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This book is a self-selected collection of Can Xue, a representative writer in China's contemporary literary world, including novels, self-narrations and comments by others. It is a comprehensive understanding of the writer's works, with more than 10 photos that witness the writer's growth process. Can Xue is a writer with a distinctive creative style. She insists on her experimental writing and uses Western post-modern expression techniques and expressions to write about the fear, despair, gloom and helplessness in human hearts. She focuses on the deep spiritual world and constantly explores and explores it. She is an extremely unique existence in the Chinese literary world. Once regarded as a representative figure of the avant-garde, her works were characterized by her focus on the inner state of women. Later works such as Lin Bai and Chen Ran were all influenced by her to a certain extent.

The 24-volume "Collection of Can Xue's Classic Works" covers almost all of Can Xue's important works and is the most concentrated and comprehensive display of Can Xue's works. Since the first book published in 1988, Can Xue has published nearly a hundred books at home and abroad. New books come out almost every year. Can Xue's works are divided into three categories. The first category is literary works, including short stories, novellas and novels. This is the main part of Can Xue's works. The second category is works that interpret Western classic literature. Can Xue has given new interpretations and descriptions of classic writers such as Kafka, Borges, Goethe, Shakespeare, and Dante in a style that combines creation and commentary. The third category is essay works, including her essays, many interviews and discussions about literature. A very important phenomenon in Can Xue's works is that her works have been widely translated abroad. She is the Chinese female writer whose works have been translated overseas the most. Including dozens of versions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Italy, France, Germany and other countries. On NicerOdds' 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature odds list, Can Xue ranks fourth and has become a popular figure.

Five years ago, Heishi, Fei and Li Hai jointly founded the "Pigeon" book club in Mengcheng. They were both single at that time, and reading in their spare time was their greatest pleasure. Later, Uncle Yi, Yan, Yang, Xiao Sang, Xiao Ma, and Han Ma joined in, making the reading club lively. The "Crown" shopping mall reading club and the "Lover" cafe reading club were established one after another. These small reading sessions maintain their mutual emotions. Sometimes reading is a light in the dark night, and sometimes it becomes a refuge. Through reading, they resist pain, understand character problems, and build confidence in life, until they look up from reading, "I really want to love vigorously in reality." Questions follow. The ebb and flow of desires and the uncertainty of people bring them to a new and unknown place. From the temperature of paper to the temperature of a lover, can reading really advance our lives better?

This book is a collection of Can Xue's five masterpieces of novellas: "Mysterious Train Journey", "Life in the Factory Area", "Correspondence between Chang Yan and His Aunt in Maojie", "Vic in the Mining Area" and "Confinement in the Sky". Among them, Can Xue's "soul singer" style has been continued and developed, with a comprehensive and profound self-examination consciousness that reaches the depth of the soul; the subconscious mind that freely expresses desires has transcended the self and truly built Can Xue's artistic kingdom. This book selects Can Xue's five novellas from 1999 to 2009 in order to reveal the truth about his literary life.

"Can Xue's Literary Memoirs" collects representative works of literary memories by the famous Chinese writer Can Xue. The narrative style of "Can Xue's Literary Memoirs" includes bits and pieces of memories, smart essays, freewheeling creative talks, and candid conversations and interviews. Can Xue said that writing is a kind of performance and breakthrough. "Can Xue's Literary Memoirs" speaks freely and points out the literary world.

Ms. Can Xue has always been committed to exploring people's inner world. Her novels have a unique perspective and are full of magic and charm. Her works are all turned inward, and the only narrative object in all her stories is people's deep consciousness and self-awareness. In this collection of essays, Ms. Can Xue uses her always calm, simple and frugal language to describe her childhood memories, her own personality, and the reasons why she embarked on the path of in-depth exploration of her soul and has continued to work on this path. Another part is Ms. Can Xue's interpretation of the works of Calvino, Dante, and Kafka. The style of Can Xue's works is very similar to the object of her interpretation. The combination of the two words creates a very wonderful and harmonious effect. These words resonate with the soul.