Stamp album. Menagerie (Russian Booker Prize Novel Series)

Author: Liu Wenfei
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The protagonist is a scientist, a "dead soul," who was sentenced to death but managed to escape. After that, he constantly changes his wandering path among the world, hiding in cellars, and remaining invisible in sheds, living next to prostitutes and companions with corpses, wandering at the bottom of society. At the same time, he has been engaged in profound genetic and chromosome research, exploring the mysteries of cells and the human body, trying to unravel whether human good and evil are inherited. The Russian word "cell" originally means "cage." The novel also contains a dual meaning: to the protagonist, the people around him are an inescapable "cage of beasts," and human nature is often constrained by tiny "cells." The liberation of individuality faces numerous shackles. It is a realistic work full of absurdity. The author was born in 1930 and began publishing works in the 1980s. The protagonist follows the growth of a little boy as a, using the collection of his family over 20 years to reflect the historical fate of the Russian nation in half a century. There is no continuous plot in the book, and there is also little of the author's subjective narration. More of it is an original record of specific people, events, and things, including a large number of direct quotations, making it a work with a strong postmodern style.