Blindfolded Traveler

17 new novels with creative ideas, word games and fictional fun
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※Introduction※
Here is a sick girl who uses 10 noodles as fingers and paper clips to connect her limbs... "My Poor Girlfriend"
Here is the love story of a female thief who steals goldfish and a detective with eggplant peels on his head... "The Poet and the Detective"
Here live men and women whose lives are fleeting, and a smile at each other is the greatest luxury and romance... "Men and Women on the Lake of Martelland"
Here, there are octogenarians who grow out of the ground, gradually becoming adults, teenagers, children, babies, and finally becoming seeds again through a woman's womb... "Reincarnation"
Here is a universal solvent that can dissolve everything, even the vast starry sky... "Universal Solvent"
Here are experts dedicated to the art of sleep... "Sleep Master"
Here, there is a bearded man who started out as a girl, became a man after turning 30, and reminisced about his pink girlhood in a dark tavern... "Gender Diagram"
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Opening this book is like falling into Alice's rabbit hole and entering a bizarre world of words, where symbols are ambiguous, signifiers are independent of signifieds, and common sense gives way to imagination.
What does this character represent? What does this plot allude to? What is the story's true purpose? — If you're used to "reading the entire text and summarizing the central idea," all this will lead to a mental fog. You try in vain to find the exit to "meaning" in a maze of seemingly chaotic but actually meticulously constructed discourse. And then you realize that you are the blindfolded traveler.
If you are simply fascinated by mysticism, daydreaming, anti-reality, like serious nonsense, enjoy word games and mental exercises, this is the book you are looking for.
"You can only experience these novels, not understand them."
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※Recommendation※
◎ Zhu Yue’s novels do have similarities with Borges’s works—they are short, the content is far from the real world, they are full of imagination, interesting, and have a scholarly temperament.
This is a kind of novel that belongs to wisdom, delicate, anti-lyrical, full of riddles and word games. It may not be so popular, but it has a supreme position in the hearts of its fans.
——NullPointer
◎ (1) Originality with a strong imitation. (2) Inventory-like and philosophical imagination. (3) The joy of fiction.
——btr

2016-08-01

北京联合出版公司

Houlang, Houlang Literature

368

9787550274815