Chen Danyan · The Log Has Become a Boat

Author: Chen Danyan
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Whenever I visit an important museum and see something I like, which matches the prints I've seen in books before, I start to feel exhausted, unable to eat or drink, as if in a trance. Before even stepping out of the museum gate, I've already mixed up all the things I've seen. After leaving the museum gate, I must find a place to sit down and calm down properly. I remember, one time, I sat quietly at a café for a while, then wrote a postcard. I remember writing a sentence: "I saw the face of beauty from before." But who exactly was that face, I've already mixed them all up. This book is a travelogue to Europe written by Chen Danyan over a decade of accumulation. Walking past the memorable treasures collected by humans, watching how the world and oneself transform from wood into a boat.