Water Man

Author: Gao Jishui
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This is a unique novel that has emerged online in recent years, filled with astonishing imagination. Through grand and profound descriptions, the author portrays a vivid and laughable reality. On the surface, it appears to be the protagonist telling a little girl about his childhood, but in reality, it is the protagonist reconstructing his ideals through storytelling. Tian Xiao in the novel is a mischievous child who loves meat and alcohol. At a young age, he has wild dreams and lives in a marginal world where ideals and reality intertwine. He uses storytelling as a bridge to explore life, but this is not the ultimate purpose of the novel. When we try to explain a story, we always find that causality is endless. A single result can be traced back to many causes, and these causes are, in turn, the results of even more causes, ad infinitum. Therefore, the mission of the novel follows this cause, refusing to simplify life and digging into the fundamental reasons behind the story.