Summer and Siberia
by Ni Zhange
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★"Deep River in the World" and "Meeting in the Dark" 12 years later, a new collection of essays★ I always prefer the indifference after the blood is burned out, or the occasional unbearable affection of a world-weary person. "Summer and Siberia" is the latest collection of essays by Ni Zhange, a scholar living in the United States. The book reviews popular writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Patti Smith, Jonathan Franzen, and David Foster Wallace. It also introduces outstanding but unknown poets like Milan Diodievich. It talks about classics and their evolution, as well as mythology, religion, science fiction, and even subcultures. It has a broad vision and profound exploration. Behind these articles is a rigorously trained academic vision and insight into human affairs. Her words puncture the illusion of literature and art, allowing people to see how literature is a set of concepts, discourses and systems that are co-generated with modern society. But it also makes people know that literature is a compensation for all those who have been harmed and deprived, balancing the dual considerations of society and history, soul and temperament. In the author's own words, these are articles written after "eating as much salt as reading books." Ni Zhange, a young writer, poet and scholar. PhD in Religion and Literature from the University of Chicago Divinity School (2009), a visiting fellow in "Women's Studies in Religion" at Harvard Divinity School (2010-11), and currently an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. He has published prose collections "Meeting in the Dark" and "The Deep River in the World", novels "The Strange Traveler", poetry collections "Vacuum Hometown" and "The White-Knife Sea", and the academic monograph ThePaganWritesBack: WhenWorldReligionMeetsWorldLiterature.
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