Someone is dancing

※Abstract:
A precocious girl, neglected by her parents, plans to run away from home; a middle-aged woman, constantly surrounded by her husband and son, decides to look inward; a father, distraught and orphaned, working in a big city lives with his son's former wolfhound, only to have to dispose of it after the wolfhound bites someone; a breastfeeding mother, torn between her role as herself and her role as a mother, finds a moment of escape when a romantic encounter on a plane; after their parents' death, the responsibility of caring for their paralyzed brother falls to a younger brother, who visits him at the nursing home every Saturday, both out of habit and to satisfy his conscience...
The collection "Someone Dances" consists of thirteen stories, beginning with a narrative of human nature from an animal's perspective and concluding with the repetition and resistance of a robot. There are remorse caused by death and epiphanies brought on by chance encounters. Faced with violence, some choose to describe it or flee, while others choose to join in. There are dilemmas, absurdities, and moments of brilliance. Through narratives that touch upon time, space, and human nature, we delve into the depths of reality.
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*See the ignored people and emotions, listen to the loneliness and confusion that cannot be expressed in words* "Humanity Observer" in the real life / The milestone of the writing career of the powerful novelist Liao Jing shifted from focusing on the dilemmas and decisions in the lives of the characters to the characters' understanding of the existence of others, the awareness of the ups and downs of their own desires, and the reflection on the relationship between themselves and others.
* Starting from urban experience, he salvages the anonymous lives of marginalized people (marginalized people in the family, the city, and history), immerses himself in the trivial daily lives of girls and women, captures their true desires, observes people's guilt, and understands the secrets of human nature and conscience. * Discovering himself and observing contemporary life through writing. Liao Jing's novels have a high artistic level, especially the description of the living conditions and mental state of contemporary urban women, which is accurate, profound, and meaningful.
—Yang Qingxiang (poet, critic, professor at the School of Literature, Renmin University of China)
Liao Jing's novels are about the problem consciousness and sense of reality of the current fate of women, which seems light but is actually heavy.
—He Ping (critic, professor at the School of Literature, Nanjing Normal University)
Liao Jing's novels such as "Wedding Night" and "Sucking" use novel thinking to deal with the still-fluid experience of the times, and discover inspiring new perspectives from the relationship between literature and gender.
—Xu Chenliang (critic, executive editor of Contemporary magazine)
*Keep dancing, as long as life goes on.
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In 2014, 31-year-old Liao Jing gave birth to a son and quit her job.
In 2015, she began to use writing to fill the fragmented time after her children went to bed.
He published novels on Douban Reading from 2017 to 2019.
In 2019, he published his first collection of short stories, The Wedding Night, which became well-known to readers.
In 2021, his first novel "Late Marriage" was published (originally named "Silent Notes").
"Someone Dancing" is Liao Jing's latest collection of novels, which brings together her novels written from 2019 to 2022, "extracting something permanent from life."

2023-08-01

中信出版集团

CITIC Spring Tide

448

9787521750676