Seeking a Sword

"Carving a boat to find a sword. These are just foolish scratches on the boat's hull. We hope to use them to find something that fell into the river of time."
"Seeking the Sword" is a new collection of essays by author Tang Nuo, comprising 23 weighty reflections on age, reading, and writing. As he gradually enters his twilight years, Tang Nuo incorporates the perspective of age into his daily reading and writing, transforming it into a new perspective and element. Advancing age forces writers to constantly confront an increasingly youthful world. The greatest benefit is that books also become younger, creating a leisurely and adaptable flow in reading and writing, gradually revealing and delving into the places the author aspires to reach. Using the unique perspective of age, Tang Nuo, with his distinctive literary style and his unwavering reflections, leads us into the worlds of writers like Woolf, Kundera, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Borges, Calvino, Herzen, Kant, Eileen Chang, Zhu Tianxin, Agatha Christie, Yamada Yoji, Zhong Xiaoyang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ariyoshi Hiroyuki. From reading and writing to film and television variety shows, Tang Nuo discerns what lies deeper and more personal than words and images, reopening our horizons. In the world of creation and writing, there is a trend that is close to a general rule: a creator who is really good, especially one who is willing to keep his eyes on the world and people, will always slowly move towards the real world as he grows older and his cognition progresses, and as time takes its toll on his body in various wonderful ways.
Editor's recommendation★ A brand new work by professional reader Tang Nuo, 23 heavy-hitting reflections on "age, reading, and writing". Using "age" as a perspective, reopen our world of reading. - "What I really look forward to is still age." Reading is like carving a boat to find a sword. Age is the foolish scratches on the hull, and we use it to find something that has fallen into the river of time. Tang Nuo added the perspective of age to his daily reading and writing, turning it into a new perspective and new element for reading and writing. "The whole reading process has been reopened." "This book really brought me into old age, and with the eyes of old age, I looked back at the world I am familiar with, the books I am familiar with, and the writers I am familiar with, resulting in a shift in perspective." "Precisely because age is a steady progression, it gives reading and writing an indescribable sense of vividness, a rotation that you can follow calmly, as if each time it reveals a little more and explores a little deeper. This should be the best thing that has happened to me in recent years."
★ "The best Tang Nuo since The End." Cleansing, polishing, settling, and crystallizing, books remain the largest and brightest fertile land in the human world. "The only anti-cancer drug I can think of is books." — Woolf, Turgenev, Borges, Calvino, Kundera, Dostoyevsky, Herzen, Kant, Zhu Tianxin, Eileen Chang, Agatha Christie, Yamada Yoji, Zhong Xiaoyang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ariyoshi Hiroyuki, Natsume Mikuni, Matsuko Deluxe... This time, Tang Nuo's pen radiates even wider, from reading and writing to film and television variety shows, leading readers to more carefully discern the denser and more personal things between the lines and behind the images. "A truly good writer and creator, especially one who is willing to keep his eyes on the world and on people, will always slowly move towards the real world as he grows older, as his understanding progresses, and as time matures in his body."
★Recommended by Liang Wendao and Yang Zhao.

2023-10-01

北京日报出版社

Ideal Country

388

9787547746950