Time Flows Like Gold
by Wen Jieruo
About This Novel
This collection contains nearly thirty essays by Mr. Wen Jieruo. The book is divided into four volumes. The first volume is "Home and Books", "I'm Afraid of Walking through Goldfish Alley", "My Junior High School Life" and "My Starting Point". It recalls the birthplace of Goldfish Alley in Peiping, his early years of studying at Japanese Elementary School, Sacred Heart School, and Fu Jen Catholic High School for Girls, the bitter memories of the family's loss due to his father's unemployment during the Anti-Japanese War, and his experience in starting his career in Sanlian after graduating from university. The second volume, "Remembering Xiao Qian", "Literary Marriage" and "Warm Memories", describe the 45 years of ups and downs that she and her husband Xiao Qian went through together. The third volume pursues senior teachers and friends such as Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Shen Congwen, and Nie Gannu; "The Later Years of the Master of Kuyuzhai", "Zhou Zuoren and His Children and Grandsons", and "Zhou Zuoren and Tanizaki Junichiro" describe the desolate old man Qiming who fought side by side with Lu Xun during the May Fourth Movement, which helps us understand the other side of this "traitorous scholar". The fourth volume includes two essays on James Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses".
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