Wudu's Adventures

Author: Jin Bo
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: The Miraculous Journey of Udioudou has two innovations in its artistry:
1. The practice of dream poetics. Reading this fairy tale reminds me of the poetry of French poet Jean Frost: "In his eternal field of childhood, the poet lingers alone, unwilling to forget any detail." In The Miraculous Journey of Udioudou, Mr. Jin Bo attempts to reimagine childhood through dreams, resisting the forgetting of the past. French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once said: "When time grows old, memories of childhood give us delicate emotions, a 'smiling regret' like that experienced by the poet Baudelaire in the vast atmosphere. In this 'smiling regret' that the poet has experienced, we seem to have achieved a peculiar synthesis of regret and comfort." "Childhood is deeply buried in our hearts, still in our hearts, and forever in our hearts. It is a state of mind." Mr. Jin Bo’s fairy tale creates the past through dreams, touches childhood through dreams, and its dreams also create the future, creating a new state of life.
2. The attempt at cross-genre writing poetics. The Miraculous Journey of Udioudou is a beautiful fairy tale but also a lyrical poem with gentle and affectionate charm. It is a story, yet it is composed of a unique "flower garland" of 14-line odes—14 chapters of the story, where the last line of the 14-line ode in one chapter matches the first line of the 14-line ode in the next chapter, and the final 14-line ode is formed by the first lines of the previous 14 chapters. This is a unique "poetic fairy tale" that embodies Mr. Jin Bo’s consistent aestheticism and romantic sentiment in his creative work.
It is a beautiful fairy tale. Udioudou gains life because he brings joy to children. He cherishes the preciousness of life, understands how to nourish life with love, and returns love to life. Love makes Udioudou’s life more vivid and interesting; love also makes his friendship with the old poet sacred.