Mu Shiying's Famous Article: Pierrot
by Mu Shiying
About This Novel
"PIERROT" is a common clown in European dramas, especially in French pantomimes. The whitened cheeks, the loose white clothes, the expression that seems to be smiling but not smiling, and wanting to cry but not crying, are like the companions of the deprived people, the lonely fellow sufferers. Mu Shiying has written about "PIERROT" type characters in many works. Although such works have different styles and themes, people who have fallen off and have no "home" to return to, who fell off modern trains but failed to catch up, and who end up wandering around, can all be seen as the "fallen PIERROT" that Mu Shiying loved and wrote about repeatedly. By repeatedly writing and depicting travelers who have lost their homes and roots, the writer responds to the real life situations of modern people - all living people will eventually understand that the journey to escape from the world can never be completed, and chasing the passing modern years is only in vain. In the end, we can only paint the pale face of a clown, seeming to be happy but angry, looking at the other shore from a distance, and casting a gaze that says "there is neither sorrow nor joy". It is in this sense that "PIERROT" makes Mu Shiying one of the best modern writers in modern China.
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