Yaksha Crossing the River

"After reading Lu Xu's new book, my room was overgrown with weeds." - Bi Gan (director)
【Content Introduction】
"Yaksha Crossing the River" is a new collection of fantastical realist short stories by the emerging young writer Lu Wang. Comprised of 10 works, these stories depict a world transformed by dreams, memories, symbols, and the ripples of chance, where people become enchanted. These stories include modern interpretations of the Yaksha legend and the Classic of Mountains and Seas, parodies of "The Metamorphosis," and unsolved cases sparked by an obsession with Argento's films and the Fibonacci curve. Themes span historical mythology, folklore, semiotics, and even erotic cinema. These stories are filled with shifting, volatile, yet resolute reflections, penetrating and stirring, shrouded in mystery, absurd yet captivating, and full of intrigue and often bizarre twists, ensuring a captivating reading.
The author is good at writing about personal hesitations and breakthroughs in self-awareness, body, identity, and situation through rich descriptions of scene details and character psychology. It has both Kafkaesque modernism and Edgar Allan Poe's dark romantic aesthetics. It is an exploration and attempt by contemporary young people to rebuild their inner order with imagination.
【Editor's Recommendation】
1. The ideas are sharp and exciting, the atmosphere is fantastic and mysterious, and the story is suspenseful and absurd.
2. From the legend of Yaksha to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, from the Akin diagram to the Fibonacci curve... exploring the inner journey through spiritual illusions. Using bizarre settings to point to secret inner confessions, constructing a series of fascinating stories.
3. This is a unique work, with a rich and strange southern aesthetic temperament, combined with surreal and deformed imagination, which is refreshing.
[Liu Liangcheng, Bi Gan, and Yang Qingxiang jointly recommend]
Lu Xu's perception and description of natural objects are so precise and insightful, and he can capture their spiritual connection with people, which adds a unique flavor to his novels. -Liu Liangcheng (author)
After reading Lu Xu's new book, my room was overgrown with weeds. —Bi Gan (Director)
Lu Xu's writing has a highly spiritual orientation, pointing to existence itself, to the dark space within each of us. Lu Xu uses rich knowledge and words to present this space to readers. - Yang Qingxiang (poet, critic)
Lu Xu writes about creating something out of nothing, about making the fake look real, and about the quietness of noise, the shame of sincerity, and the alienation of passion. He uses the blindness imposed by fiction as an opportunity to observe again. — Chen Zhiwei (young writer)

2023-05-15

中信出版社

CITIC Echo, CITIC Mirror

280

9787521755299