Wang Xiaobo Collection

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Wang Xiaobo is currently one of the most creative writers in China. He is a genius that crystallizes from the suffering and absurdity of China in the past half-century. His works offer a thoroughly ironic response to all the absurdity and suffering in our lives. He has also done what no one has ever thought of or had the ability to achieve. He rejects the soft, sentimental, and servile tradition of modern Chinese literature, embracing instead the critical, reflective, and imaginative spirit of Bertrand Russell, Italo Calvino, and others. At the same time, he creatively connects this tradition with the playful spirit of ancient Chinese fiction. The Iron Age: This book includes the fourth work in the author's "Times" series, The Iron Age, the novella 2010, and early manuscripts that have long been celebrated—The Green Monster, The Song Fairy, This Is True, and The Metamorphosis. If the first two works are a logical progression of the Times Trilogy, then the latter, though seemingly immature, are written with fluent prose and fresh imagery, already revealing the author's literary talent. They hold significant value in understanding the gradual maturation of the writer's creative process.