Love Dogs and Love Men -- The Second in Suzhou Woman's Trilogy

Author: Tang Xiaoling
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: When people think of Suzhou, they think of beauty, but beauty does not equal goodness. Beauty is neither good nor evil; it is merely a miracle of fragility and decay in the world. Tang Xiaoling writes about "Women of Suzhou," a beauty that is magnificent yet tragic, like a lonely soul blooming passionately yet serenely under candlelight at a night banquet. Her novels engage with this era in a peculiar way: they bring ancient nightmares into the human world. Tang Xiaoling is now very skilled at capturing the right subjects according to her temperament and talent, finding the perfect entry point to create a realm that is poetic yet painterly. In her artistic sensibility, she perceives dreams, yet she also achieves artistic elevation of reality through the weaving of dreams. At the wine table, Tang Xiaoling is bold and skilled, somewhat embodying the spirit of "women who do not yield to men."
What is Tang Xiaoling's writing state like? I am not entirely sure, but even from the lines between the words in her novels, one can discern a sense of it. Her literature is bold yet refined—it flows freely with passion yet is meticulously crafted with careful arrangement, striving to reach a state of effortless control over restraint and expression.