Abandoned Capital
by Jia Pingwa
About This Novel
The most controversial work in the contemporary literary world, a strange book with mixed reviews. When the book came out in 1993, Mr. Ji Xianlin predicted that "Abandoned Capital" would shine brightly in 20 years. In 1997, he won the French Femina Literary Prize, the first time for an Asian writer to win this honor. In 2003, he won the Honorary Award for Literature and Art of the French Republic. This is a history of Chinese social customs in the 1980s, a worldly novel describing the life of contemporary intellectuals. The novel is based on the contemporary life of Xi'an, an ancient capital with a long history and culture. It describes the daily lives of the "four celebrities": the "idle scholar" writer Zhuang Zhidie, the calligrapher Gong Jingyuan, the painter Wang Ximian and the artist Ruan Zhifei, and shows a condensed and diverse "abandoned capital" landscape of Xijing. The author uses the emotional entanglement between Zhuang Zhidie and several women as the main line, and uses Ruan Zhifei and other celebrities to intersperse the narratives as the auxiliary line. Among the many women, Tang Wan'er, Liu Yue, and Niu Yueqing have created the most successful and lovable characters for him. These characters, who are full of spirituality, emotional intelligence and classical tragedy, embody the author's highest aesthetic ideal.
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In fact, there is a lot of smoke and fire
The Abandoned Capital is based on the ancient capital of Xijing (Xi'an), and focuses on the trivial life of Zhuang Zhidie, a cultural celebrity in the capital. Although it is daily life, the whole book is not complicated or verbose, and is very simple and realistic. Zhuang Zhidie is a cultural celebrity. He is sought after and admired by ordinary people, but at the same time he also needs to bear the worries of celebrities. After he had spiritual and physical exchanges with Tang Wan'er, Liu Yue and Can'er, the original rhythm of his life was also broken. His wife Yue Qing was a good wife, kind and decent, but she could not satisfy the desires of men. Things in the aristocratic family are inherently right and wrong. People all look at problems from their own perspective, and the public sees things from the perspective of bystanders, so their perspectives are the same, which gives rise to the so-called concept of right and wrong, and the concept of morality! In short, people are probably in turmoil because of what they don't have. In the face of irrelevant rights and wrongs, they can only constantly improve and strengthen themselves, so as not to suddenly fall into hell one day!
This is a very good literary work, but it had to be cut out before I could read it.
Wasteland, now there are wastewoods, they seem to be connected together
In the end, it was an abandoned city with no more people. The prosperous ones continued to be prosperous, and the lonely ones were still lonely. Whatever fame and power they wanted, it would all come to nothing. It was better to live a comfortable life than that old man. Destroy others and destroy yourself.
Those things about Zhuang Zhidie
I was born in the late 1990s. I heard the living habits and styles of my parents and even my ancestors from their own words, but I also got a general idea from TV and books. Zhuang Zhidie, a great writer in the 1970s, um, very popular. It must be said that in that era when compulsory education was not yet universal and most people were still illiterate, the worship of intellectuals was like a torrential river that could not be stopped. In the Republic of China, he was a man of great influence. Even if he had a wife, there would be all kinds of beauties around him, whether they were fat or thin, they were all at your disposal! So certain things, ahem, are naturally consensual. After all, I am still a baby and cannot understand. I finally understand the word "dressed as a beast", Zhuang Zhidie, do you still remember that you are a man with a wife and a family? You are a nanny and a friend. People in the city are not as bold as you and know how to play. Even men can dip into pig cages in ancient times! Zhu Zhiwen once said: Don't cheat if you are famous! You are famous and cheated! Thinking about it now, if you were born in the 1960s and 1970s like Zhuang Zhidie, what would you do? Text: Chongyi
Why can't such famous books be read for free, but those junk books are popping up unscrupulously? It's really sad!
The writing technique is excellent, but Jia Pingwa's novels make people unable to see the sunny side of the sunflower, but show the things on the back to people bit by bit with a microscope-like technique, which makes people doubt society and hate the sadness of life!
A masterpiece, a classic master, and a beacon of modern literature.
In 1994, I had the book in hand. I read it a hundred or eight times and lent it out many times. When I came back, I was bruised and bruised. When I read this book, it was literate and in-depth. You thought about the ballads in it, and you prepared some paper for trash. My book was torn, and several pages were missing. I have read almost all of Jia Pingwa's books, including a few physical books, but no one borrows them now. They are too bad. I have read all the novels such as Bai Ye, Gao Laozhuang, and Qin Opera, as well as many essays and short stories. I am Jia Faner.
Did the author make a mistake? It seems to have been written by Liang Xiaosheng.
Read Ping Wa's novels and appreciate the wisdom of the world.
Rating
Community(0)
Official(780)
In fact, there is a lot of smoke and fire
The Abandoned Capital is based on the ancient capital of Xijing (Xi'an), and focuses on the trivial life of Zhuang Zhidie, a cultural celebrity in the capital. Although it is daily life, the whole book is not complicated or verbose, and is very simple and realistic. Zhuang Zhidie is a cultural celebrity. He is sought after and admired by ordinary people, but at the same time he also needs to bear the worries of celebrities. After he had spiritual and physical exchanges with Tang Wan'er, Liu Yue and Can'er, the original rhythm of his life was also broken. His wife Yue Qing was a good wife, kind and decent, but she could not satisfy the desires of men. Things in the aristocratic family are inherently right and wrong. People all look at problems from their own perspective, and the public sees things from the perspective of bystanders, so their perspectives are the same, which gives rise to the so-called concept of right and wrong, and the concept of morality! In short, people are probably in turmoil because of what they don't have. In the face of irrelevant rights and wrongs, they can only constantly improve and strengthen themselves, so as not to suddenly fall into hell one day!
This is a very good literary work, but it had to be cut out before I could read it.
Wasteland, now there are wastewoods, they seem to be connected together
In the end, it was an abandoned city with no more people. The prosperous ones continued to be prosperous, and the lonely ones were still lonely. Whatever fame and power they wanted, it would all come to nothing. It was better to live a comfortable life than that old man. Destroy others and destroy yourself.
Those things about Zhuang Zhidie
I was born in the late 1990s. I heard the living habits and styles of my parents and even my ancestors from their own words, but I also got a general idea from TV and books. Zhuang Zhidie, a great writer in the 1970s, um, very popular. It must be said that in that era when compulsory education was not yet universal and most people were still illiterate, the worship of intellectuals was like a torrential river that could not be stopped. In the Republic of China, he was a man of great influence. Even if he had a wife, there would be all kinds of beauties around him, whether they were fat or thin, they were all at your disposal! So certain things, ahem, are naturally consensual. After all, I am still a baby and cannot understand. I finally understand the word "dressed as a beast", Zhuang Zhidie, do you still remember that you are a man with a wife and a family? You are a nanny and a friend. People in the city are not as bold as you and know how to play. Even men can dip into pig cages in ancient times! Zhu Zhiwen once said: Don't cheat if you are famous! You are famous and cheated! Thinking about it now, if you were born in the 1960s and 1970s like Zhuang Zhidie, what would you do? Text: Chongyi
Why can't such famous books be read for free, but those junk books are popping up unscrupulously? It's really sad!
The writing technique is excellent, but Jia Pingwa's novels make people unable to see the sunny side of the sunflower, but show the things on the back to people bit by bit with a microscope-like technique, which makes people doubt society and hate the sadness of life!
A masterpiece, a classic master, and a beacon of modern literature.
In 1994, I had the book in hand. I read it a hundred or eight times and lent it out many times. When I came back, I was bruised and bruised. When I read this book, it was literate and in-depth. You thought about the ballads in it, and you prepared some paper for trash. My book was torn, and several pages were missing. I have read almost all of Jia Pingwa's books, including a few physical books, but no one borrows them now. They are too bad. I have read all the novels such as Bai Ye, Gao Laozhuang, and Qin Opera, as well as many essays and short stories. I am Jia Faner.
Did the author make a mistake? It seems to have been written by Liang Xiaosheng.
Read Ping Wa's novels and appreciate the wisdom of the world.
