Existential Works -- Short Stories. Running Water

Author: Chen Dongdong
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This book is a new collection of essays by the contemporary young poet Chen Dongdong. The structure of the work is shaped by the thoughts of the writer and philosopher, taking the famous Chinese musical piece "Flowing Water" as the creative starting point. It boldly expands imagination, describing and foreseeing the logical relationships between the past and the present, art and life, and life and life in a pioneering and personalized manner. The "prose" of "Flowing Water" oscillates between poetry and fiction. The writing of "Flowing Water" also represents the author's effort to complete "a book." "Short Stories" collects several of the author's fictional prose works, while "Flowing Water" aims to be the "premeditated" and "architecturally crafted" book that Mallarmé spoke of. On several occasions, the author has said that the goal of a poet is precisely to write such a book. The words of "Flowing Water" are full of the empty structure of the borrowed ancient melody. Has it become such a book? With the strictness and possible humility that only belongs to the author, the author would like to say that measured by Mallarmé's standards, "Flowing Water" is probably only half a book. --This "Short Stories · Flowing Water," which appears to be a combination of two books, is probably only half a book.