Crazy Person's Notes

Author: Bing Xin / Fu Guangming (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Classics are the treasures left behind by time, portraits and annotations of human nature. The significance of classics lies in their freshness with every reading; no matter how time flows, they remain an unchanging landscape on the bookshelves of readers. In the ever-changing flow of time and life, where nothing can be repeated, classics are the words, sounds, and expressions that have conquered time. Those sincere statements, those fearless cries, those reflections on the human spirit awaken our past hopes, inspire our courage today, and prevent us from being empty and vain, doubting the future. These images of wise people and their timeless words purify our souls, shake our spirits, and teach us what can be missed but not forgotten, and what is fleeting yet invaluable. The authors included in "Gleaning and Pioneering in Modern Chinese Fiction Classics" are all scavengers and pioneers of modern Chinese literature, as well as experimenters and pioneers of various new artistic forms. No wonder Shi Zhecun, with a certain pride, once told me about the various so-called artistic explorations of his younger contemporaries in the 1980s, especially their attempts at many "avant-garde" modernist techniques like symbolism, impressionism, and stream of consciousness, that "We had already done all this in the 1930s, and even better than them. It’s nothing new." Indeed, every era should have its own literature. But classic literature does not belong solely to its time; it also belongs to later generations of readers who can appreciate and share an artistic connection with it. Love is on the right, compassion is on the left. Walking alongside the path of life, sow seeds and bloom flowers at every step, filling this long journey with blossoms of all seasons. Let those who pass through, brushing through branches and leaves, tread on thorns without feeling pain, with tears to shed, yet not in sorrow. Guide me, my friend! I am a swallow crossing the sea, seeking a nest across the water. Has spring ever spoken? Yet her great hidden power has gently softened the world! People marvel only at the brilliance of successful flowers in their present radiance! But the buds from which they came were soaked in the tears of struggle and sprinkled with the rain of sacrifice. What is "home"? I do not know. But worries and sorrows—all melt away here. "Madman’s Notes" by Bing Xin is the most unique of all her works. It is rare in China’s modern literary scene and, frankly, not easily understood by the general public. "Madman’s Notes" is a variation of Bing Xin’s usual style of writing fiction. Her other novels express her affection for loved ones and her broad compassion for people.，，。，“”，。“”“”，，，。