I am your dad

Author: Wang Shuo
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: These books were all written ten years ago or earlier. At that time, I was very self-assured, believed in many things, distrusted many things, had strong desires, and thought that what I already knew was everything. The people, scenarios, and conversations in these books were what I had experienced back then. They weren’t particularly extraordinary in life—only because I didn’t know more, I found them interesting and wrote them down with a pretentious attitude. These scenarios are gone, these people have scattered, those who are alive have aged prematurely, and I no longer speak or view myself in the same way. Sometimes I feel that I have lost the ability to continue writing. About these books, I personally think they are a witness to a person’s ignorant era. To live, to live in self-imagined and self-satisfied illusions—this is perhaps the fate of a writer. Understanding it is useless.