Blue fox

Author: Wang Meng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The writing style of this book cannot avoid the of penetration, the ostentation of sharp and biting language, and the assumed privacy (this is a [selling point]), as well as the skill of male novelists in attracting readers to continue reading: a unique, cold, killer-like pride and arrogance. This is Wang Meng's late-life "culmination" work, The Green Fox, which is known for its portrayal of "sexual psychology." The protagonist, Lu Qiangu, is a woman who yearns for freedom and pursues love but fails to achieve it. She spends her youth enduring the scorn and gossip of others. In the 1980s, at the age of middle age, she seized the opportunity of ideological liberation and became an overnight sensation, hailed as a rising star among writers. However, her personal life (including her love life) remains chaotic and directionless. After half a lifetime of reform, tempering, and refinement, Qiangu finally becomes the Green Fox—a woman who is both laughing and crying, filled with love and hatred, ambiguous in praise and criticism, and endlessly itchy. She is alluring, heartless, both real and illusory, and vividly alive. Wang Meng claims that the novel's portrayal of sexual fantasies, distortions, indulgence, failures, frustrations, and incompetence all carry Wang's "love theory," "passion theory," and his interpretation of life.