So Joyful, so Sad: Random Readings of 20th Century Literary Classics
by Wu Xiaodong
About This Novel
In any era, novels are a metaphor for the relationship between self and the world. If you want to understand the living world of mankind in the 20th century and understand the spiritual condition of mankind in the 20th century, reading the modernist literary classics of the 20th century is the most feasible way. From Kafka, we can understand the profound and secret thoughts of the prophet, the lonely foresight and allegorical communication; from the young Camus, we can feel what passion is and learn what rebellion is; from Kundera, we can understand the endless pursuit of human living conditions and existence itself; from Borges's encyclopedia, we can understand the overall pattern of the world... It is these that bring about the experience of literature, the understanding of classics and the understanding of the picture of human existence. At the same time, from the perspective of Chinese literature, the despair of the "madman", the local memory of Fei Ming, Zhang Ailing's perceptual world, and Bei Dao's spiritual journey once again lead us to perceive those dreams, sensibility, rebellion, loss and suffering. So joyful, so sad.
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