Volume: Yu Jian Collection - Notes on the World

Author: Yu Jian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The words and lines of Notes from the Human World flow with Yu Jian's sense of mission as a poet and writer, and the solemnity of his writing. Despite the fact that it is not difficult to encounter the pretentiousness, grandiosity, and self-promotion in writing at any time, which are completely alien to Yu Jian's writing, and despite the fact that the aesthetic term "sublime" has long been included in the list of things Yu Jian is determined to eliminate, as it is too closely associated with the political concept of "high, great, and all-encompassing." The sense of mission and solemnity in Notes from the Human World comes from the author's reckoning with the current state of existence, especially the living conditions of people who have endured the long political era of the "Cultural Revolution," as well as an in-depth inquiry into the political, historical, national, cultural, and other factors that have contributed to this state. "Man dwells poetically on the earth" was originally a line by the German poet H?lderlin, and in Heidegger's philosophy, it was elevated to the highest humanistic ideal of existence. Once Heidegger's philosophical thought becomes the ultimate pursuit or the last retreat in Notes from the Human World, Yu Jian enters into philosophical contemplation and reflection through his prose.