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"Sleeping Words" is a series of prose works based on dreams. It is a characteristic "dream narrative". Cutting from the subconscious level, it vividly and profoundly displays many psychological pictures of contemporary people - anxiety, loneliness, division, pain, as well as the hope for love, the pursuit of the meaning of life, etc., And attempts to find a spiritual salvation path for Chinese people in a period of transformation.

This is a surrealist text. Through "dream narrative", the author opens up the most secret part of the soul to us, nakedly showing the shocking and extremely rich scenery at the subconscious or unconscious level. These dreamy fragments not only let people see the confusion, loneliness, imprisonment, division, and struggle deep in the hearts of modern people, but also let people see the author's sincere desire and extremely strong appeal for love, as well as his exploration and efforts for the salvation of the soul. What is particularly valuable is that the author, guided by dream thinking and mythological thinking, opened up and recorded the dark areas hidden deep in everyone's heart through the recording of dreams, allowing dreams, unconsciousness or subconsciousness to gain literary character and rhetorical form, opening up the subject area of ​​literature, thus providing a new discourse for Chinese literature. Most of the chapters in this book have been published in magazines such as "October", "Writer", "Tianya", "Wangyuan", and "Yanhe", and have generated widespread response.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the New Culture Movement and the 100th anniversary of the birth of new Chinese poetry. A hundred years ago, under the influence of Western culture and the call of the New Culture Movement, new Chinese poetry came into being. In the past one hundred years, new Chinese poetry has gone through the process of starting from scratch, from childishness to maturity, from simplicity to becoming more and more exciting. In the past one hundred years, tens of thousands of new poems have been published, and the best works among them are like stars in the sky. Now we collect famous works just to present them wonderfully!

This book is a collection of poems, with a total of seventy news poems, divided into themes such as "Motherland and Awakening from Dreams", "Festivals and Mother", and "Heroes and the Earth". These poems are a powerful presentation of the living conditions of Chinese people during the period of transformation. Their perspective is inward and their tone is profound. With extraordinary imagination and profound philosophical thinking, the poems make daily news and life scenes appear in strong colors, shocking people's soul.

This book is a collection of essays, divided into three letters, and contains more than ninety short essays. The author shows us the shocking and extremely rich scenery at the subconscious or unconscious level through the recording of dreams. These dream fragments not only let people see the loneliness deep in the hearts of modern people, but also let people see the author's sincere desire and strong appeal for love. Dominated by dream thinking and mythological thinking, the "dream narrative" in this book has a certain exploratory nature and is of enlightening significance to contemporary Chinese literature. Zhang Xianming's "dream narrative" has become a unique and distinctive feature of his literary creation. His dream-themed texts give dreams a literary character and rhetorical form, opening up the subject matter field of contemporary literature.