What scent is the most beautiful

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: What fragrance is beautiful? This is Mo Yan's question. In fact, the answer, that great master from a century away, Proust, has already revealed it with his rich and profound wisdom: that sweet pastry commonly known as "Madeleine," the aroma that comes with being dipped in hot tea and sent into the mouth, represents the entire beautiful and melancholic childhood. And Mo Yan says in words we can all understand: "After becoming a writer, I began to recall the loneliness of my childhood, just like facing a table full of delicious food and remembering hunger." — A new collection of essays by renowned writer Mo Yan. As article after article unfolds before your eyes, emitting the scent of nostalgia, you might ask: What fragrance is beautiful? After becoming a writer, I began to recall the loneliness of my childhood, just like facing a table full of delicious food and remembering hunger. Before going to Izu, I had a beautiful dream—that I might meet a geisha as beautiful and enchanting as Sunako there, one who has just begun to experience the pangs of first love. But I passed by the ghost of Sunako and ended up walking with a group of female high school students around her age. The tunnel is still the same tunnel, the girls are still the same young girls, but life has undergone earth-shaking changes.