Spartan - A Sample of Southern Life (Novel): A Sample of Southern Life

Author: Kang He
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A long novel capable of surpassing all contemporary Chinese fiction. The foremost representative of Chinese underground literature, first published in "Today" magazine edited by Bei Dao, a U.S. editor, causing a stir in the Western Chinese literary world. Known as China's "Ulysses," this grand epic is an encyclopedia of the decadent and declining Chinese underclass. It pushes the boundaries of sex, emotion, business, philosophy, history, and politics to the extreme. Full of eroticism yet not obscene, bizarre yet thrilling. "Without preconceptions, only presenting. With the proud spirit and scale of Sparta, it presents the daily adventures of the streets, a picture of a city, and a sample of life in the south." This is the overall style and narrative quality of the book. The solemn heroism of the collective, the trivial individual adventures of the citizens, wrapped in desires and passions, the legendary waves of a charming pure will, which form the foundation of the epic existence. Beyond critique, the lyrical intention persists longer, and this is "Sparta."