Chapter 9 Mr Duff and Gissing

Mr Duff and Gissing A critical biography of George Gissing arrived in the bookstore.This was published in the UK the year before last, and it is a film with A very detailed biography of more than 300 pages.Jissing's research materials are rare, and I saw it from a publication by chance I asked the bookstore to order the advertisement for this new book. The motivation for buying this book is again for Mr. Yu Dafu.I read an article at the time saying that he was on When Hai sells writings to make a living, how poor he is is the same as what happened to the hard-working literati Gissing in England.reach

I know a little about Mr. Husband's life.He was in Shanghai at the time, and in fact what he lived was not entirely The life of "selling papers to live".At that time, the economic conditions of the publishing industry in Shanghai were really not enough for a Writers can make a living.Like Mr. Lu Xun, Mr. Duff relied on teaching and part-time jobs in the early days. subsistence.Until later, more new bookstores were developed, and there were several kinds of literary and artistic publications. His manuscript fee And the income from royalties can barely live. Mr. Duff is a good spender, but not a good manager.Therefore, although his monthly income is quite a lot,

But as soon as money is available, it is spent.Of course he can't be said to be "rich", but as he was then Life, but it is definitely not "poor and down and out".The characters written in the creation are not necessarily perfect. It is the author himself.Therefore, I read some people casually talking about how poor they are in the article, and I feel that it is true. It's funny. It is of course true that Mr. Duff has repeatedly mentioned the British Gissing and his famous collection of essays. But Mr. Duff himself may not have studied Gissing's life in detail.So, Gisin's life

What exactly?Since there is very little information about him, it can be used for us to study carefully There are not many opportunities. This is why I suddenly bought this newly published and more detailed biography of Gissing. It turned out that Jixin really "sold literature for a living", and he was indeed very poor.his life income Income, all by writing novels for British publications and bookstores at that time, the salary was very low, so I worked hard all the year round. Into meager.This is because his novels are all about the slums in London, not many people like to read them

The scope of those is small.But he would rather the bookstore pay less than write popular novels about talented people.This One point, it shows his integrity, but he can't help living a "poor and destitute" life for a long time.