Liang Jinshan

The Heterogeneous Echoes of French New Novel in China: A Collection of Short Stories by Writer Lu Yi "If I could, I would really like to record them with musical notes."
◎Editor's recommendation★ Lu Yi is a strong promoter and publisher of French new novels in China. He and Chen Tong planned and published the "Midnight Literature Series" which mainly focuses on French new novels, including famous writers such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, and Jean Echenoz.
Entering this novel is like entering one's own daily life. The author erases the specific references to ordinary things: the afternoon breeze, the hotel room, the island at noon... The characters are no longer the story's centerpiece, but become symbols that freely traverse the various spaces of the novel, moving silently between the texts with a unique perspective on the world. The novel is imbued with a wonderful, dreamlike consciousness.
"If I could, I'd really like to record them with musical notes." "They" can be unexpected moments, or perhaps one or more subtle motivations. Language propels the novelist through sentence after sentence, and the stories intertwine and intersect in parallel spaces, like the fusion of different musical parts, ultimately forming a beautiful yet deeply experimental polyphonic style.
★ This book has a strong experimental color and makes bold attempts in form. The special layout of the book enables this form to be presented. For example, "World 1, 2, 3" is presented in parallel layout, while "Island at Noon" has more than ten pages of blank design. Every reader can make secondary creations based on his or her curiosity and imagination.
This book contains seven short stories. They demonstrate how to observe and depict accurately in an uncertain world. Common themes from everyday life recur repeatedly: showering, death, walking, and love affairs. These seemingly repetitive stories each contain variations, forming a resonant polyphonic pattern.
The novel is full of trivial details of life, which dissolves the characters' psychology in the process of specific behaviors and the flow of vision. It eliminates drama and focuses on creating a text space that goes beyond real life, forcing readers to pay attention to the description itself.

2019-07-01

四川文艺出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

152

9787541150807