Passable
by Yang Kui
About This Novel
"Memory" is the theme and tone of "Getting By". The updated edition adds two new articles, "Notes from Northern Jiangsu" and "No. 19, Xinjiekouwai Street", recalling childhood and youth. Yang Kui said that the standard for a good article is "not pretentious", so I just write some memories honestly. Real people and real things are all my own experiences, which have had an impact on the formation of my outlook on life and the world. Yang Kui was born in a family of literature and art. He was born in northern Jiangsu in 1968. In 1979, he moved back to Beijing with his parents to implement the policy. He lived in the cadre dormitories of the Chinese Writers Association and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, living next to the older generation of senior literary and art cadres such as Lu Ling, Shu Qun, and Li Zhun. He studied at Beijing Normal University in the late 1980s, and worked as a book editor at Writers Publishing House in the 1990s. During his more than ten years of editing career, he has dealt with hundreds of authors such as Bing Xin, Acheng, and Wang Anyi. Yang Kui's rich personal experience makes his writing rich in material. However, he is modest and restrained, and does not write in a cathartic style. He only pursues the beauty and power of words, and what he writes from his heart. The stories he chooses to record are not based on the person's reputation or the depth of his personal relationship, but only on whether the story is interesting.
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