The joy of discovery

Author: Chen Zishan
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Everyone is walking on the journey of life. As figures fade away, they leave behind traces, deep or shallow, which, when gathered together, form a book. People often say, "Reading life." Indeed, when the impressions of individuals are described, those distant traces become the best objects for us to understand history and the structure of life. Books are like people—just as one book after another is born, and one person after another seeks out the stories of books, this is originally part of the human experience. The shadows of books, like the traces of people, always leave us with endless interest. For this reason, many people talk about it with great enthusiasm, even becoming obsessed with it, thereby experiencing a unique kind of pleasure. The words in this small book, of course, have not applied for "research projects" and are not serious academic papers. Most of them do not conform to "academic norms," but I am confident that they do have some academic value. At the very least, they are my research insights. They have unearthed some lost works of important writers, verified some little-known facts in literary history, and solved or partially solved some unresolved or mysterious cases in the history of contemporary and modern literature. To put it academically, they are examples of micro-studies and empirical research in the science of the history of contemporary and modern literature. While there is little theoretical elaboration in the book, my reflections on the history of contemporary and modern literature are contained within it.