Sailing on Paper

Born from an incomprehensible and indescribable place, constructed with divinely inspired metaphors, this is the first collection of short stories by young author Li Yao, about the struggle between language and silence, and the joy and sorrow of a self-explorer. 🛶Editor's recommendation◎ "Paper Boat" is the first collection of short stories by young writer Li Yao, including eight novels including "Seventy-Two", "Mammoth", and "Mechanical Animal Chronicles".
◎ The works collected in this book have certain commonalities and progressiveness. They have stood the test of time and sincerely demonstrate a writer's obsession with literature and his meticulous craftsmanship of literary style.
◎ The language of the novel is dense and rich, and the narrative rhythm is compact and flexible. All the rhetorical phenomena in it have the same reality as the changes in nature, thus summoning artistic spaces full of heterogeneity.
◎ This "paper boat" carries surreal things, dreamlike memories, absurd concepts, and cautionary fables about the future world. It will lead readers through the secret realm of language, and only with great patience and through a cross-reading approach can one glimpse its mysteries.
In this book of eight short stories, the author demonstrates how to redefine everyday objects by constructing bizarre and otherworldly realms. Can books, juicers, and even abstract concepts function as living forms? How does a person, like a snake shedding its skin, shed its identity and ultimately vanish? What relevance do the monkeys learning the Seventy-Two Transformations on Lingtai Fangcun Mountain have for modern office workers? After the apocalypse, a writing machine has devoured reality through "reverse symbolization"?
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The surreal world, the dense and rich language, and the finely crafted style make the work spin poetically, thus creating a unique reading pleasure.
"Two illusory aircraft carriers, entangled in the artistic conception of Chinese painting, have become two giant cocoons shrouded in clouds and mist, containing a variety of collages of creatures and imaginary animisms. There are as many gods and immortals as grains of sand, and countless proper nouns. Words without concrete references are like wings without bodies. The crisis is not the inability to take off, but the inability to land." - "Seventy-Two"

2019-11-01

四川文艺出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

224

9787541154362