Which one, Arendt?

Author: Hannah Arendt
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: "I" graduated from a renowned Chinese Department of a famous university. Throughout my growth into adulthood, I have always felt hungry. Even after completing my graduate studies, I still looked like a little girl. After a series of struggles involving men, "I" came to Shanghai with a frustrated and seemingly aged man. We lived in a cave. "I"、、, but never stayed long in any of these jobs. Finally, "I" abandoned all illusions and waited for the next unemployment. This book is the physical and spiritual history of an author born in the late 1970s. She wants to say—love and sex are bloody; betrayal is one of human nature; everyone's homeland is disappearing; poverty hurts us, even after it disappears. I love the screams hidden behind the author's words. That voice makes me believe her pain and strength. It is a wild, confessional novel, with the core of a burning, anxious body and a rebellious, freedom-seeking soul. The work is filled with both narcissism and self-destructive emotions. The description of the body's sensory love is passionate, unrestrained, and even a bit neurotic. But it matches the characters' abnormal state perfectly, almost seamlessly. If chasing one's own shadow is not a good work, then this book is an exception. Due to the author's extraordinary sensitivity, the texture of her words is extremely brilliant and unique. The shadows that linger around her become endearing, and thus, this purely personal physical and spiritual history gains the power to move others. — Su Tong
This is a clever novel. The author uses a ruthless emotional intelligence and a fierce intellect to show her cleverness in observing people and the world. The part that depicts campus life is written in a rap-style "rapping style," blending anger and anti-irony, heartache and helplessness, cruelty and tenderness—numerous emotional categories of contemporary youth, mottled and turbid. In the latter part of the novel, the plot suddenly becomes singular. As the novel says, the last third of the work could actually "shut down the narrative and the memory," showing only that crucial, dazzling "15 minutes"—not more, not less, "just 15 minutes." — Huang Jiwei
《，！》 is a clever novel, especially in the first half. The author uses a ruthless emotional intelligence and a fierce intellect to show her cleverness in observing people and the world. The part that depicts campus life is written in a rap-style "rapping style," blending anger and anti-irony, heartache and helplessness, cruelty and tenderness—numerous emotional categories of contemporary youth, mottled and turbid. However, in the latter part of the novel, the plot suddenly becomes singular, and the of confinement and vision is particularly outdated compared to the first half. As the novel says, the last 1/3 of the work could actually "shut down the narrative and the memory," showing only the 2/3 of that dazzling "15 minutes"—not more, not less, "just 15 minutes." 《，！》 describes a girl's love experiences and expresses her views on infidelity, sex, and life, including her experiences with a hard life. Overall, the structure of the work is rather chaotic, and the story is not very smooth. The narrative rhythm and writing style of the beginning and end do not match. The first half has a fast pace and rougher language, while the latter part gradually becomes more leisurely in rhythm and more detailed in language, occasionally revealing the author's sharp talent.