Yangge (Eileen Chang's 100th Birthday Commemorative Edition)

alive,
It's just that I'm trying to survive in the gears of the times.

Kevin Tsai: I cried at the end of The Rice-Sprout Song, because I discovered that Eileen Chang still believed in love in the end.

This was the first time he had tasted the feeling of hunger.
There was a dull emptiness in his heart, gnawing at him constantly, sharpening him like a blunt knife.
The pain is between toothache and heartache.
When he looked out, everything became like a dream.

"Yangge" is a rural elegy written by Eileen Chang with realistic prose and sharp sensibility. Starting with personal comforts, she depicts how people struggle to keep pace with the new era and learn to speak a new language under a new political system. However, faced with the dilemma of poverty and hunger, they finally riot, unleashing a horrific tragedy. The book is full of tension in the ordinary, humor in the tragic, and expresses deep emotion in the everyday. When people shouldering heavy burdens once again take up the yangge, it not only reveals Eileen Chang's profoundest gaze on the complexity of human nature, but also marks a significant shift in her fictional style.

2020-02-17

皇冠

208

9789573335146