Leclezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, which is unexpected news in China  After all, although his works have only appeared sporadically in the domestic book market for nearly 20 years, although he is one of the first French contemporary writers to be translated and introduced in China, domestic readers' understanding of him is probably still at the name stage  Even the name is only heard of by a considerable class of French literature lovers
This shows neither the reader's ignorance nor the Nobel Prize's so-called unique taste, but only the long-standing gap between literature and popular culture
Most of the works that have won the Nobel Prize are unapproachable, and few people like them