drinker

★A classic masterpiece by Mr. Liu Yichang, a master of Hong Kong literature and Wong Kar-wai's literary teacher.
★First introduced in the early 1963 edition.
★It connects with the spirit of May Fourth literature and pioneers modernism in Hong Kong literature.
★ Known as "China's first stream-of-consciousness novel" and selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly.
★A novel about novels, full of golden sentences and a timeless sense of wonder.
★In 2004, it inspired Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai to shoot the movie "2046", and in 2011, Hong Kong director Wong Kwok-sho filmed it into the movie "The Drunkard".
★This book is a simplified annotated version, with more than 70 additional notes on place names, personal names, translated names, and work names, eliminating reading difficulties caused by language habits and differences in time.
★Includes relevant review articles to facilitate research.
★Equipped with precious old photos of Mr. Liu Yichang.
In Hong Kong during the 1950s and 1960s, the commodity economy flourished, and literature and art became highly commercialized. A writer with a steadfast artistic conscience struggled with the conflict between ideals and reality. While writing to satisfy his hunger, he also blamed himself and repented, sinking into a compulsive alcoholic...
Written in the early 1960s, The Drunkard pioneered modernism in Hong Kong literature and is hailed as "China's first stream-of-consciousness novel." It was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly. In 2004, it inspired Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai to film 2046, which was then adapted into the 2011 feature film The Drunkard by Hong Kong director Wong Kwok-sho.
The Drunkard has been reprinted numerous times since its publication, and this book uses the original edition published by Hong Kong Haibin Book Company in 1963. In addition to the work itself, the editor has selected relevant critical articles as an appendix to facilitate research, and has provided a large number of annotations to help readers overcome reading difficulties.

2024-03-01

人民文学出版社

336

9787020183197