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Thinking of this name, Ichimura Kenta's face became even more unkind.

Among many literary genres, although the sales volume of pure literature or traditional literature is the lowest, it has the highest social status.

This also makes them look down on popular literature writers for the public, such as reasoners.

Therefore, for some popular writers who want to transform into pure literature, these pure literature writers or book reviewers often resist from the bottom of their hearts.

According to Kenta Ichimura, this is the case for Hiroto Akihara, who contributed to "Ono".

Instead of writing his reasoning well, he actually wants to enter the pure literary field!

Not only that, but it is undoubtedly a kind of blasphemy to want to say hello through an acquaintance!

Kenta Ichimura was even more dissatisfied. He believed that truly excellent pure literature works could not be written by commercial authors like Hiroto Akihara who only wanted to please the public!

Don't think that because you are famous, I will pass the draft for you easily!

He took a sip of coffee, then picked up the manuscript, and prepared to read it for correction and reply—if it was too bad, he would write a rejection letter with harsh words after reading it, which would definitely scold the other party bloody head.

He lowered his head and began to look.

A servant's perspective, a trade-off between survival and morality?Someone has written about this angle of discussion before, but in the end I chose morality!

Sure enough, it's a boring old-fashioned creation.

He used a correction pen to make a circle on the copied manuscript paper, and wrote down the evaluation: the routine is repeated.

After a pause, he mocked in his heart, and then continued to look down.

But watching, after the story of the servant and the old woman unfolded, he involuntarily put down his pen and followed the story.

Huh, old women make a living out of dead people's hair?He actually told the story about snake meat pretending to be fish meat quite legitimately?

Hey, after listening to this, the servant actually gave up morality completely in order to survive! ?This is not quite the same as I thought.

What the hell, he even snatched the old woman's clothes and disappeared from there!He is going to be a robber!

This article seems to be written with some meaning!It's not the old-fashioned routine I thought.

The 10 minutes passed in a flash, and Kenta Ichimura also finished watching the whole content.

He didn't comment immediately, but looked at it three times before raising his head, stroking his beard and pondering.

This work, in terms of literary connotation, seems to be deeper than I thought!

The down-and-out servant came to Rashomon because he had nowhere to go.But under this door, he saw the distance between life and death - many people died, but only one person lived.

Rashomon, at this moment, represents the division between life and humanity.

At the beginning, he still had human nature, that is, he would rather starve to death than steal or commit crimes by unscrupulous means. When he first saw the old woman plucking the hair from the corpse, he felt strong anger and disgust in his heart.

However, when the old woman explained her reasons for doing evil, almost instantly, the servant turned into a devil.

This made him take off the old woman's clothes without hesitation, and walked away without looking back.

This sudden change between good and evil is undoubtedly related to the Confucian theory that nature is good, that is, human nature will be influenced by the day after tomorrow.

But just when he was sure of this idea, he suddenly saw the title, which was the word "Rashomon".

He stood up, found a legend book from the next shelf, and turned to a specific page.

After repeated comparisons, he finally understood the meaning of "Rashomon".

"Rashomon" refers to the gate located in "Luocheng (the outer gate of the city)", which means "the gate of the capital".

In the ninth century AD, the royal family declined and civil wars broke out frequently.The Luocheng Gate looked desolate and gloomy after it fell into disrepair due to lack of maintenance.

Many unnamed dead bodies were also dragged to the city tower and discarded. Over time, Rashomon has created an impression of eerie horror and ghosts living in people's minds.

After reading the explanation, the Rashomon in the eyes of Kenta Ichimura faintly became the representative of "hell on earth".

He shuddered and fell into thought.

What this fellow Akihara Hiroto wrote was a bit different from what I thought at the beginning!

This work can be regarded as a masterpiece in pure literature!

But what does he mean, is he trying to transform from a reasoner to a writer of pure literature?Or just write and practice!

Damn, this guy's literary talent is too high!I can't find a reason to reject the manuscript!

He just thought about it, and then scratched his head with his hands in distress, and finally grabbed a few hairs.

At the end, he sighed deeply.

Forget it, let's hire it, let's just give an explanation to acquaintances!

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At the same time, Hiroto Akihara received a call from Shuichi Toyama, the father of his disciple Miho Toyama, who is also a professor of literature at Kyoto University.

"Mr. Akihara, why do you suddenly want to write pure literature?" Shuichi Toyama asked in a puzzled tone.

He was very surprised. After all, although pure literature works have a high reputation, their sales volume is still there, and it is declining, and they are getting less and less attention from the public.

In addition, the pure literature group also likes to hug groups very much, and has always held a contemptuous attitude towards the popular literature circle.

Logically speaking, as a popular reasoner, Hiroto Akihara doesn't need to write about this, it's completely thankless.

Hiroto Akihara was not surprised that Shuichi Toyama knew about his contribution.After all, the literary circle and the academic circle are intertwined - many writers are writing while being teachers.

He thought about it, but didn't say that he just wanted to try to win the pure literature award, but just made up a reason.

"I just want to try it, I will continue to write reasoning."

Although Toyama Shuichi had doubts in his mind, he still acquiesced to his statement, and persuaded him: "Mr. Akihara, if possible, it is better to pay attention to it later."

"Be careful, why?" Akihara Hiroto asked puzzled.

I just submitted a manuscript, and there is nothing worth noting.

Toyama Shuichi persuaded: "Mr. Akihara, after all, you are a representative figure in the field of reasoning. If you write a pure literary work rashly, no matter whether it is in the field of book reviews or literature, someone may come out and say something."

Hiroto Akihara frowned, realizing that this possibility was indeed possible.

However, he didn't take it too seriously. It's not uncommon for literati to despise each other, whether it's in his previous life or at home and abroad.

In the worst case, it's just a rant.