The New Yorker (Hardcover, Single Volume of Bai Xianyong's Classics)

Bai Xianyong personally arranged the content——
Recommended reading by Dai Jinhua, Zhou Yiju, Yongmei, Jiang Fangzhuo, Du Liang and others!
A famous work that influenced Sanmao, Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and others!
2024 Hardcover Single Volume
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【Editor's Recommendation】
★ The New Yorker, a collection of short stories that combines Bai Xianyong's early masterpieces and his later works.
Not only are there famous works from his early years, but there is also "Silent Night", a new work from his later years. It won the "Fifth Yu Dafu Novel Award Short Story Award" in 2018 and was included in Bai Xianyong's short story collection "The New Yorker"; in addition, Bai Xianyong research expert, Professor Liu Jun of the Chinese Department of Nanjing University, has compiled the "Bai Xianyong Chronology" for many consecutive years, presenting a panoramic view of Bai Xianyong's literary creation path.
From depicting the "fallen immortal" of the Chinese people's heaven and earth, to the "awakening" of politics, and then to the Chinese and foreigners facing the "plague" together, the changes and transformations in between are actually gradually deepening and expanding his own creative space... What is reflected in this is that Bai Xianyong's observation vision and tolerance of human beings are becoming broader and broader.
★ Forever Bai Xianyong, forever youth version, "Century Sexual Culture Nostalgia"——
From Shanghai to Taipei, from Taipei to New York, from the Paramount to Xinyi Road, from Xiafei Road to Central Park, time passes, the world changes, but one thing remains unchanged: the enduring nostalgia for China. Even the most beautiful is somewhat desolate. Pai Hsien-yung's masterpieces, capturing the "social landscape" of each period, reveal the passage of time and space and the social evolution of Chinese culture over the past century.
In more and more Chinese libraries, Bai Xianyong's literary works are included in the "core collection". They have a far-reaching influence, have a universal influence on the next generation of writers, and are remembered devoutly by people for a long time.
★ Included in the "Bai Xianyong Famous Works Single Volume" personally selected book list, book title inscription award, conveying oriental aesthetics——
Pai Hsien-yung personally compiled the chapters, and Dong Yangzi, the calligrapher who used him for Wong Kar-wai's "The Grandmaster" and Jay Chou's "Lanting Preface", wrote the title of the book himself. This is a new aesthetic creation based on pure oriental thinking.
The book is hardcover with a five-color moss brocade cover and includes old photos of the young Bai Xianyong when he was creating, allowing you to revisit the people and events of an era.
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【Content Introduction】
"The New Yorker" is a collection of short stories that is a combination of Bai Xianyong's early masterpieces and his later new works.
A group of Chinese people left their homeland and pursued their dreams in America. They hid in the melting pot and had no choice but to forget their identities and become New Yorkers. Under the impact of Chinese and Western cultures, they either struggled in difficulties or reached the end in self-destruction.
Among them, the short story "The Exiled Immortal" was adapted into the movie "The Last Nobleman" by director Xie Jin.
Author Bai Xianyong said, "But a century has passed in a flash, and 'New York' has gradually receded in my heart into a distant 'magic city', its gates wide open, still unconditionally accepting a constant stream of wandering souls."
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Author's Note
The most fascinating thing about Manhattan's chessboard-like streets is that each one is distinct and culturally distinct. Sometimes, even the race of the residents changes, suddenly switching from white to black, from yellow to brown. New York is a true immigrant metropolis, a melting pot of people from all over the world. It's easy to lose yourself in this racial melting pot, because New York is an infinitely vast and deep, a world of supreme indifference. Personal joys and sorrows drift within it, like a drop in the ocean, drowned by a single shift.
During the summers of 1963 and 1964, I collected countless images of New York in my mind, and these images gradually transformed into a series of "New York Stories"... One spring in 1965, I began writing "The Exiled Immortal" at a table in a park along the Iowa River. It was springtime, the ice in the Iowa River had melted, and the trees were bubbling with new green leaves. Everything was thriving, but what I was writing was a tragic story about a heroine who drifted to Venice and drowned herself. At the time, I designated this story the first in the "New Yorker" series and quoted Chen Zi'ang's "Song of Climbing the Tower of Youzhou" as the postscript. Perhaps I felt that Li Tong's final sense of loneliness was as profound as "the vastness of heaven and earth."
——Bai Xianyong

2024-12-01

九州出版社

Ideal Country

256

9787522534152