Lover's Song

Author: Ye Zhaoyan
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: Fiction is a practice. The significance of practice lies in the possibility of discovering flaws in our fantasies. Artistic conscience always reminds us that we are actually not very good. As long as we are willing to honestly face ourselves, as long as we are not blinded by temporary success, as long as our good novels in our fantasies have not been completely resolved, and as long as we still have some potential for further development. The objective existence of the failure in fiction creation will not allow us to avoid it. Confident beginnings often unkindly lead to disheartened endings. A novelist cannot use their labor to prove that others' novels are bad, but the final conclusion must prove that they are also not good. In their fantasies, they defeat their opponents, but in the hard work of writing, they painfully defeat themselves. Pain is destined to accompany those who make literature their career. The joy of a novelist lies in the possibility of discovering that they will always belong to the victors. The victors own nothing, and the victors who own nothing are the tragedy of the novelist.