Wang Anyi's Love on a Desolate Mountain

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Content Introduction This book is one of the "Famous Works by Renowned Novelists of the New Period." The male and female protagonists each have their own family and life stories. They meet at a certain point in time and space, and this chance encounter greatly alters their destinies. Wang Anyi seems to emphasize that this intersection is inevitable for changing the fates of the related characters, while the spatial and temporal factors involved have a certain randomness. They cannot meet without falling in love, nor can they make the meeting occur before their marriage, so they can only resolve the dilemma of their two choices through a tragic form of death. Here, both "death" and "fate" carry a sense of the inescapable destiny of life. The words "omen," "fate," and "death" narrate an inevitability within chance, an objective destiny.