Greenwich Meridian

Author: Jean ésn?z / Su Wenping
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: People will eventually realize that Jean ésn?z is perhaps one of the contemporary novelists who best translates the characteristics of our era—such as environment, symbols, and language—into art. He does not simply restore them as naturalist writers do, nor organize them according to the constraints of a worldview like realist writers, nor gather them together for a motiveless game like postmodernists. Instead, he creates a novel world that is both strange and familiar, filled with fantasy and reality, where meaning undeniably emerges. His creation—because it truly is a creation (in imitation of Song type)—began with The Greenwich Meridian in 1979, followed by The Cherokee and The Expedition to Malaya, which appeared in the contemporary literary landscape for this very reason. The entire 1980s was thus composed of several highly typical writing domains, and their simultaneous emergence, which is unlikely to be accidental, can be considered a completely exceptional phenomenon in literary history. The field that Jean ésn?z pioneered carries all the symbols around us, and it is undoubtedly one of the fastest ways to enter it. But once inside, readers will discover an astonishing machine—a true accelerator of meaning.