best writers and works in the country.

After the 1980s, the Goncourt Literature Award was questioned and criticized no longer the quality of the winning works, but its selection mechanism. In France, if you ask a person who has a little knowledge of the literary world about the view of the literary award, he would use "trick" at the least, and use "shady curtain" at the worst to evaluate the selection of the literary award. Readers have questions about the choice of the jury that has a close relationship with some major publishing houses. It can be said that a crisis of trust has arisen between the jury and the readers. Every year during the awards season, newspaper columns are also filled with rumors about the influence, manipulation, and even division of major publishing houses. And most regrettably, these rumors are far from rumors.

If you analyze the composition of the jury, you will find that the literary editor or editor of the publisher accounts for a considerable proportion, and although there are many writers and judges, it is difficult for writers and publishers to get rid of the suspicion of a community of interests. What is more serious is that these judges are fixed, and they can even be said to be lifelong. Such a "iron-made camp" will inevitably not attract "activity", "expression" or "investment" from some publishers or individuals. Invest it with peaches and reward it with pets. Once you accept "friendly expression", how can you vote in your hands without any reward and vote your votes to the publisher that you have "expressed" to him? If you analyze the winning works in recent years, you will find that the literary awards are almost the world of the three major publishers, namely Galimma, Glasse and Sey.

Among them, Galimah Publishing House is the target of Yang Yi's contribution. Random House is responsible for the agency publishing of English translations, while Galimah is responsible for the publication and distribution of a series of translations such as Latin translations, that is, modern Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian.

However, the Booker Prize selection last year disrupted his original plan, so that the French translation that Galimah Publishing House originally planned to launch this summer was almost a short time in advance because of the Booker Prize winning.

However, now, the title of an international grand prize has been established. The young man hopes to drive the reputation of the entire Yangyi culture by winning the award, which is successfully completed ahead of schedule, so the pursuit of the Goncourt Award has disappeared from the urgency of the beginning.

But the lifelong academician and chairman of the selection committee have arrived at the castle, and he still has a attitude of not meeting each other, which is really unreasonable. However, Yang Yi does not want to run over to meet immediately like Edward told me. After all, his current identity is an invited writer, not those adolescent teenagers who have heard the news of their idols.

"Okay, I understand. Wait for me. Although those are indeed two respectable people, please consider my feelings a little. I'm not asking them the children who requested autographs, okay?" Yang Yi stood up helplessly, looked at Edward and shook his head.

I seemed to feel a little overly excited, but as a guy in the cultural industry who has a traditional French character, it is not surprising to do such a thing. However, after thinking about the meaning of Yang Yi's words, Edward nodded. Finally, he realized: "I'm so sorry, I'm indeed a little too excited. However, the identities and status of these two gentlemen are indeed extraordinary, so even if they have their own reserve, they must not ignore them. Then you can sort it out first, how about calling me in the future?"

He had to care about Yang Yi's future, because the future of the boy and his future were almost tightly tied together before he had not had much rich writer resources. If Yang Yi could get the praise of those two gentlemen, it would mean that in traditional literature, within the entire European Latin language system, the boy's works did not have to worry about future sales and wide influence.

After packing up, when I followed Edward to the side hall of the castle, the owner of Modova Castle, the current Duke, and several other well-dressed figures were gathering together to discuss something. Yesterday, the young woman dressed in hunting clothes, who looked like a Bavarian noble lady in ancient Rome or the third holy empire than a French lady, was also accompanied by the side and smiled. And whenever she smiled, she would pick up the Persian fan in her hand to cover her lips, not at all as wild as she galloped on the horse yesterday.

"Gentlemen, we seem to be about to welcome a young friend." After seeing Edward and Yang Yi walk into the side hall, the castle owner stood up, and the others responded one after another. They smiled at Yang Yi with different expressions.

Some are sincere, some are doubtful, and some are false.

In this spacious room with a strong Baroque style, a series of arrangements do not make the boy who has never experienced this look dazzling, but it just highlights the owner's good taste. The simple and quaint home, the bookshelves full of historical heavy feeling, and the books full of books represent the owner's erudition and knowledge. The white porcelain plates and light tea cups containing various small snacks make the atmosphere of the whole scene look less formal but relaxed and pleasant.

"I am very happy that you can come to Modova Castle with great time. I hope you can have a pleasant experience here." Duke Jean George Duamel extended his hand to Yang Yi and extended his friendship in the French literary world.

"The same is true for me. In fact, as the invitee, I am a young boy who is less than one-third of you in the grade. I am the one who should be honored. In addition, it must be noted that I am very grateful to the Duke for taking care of me. I have indeed not mastered the most romantic language of French to the extent that I can talk to at will." Yang Yi nodded with a smile. Although it was the first time to attend such an occasion, after a Booker Award ceremony, in the eyes of the young man, whether it is an award ceremony or a literary salon, the difference seems not too big, but the former is more serious, while the latter is a little casual.

"This is just the necessary politeness as the master." The duke with a big white beard nodded and invited Yang Yi to sit down at a seat next to the round table: "In fact, I was very surprised to hear Oxford English in an almost original tone from your mouth. If it weren't for your skin color and hair - sorry, I had no other meaning - I would have thought you were a native Lunton."

After saying hello, the castle owner began to introduce the people around him to the young man, Nester Peloxiong, the lifelong honorary academician of the Goncourt Award; Henry Marlo, the current chairman of the Goncourt Award selection committee; Elsa Trio, the member of the selection committee; Charles Ruhr, the chief commentator of the Grasser Press... People of different faces greeted him, perhaps after a rough understanding of Yang Yi would forget the appearance of these people, but he understood their energy in the European literary world, especially the French literary world.

The private castle, the charming manor not far away, the male and female servants in the tuxedo and black veil skirt, and these big figures in the foreign literature circle in front of them made Yang Yi feel a little dazed. Why didn’t he receive such treatment in China? But after leaving the country, he seemed to be a great genius writer?
Chapter completed!