There is a gap of about three weeks between the announcement of the first-round list of the Goncourt Literary Prize and the announcement of the second-round list.
Because Zhang Zhong was also shortlisted in the first round this time, the shortlist for the Goncourt Literary Prize is more eye-catching than before.
The fifteen books shortlisted for the first round were also picked up and studied carefully, and people wanted to predict the final results through these works themselves.
At this moment, "Lord of the Flies" suddenly caused a wave of controversy in European and American literary circles.
The incident originated from an article published by the famous American feminist writer Kurt Romney in Metropolis magazine on the third day after the first-round list of the Goncourt Literary Prize was announced.
"Metropolitan" magazine is not the same thing as "Metropolitan" in the United States, but their origins are similar. It started as a family magazine and later focused on literature.
However, the "Metropolis" in this world has always focused on literature, while the "Metropolis" on the earth later transformed into a women's magazine, focusing on women's issues such as fashion, life, fitness and beauty.
Kurt Romney is a feminist writer, but he is a real man. No one stipulates that feminist writers can only be women. And because of Kurt’s gender, he is quite popular in the feminist circle.
This article he published in "Metropolitan" magazine said that pz's "Lord of the Flies" is a patriarchal novel that suppresses female consciousness from beginning to end. The lack of female characters in "Lord of the Flies" reflects the author pz
Perspectives on oppression and discrimination against women.
Kurt also specifically brought up the scene in "Lord of the Flies" where "Jack" and his friends hunted wild boars to support his point of view.
He believes that "Lord of the Flies" is full of strong masculinity, which is based on the absence of women. Girls are thrown into nuclear war to wait for death, while boys are preserved as a species to continue the bloodline.
The only thing on the island with female (maternal) characteristics is the sow that died at the hands of Jack and others. She is a product of nature, but she is regarded by the boy Meng as an object to satisfy their carnal desires.
Moreover, when killing sows, PZ's description is full of sexual implications, which is also a suppression of women.
Most readers of Metropolis are women, and there are some feminist extremists among them.
Some people who had originally watched "Lord of the Flies" didn't have much of a feeling before, but after reading Kurt's article, they "suddenly realized" that it was like this. No wonder there were no girls in it. It turned out to be the male supremacy of pz.
cause trouble.
They felt that Kurt's explanation of the section about killing the wild boar was very reasonable. Looking at it this way, they could indeed see PZ's suppression of women in the work.
For a time, "Lord of the Flies" was labeled a "masculinist classic" by some people and became a target of feminism.
In fact, there are still many people who have not read "Lord of the Flies" and are biased against this book just because of Kurt's article.
And when they saw that this book was shortlisted for the Goncourt Literary Prize, they were filled with indignation.
How can such an ugly masculinist work be included in the shortlist? Isn’t this an open violation of feminism?
No, it must be taken down! To give everyone justice.
Although the fifteen judges of the Goncourt Literary Prize jury have not given any response, it is precisely because of the lack of response that the extreme feminists have become even more angry.
Later, some people said that the Prix Goncourt itself is an ugly literary award that favors masculinity, because since the establishment of the award, only a handful of female authors have won the Prix Goncourt.
It is not surprising that such a literary award with its own crooked nature is colluding with people like pz.
After the eight shortlisted works in the second round were announced, the anger of those feminists reached a new level.
Those on the Goncourt Literary Prize jury actually left "Lord of the Flies" until the second round.
How dare they?
Some people also revealed that there are only two women among the fifteen judges of the Goncourt Literary Prize jury, which has become another point of criticism by feminists.
But actually this is the same thing as what they criticized before.
There are fifteen judges for each Goncourt Literary Prize, and they are usually selected from previous winners. The judges for each session remain the same, unless one of the judges changes due to serious personal problems or death.
A replacement takes office.
Because there are fewer women winners of the Goncourt Literary Prize, there are naturally fewer women among the judges.
But those who attacked the judges didn't care. They only saw the huge disparity in the number of men and women among the judges.
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Feminist fighter Cote is sitting on the sofa in her living room, browsing the Internet for news about "Lord of the Flies" and the Goncourt Literary Prize.
He is in a good mood recently, because after criticizing "Lord of the Flies", he has more fans and has become a leader in female literature. Although other feminist writers have jumped out to criticize pz in recent days, as the first
A person who stands out is undoubtedly more eye-catching than others.
Kurt has often done this kind of thing to put other writers on the opposite side of women. Especially regarding wilderness literature, he has published countless similar articles.
Because of the characteristics of wilderness literature, female characters are often missing.
Some works do have the intention of suppressing women, but some works simply follow the tradition of wilderness literature.
But Kurt won't care about this. Wilderness literature itself has original sin. The absence of female characters is an unforgivable thing. I can only blame pz for being careless.
Moreover, he has written so many critical articles, and this time it caused the biggest stir. On the one hand, Zhang Zhong himself is famous all over the world, and on the other hand, the book "Lord of the Flies" has just been shortlisted for the Goncourt Literary Prize.
It's like getting two hits at once.
But Kurt overlooked one thing: he was already too obsessed with the role of a female-subject fighter.
Therefore, prejudice has long been planted in his heart.
Sometimes, the prejudice in people's hearts is like a mountain that cannot be erased.
When he watched "Lord of the Flies", he also had this kind of prejudice, so all he saw in his eyes was the supremacy of masculinity, while ignoring the deeper meaning of the work itself.
And it was precisely this prejudice that led to his ultimate defeat.
After the second-round winners list came out, French writer He Kelan published an article titled "On the Absence of Women in Lord of the Flies" in the famous French literary magazine "Nouveau Literature".
"Lord of the Flies seems to be an inheritance of the tradition of desert island literary novels. The absence of female characters in the novel has also been criticized by some feminist critics, who believe that this book is a male classic..."