Seven Betrayals: The Sound that Shocks Traditional Prose

Author: Nan Fan
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: What is meant by an "event"? Where does an "event" begin, end, focus, and center? Any unique discovery will not repeat the established narrative form. Conversely—any unique narration implies some discovery. The narration of this group of writers rearranges the world I have long been accustomed to, resulting in strange outcomes. A series of familiar proportions and orientations have changed: some scenes shrink, disappear, or rotate to the shaded side, while long-lost scenes return to the center of vision, thus, long-dusted life is astonishingly revived. The world has been changed by words. This group of writers continues to write silently. They may not be aware that their essays simultaneously open up the conventions of life. What is the meaning of literature? Isn't literature about opening up the various possibilities of imagining life?