The Book of Improper and Double Affection

Peng Jianbin's early work, which he abandoned but then picked up again, unexpectedly became a vintage wine that has been stored for more than ten years.
*
A book about living and writing in a foreign country——
How does a young literary man run a business? How does a salesperson devote himself to writing?
*
An endless journey from reality to dream——
Starting from the county station with a foul smell, I wasted my time on the winding mountain road and ended up lost in the magical reality of Guizhou.
*
The nonfiction book "The Book of Improper and Double Affection" chronicles my work, life, and love affairs during my time in Guizhou (2004-2006), a period of business travel. In an effort to position myself as a "normal person," I deliberately avoided discussing my writing when writing this book. The dozen or so stories included in this book, however, were mostly written during my "Guizhou period," thus filling this gap. In short, this is a book about my life and writing in Guizhou during my three years there. Even considering a few stories not written in Guizhou during that period, I need only make a simple correction: This is a book about my wanderings and writing in a foreign land. (Peng Jianbin)
*
Peng Jianbin's writings about his time in Guizhou remind me of Shen Congwen's "Journey to Hunan," full of sentimentality and compassion. The life he describes feels like real life, and even those gloomy people and days are filled with light. —Li Weichuang [Critic]
*
Peng Jianbin is a rare novelist who maintains a playful innocence in his writing. Like a teenager without playmates, he fiddles with the characters in his plays alone on the sofa. His reading horizons and life experiences define him as "a writer who has seen the world and crossed the equator on a donkey." — Novelist
*
There's an omnipresent "I" in Peng Jianbin's novels, a "I" gazing, listening, chewing, translating and rewriting between truth and fiction... Like all masterpieces that touch me, when I read his books, the boundaries of genre, subject matter, and doctrines don't flash before my eyes. Instead, I simply follow a literary heart on its journey, observing how he endures the sorrow and anxiety that seem to emanate from the last day of his life, through every ordinary and trivial day and night. —Yuan Zi [author]

2020-11-01

上海文艺出版社

Single reading, carving culture

344

9787532178094