Four walls (Renowned for its shocking and sensational portrayal of the world, it is a heart-stirring scene)

Author: Gengzi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Unmissable, once gone, never to return. Where authority exists, there is humility. — A wall quote. This is a world you can't provoke and can't avoid. The crazy curses, the cruel punishments, the scheming among cellmates—all give us a real prison life. Only after reading Four Walls do we truly understand the world we live in. — Black Light
Reading Four Walls, I realized how naive and I used to be in my words and actions. If I had had the life wisdom described in Four Walls—far superior to those ridiculous "Office 36 Strategies" or "Practical Sun Tzu's Art of War"—many things would have gone much smoother. I hope the life wisdom here never needs to be used. — Lu Ba
Reading those lines, some coarse, some insightful, some cunning, some blunt, the flat text becomes "three-dimensional" and vivid. The black squares seem as if a magic wand has passed over them, and scenes filled with sound, light, and shadow appear before your eyes. I never thought I could enjoy a novel like watching a long-running TV series! — Zheng Jiang
A person's true nature can only be revealed in darkness, in desperation. But what is the essence of reality? Four Walls provides an answer. Through a series of stories that deeply touch the soul and well-developed, fleshed-out characters, it gives us an answer. — Luo Tianyue
The gold content of his work is no less than those with a deep "Nobel Prize" obsession. To focus on writers like Gengzi is a failure of the literary critics, a failure of the critics. If our literary criticism keeps pace with the times and centers on readers to deliver literary reviews, we must thank Gengzi and the valuable review resources provided by Four Walls. — The Radiance of Humanity
The novel Four Walls is based on the extreme life of an ordinary mortal, his firsthand experience in prison. The "Volume 1" takes place in a guardhouse, where "suspects" are detained. This part focuses on depicting the process of "psychological breakdown" and attempts to reflect the fusion of people and environment through the unique perspective of the guardhouse.
Mei Mei, an ordinary, insignificant intellectual, is corrupted by the "virus of brotherhood" and suddenly thrown into an unfamiliar cage, facing a group of suspects accused of rape, robbery, murder, and theft. He confronts scenes that are strange, cruel, oppressive, and perverted. What kind of shock and tempering will his heart undergo? How will he choose his way of survival?
The greater evil of humanity lies in: the virtue of endurance and the cunning of adaptation. When one value is violated by another, all conceptualized things are stolen or shattered, and order needs to be re-established, what does dignity mean? What does morality mean? What does friendship and truth mean? All are redefined. After the heart is torn apart, it will experience pain. The choice after the pain will be a bloody, longer-lasting suffering. And choosing compromise (which is exactly what we are most likely to do) will undoubtedly reduce this pain to its lowest point, leaving only the two words "sadness" and "grief."
The "Volume 2" shifts to the "prison" (reform-through-labor detachment), where the characters are legally guilty and must undergo reform. These people have already undergone "training" in the guardhouse and are mentally prepared for a fight. With the participation of many "veterans" of the prison world, the human drama here expresses the most vulgar and base aspects of human nature in full.