Island Literature Reserve: Drizzle, Night, Sea Breeze, Human World

What happened at that time will take many years to learn the full plot. The humble things planted in times of sadness and pain can silently blossom and bear fruit. What is loneliness? Loneliness is misunderstanding, loneliness is abandonment, loneliness is bullying, loneliness is failure, loneliness is failure, loneliness is decision-making... Loneliness is pervasive. There is a loneliness seed in the bodies of men, women, old and young. When you pry open the hard shell, the seed is trust, kindness, strength, breakthrough, sublimation, and relief. The ten stories, written with deep emotional warmth, reveal the sweet and salty life and tell the ten kinds of unspeakable loneliness. Jian Yu writes about the real joy and bitterness in life with a flexible, graceful and humorous writing style.

This book is the work of the famous Chinese prose writer Jian Yu who has accumulated ten years of transformation. The writing has changed from the fresh and gentle style of the past, and looks at the ups and downs of the world with a more sharp and humorous perspective. As she mentioned in the book: "I feel that when this book enters the black linen Period; the taste is due to anger, and some chapters even have a burnt taste." Jian Yue looks at the world with a calm gaze and depicts this era with a sharper pen. She observes the ups and downs of the world from a mature perspective and sighs at the helplessness of middle age. I believe that in this work, readers can get to know another Jian Yu and see this era in her eyes.

Jian Yue said that in "The Fainting Woods", "some are crawling through ordinary things, refining the taste of life, or nostalgic about old feelings in the hometown, or chatting about travels, what they saw and thought while reading, some are transformed into novelistic fables, or some are returning to oneself to record the experiences and insights of growth, creation, and dreams..." This is a collection of essays that Jian Yu records his ordinary life, nostalgia, travel, and reading experiences, and is exquisitely conceived.

"Trees Are Like This" is a self-selected collection of Bai Xianyong's essays, which mainly includes articles in which he recalls his personal experiences and interactions with relatives and friends. Among them, "The Tree Is Like This", which commemorates a deceased friend, has been deeply painful for six years. It is called "a song of life completed with blood, tears and the purest emotions in the world." Also included are two new works about friends: "Looking for the Bodhi Tree" by the painter Xi Song on his journey to practice Buddhism, and "Practice the Bodhisattva" by Du Cong, who rescued tens of thousands of AIDS orphans. This shows what Bai Xianyong has been thinking about in recent years. Most of the works in the book were written after Bai Xianyong "knows destiny at fifty". Dong Qiao was once "surprised that he was already like an old monk who was at ease and let go, letting a fallen flower silently exude instant brilliance in his palm." Written to my friends Wang Guoxiang and my third sister Xianming, the simplicity contains magnificence and compassion for the world. Guilin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Taipei, cultural nostalgia is superimposed, making it difficult to find a place to return. In the fan magazine "Modern Literature" where he devoted his efforts and youth, Bai Xianyong used literature to make friends, and his love lasted a lifetime.

"Taipei People" by Bai Xianyong is a deeply complex work. This book consists of fourteen short stories, each with different writing techniques and different lengths. Each story can stand on its own and can be regarded as a first-class short story. But the fourteen pieces are gathered together and connected into one, and the effect suddenly increases: not only does the novel expand in scope, allowing us to see the "all living beings" in society, but more importantly, because the theme is repeated and complements each other, we can further understand the meaning of the work, and we can get a glimpse of the author's outlook on life and the universe hidden in the work.

In "The Game of Loneliness", which is composed of seven short stories, Yuan Zhesheng repeatedly captures loneliness, the "sense of dilemma that all human beings must face" through various interpersonal emotions, such as the affection between parents and sons, the friendship between classmates when they were young, or the love between two people who have been married for many years. The feeling of loneliness is everywhere in the words. Loneliness has always been a common theme in literary works, and it is also an emotion that many writers strive to describe. However, when we carefully taste Yuan Zhesheng's calm and controlled words in "The Lonely Game", we will eventually discover a kind of lonely writing that is unique to Yuan Zhesheng.