The Boundaries of Civilization (read Everyone)
by Ge Fei
About This Novel
After the publication of "Looking at the Spring Breeze", the confusion and worry about the decline of rural civilization or the rise of urbanization aroused are still lingering. From 2018 to 2020, Ge Fei took the "Novel Narrative Research" class in the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University to think about these issues in the context of the history of modern novels. He selected three cases from novelists since the mid-19th century to discuss the changes in social, historical and cultural concepts over the past 100 years, thus forming this vivid literary lecture volume - "The Boundaries of Civilization". This book focuses on the Austrian writer Robert Musil, the Japanese writer Naoya Shiga and the American writer Melville. From "The Man Without Personality", "Walking in the Dark" to "Moby-Dick", Ge Fei takes readers through the forest of literature to visit these three restless modern hermits. Strong questioning and reflection on the process of modern civilization are the common characteristics of all great novels since the 19th century. This volume of literary lectures, from the perspective of an intermediary in the natural transition from tradition to modern civilization, asks: What is the boundary of modern civilization? Where exactly is it taking us?
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