7 Betrayals: The Shocking Voice of Traditional Prose

Author: Nan Fan, Zhou Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: What is meant by an "event"? Where does an "event" begin, end, focus, and center? Any unique discovery will not repeat a predetermined narrative form. Conversely—any unique narration implies some discovery. This batch of writers' narratives rearranges the world I have long been accustomed to, resulting in strange outcomes. A series of familiar proportions and orientations have shifted: some scenes shrink, disappear, or rotate to the shaded side, while long-lost scenes return to the center of vision, thus, long-dusted aspects of life are astonishingly reappearing. The world has been changed by words. This batch of writers continues to write silently. They may not be aware that their essays simultaneously open up the conventions of life. What is the meaning of literature? Isn't literature about opening up the various possibilities of imagining life?