Wang Meng Volume

Author: Guan Shengli
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Remember the late autumn of 1953! That very ordinary evening, in the quiet moment, the young life of Wang Meng was filled with love and reflections on life. He could no longer suppress the life he was experiencing—this life that was stirring the entire nation, this life that made his young existence burn like fire. He wanted to transform his creative passion into literary works to record history, depict life, and preserve all the beautiful things and people of our nation in his writing, ensuring they would be chronicled in the annals of the construction of the new China. In the course of Wang Meng's life experiences and literary creation, he always approached life with a philosophical mindset, using literary expression to try to find the beauty in life and to find better reasons for existence. Through his own reflections on life and the price of youth, and through his personal experience of historical processes, he demonstrated to us the existence of ordinary yet profound life. From this process filled with artificially manufactured absurdity and contradictions, we can see the classic combinations of life—Wang Meng's joys and sorrows, struggles and perseverance, spirit and body, smiles and tears, losses and achievements.