Rose Spring Light

Author: Wang Meng
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Publishing Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Wang Meng once said, "I write the short stories; the long stories write me." So what else did Wang Meng put into this collection of his middle and short stories from the 1990s? Is it a memorial for a time that has passed? Is it a pursuit, a rejection—against fatigue and numbness, against the mindset of a complacent old grandpa? In the contrast between memory and the present, what role does time play! Isn't the solemn melancholy of time enough to ponder over? And in some absurd, dreamlike stories (so it has to be taken seriously), do they really contain a certain unfortunate yet prescient foresight? Read on, think about it, and you'll see everything becomes clear.