Lin Zixuan finally decided to meet Zamiyajing.

Anyway, he will not come to the Soviet Union in the future, and he will not rely on the Soviet Union's relief funds to live. There is no need to worry too much. The more he thinks, the less he will be able to do it. Sometimes he just scares himself.

Will the Soviet authorities imprison him just because he met a subversive?

This is obviously impossible. He is a foreigner and will escalate into a diplomatic incident and make things worse.

Moreover, he wanted to obtain the authorization of the Chinese version of Zamiajing's works to allow Zamiajing's novel to be published in China.

Zamiatin became a leader in the Petersburg literary world and a famous writer in the Silver Age of Russia. Naturally, he was not a fictional person. His novels have extremely high literary value.

At this time, Zamiatin did not stop writing, but continued to create.

Although he was persecuted, very few publishers supported him and tried to publish his books.

But without exception, it has failed, and any publisher who wants to publish his works will be severely criticized.

His books are strictly prohibited from being loaned in the school library.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Leningrad Writers Publishing House, which took the risk to provide him with a job.

He relied on proofreading the works of young writers in a publishing house to earn a meager income.

In fact, as long as he carefully reviews, admits his mistakes, and writes a few novels that praise Soviet socialism and Stalin. With his status in the Soviet literary world, it is not difficult to return to the top.

However, he is a man who "written by conscience but not by orders" and does not think he is wrong.

Lin Zixuan brought Jiang Jingguo to Zamiajing's residence. He came in the name of Shanghai Vientiane Book Company and wanted to talk to Zamiajing about Chinese publishing issues.

Similar to most Soviet intellectuals in this era, Zamiatin's life was quite in a down-and-out manner.

He was in his forties and lived in a not-so-spacious room with his wife. The house was simply furnished and his clothes were worn.

Zamiatin once lived in the UK and wrote novels in English, so there was no problem with communication.

At first, he was extremely vigilant and claimed that he had no intention of publishing novels abroad. It was not until Lin Zixuan mentioned his identity as a writer that he relaxed.

However, he still doesn't know who Lin Zixuan is and what works he has written.

Lin Zixuan's novels and reports cannot appear in Soviet newspapers. Unless the Soviet Union needs to criticize Lin Zixuan, he will only report him in large quantities.

Zamiajing felt that Lin Zixuan was not saying anything lies, and perhaps he thought that the government would not use a Chinese to lure him.

The next communication is much easier.

He did not admit that the novel "We" was a satirical example of the Soviet authorities. What he wanted to express was a concern about the future, not targeting a certain country, but a common problem in the world.

In fact, although the Soviet Union during this period had many problems, it was not yet at the point of erasing all personality.

Zamiajing told Lin Zixuan a story.

A rooster has a bad habit. It crows one hour earlier than other roosters every morning, which makes the rooster's owner embarrassed, so the owner has to cut off the rooster's head.

"I'm the cock with only bad habits," he said with a self-deprecating voice. "My novel raises questions too early."

But Zamiatin doesn't regret it.

He did not think he was wrong. He wrote novels to reveal the current shortcomings of the Soviet Union because he loved this country and wanted to make this country better. This is the responsibility of the writer.

Those writers who only know how to praise are not for the good of the country, but for their own interests.

As the German writer Glass said: a writer is a person who writes against the trend of the times.

Zamiajing had no objection to Lin Zixuan's desire to publish his novel, so he wrote the authorization letter very happily. He did not think his novel would be popular in China.

Through the Soviet newspapers, he saw that China was in a revolution like the Soviet Union.

He had gone through such an era and knew what would happen in that kind of fanatic atmosphere.

"Since you were treated unfairly in the Soviet Union, have you ever thought about leaving this country?" Lin Zixuan asked in the end.

"I think I can still wait." Zamiatin replied after a moment of silence.

He is waiting for the improvement of the domestic situation and the day he is understood.

He did not refuse the ruble left by Lin Zixuan. As the manuscript fee for the Chinese version of the book, he needed money to improve his life and could go to the black market to buy food and other daily necessities.

Zamiatin didn't wait long.

In 1931, he was desperate at home and wrote a letter to Stalin and applied to be expelled from the Soviet Union.

At the beginning of the letter, he claimed to be "a person sentenced to death." He told about his experience in the country, being completely banned, being maliciously attacked and smeared, and even demonized.

At the end of the letter, he said: "The fundamental reason why I applied to go abroad with my wife is that here I was desperate as a writer. Here I was sentenced to death as a writer."

He still hasn't admitted his mistakes.

With Gorky's help, Zamiatin eventually left the Soviet Union and settled in Paris.

On the way back, Lin Zixuan reflected on what is the meaning of literature? What is a real writer?

As a time traveler and a fake writer who became famous by plagiarism, he wants to leave something for the world, whether to survive like this for the rest of his life or do something meaningful.

This is a question he needs to think about seriously.

Since his time travel, he has been growing and his thoughts have been changing constantly.

When he first traveled through time, he just wanted to live a comfortable life alone and ignore the lives of others, so he copied everything without any scruples, and made money and became famous as his ultimate goal.

Later, he recognized his background and took on the responsibilities of the family, so he restrained him a lot.

He established his own image, safeguarded the interests of his family, became a famous gentry in Shanghai, and participated in the development of Shanghai.

At this moment, in Moscow, far away from China, he began to think about the future path.

At the same time, theorists from the Marx Theory Research Office of the Soviet Union made a decision not to recognize the conclusion that Lin Zixuan put forward the "primary stage of socialism".

They believe that this statement is not scientific, has no theoretical basis, and is just a sudden whim of a non-partisan.

This is what they most unacceptable.

In their hearts, the Soviet Union was the first socialist country, and theories about socialism should be divided by Soviet theorists, not people from other countries.

They archived the files and put them aside.

Lin Zixuan's name and these documents became dusty archives.
Chapter completed!