The Diary of Lady Saphire

Author: Ding Ling
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: For a long time, Ding Ling suffered unfair treatment, but she never wavered in her beliefs, never slightly reduced her passion for the people, and always maintained a bold and optimistic mindset. She also felt sorrow, but she could pull herself out. We often encouraged each other while enduring long-term hardships. Through observation, I also constantly refined myself, engaged in self-struggle, and silently strived for greater perfection. Ding Ling's writing stemmed from life. The people and events in her works were mostly things she had experienced or witnessed. Her novels lacked artificially concocted plots or fantastical characters. She extracted characters and events from life and used her own ideals, beliefs, and emotions to portray and shape them. When I read her works, I often found life-like prototypes, yet they were not exactly the same as real-life individuals or events. The lines were clearer, the colors brighter, the high points higher, and the low points lower—using literary terminology, perhaps it could be said that they were more typicalized. As a result, her works easily made readers believe they were real events and real people. Some readers even "identified with the characters," saying that this person was themselves. This book includes 27 works of "novels" and "essays," such as Meng Ke, The Diary of a Lady Saffy, Celebrating the New Year, Fragments of My High School Life, The Life of a Real Person, and others.