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◎One sentence recommends Cyber ​​Liaozhai, a Chinese-style tale, a brain-opening story that is even more addictive than electronic pickled mustard greens, and the first short story collection of Douzi, a well-known answerer on Zhihu
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◎Introduction: A lemon spirit only listens to nice words, an empty-eared monster cannot hear bad words, a lovelorn man dies for love because of an unexpected memory that intrudes, a mad scholar is confused by the story he wrote and cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood, a mirror grinder is trapped in the mirror, and a fortune teller is misled by the times...
This book contains more than 20 short stories in the style of strange tales, including love entanglements between ordinary people, the adventures of down-and-out scholars under the imperial examination system, bizarre events that changed the fate of ordinary people, and legendary stories adapted from folk anecdotes.
Regarding this work, two characters in the book, Duan Yuchun and Yinyu Chong, also have some comments to make. Let's listen to their questions and answers:
Duan Yuchun: What kind of book is this?
Silverfish: This book is Mr. Dou's debut collection of novels. These stories are all about strange and bizarre tales, mostly set in the Ming and Qing dynasties, though some take place in modern times, traversing the past and present. With a touch of classical Chinese translation, this collection is a thoroughly Chinese story: a frustrated scholar becomes magistrate of insects, seeking justice for them; a wild rabbit uses its soldiers to reproduce in order to survive; a Ming Dynasty girl is brought into modern society; an old man who can compress and stretch time and space is apprehended by Yuan Chonghuan... In short, these are truly Chinese tales.
Duan Yuchun: How did you create this book? What was your purpose in writing it?
Silverfish: I've heard that peaceful people never worry about the outcome, simply focusing on their work; anxious people worry about things beyond their control. The people who don't exist in the stories are the monkeys in our minds. Mr. Dou has three "gains" from these stories: picking up fragments from ancient books and adapting them into full-length essays ("collection"); interviewing elders in teahouses in the fields and polishing the stories into writing ("questioning"); and developing fragmented stories from dreams ("dream-gaining").
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2024-06-01

广西师范大学出版社

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9787559869050