Manet's Railway

Author: Chen Dong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is not about Manet's "The Railway." It also includes some proper nouns: New Novel, (Midnight Press), Robbe-Grillet, Toulouse, Landerneau, Arles, Borges, Guangdong Express, Guangzhou, Paris, Yangjiang, Brussels, as well as general terms: literature, art, publishing, bookstores, sketches, writing, photography, planning, travel. This book is about how a person can live a meaningful life relying on these terms. The articles under the title "Manet's Railway" are like the blank spaces and missing pieces in Manet's painting "The Railway." To establish this title, the author wandered between the Saint-Lazare train station and Manet's works in Paris to ensure that Manet and his "The Railway" were not discussed in this book. As Umberto Eco once said, this was to confuse things. Therefore, the content of this book—from "New Novel" to the author's own art criticism and practice—only presents an unremarkable role of a person in a corner of the stage of the times. After "The World of One's Own," the author's identity is once again awakened by carefully polished words, achieving the autobiographical effect that the author has always emphasized.