Half a Lifetime of Books: Searching for the Literary Soul of the Century
by Li Li
About This Novel
As one of the first writers in the United States to visit the mainland in the 1980s, the author Ms. Li Li had the opportunity to interact with the older generation of writers and scholars that others could not hope for. Under the guidance of Mr. Fan Yong, she visited Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Ba Jin, Shen Congwen, Huang Yongyu, Ai Qing, Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, Li Ziyun... Yin Haiguang and Chen Yingzhen from Taiwan were also the author's literary enlighteners and old friends. Therefore, "Half Life of Books" centers on these twelve characters, using inscriptions and picture structures to record their texts in each period. The author compiled it into a book and found that "half a life has passed in a flash" and "all people and books will grow old", but he still hopes that these chapters about people and books, love and fate can become "a historical witness of literature and culture, and a profile sketch of national writing in the 20th century."
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