In the dense forest

Douban

NeoDB

Since when did I stop expecting to meet another companion in the wilderness, in the mountains, or in a river that could not be crossed by swimming?

Life is more like Columbus wandering in the ocean, without even the hope of encountering a continent.

Only those who have cast aside disappointment can continue to walk through the dark forest.

——Zhou Jianing

In early 21st-century Shanghai, twenty-year-old Yang Yang felt at odds with her surroundings. She searched for like-minded individuals in underground literary forums, alleyway cafes, and fringe music concerts. Ten years later, most young artists, consumed by useless illusions, found their lives dreary. A few, however, found favor and achieved worldly success. Since when did life, for Yang Yang, feel more like wandering through a dark, dense forest, with no hope of meeting a companion?

She once deeply loved a gifted genius, and at the height of her loss, she fell in love with a famous middle-aged writer. However, she didn't want to be anyone's girlfriend, she wanted to be the artist herself—facing the entire outside world alone, directly, and with a head-on attack...

In this novel, Zhou Jianing uses cold and penetrating brushstrokes to sketch out a brief history of the spiritual wanderings of an entire generation of literary youth, with a unique melancholic temperament.

2015-10-01

广西师范大学出版社

Ideal Country

256

9787549571185