Dai Wangshu Complete Works -- Novel Volume

Author: Wang Wenbin
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: This is a complete collection that has never been published before; it features a literary master who is both unfamiliar and familiar. Dai Wangshu—a poet and writer with outstanding creative personality and achievements in the history of modern Chinese literature! Dai Wangshu was versatile and, throughout his life, tried and successfully experimented with various literary forms. While some of Dai Wangshu’s poems are relatively bright in tone, most express the inner feelings of the lyrical subject and a sense of loneliness and melancholy. In his poetry, Dai Wangshu pursued ambiguity, paid attention to imagery, and used elegant and delicate language. Dai Wangshu was a representative modernist poet of the 1930s in China.
Dai Wangshu’s essays include travelogues, diaries, letters, essays, and literary criticism. His writing is both passionate like that of a poet and rigorous like that of a scholar. His novels are primarily translations, featuring famous works or those by unique and individualistic authors.
The Complete Works of Dai Wangshu are divided into three volumes: Poetry, Essays, and Novels. The collection includes all the texts Dai Wangshu wrote and translated during his lifetime. Some articles, works, letters, and diaries are published publicly for the first time. For readers who love and appreciate Dai Wangshu’s works, as well as researchers engaged in Dai Wangshu studies, the publication of the Complete Works of Dai Wangshu undoubtedly holds obvious value and significance. This volume is the comprehensive collection of Dai Wangshu’s novels.