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Why are we so obsessed with details? How have details evolved in the history of literature? When perusing a text, which fragments are worth sifting into details? What kind of mystery is hidden in the actions, environment, wrong sentences, counter-logic, punctuation marks, and passive voice? Why did Chekhov ask the doctor to keep lighting matches? What does this have to do with our desires? Why did a seemingly accidental date become the fate of Marquez's character? After a long working day, Kafka thought that K. Would still work overtime on Sunday? Details constitute the charm of literature and mark the reader's personality. The book is divided into three parts. "A Brief History of Details" is divided into two parts, sorting out the details in literary history according to the chronological context, highlighting the development and evolution of details in different eras. The first part talks from ancient times to the 18th century, and the second part talks from the 19th century to the present, explaining the past and present life of the details of the novel, and vertically outlining the narrative turn of modern novels. The title of "ABC of Details" is modeled after Pound's "ABC of Literature", which classifies, organizes and displays details in literature, focusing on explaining how to identify details in a huge text. The special chapter discusses the detailed connotations of important writers such as Flaubert, Marquez, and Kafka in the same way as the previous article.

Zhang Qiuzi has been leading students to read Mrs. Dalloway for five years. This book is based on her class notes and repeated reflections over the past five years. This class is not an academic study or textual criticism of a literary work, but uses Mrs. Dalloway as the base to generate a series of thoughts and discussions on literature-related issues. Both her teaching and writing are permeated by the literary phenomena she discovered together with her students, and are characterized by combining personal experiences in life to show the possible relationship between literature and everyone. Whether you have read Mrs. Dalloway or not, you can be invited to spend a day with Mrs. Dalloway for an all-encompassing literary walk.