In the dense forest

When did one stop expecting to meet another companion in the wilderness, towering mountains, or unswimmable rivers?
Life is more like Columbus drifting in the ocean, not even hoping to discover a continent.
Only those who abandon despair can continue to trek through the pitch-black dense forest.
—Zhou Jianing
In early 21st-century Shanghai, twenty-year-old Yangyang felt out of place with everything around her. She sought kindred spirits in underground literary forums, alleyway cafes, and fringe music concerts. Ten years passed, and most of the artistic youth were drained by futile illusions, their lives steadily becoming dull. A few, however, were favored by fate and achieved worldly success. When did life, for Yangyang, become more like wandering through a pitch-black dense forest, no longer expecting to meet another companion?
She once deeply loved a natural genius, and in her most bewildered and lost moments, she became involved with an already famous middle-aged writer. Yet, she didn't want to be anyone's girlfriend; she wanted to be the artist herself—alone, direct, confronting the entire external world head-on…
In this novel, Zhou Jianing uses a stark and penetrating style to sketch a brief history of the spiritual wandering of an entire generation of literary youth, imbued with a unique melancholic quality.

2015-10-01

广西师范大学出版社

Ideal Country

256

9787549571185