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"He Cut a Long Life" is a collection of short stories by He Xiaozhu. The book includes a total of 16 short stories with "him" as the protagonist, such as: He was reading a book, he called out a woman's name in his dream, he wanted to make a movie, and he cut a long life. ... The author writes these stories with skillful techniques and bold creativity, but it makes it difficult to tell which category they belong to. The author's descriptions in these stories are some absurd, some magical, and some sad; some are surreal and some are postmodern. The "him" described by the author is just like you and me in life, with helplessness and thinking about real life, discussion of marriage life, and pursuit of ideals in life. It seems difficult to find answers when trying to find them. Each story is a separate individual, but connected by "him" as a thread. Reading the whole book will inevitably make people think about life, marriage, ideals, and the value of self-existence...

As a representative poet of "non-nonism", He Xiaozhu's novel creation over the past twenty years has continued the pioneering spirit. "Zoo" is a collection of experimental novels. The whole book consists of four novellas. The four novels are all named after enclosed spaces - "Zoo", "Rehearsal Ground", "Nightclub" and "Cinema". A closed space represents a kind of dilemma. Around these four different closed spaces, He Xiaozhu uses the writing style of Kafka-style expressionist literature to describe various indescribable dilemmas in life - the dilemma of desire and the dilemma of spirit. As the author said in his preface, "the four novels, seemingly unrelated to each other, are actually the same thing, that is, four ways of writing a theme."

Some people say that the Bible is the best prose in the world. I believe it, but I have not studied the Bible, so I cannot say what is good about it. Some people say that "Historical Records" is the best prose in the world, and I believe it too. Moreover, as a Chinese, I am not completely unfamiliar with "Historical Records". However, due to lack of research, I cannot say what is so good about "Historical Records". However, from what others have said, I can roughly guess that the Bible and Historical Records, as models of prose, should be related to their simple and sincere writing style. This simple and sincere writing style is related to the author's character and personality, that is, their authors are simple and sincere people (not saints but close to saints). This also makes me feel even more that prose is difficult to write and the threshold for writing prose is too high. But I'm not entirely pessimistic either. I still want to continue to try this style of writing. I can learn about my shortcomings through writing, and just think of it as a mirror.

This book includes essays such as "On the Road", "Seeing the Sea for the First Time", "Guiyang, Flower Streams and Mountain Flowers", "Pilgrimage to the Buddha", "Military Labyrinth Miao King City", "Snow in Changchun", "I Have Been to Yanbian".