Strangers Who Became Friends - The Literary Volume

Author: Zhang Shengyou
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Publish Date: 1995-01-01
Features: At the intersection of leisure and busyness, in the gaps between war and peace, they compose odes to the lives of great figures with brushstrokes that are either simple or passionate, delicate or concise; they describe human environments and people within those environments; they assess the meaning of life; reveal the natural and unnatural circumstances of human existence; they capture the simple wisdom of humanity. Perhaps all of this is too much for the essay to bear. This volume presents to the readers the masterpieces of writers and poets who created these spiritual treasures. Solzhenitsyn said, "There exists a derivative literature, and its quantity is considerable. It is literature about literature, literature around literature, literature that produces literature." These words offer a close understanding of the concept of the essay, which is often detached from the masterpieces of the great masters. At the intersection of leisure and busyness, in the gaps between war and peace, they compose odes to the lives of great figures with brushstrokes that are either simple or passionate, delicate or concise; they describe human environments and people within those environments; they assess the meaning of life; reveal the natural and unnatural circumstances of human existence; they capture the simple wisdom of humanity. Perhaps all of this is too much for the essay to bear.