Wang Shuo Collection: Never Treat Me Like a Person

Author: Wang Shuo
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Wang Shuo is lonely in our time, as he has persistently upheld the tradition of realism in Chinese literature and the spirit of facing life. Most people are deceived by the superficial playfulness and rogue-like tone of his work, failing to see that he is, at his core, a true enlightenmentist. They overlook the profound humanistic spirit revealed in his novels, his compassion for the underdogs, his longing for love, and his yearning for the value of individual existence. These books were written ten years ago or earlier. At that time, I was very self-assured, believed in many things, distrusted many things, had strong desires, and thought that what I knew was everything. The people, scenarios, and conversations in these books are from my experiences back then, and they were not particularly extraordinary in life. I only found them interesting because I didn’t know more, and I wrote them down with a sense of pretentiousness. These scenarios are gone, these people have scattered, the living have aged prematurely, and I no longer speak or view myself in the same way. Sometimes, I feel that I have lost the ability to continue writing.