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🔥 Douban popular book "Seven Madmen" sequel🔥 "The crystallization of returning from hell, the perfect presentation of the crazy world and the eternal prophecy"
🔥 A book of decadence, gloom, and despair🔥 "Argentina's Dostoevsky", a masterpiece by Robert Alter, a genius writer known as Borges🔥 This book is recommended for readers over 18 years old——————————
"A mystery drew fiery brackets in his entrails, and this mystery was the reason for living."
A mysterious kidnapping, a group of victims trapped in the abyss of despair. As the picture of a secret society becomes clearer, what choice do these madmen make? "Silently endure the slings of fate's cruelty, or rise up against the boundless suffering of the world," or perhaps use poison gas to destroy everything on this shattered earth? Survive or perish?
A torrent of dark aesthetics surges forth, a work of genius shimmering with a chilling aura. All the pain, all the excitement, is densely packed into a few brief days: childhood trauma, marital infidelity, physical torture, mind control, abortion, crime, delusional madness, the pain of war. Humiliation multiplies, pain piles upon pain. In the abyss of despair, everything dissolves, and dark fireworks bloom within his soul.
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Celebrity recommendation:
After Robert Alter's death that year, modern Argentine literature came to an end, and Argentine literature after that was a desert.
—Ricardo Piglia, Artificial Respiration

Art always used to focus on general things. The Buenos Aires he saw was like this: a person walked there, lived there, loved there, and suffered there; Borges saw a Buenos Aires with a mysterious destiny... His strength was his great creativity. In this sense, Borges' creativity was smaller, but it was compensated by intellectual thinking.
—Julio Cortázar, Cortázar on Cortázar

Art is undoubtedly a great writer… He is Latin America’s first true urban novelist… Such is the power of inspiring literature.
—The Guardian

Another defining characteristic of Spanish-language American literature is its enduring witness: witness to violence and injustice, to the collective and the individual, to reality and fiction, to the past and the present. In the Americas, writing has always served both a poetic and a political function. It has never been a meaningless game, and even in its most seemingly formal expressions, it never retreats into illusion.
——"Ideal Book Collection"

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Reader reviews of the previous work "Seven Madmen"

The protagonist, who is sleepwalking like an idiot in the bottom of hell, is pulled by his inner criminal impulse and frequently comes into contact with all kinds of insulted and harmed people. Eventually, he becomes a member of an anarchist underground organization and has to participate in a riot that is doomed to fail from the beginning. This is worthy of Argentina's Dostoevsky. One novel combines the themes of many of Dostoevsky's novels, and the protagonist, like Dostoevsky's characters, has a George Sand complex, and both try to save the fallen opposite sex through love.
——Douban reader Dongfang Yalingjiao

Delirium and madness are used to resist the humiliation of the body and life, and madness is surprisingly close to miracle. The author integrates his own pain, humiliation, and alienation into the life of this accountant. The setting of these "madmen" is full of biblical imagery. Fleeing from oneself, approaching out of disgust, and using the new changes brought by depravity to stimulate the paralyzed self.
——Douban reader Mao

Arlt's novels are filled with the murmur of inner monologues, yet unlike Dostoyevsky's long and dense narratives, his narrative counterpoint is more restrained, concise, and poetic. Within the context of world literature in the 1920s, this "turn inward" marked the birth of the modern novel. To some extent, Arlt should be considered one of the great masters of 20th-century modernist fiction, alongside Kafka, Proust, Joyce, and Thomas Mann.
——Douban reader Lin Peiyuan

It's as rough and murky as Dostoevsky's, yet it retains the mysterious elegance of Latin American literature. One can sense the pain hidden deep within life, piercing through the pages. It's amazing that passionate South America can produce such a dark and gloomy writer. Without collaboration with the devil, there can be no true art.
— Douban reader Atlas Galt

This is a book by a "writer's writer." The narrative, prose, structure, and thought process are all capable of engaging the reader's mind, no matter how slow. This makes it a difficult read, and it's easy to be carried away by your imagination. Yet, some of the plot points are incredibly captivating, leaving you unable to put it down.
——Six points from Douban readers

2021-01-01

四川文艺出版社

331

9787541158186