Flicker

Author: Li Hua
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Communist? Or Nationalist? It's a question. In the first half of the last century, countless intellectuals faced this choice. A scholar, with a brief life, either surged forward in the tide of the times or drifted along with it. Sometimes for the sake of realizing their political ideals, sometimes for pursuing a loved one, finally chose a balanced path: embarking on the predetermined track of fate. Between history and reality, truth and fiction, memory and oblivion, talkativeness and silence, we must also make a choice! Flowering follows the quest for the protagonist, Ge Ren, as its central thread, with the unraveling of Ge Ren's life-and-death mystery as its structural core. It depicts the life circumstances, political pursuits, and love experiences of Ge Ren in his short life, telling the story of an individual's fate amidst historical turmoil. The novel's greatest feature lies in its narrative completed through the testimonies of three key figures and abundant citations. The numerous characters in the book, with their diverse temperaments and identities, narrate this historical enigma in different tones, adding profound meaning and prompting us to reflect on various existential states—history and reality, truth and fiction, memory and oblivion, talkativeness and silence. The work embodies the wisdom of contemporary literature, with a rare solemnity that will leave a lasting echo in the hearts of readers.