Performance and Voyeurism

About This Novel

This book is Xiaobai's latest collection of essays. It continues the characteristics of the author's previous best-selling collection of essays, "The Lustful Hamlet". At the same time, it is further expanded than the former in terms of depth and breadth of subject matter, stylization of language, and diversity of forms. The book is divided into four series. The first volume includes more than a dozen essays such as "Searching for Lost Images" and "Everyone Wants to Discover Caravaggio", clarifying the truth about the history of printing, academic history, medical history and art history, and revealing the stories and interesting stories. The second volume includes several essays such as "The Sun and the Moon Are Long in a Bottle" and "Double Shadows on the Wall", interpreting vivid sexual history from ancient Greek vase paintings, ancient Roman frescoes, mosaics, and utensil relief paintings. And cultural history; the third volume includes more than a dozen literary, art and film reviews based on book reviews, such as "Whose Turn to Tell the Story", "How a Spy is Made" and "Rat Matrix Dreamer"; the last volume "Old Movie Notes", "Ironic Love Notes" and "Things in the Concession" use notes and dialogues to focus on the author's in-depth discussions on themes such as movies, erotica, reality and imagination. This book is a rare work in the field of domestic essays that truly explains the profound things in a simple way. It is not short of genuine material, has academic value that is not inferior to the academic level, and is interesting to read. It is unique in the literary world with its distinctive writing style that inherits the essence of British essays. Complementing the text are more than sixty full-color illustrations carefully selected by the author. The quality of the illustrations has been greatly improved compared to the previous book "Lustful Hamlet", which constitutes another reason why "Performance and Peeping" is unforgettable.

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