Fragments of a Study on Mandrills

-You never read what you imagine; your reading is imagination itself-
The debut novel by a prominent contemporary writer has arrived. A mysterious tribe and a lost classic unravel a tortuous story of tracing its roots. Exploring texts, revisiting classics, measuring time, and understanding life and death. 📜 Editor's Recommendation: "The Unfinished Works of the Mandrill" completes itself by imagining the absence of another book, "The Unfinished Works of the Mandrill." It deconstructs within construction and constructs within deconstruction, yet it is not a work of empty promise. It suggests a rebellion against the search for roots, in a curious way establishing roots in the absence of them. The recurring number 11 represents rebirth—rebirth amidst disappearance. "The Unfinished Works of the Mandrill" is Li Yao's work from many years ago, and I believe he will produce even more remarkable novels in the future. —Zhu Yue: Li Yao, a Chinese original author, releases his first novel, "The Unfinished Works of the Mandrill," following "Paper Boat." This work, which embodies his philosophical and literary roots, creates a literary experiment that transcends time, region, and race.
•The story setting is exceptionally meticulous, and Li constructs a historical background that seems real and unreal - starting from a declining tribe and a scattered classic book, he leads readers to pick up pieces of memory fragments forgotten by the world and embark on a tortuous story of tracing the source and the truth.
True to Li's style, the book is filled with cautionary and profound sophistry and allegory. In the process of searching for lost texts and their owners, the Sunyin clan, readers can appreciate Li's philosophical insights on literary creation and reading, life and death, time, and even ethics.
📜 Synopsis "They were like a pile of walking ashes, dissipating in the dust. Yet, to this day, their hearts still beat beneath the earth."
It's said that the final chapter of "A Study of Mandrills" prophesied the fate of the Sunyin people, using language reminiscent of that of an ancient or shaman. To modern people, this ancient tribe remains a mystery. Through a twist of fate, historical records of the Sunyin have been virtually lost, and even the text of the entire tribe, "A Study of Mandrills," has been lost. As time passes, a group of later scholars set out to reconstruct the fragments of time and memory. They travel extensively, poring over countless books, searching for any clue in the vast sea of ​​​​revelation, attempting to piece together this little-known tribal history. Will their quest yield invaluable historical materials, or simply the undeniable fate of the times?
In this case, as readers, what we read is the story of a disappeared tribe, the struggle of a group of descendants chasing the shadow of the times, or a series of ancient curses that are linked together?
The book begins by introducing a myth for the above question - you never read things that are imagined, your reading itself is imagination.

2021-12-01

四川文艺出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

208

9787541161575