The Spiritual Private History of Intellectuals -- An Interpretation of Taiwanese Modernist Fiction

Author: Zhu Lili
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Features: This book not only discusses well-known works and famous authors that have received extensive reviews but also focuses on less explored, yet uniquely individual writers and texts that the author considers distinctive, such as Wang Shangyi, Li Yongping, and Wang Wenxing's The Man Behind the Sea. It examines several independent yet closely related issues or perspectives. 1. Existentialism, as a cultural trend, is inherent in the spiritual circumstances of Taiwanese youth intellectuals; as a cultural thought, it is also reflected in the intricate texture of modernist novels. This perspective has been repeatedly mentioned but has never been fully elaborated. This paper aims to achieve a balance between analyzing cultural trends and interpreting specific texts, gaining some novel insights and perspectives. This section discusses several issues: , the relationship between existentialist philosophy and literature. Second, existentialist trends in the cultural context of post-war Taiwan; third, modernist novels and the courage of existence.