Love and Compassion

This book is an expanded edition of critic Zhang Dinghao's masterpiece, "Lust and Compassion," six years later, boasting over 40,000 words. Lust is not merely passion; it also signifies loss of control and a complex mental life; compassion represents morality and responsibility. Both are often unbearable, yet they are the choices of most outstanding novelists who aim to write about human life. From Graham Greene and Alice Munro to Auden and Brodsky, from "Stoner" to "The Rake of No Worries," the book features writers and works beloved by the author. In a sense, this is a book about reading and writing, but also about self-examination.
A man is aware of the power and weakness of words, the abundance and poverty of love, yet he still writes to please those unattainable shadows.

2022-07-01

上海文艺出版社

368

9787532180189