Ten Lectures on Literature and Film: Traveling in an Infinite World
by Li Siyi
About This Novel
With a highly speculative perspective and easy-to-understand writing style, this book focuses on the relationship between literature and film and dissects a large number of Chinese and foreign literature, film, and art classics, from "The Book of Songs" and "Sou Shen Ji" to Lu Xun and Zhang Ailing, from "Hamlet" and "Don Quixote" to "The Metamorphosis". ""Reminiscences of Lost Time", from Jia Zhangke and Jiang Wen to "Rashomon", "Inception" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel"... Explores 70+ works, involving 50+ writers, filmmakers, artists, and philosophers, interprets literary works in depth, and explains in detail the basic knowledge of movies. In order to compare the original literary work and the film adaptation and establish a new dialogue between the two, the author returned to the work and used in-depth text reading skills to place the work in the context of the historical era and provide cultural reflection. In his writing, "Border Town" written by Shen Congwen in the 1930s was to treat the personal illness caused by history; "The Sun Also Rises" about the 1960s wanted to say something about history; "Alive" and the fifth-generation directors in the 1990s moved from the pursuit of enlightenment to the opposite of enlightenment - observing movies with literature and history as reference systems, and seeing how movies act as conspirators of the spirit of the times. The author's writing is full of sympathy and understanding, but also extremely critical. This book is not a boring academic work piled with footnotes. Instead, it combines literary interpretation, film criticism, and philosophical thinking. Within the space of ten lectures, it uses refined language to peel off the cocoons of difficult theories, with frequent golden sentences. "Popular yet profound, short yet broad", "it has the momentum to cover 'literature, film and everything else' in the form of ten lectures". Open it and reach the infinite world of literature and movies.
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