Final draft 2000

Author: Liu Manliu
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Features: Following the compilation of Unfinished Manuscripts of This Century, the author has again named this collection Unfinished Manuscripts, aiming to demonstrate a certain continuity in writing. The "2000" merely marks the specific time of this collection, while the actual writing span extends from the 1980s to before the compilation.
If the book is compared to a building, relative to those completed literary giants, the author is willing to emphasize the unfinished nature of this work. The chapters, organized according to different timeframes and directions, grow freely like the imagined "book within a book," temporarily gathered together. Fragmentary Words are merely components or sketches, Excerpts from Notebooks are like self-training exercises calling for craftsmanship, Collected Fragments can basically be seen as a temporary construction, and Seven Dreams indeed form meaningful experimental models. Ultimately, they rely on "7" — a number that holds a magical appeal for the author — to provide them with shelter from the wind and rain. As the imagined passage, From A to Z is also only just beginning to take on a certain completeness in an architectural sense.
Unfinished Manuscripts attempts to express its effort toward the absolute direction of forming a book. It merely indicates a new direction — writing is not about seeking a, but language is home. This is precisely what the author is happy to share with the readers.