As an associate professor in the School of Liberal Arts, Jin Fei's daily life is very simple.
If there are classes at school, go to them. If there are no classes, you can either go to Nanfang Bookstore to kill time, or go play tennis with your friends.
He had no ambitious goals and no plans to compete with other teachers for class time, so his life was easy.
Today's Nanfang Bookstore is busier than usual, but not many people actually come to buy books. Many Zhang Zhong's fans just want to come to the bookstore on this day to feel the atmosphere.
Of course, Jin Fei didn't come here to buy a book. He bought the book "Lord of the Flies" when it first came on the shelves.
Moreover, his course next month will involve the principle of subjectivity, and he plans to take out "Lord of the Flies" and teach it to the students.
Nowadays, it has become a trend to teach Zhang Zhong in literature classes. On the one hand, Zhang Zhong’s works are indeed worth explaining to students in depth. On the other hand, telling students about Zhang Zhong is far more popular than telling them about other writers’ books.
"Lord of the Flies" has already been brought to the podium by many literature teachers, and now it has brought China its first Goncourt Literature Prize, which is bound to increase the number of times it appears in the classroom.
There is a TV hanging in the middle of the lobby on the first floor of Nanfang Bookstore, which is playing a loop of news reports that Zhang Zhong won the Goncourt Literary Prize.
"At one o'clock this morning, Yanjing time, the results of the Goncourt Literary Prize were finally announced. The famous Chinese writer Zhang Zhong..."
There were many people gathered under the TV, some of whom had watched the news several times.
Moreover, they can read such news on their mobile phones without having to look up. However, most people still enjoy such an atmosphere. The people next to them are all Zhang Zhong's book friends, which makes them feel very happy.
If we use the fan circle culture to compare Zhang Zhong’s book lovers, then each bookstore is a gathering place for their fans.
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"Dad, I heard they said you won the Prix Goncourt for Literature. What award was that?"
Pengpeng seemed to have been holding it in for a long time. When Zhang Zhong went to pick her up at noon, she couldn't wait to ask this question.
"It's a literary award in France." Zhang Zhong explained.
"Is it great?"
"It's very famous."
"Then it must be very powerful."
Zhang Zhong did not explain to Pengpeng that being famous does not mean being powerful.
In Zhang Zhong’s view, the Goncourt Literary Prize is sometimes great and sometimes mediocre.
If someone asks Zhang Zhong whether the choice of "Lord of the Flies" for the Goncourt Literary Prize this time is considered great, Zhang Zhong can only say that he doesn't know whether it is great or not, at least it is not mediocre.
"Are their trophies beautiful?" Pengpeng asked again.
Zhang Zhong shook his head, "There is no trophy this time."
"Ah, so picky."
Haha, it’s quite stingy. Not to mention there is no trophy, and the bonus is only ten euros. If Zhang wants to go to receive the award, he will have to pay for travel and other expenses at his own expense, which is not cost-effective.
Of course, this money should be earned back through sales.
The sales volume of Zhang Zhong's book is already very high in France. It is basically impossible to double or even several times the sales volume like other Goncourt Literary Prize works.
However, it shouldn't be a problem to increase sales by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
"Dad, are you going to France to receive the award?"
"Well, what's wrong?"
"Can you take me there?"
Zhang Zhong looked at his daughter, "Why do you want to go to France?"
"Teacher Wu asked me to go to the Louvre."
"Didn't you go there last time?"
"But last time I was just playing around and didn't look at many of the paintings carefully."
"Okay, let's go there together then."
"Thank you, Dad. Then should we go to the Wishing Fountain? The ice cream there is delicious."
The corners of Zhang Zhong's mouth couldn't help but twitch, thinking that this girl really wanted to go to the Louvre to see paintings. Now the little fox's tail finally showed up. Her real purpose was to eat ice cream.
"But the Trevi Fountain is in Rome."
"Isn't it very close? I remember arriving in a short time." Pengpeng said.
That's because you fell asleep on the plane. Although Italy borders France, it is more than a thousand kilometers from Paris to Rome, which is farther than the distance from Jiangyang to Yanjing.
In the end, Zhang Zhong still refused to agree to Pengpeng go to Rome to eat ice cream. She could not develop such a habit. However, he told Pengpeng that in fact, France also has ice cream, which is no worse than the one in Rome.
It was not difficult for Pengpeng to persuade her, and she was very happy to hear that Zhang was going to take her to France to eat ice cream.
Later, Zhang Zhong felt something was wrong. He was obviously going to receive the award, but why did he talk about taking her to France to eat ice cream?
The weather is still so cold, Pengpeng actually wants to eat ice cream.
This is not the first time. She saw ice cream in the supermarket a few days ago and wanted to buy it, but Zhang Zhong did not agree.
Could it be that this girl knew that Rome was far away from Paris and deliberately named Rome just to induce her to talk about French ice cream?
Pengpeng probably doesn't have this little thought yet.
But maybe Zhang Zhong himself would occasionally have this little thought when he was a child.
I remember one time his parents took him to the zoo. When he passed by a store, he caught his eye at a glance and saw a plastic sword.
However, he did not ask his parents for the sword, but said that he wanted the remote-controlled car next to him.
The remote control car cost 70 to 80 yuan, which was not cheap at that time. Of course, his parents were reluctant to part with it. In the end, they bought Zhang Zhong a plastic sword that cost 10 yuan a piece.
The parents felt that they had saved dozens of dollars, and Zhang Zhong also successfully got the big sword he wanted. It can be said that everyone was happy.
If he had asked for the sword from the beginning, there was a high probability that he would get nothing.
In any case, Zhang Zhong fell into the trap. It is not clear whether the trap was intentional or unintentional by Peng Peng.
Zhang Zhong smiled. Last time he laughed at Xu Yuhan for being easily fooled by the gosling effect. But he himself was no better.
It seems that she should pay more attention next time. Even if Pengpeng didn't do it intentionally this time, she will probably learn to use this trick when she tastes the benefits in the future.
As for this time, since I had already promised him, I naturally couldn't break my promise.
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In fact, in addition to the Goncourt Literary Prize, the recent news about another award is also very eye-catching.
If you say that the Custer Award is the most authoritative film award in the world, some people may not agree. But if you say that it is the most famous and oldest film award in the world, no one can refute it.
As a film award that has lasted for nearly a hundred years, the influence of the Custer Awards is unquestionable.
What a coincidence is that less than twenty-four hours after the announcement of the Goncourt Literary Prize, the nomination list for the Castel Award was released.