The Scent of Novels

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Writers must use language to write their works, creating or using language as a medium for smells, colors, temperatures, shapes. Without language, nothing exists. The reason literary works can be translated is that language carries concrete content. Therefore, from the perspective of facilitating translation, novelists must also strive to write about feelings, creating a world with a sense of life. Only with feelings can emotions arise. A novel without a sense of life cannot move people's hearts. Let us all the smells in our memories and follow them to search for our past lives, our love, our pain, our joy, our loneliness, our youth, our mothers, and everything we have, just as Proust used a madeleine cookie to return to the past.