Golden Age

Golden Age

by Wang Xiaobo

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"The Golden Age" includes the novellas "The Golden Age", "Standing at Thirty", "The Years Go by", "Love in the Revolutionary Period" and "My Yin and Yang", etc.

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Z*92mo ago

golden age

People in the golden age are dreamy and passionate. All the people here are real. Their characters and actions are real and persistent. Everything that happens reflects the truest humanity, and everyone acts according to their true thoughts. The stories in the article may seem absurd, but they are all the most real people created in different times and under different circumstances. They are persistent in doing the most real things. I think sex is not Wang Xiaobo's focus (of course not). Sex belongs to everyone and is everyone's nature. It's just that it rarely appears in literary works nowadays, so many people only remember this description. I think the golden age describes an era. Reality. A very deep reality is the biggest feature. We can chew on a lot of things in this kind of reality.

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strive.99mo ago

His little monk, who is more than a foot long, is really too much! If I hadn't studied mathematics and knew how to measure one meter and three feet, I would be damned, I'm really good at it!

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Shiju Lingxi89mo ago

The beauty of little people and big times

It took me a long time to read this book, much longer than I originally planned. As for the reason, the main reason was that I lost interest in reading it. However, I read two of them relatively quickly and continuously. The main reason was that they were interesting to read. The author himself said in the postscript that some people criticized his three works for "lack of positive themes and inability to inspire people to make progress". This is exactly what I meant, and I wanted to use this to comment on the significance of literary works. In fact, our daily behaviors, such as eating, drinking, spreading firewood, rice, oil and salt, have small meanings in a small way, such as keeping us alive; but they also have big meanings in a big way, such as realizing the Chinese dream. One of the important missions of literary works is to describe the beauty of life and the beauty of life. At this point, these three works of the author have done it and they are very, very good! The reason why I say this is because it is rare for him to write so interestingly about life in that specific era. Such bold and straightforward descriptions of sex and love were taboo at the time. Although most of the descriptions are wild sexual fantasies, this is really the best thing in the life of some little people. If the whole article is a textbook-like sermon, how many people will be interested in reading it?

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Wonderland💜86mo ago

The writing is straightforward and bold, and the author's rebelliousness is reflected in every sentence, and the characters are vividly written. Especially Wang Xiaoer, who dares to love and speak out without hiding his true thoughts. In reality, most people live with masks. Very few people can truly live their lives and think that their existence is existence itself. However, some of the storylines are a bit too much for my age😬, but some of the sentences are quite philosophical and make people think. Maybe if I read this book again in ten years, I think I may be able to understand the author's intention better, and I will have a completely different feeling than when I read it now.

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Natalieeeeee98mo ago

Wang Xiaobo has a kind of transparency and courage that ordinary people don't have. Each of his books carries his soul. His language seems absurd, but in fact it is this absurd language and absurd thoughts that have become his label. Under this label, lies his understanding of the world. Isn't the world also absurd? So why don't we face it with the same attitude?

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Give a Stink104mo ago

I remember when I was a freshman in high school, my Chinese teacher told me not to read Wang Xiaobo and Wang Shuo's books, saying they were a bit silly. I'll read it when I'm older, and after listening to her words, I read a lot of their books hahaha.

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Z107mo ago

golden age

Use a unique way to describe life in this world, as independent as the author. I like that sentence: "I was twenty-one years old that day, in my golden age." I have many extravagant wishes, I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to become a half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant. Later I realized that life is a slow process of being hammered. As people get older day by day, their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and finally they become like a bull that has been hammered. But I didn't foresee this when I celebrated my twenty-first birthday. I feel like I will always be strong and nothing can beat me. &Quot;

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8023 Meters86mo ago

Love is an instinct, not a sin.

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23℃94mo ago

Works by Wang Xiaobo recommended by friends I read it on and off for four months. In my impression, there are a lot of sexual descriptions in his works, which are shocking but not clichéd. They have a fresh and natural feeling. I think this is why his works are praised.

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Ideal City93mo ago

This is a book about human sex, but it is too pornographic, indicating that this way of writing is unacceptable...

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