Surreal and Charming Game: Rediscovering the Masters and Classics of 20th Century Western Literature

Author: Li Sen
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The author is a poet, so the writing style of this book is also somewhat poetic, with diverse forms and a style close to prose. As he states in the preface, "Personal writing style and creativity itself are expressions of poetic essence." Most of the articles in this book were originally published in the "Century Classics" column of the magazine Huacheng. These include notes on great brother Kafka, Camus's The Stranger and The Plague, the poetics of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and notes on Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. These 20th-century classics are presented to readers with the author's strong personal touch, adding a unique charm.