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In the five-year "History of World Literature" course, Mu Xin responded to repeated requests from students and spent half of the nine classes from March 7 to September 11, 1993, talking about his literary writing. Its entire content is contained in Chen Danqing's original notes. In early 2013, based on these five lecture notes, "Literary Memoirs" was published. Due to concerns at the time, Chen Danqing did not include the relevant content of the nine lectures. After recent deliberation and for the sake of readers, still based on his notes, the book "Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin" is compiled as an addendum to "Literary Memoirs". Chen Danqing, a student attending the class, said that back in the 1980s, the "coursework" was not to listen to lectures on the history of world literature, but to encourage everyone to talk about his own articles - this was the truth that he had to confess to the readers first. In 1993, the Literary History Chair entered its fourth year, and the topic gradually turned to so-called modern literature.

Literature is lovely. Life is fun. Art requires sacrifice. How many books and readers of the Republic of China were annihilated. His life was closely accompanied by an intensifying cultural fault line. He refuses to break, but actually never breaks. This is the hidden background of the lecture on the history of world literature in New York: between, outside, and after the numerous faults, Mu Xin has always tried his best to place himself in the global literary landscape. If he had not left, this tenacious and persistent struggle would have been almost in vain. Today, student Chen Danqing has compiled five volumes of lecture notes from those five years, totaling 85 lectures and more than 400,000 words. When he compiled this big book, he no longer regarded it as just a "lecture on the history of world literature." Just as Mu Xin originally envisioned, this is his own "literary memoir" and an "absurd novel" that "overcomes this era in his own body." This is also Mu Xin's gift to the world, the gospel of literature.

Literature is lovely. Life is fun. Art requires sacrifice. In the late 1980s, when Mu Xin was living in New York, and since he resumed writing and continued to publish books, his mainland Chinese and Taiwanese colleagues in New York were looking for a living in foreign countries, which actually led to Mu Xin's lecture on "History of World Literature". This was a "literary expedition" that lasted five years. From the beginning of the class on January 15, 1989, to the last class on January 9, 1994, each lecturer took turns providing his own living room. There were painters, dancers, historians, sculptors, etc. Present. Today, student Chen Danqing has compiled five volumes of lecture notes from those five years, totaling 85 lectures and more than 400,000 words. When he compiled this big book, he no longer regarded it as just a "lecture on the history of world literature." Just as Mu Xin originally envisioned, this is his own "literary memoir" and an "absurd novel" that "overcomes this era in his own body." This is also Mu Xin's gift to the world, the gospel of literature.