Wang Xiaobo's Complete Novels: The Golden Age

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The three novels in this collection are included in the same volume, with the only commonality between them being that the protagonists are all named Wang Er. Additionally, they share a common theme. I believe readers will conclude that the theme is our lives after reading them, and they will also think that no one has ever written about our lives in this way. At the beginning of the last century, an impressionist painter created a series of London landscape paintings, which caused a great sensation when exhibited in London. His skies were all red. The audience naturally thought the painter was deliberately trying to be unconventional, but when they stepped out of the gallery and looked up at the sky, they found that due to pollution, the sky in London was indeed brick red. The sky should be blue, but it was red in reality; just as our lives should not be as I have written them, yet in reality, they are exactly as I have written them. In this book, The Golden Age was serialized in Taiwan's United Daily News, while Love in a Revolutionary Time and My Yin-Yang World were also published in domestic periodicals. There is one more thing to say about this book: At the beginning of the last century, the person who painted the London sky red was later called the "inventor of the London sky." I have written about our lives. If someone says that I am the inventor of this kind of life, I absolutely cannot accept that. As everyone knows, the right to invent this belongs to greater figures and greater forces.