Savage and Stupid

This is the astonishingly powerful debut novel by Zheng Enbo, the top scorer in the Zhejiang Province College Entrance Examination. It interweaves the thoughts of a young man with field research, and perfectly combines personal narrative with social records. It is a new force in pure literature of the post-95 generation that cannot be missed.
Editor's Recommendation:
⭕️Zheng Enbai, the top scorer in the science subject of the Zhejiang Province College Entrance Examination in 2015, chose Chinese as his major after entering Peking University. After graduation, he tried to be a full-time writer. "Barbarism and Stupidity" is his first officially published work after years of dormancy.
⭕️How will young writers, especially those born after 1995, enter the historical stage? How will they describe the world they live in and their own lives? The author of this book provides a refreshing answer with his solid and profound writing.
⭕️This book adopts a narrative form that interweaves traditional narrative and dialect interviews. The dialect part is extremely exciting. Through the mouths of more than 20 interviewees, it weaves a broad social background. Combined with the main plot of three young men going to sea, the whole book has both a micro-history of growth and a macro-group portrait record. It is vivid and rich, delicate and solid.
Contents:
This book weaves two narrative threads together, unfolding the events leading up to and following a clan feud. The central storyline revolves around a young man eager to go to sea and a reckless and dangerous coming-of-age ceremony, interspersed with personal stories told in Wenzhou's Cangnan dialect. The first thread, told in a classical narrative style, recounts the journey of the three Chen brothers to sea, a journey that directly led to the eruption of simmering resentment between the two villages. The second thread, featuring a cast of characters from various professions and ages, presents a chorus of characters that frames the novel's historical and social context. Thus, the shared youthful state of mind and the customs and customs of a coastal fishing village at the end of the last century resonate deeply through these words.

2025-01-01

文汇出版社

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