Abstract Notes

Author: Shi Tiesheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: We will silently gaze, across the vast space and the endless time, gazing at the beauty and impermanence of life, savoring the richness and brevity of history. He or I, motionless yet deeply moved. He turns the handle of his wheelchair, the wheelchair moves forward, backward, circles, spins 180 degrees, 360 degrees, 720 degrees—like a dance, like a newly invented game, with no background, no land, not even a blue sky. He sits there, moving lightly, spinning skillfully, as if he has mastered this game. Notes on a Blank Page is a long novel composed of twenty-two sections, narrating the impact of social transformations since the 1950s on a generation of people, including the disabled C, the painter Z, the female teacher O, the poet L, the doctor F, and the female director N. This book is Shi Tiesheng's first novel and also his semi-autobiographical work. In the rest of my life, I may never see those two children again. I think those two children would never have imagined, would never think, that after their (accidental play), they were written into a book by someone.