Chapter 183

"Good morning, everyone," Akiwara Yuto stood on the podium and bowed to the audience.

"I am Akiwara Yuto, an ordinary literary creator. This time, being invited by Professor Yuanshan to give a lecture at Kyoto University, I feel very honored. At the same time, I also feel a burst of panic."

"To tell the truth, I only have a high school diploma, so everyone present today has a much higher academic qualification than me."

Akiwara Yuto, although saying "humble" words, had a very confident expression on his face. Nihon society has always believed in the strong, and he has already made achievements. So even if his academic qualification is a bit low, he is not worried that the audience will have other thoughts.

And off stage, many students who were preparing to take notes were surprised to hear Akiwara Yuto talk about his academic qualification.

Before this lecture today, many people only knew that Akiwara Yuto was a talented writer praised by book reviewers, and they really knew nothing about his academic qualification.

But many people had other thoughts in their hearts. He could debut and write so many works with only a high school diploma.

This Mr. Akiwara's talent is really far beyond normal people!

Akiwara Yuto scanned everyone off stage, then entered the main topic: "Since the 20th century, the Western literary world has continuously derived various literary schools and theories. But in my view, no matter what literary theory it is, it ultimately cannot be separated from the carrier of the story. And regarding the description of the story, the most important thing is the narrative technique."

Akiwara Yuto took a pen and wrote the four words "pluralistic narrative" on the signboard in front of the podium. The students and teachers off stage also became serious one after another.

Pluralistic narrative is an important research direction of narrative theory, and it has been valued and studied by many scholars since the 1980s.

And all the listeners present were from the Literature Department. Just looking at these few words, they knew that this Mr. Akiwara was by no means the kind of talented writer who knew nothing about literary theory.

For a time, most people began to move their pens.

Akiwara Yuto looked at Yuanshan Xiu from afar, then said again.

"Regarding my 'The Invisible Guest', Professor Yuanshan specially published a paper, pointing out that my article adopts the 'memory narrative technique', thereby making the story development constantly reverse, and I personally express great recognition. But I will add one point, which is that in terms of angle, I adopt a mixture and interlacing between the God's angle and the specific character's angle."

Many listeners subconsciously glanced at Yuanshan Xiu, and the latter smiled politely.

"In the pluralistic narrative of this work, I adopted the following aspects." Akiwara Yuto picked up the pen and wrote the four words "closed room", "identity", "human nature" on the signboard respectively.

Akiwara Yuto pointed to the word "closed room".

"Regarding the narrative of the closed-room murder case, it appeared four times in total. The first time was the self-narration of the client Xuxiang Shenzhi, constructing a 'non-existent murderer' and a closed-room murder, making readers really think he was wronged and sympathizing with him. To the second and third times, it was the lawyer Watanabe Saki who, in order to get him acquitted, pushed everything onto the victim's father, Shanqi Long. To the fourth time, it was the lawyer Watanabe Saki who revealed the truth. First, the role of this perspective conversion..."

Akiwara Yuto first analyzed from the reader's perspective, pointing out that because of the conversion of different perspectives, the reader's psychological emotions changed greatly, and established emotional recognition for the characters. And due to the conflict of continuous perspective interlacing, the readers themselves fell into confusion and thinking again.

After finishing the perspective conversion regarding closed-room narrative, Akiwara Yuto talked about the identity conversion problem in different narratives.

"In this work, the deceased Dacheng Lixiang has never been present, and the reader's understanding of her can only be learned from the dialogue between Xuxiang Shenzhi and Watanabe Saki. According to Xuxiang's first method, her identity is the mastermind, a person who will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. But in the end, it turned into a victim who was murdered for justice."

"The vicious image buried in the early stage, after being narrated by different characters, produced a huge reversal. And these reversals and suspense made readers have to concentrate their energy, gather to constantly study the development of the story plot, and wait for the final answer to the mystery to be revealed!"

"When the answer to the mystery is revealed, all readers breathe a sigh of relief, emotions are finally released, and they obtain spiritual satisfaction!"

When Akiwara Yuto finished this part of the content, everyone off stage, whether teachers or students, showed shocked expressions.

Before this lecture started, basically everyone had already read this work "The Invisible Guest", but no one could think that Akiwara Yuto was conceiving the work from this angle.

What is even more incredible is that while reversing, Akiwara Yuto was also constantly guiding the readers' emotions, letting their mentality and emotions change along with the development of the story.

"Clap clap clap clap!"

Everyone applauded one after another, and for a time, the whole tiered classroom was filled with warm applause.

Akiwara Yuto put down the pen, and only after the applause ended, pointed to the two words "human nature" on the signboard and continued to speak.

"In this story, actually everyone is lying, and the boundary between lies and truth is also blurred because of morality and human nature. But is this different from the current situation of Nihon society?"

"The wealthy class, for the sake of honor, assets, and even status, can sacrifice the lives of others to clear the way for themselves. And ordinary people, if they don't have the courage and wisdom of the Shanqi couple, can only fall to the point of being slaughtered."

"So I wrote this work, also wanting all readers to think deeply, and consider the problems between people."

Akiwara Yuto put down the pen in his hand, patted his hands on the table of the podium, and looked around at everyone with a scrutinizing eye.

"The students present today will all be elites in society in the future, and some people's careers might even be more successful than Xuxiang Shenzhi."

"But no matter what, I hope everyone can firmly remember. Although there is a gap in wealth and status between people, in terms of personality and dignity, people are ultimately equal!"

"So I hope students, don't trample on others at will for your own interests."

"Otherwise, the ending Xuxiang Shenzhi faced is the future you will encounter!"

After hearing these words, everyone, including students and professors, was stunned.

No one could think that Akiwara Yuto would make such a "threat" at the end of the lecture.

But these words of Akiwara Yuto actually had his own ideas.

Nihon society has always had public opinion that the strong should care for the weak. But in fact, various bullying and trampling on others' interests are often common.

Among them, various famous schools have also become a very bad "disaster area".

In his past life, Keio University, known as the number one private institution in Asia, was exposed for collectively violating female students, and even using mobile phones to film the process.

Besides that, many famous school students led by Waseda University formed a club called superfree, violating more than 400 women.

If it hadn't been reported by newspapers, in the background of Nihon's academic qualification-first society, these famous school students would undoubtedly become high-level figures in politics and business in the future.

By that time, I don't know how many victims there would be.

So in this lecture today, Akiwara Yuto said such words. After all, in his view, he now has a certain social status as a writer, so he should really do something.

Guiding the students present today not to do evil is another important goal of his besides "becoming famous" in the academic circle.

Although this goal might not have any benefits for himself, some things are not necessarily done because they have benefits.

After a long silence, the people off stage woke up.

Driven by Yuanshan Xiu and Shanben Dahe, everyone applauded again one after another.

Although a small number of people were dissatisfied in their hearts, most people's applause was sincere.

This Mr. Akiwara might be a writer who truly cares about society!

Such a writer is also worthy of their respect!