Centennial Curse
by That Much
About This Novel
The famous writer Zweig reviewed his life in the form of an autobiography and wrote "The World of Yesterday". In this autobiography, he spent a lot of time recording the series of mysterious deaths he encountered, as well as the fact that none of the actors related to his scripts were spared the misfortune of death. Later, Zweig and his wife Altmann committed suicide in their apartment on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... This book is based on this story and is made of bold imagination, reasoning, and fiction. At the beginning of the novel, a famous Shanghai actor dies mysteriously. The deceased's nephew, Philadelphia, discovered a manuscript of Zweig's play that had never been published while cleaning up his belongings, and decided to put it on the stage in China. Just as Philadelphia was preparing for this, the curse that was once believed to have cursed Zweig reappeared a hundred years later... In order to break the curse, Philadelphia risked his life to explore and kept working hard. Han Chang, a female graduate student in the Department of Psychology, tried to use scientific methods to resolve a deep crisis on the verge of a curse. A breakthrough was made in their research when a female artist associated with Zweig's manuscript died mysteriously. Only then did Philadelphia realize that his uncle's death was not due to illness, but a murder of love, and the female artist who had just died was most likely the murderer. The serial murder case has revealed the tip of the iceberg, and the so-called curse seems to be fading away, but many secret signs tell Philadelphia that a more severe curse is rapidly emerging. The clouds are far from dissipating, and the haze is getting heavier... The author embeds real historical events into fictional suspense stories, and cleverly Combining the mysticism trend, Freudian psychoanalysis, the unknown story of the Surrealist master Dali, and the mysterious hints of the great writer Zweig as the background of the novel, this novel becomes a masterpiece that combines many elements such as history, suspense, art, and thriller. No matter how advanced science and technology is, there are still many phenomena in this world that are difficult to explain. The author's strong desire to explore has resulted in this almost perfect work, and the author's compassionate and humanistic feelings are permeated between the lines. While covering up, it helps us learn to have more respect for the world.
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