Whose Body: A Novel by Wu Xuan

Author: Wu Xuan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Wu Xuan's novels are like "a desolate gesture." They contain both resigned lament and melancholic shifts in tone. Wu Xuan often tries to peel away the various dark, sinister, helpless, and even absurd aspects of human nature from symbolic reflections of life, revealing a postmodern landscape of fragmented existence and providing a unique spiritual reference for our contemporary inner lives. As a novelist, Wu Xuan is an hedonist, with a sensitive experience, tireless in his pursuit, and like all hedonists, he is an appreciator, able to sense the form of life from the gentle flow of experience. Therefore, Wu Xuan's novels are certainly not profound, but they are definitely interesting.