Legend of Dzi Beads

About This Novel

This book contains three novellas with different themes and styles, all of which are Fei Ying's new works in the past eight months: "Xing Zehuan", "Reverse Scenery" and "The Legend of Dzi Beads". The main line of "Xing Zehuan" is the experience of a "little antique dealer" returning home. With prose style and flowing rhythm, he connects his subtle feelings about material, history, time and space, and memory, and captures various traces of people and things. "Reverse Scenery" is a "fantasy" novel in the modern literary style, and it is also a written theater constructed with traditional Chinese literary images: a person has no dreams because he has no words, but even without words, he can speak and poetry. Once you realize that "poetry" has occurred, the dream begins. This explains the connection and contingency of text-consciousness-dream-event. "The Legend of Dzi Beads" is divided into three parts, which can also be regarded as an extremely condensed novel: "Chinatown" details the daily life of various immigrant groups in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (and "me" who has expired residence); "Research Career" tells about "me" as an antique dealer and my colleagues' working methods and the current situation of the industry, and "me" as a history student "The research and exploration of Idar beads; the main plot of "The Legend of Dzi Beads" took place in Taiwan. During several interactions with the bead hunter Riga, "I" came to the "Institute of Bead Scientists" and witnessed the imitation process of the "fourth generation" Dzi beads. I accidentally entered a party and watched the small missionary site of Ms. K, who considered herself a contemporary successor of theosophy. The closest "I" remember to Idar was at a gem exchange meeting on the German-French border. Thomas, an antique dealer who was traveling with him, told me about his great-grandfather who had too many orders for European agate and his eyes were half-blind due to constant punching.

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