Love Gallery

Author: Zhang Kankang
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book expresses the deep love ideals of a portion of intellectuals, a segment of the white-collar class, some artists, and ordinary people who yearn for a noble life. The novel portrays "sex" and "love" through the aesthetic values of women, attempting to replace literary narration with the language of artistic painting. As readers walk through this long gallery, admiring the images born of love, which in turn give birth to love, speak of love, and are themselves spoken by love, will you also feel the tremors of the characters' inner passions, the warmth in their murmurs, the profound sorrow, and the ultimate rational light that overcomes their selves? It is a beautiful text about love, with the story set between the misty Jiangnan small town and the rugged northern metropolis. The physical beauty of the female protagonist in the novel only holds value when it becomes a symbol of her spirit. To completely reject the cultural legacy imposed on women by history, the protagonist abandons her original family and leaves her daughter. The traditional "maternity" and a woman's "self" clash violently. The close mother-daughter relationship no longer constitutes a cultural inheritance but instead becomes a betrayal and interruption, reducing them to independent individuals. This book expresses the deep love ideals of a portion of intellectuals, a segment of the white-collar class, some artists, and ordinary people who yearn for a noble life. Zhou You, carrying a painting case, aimlessly strolls through Suzhou City. He is sluggish all over, his face despondent, his mood at its worst. His wide overcoat is not even buttoned, swaying loosely on his shoulders as he fans himself against his legs. Since last autumn, when he sold his proudest painting of a nude, he has been...