Sand bed

Author: Ge Hongbing
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: Shanghai: My Life and Death Party, My Secret Feast, My Cruel Academy. People call him the new generation's handsome writer. People describe him as follows: His sense of confusion and melancholy seems to come from Haruki Murakami, while his deep cruelty seems to stem from the spiritual gift of Milan Kundera. Ge Hongbing is closer to Rousseau. The rich love, profound compassion, and genuine sense of guilt form the main tone of Sandbed. Perhaps Ge Hongbing is the Chinese writer closest to Rousseau. Following Zhang Zhe's Peach and Plum, another long work that directly addresses the spiritual state of Chinese universities. A tragic love experience; a melancholic life story; a lingering, heart-stirring love and death. This is a coming-of-age confession of contemporary university life. Love entangles with body taboos, ecstatic joy blends with fear of lust, and the steamy, clinging thoughts of the fox on the feast of youth. The author uses a first-person narrative to tell the complex love stories between a young professor, his students, and multiple lovers. With a melancholic touch, the novel delves into sexual relationships such as teacher-student love, group love, and party love, profoundly depicting and boldly exposing the spiritual state and life conditions of contemporary intellectuals and urban tribal youth. Its sense of confusion and melancholy seems to come from Haruki Murakami, while its deep cruelty and intellectual depth seems to stem from Milan Kundera. However, the heavy sense of reflection and confession makes Ge Hongbing closer to Rousseau.