This book is an expanded edition of the critic Zhang Dinghao's masterpiece "Love and Sorrow". After six years, it finally added more than 40,000 words.
Love is not just passion, it also means loss of control, and it is a complex mental life; compassion represents morality and responsibility. Both are often overwhelming, but are the choices of most brilliant novelists who aim to write about human life.
From Graham Greene and Alice Munro to Auden and Brodsky, from "Stoner" to "The Bohemian", the book covers basically all the authors and works that the author loves. In a sense, this is a book of reading and writing, as well as a book of self-examination.
One is simultaneously aware of the power and impotence of words, the abundance and poverty of love. But he still writes to please those unattainable shadows.
Reader comments
This book is like a key that opened up my deeper understanding of love and compassion. Zhang Dinghao's writing is delicate and insightful, which made me keep thinking while reading. His precise and unique analysis of writers and works gave me a new understanding of literature. This is not only a book about reading and writing, but also an exploration of human nature, which made me feel the complexity and beauty of love and compassion. Recommended to friends who love literature!
This book is like a key that opened up my deeper understanding of love and compassion. Zhang Dinghao's writing is delicate and insightful, which made me keep thinking while reading. His precise and unique analysis of writers and works gave me a new understanding of literature. This is not only a book about reading and writing, but also an exploration of human nature, which made me feel the complexity and beauty of love and compassion. Recommended to friends who love literature!