Hibiki - Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou - Vol. 4 Ch. 32 - Break off.

[MangaDex]

 

[schuyguy]

This would be a little more believable if she wasn't literally the best author in Japanese history. Maybe you could justify it with the idea that the publishing industry is trying to pump some life into the dying literature business by nominating a super young author for the good press, but it's still odd that she's the first person ever nominated for both prizes at once.

I guess all that talk of some brilliant new novelist showing up to revolutionize the industry has been actual foreshadowing and not just setting the scene.

 

[Santichai]

This is right, selling well and winning literature award are completely different thing.

In my country, the award winning works usually are not the best seller.
Maybe because the judges for those awards are old expert writers and such.
Their tastes are so different from normal people.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Yup, the latest bestseller does not win the Booker prize. And even from a commercial perspective, it sort of works in the long run I think. First, because the really good stuff tends to have a long tail--people keep on slowly buying that stuff for years and years with no further effort on the publisher's part. Whereas especially nowadays, every bestseller pretty much has to have a full-court press of publicity, which costs a bundle, and for your trouble you get a big whack of sales for a few months and then nothing, and you have to do it all over again. More subtly, particularly in an era where the basic idea of reading a book as opposed to surfing the net often seems to be in trouble, it's probably a good idea to keep the intellectual "cachet" of books strong. The point of literary prizes isn't to sell that particular book, it's to sell the idea that reading books == intelligence, education, sophistication (and so people with aspirations to such should go around reading them). Even in the US there are quite a few people who value that kind of vibe, and most other countries have less anti-intellectualism than the US does. For that, you need to have intellectual sophisticates picking impressive, intellectual, sophisticated books.

 

[Panino]

I know that Hibiki probably deserves the praises and recognitions but... poor Risa, she doesn't deserve this suffering.
She not wining anything is ok, but having to endure Hibiki's personality... I get part of her ming, but in the end she is really a shitty person, take the last chapter for example when she was the one trying to avoid the discussion by picking a fight.

 

[RRR-gi]

wait 24 hours guys, BIG chapter soon

 

[Tcof]

Shit just got real

 

[Lyova]

The award is presented twice a year: at the beginning and end of the year.

Considering how years work, is this prize presented twice on the same day?

 

[Equilibrium]

A huge award nominating committee ignoring the top seller of it's media? Utter bullshit, but let's roll with it.

 

[Panino]

@Equilibrium
"Utter bullshit, but let's roll with it"

Hope you're not serious.

 

[Liar]

I bet you Rika is probably glad Hibiki won their little duel.

 

[Moodyz]

Aphex Twin > Taylor Swift.

 

[imnotamused]

Ouch, but what did she expect, writing pop lit and using connections instead of actually struggling to write something worthy of praise.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@imnotamused: I doubt it was her idea to be up for the prize. You might say the connections were using her.
Edit: (Ah, next chapter suggests I'm wrong about this)
As to the pop lit, she writes what she can write, and it's probably fine as what it is, and she wishes it was better. You can sort of see her wincing and putting on the fluffy persona to cover up as the people talking to her about her work praise it in ways that show they don't really respect it. I suspect she quite wishes she wasn't the daughter of the Big Time Respected Novelist and could have her own stuff be treated as good pop rather than brought into the heavy lit arena where it looks like crap.
I personally have a nice touch with dialogue and I can write transparent pretty well, but I'm crap at interesting style and there's not really any way around it--I just am not good at writing literary/poetic and there is nothing much I can do about it. I'm not great at complex characters either as far as I can tell--fairly realistic but straightforward people is what I mostly seem to end up with. If everyone could write Booker-prize-winning fiction, the world would be a very very different place.

 

[Panino]

@ Purplelibraryguy
"I suspect she quite wishes she wasn't the daughter of the Big Time Respected Novelist and could have her own stuff be treated as good pop rather than brought into the heavy lit arena where it looks like crap."
This I don't understand. Why allow her work to be used as a publicity stunt by the publisher instead of publishing something anonymously without pressure? Anything unpleasant that happens next is partly her fault, she could have prevented.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@Panino: You have a point.

 

[ngkn92]

Panino has a point, as I always think, she does have a head and she knows doing this is just dancing in other's palm, and yet she still does it wholeheartly.
She does somewhat realise her own worth and yet denies it and keep dreams on.
She deserves this.
Pitiful? Yes, but this is where reality kicks in.

 

[RandomDoge]

Oof

 

[alidan]

@Santichai
The main difference between award winners and what normal people like is the award winners typically are more about mental masterbation, let's make a metaphor here, let's write something convoluted that is simple on the surface but everyone has to think to see what I really mean.

Honestly despite that kind of writing, I much prefer the tell me the story and don't try to be funny with it. there are very few works that satisfy a tell me the story and also satisfy the metal masterbation portion at the same time.

 

[Haru777]

Ouch. XD