Everything I told you about that mountain

Travel begins with doubts, and life answers with writing.
Pure and elusive, this is the soul journey of a mountain boy.
"If you die one day / I think I will go traveling / I have to make sure whether the world is good / and worth your experience for its charm /"
⛰Editor's Recommendation☆ A Heart Returning from the Mountains and a Book of New Life
In the spring of 2017, Liu Chenjun and his travel companion, Liang Shengyue, set out from India on a mountaineering trip to Nepal. En route, they encountered unusually heavy snowfall for the season, trapping them in a cave. By the time the search and rescue team found them on the 47th day of their entrapment, Liu Chenjun had passed away three days earlier. His travel companions brought back the manuscripts he had been carrying. With the consent of his family, Liu Chenjun's close friends collaborated with Taiwan's Chunshan Publishing House to compile his travelogues, poems, letters, and diaries into the book, "Everything I Told You About That Mountain."
A child's fierce exploration, a masterpiece of Taiwanese nature literature. We witness a young man's pure pursuit of the unknown, and also sense a profound philosophical reflection far beyond his years. Liu Chenjun takes the mountain as his core ("The ridgeline is / a mountain's accumulated silence over thousands of years"), extending from the physical to a broader context ("The value of a travel companion lies in their mutual witnessing of this vast world through silence and backs"). Upon arriving in India, he immediately perceives the disappearance of the local people through their exodus ("Death is a conspiracy of the city"). Accompanying his external journey is a constant, intense internal dialogue, and even when trapped, he continues to write. Liu Chenjun fully demonstrates a writing about nature that is inextricably linked to journey, speculation, and life and death.
☆ Transcending private remembrance, refining the positive significance of public publishing. Faced with an unprecedented shift in coverage, the Taiwanese team shifted from a commemorative collection to a collection of emerging figures, breaking up the chronological order and simulating a process of getting to know a person. They returned to the essence of literature, meticulously and quietly responding to public memory bit by bit, reconstructing the true image of a writer.
☆ The original intention of distant mountains, a pure and enduring tranquility amidst the vastness. The binding designer utilizes the solidity of the outer cover's "high-grade fine grid" and the inner cover's "economical cow card" texture, while adding the smoothness of the waistband's "Japanese advertising paper" to create a delicately balanced tactile experience. Visually, the imagery encompasses blue sky, sandy hills, and black earth, with gilded edges outlined against the vastness, evoking the mountain within each person.
⛰Introduction
Nineteen-year-old Liu Chenjun is perpetually on his way to the mountains. This young man calls travel "moving" and mountain climbing "walking the mountain path," exploring the world with pure gestures and words. From India to Nepal, Liu Chenjun candidly reveals the emotional torment of his journeys; trapped in a cave, he embraces fear yet remains hopeful; and his reflections on life, literature, and love never cease. All of this, captured in travelogues, poems, and journals, bear witness to a keen and profound soul, and allow us to experience its perseverance and confusion, its quest and heartache.
⛰Celebrity Recommendation☆ His writing can no longer be measured solely by literature; it is the naked radiance of life. What's rare is that he always possesses a high degree of self-awareness as a writer, constantly lingering, wandering, and reflecting, a cold dissector of himself and the world he has experienced. At the same time, this is the burning fire of a pure heart. He not only understands the mountains, but also the human condition. He writes about the ordinary lives that crisscross the snow and mud as if he were writing the lines of his own palm, deeply and skillfully following the veins of language to enter the veins of the world, with a precision far beyond that of someone his age. - Liao Weitang (Hong Kong writer)
☆ In this intense, almost brutal, stark contrast, honesty becomes the first and ultimate pure purpose. In letters to friends, whispers with loved ones, and profound interactions with the mountains and forests, each record evokes unanswered questions from within. These sketches, however, have the power to penetrate the pages, even to the point of self-destruction and embarrassment for others… The book is filled with the living words of the innocent, untamed, eager to resist, unbridled and fearless, constantly emptying themselves to expand their travels, encompassing unexplored mountains, unreached places, and the uninterrupted self-reflection of their hearts. — Lian Mingwei (Taiwanese writer)
How to confront death and create a lasting legacy became the challenge facing the Taiwanese editorial team. It was here that the editorial team demonstrated a meticulous and sophisticated interpretation. Their most fundamental and crucial concept was to not position this book as a commemorative collection, but rather as a literary debutante. Thus, the compilation and publication of this book exemplifies the author's unique rebirth. —Tong Wei-ge (Taiwanese writer)
⛰Media Recommendation☆ The author immersed himself in the world of mountains, listening to the life and death of all things, practicing using words to touch the indescribable truth of the senses until his physical death. The words are as pure as a blade that leaves no fingerprints. Although most of the cuts are debris, they still make people feel the youth's lifelong dedication to writing, bright and regretless. In this mountaineering record that feels like a death performance, the author exhausts all his energy, raising the profound questions of existence in every subtle feeling, calmly yet tragically, igniting a cold and strange fire of sacrificing himself for literature. - "Openbook Reading Journal" (Taiwanese book review media)
☆ Liu Chenjun's heart is tied to the mountains, and his soul also perishes in the mountains. This book collects the travel notes, poems, letters and diaries to relatives and friends, essays, etc. of Liu Chenjun, a Taiwanese mountain friend, before his death, recording the bits and pieces before the end of his life. Even though the whole book is inevitably shrouded by the author's gaze at the end, he still walked out with the posture of a walker. But he is a walker and a dreamer at the same time. He follows, examines, and then finds that he can only recognize the closest things, such as palm prints or the back of his lover's neck. The mountain is complete, the road is firm, but what Chenjun has is a sensitivity to fragmentation and the impossibility of completeness. This sensitivity is simply too great in contrast to his youth. ——"Zihua" (Hong Kong literary magazine)
⛰Award Records☆ Won the 2019 "Taiwan Openbook Good Book Award" Chinese Creation☆ Won the 2019 "Taiwan Mirror Culture Annual Good Book" Chinese Creation☆ Won the 2020 "Taiwan Literature Award" Golden Classic Award☆ Selected as the 2019 "Taiwan Eslite Reading Artisan Award" Bookstore Artisans' Most Wanted Seller☆ Selected as the 2019 "Taiwan Friendly Book Industry" Literature Annual Sales Ranking Top Ten☆ Selected as the 2020 "Hong Kong Renaissance Award" Pure Literature Award

2024-03-01

九州出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

352

9787522521916