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Minced Meat [Classic Reunion Revised Edition]
Minced Meat [Classic Reunion Revised Edition]
Li Jiaying
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书籍简介
Chinese Literary Creation; Short Stories
Introduction—After "A Good Day for the Oven," let's reacquaint ourselves with Li Jiaying.
★Li Jiaying's representative work from her youth, a literary urban legend, a classic out of print; a long-awaited reunion, not to be missed again.
★Newly revised and expanded, with Taiwanese literary review.
Everything happening now is perfectly fine.
Grooves, crevices, fragments are the cracks in language,
Let everything be in its place, and meaning will sprout from within.
Eleven short stories construct Li Jiaying's fictional world and fragments.
As her second work, Li Jiaying crafted ten short stories in "Minced Meat," with settings ranging from Taiwanese towns to distant foreign lands. Yet, whether near or far, slow or fast, there is an apt restraint between the chapters. As author Ko Yu-chin once remarked, "She meticulously dissects the bland everyday life, revealing its peculiar inner logic to the reader—bloodless, congealed, yet unmistakably flesh and blood. It feels like it should hurt, but it doesn't."
Seventeen years later, "Minced Meat" has been re-edited and revised, with an additional contemporary work. Li Jiaying's novels are a vibrant disturbance, condensing language/death/endless journeys into short passages. He makes you feel satisfied, even before understanding the full picture of the world, yet you are stirred, revealing the brutality and regret of life as a lump in your throat. These eleven stories make one realize: good stories are unforgettable, and even after a long separation, they can be rediscovered.
"The writer constructs a small world; language, as a form of reception and reaction, carries people's most subtle calculations, self-reflection, rebellion, and reconciliation. Although pointing at it with a hand distorts its shape, there's always an unspoken understanding that can be depicted, and even more ambitiously—perhaps a window frame that can frame the character '碎' (fragment)." —Li Jiaying
Introduction—After "A Good Day for the Oven," let's reacquaint ourselves with Li Jiaying.
★Li Jiaying's representative work from her youth, a literary urban legend, a classic out of print; a long-awaited reunion, not to be missed again.
★Newly revised and expanded, with Taiwanese literary review.
Everything happening now is perfectly fine.
Grooves, crevices, fragments are the cracks in language,
Let everything be in its place, and meaning will sprout from within.
Eleven short stories construct Li Jiaying's fictional world and fragments.
As her second work, Li Jiaying crafted ten short stories in "Minced Meat," with settings ranging from Taiwanese towns to distant foreign lands. Yet, whether near or far, slow or fast, there is an apt restraint between the chapters. As author Ko Yu-chin once remarked, "She meticulously dissects the bland everyday life, revealing its peculiar inner logic to the reader—bloodless, congealed, yet unmistakably flesh and blood. It feels like it should hurt, but it doesn't."
Seventeen years later, "Minced Meat" has been re-edited and revised, with an additional contemporary work. Li Jiaying's novels are a vibrant disturbance, condensing language/death/endless journeys into short passages. He makes you feel satisfied, even before understanding the full picture of the world, yet you are stirred, revealing the brutality and regret of life as a lump in your throat. These eleven stories make one realize: good stories are unforgettable, and even after a long separation, they can be rediscovered.
"The writer constructs a small world; language, as a form of reception and reaction, carries people's most subtle calculations, self-reflection, rebellion, and reconciliation. Although pointing at it with a hand distorts its shape, there's always an unspoken understanding that can be depicted, and even more ambitiously—perhaps a window frame that can frame the character '碎' (fragment)." —Li Jiaying
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页数/Page: 224