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Introduction: Before the friend of the leading character in the novel who gets through the manuscript, has realized what it is waiting for us is not a simple “witness”, while it is more like a fable or a prophecy. It is not a simple “chaotic” present, but a “chaotic” past and a far more “chaotic” future.
Book Reviewer: Xue Yiwei(The writer)
Nowdays, “Fire” has been played an important role in the works in history. Book burning is not only for tyrants to rule their countries, but an entertaining way some people love to see and hear. Then, many novels began on “books” and finished with “fire”. For example, Die Blendung of Canetti, the Name of Rose from Eco…… like the God is as the one as many great scientists sincerely believe in The First Cause, “Fire” is as the one as the great litterateur worship the Power of Juggernaut which would be sufficient to end the wildest imagination and stop the toughest fiction. Even more amazing, “fire” could not only be the end of literature, also could conceal or wipe out the “identity” of the writer. When Kafka made a will, having hoped that his friends could destroy all his literary achievements, there must have been entanglement with ruthless absurd and roaring flame. The worship to fire of Henry James could be identified by his writings which are a part of his “identity”. Many destructive endings in his stories are accompanied with fire. Before the leaving, he, with his own hands prepared for the funeral, having destroyed all the files. He could not allow any thing to leave a good name forever or become a bad thing which would never die except for the images showed us in his works.
Where ever the leading role have been in Abandoned? I have no idea so far. The only thing I know is the so-called “Spare Time Philosopher”, the young man disappeared from the living environment that worried him. Before the disappearing, he entrusted his “witness” of urban living in the middle of 1980’s in China to his only friend. He explained the final trace of fantasy to the world where he has been abandoned. However, “Two years later”, he woke up thoroughly. The last letter he sent to his friend presented his final request for the “witness”: he requested to destroy the letter. He was expecting to wipe off all the traces concealed in the world that are out of harmony with him. Where is the Abandoned starts. “Destruction” is a kind of violence of word. I believe, it must be the “fire” that stuck in his mind when he asked for destruction in Abandoned. A hint is hidden behind his story named The Dead. Before the friend of the leading character in the novel who got through the manuscript, has realized what it is waiting for him was not a simple “witness”, while it is more like a fable or a prophecy. It is not a simple “chaotic” present, but a “chaotic” past and a far more “chaotic” future. He refused to compromise at the point of violence. Just as Kafka’s friend, he betrayed his best friend. Therefore, in March, 1989, the story known as “Chinese the Outsider” was presented in the vague situation of China.
It was the first saving of Abandoned that his friend betrayed him with passion and what he has done protected the “witness” from the “Fire” cleaning.
However, the first saving seemed to lack of great waves. In the following eight years, the story with strong idea of “social being” in that sensitive period was isolated from “social consciousness”. There was no attention or curiosity to have been paid and it changed into my own mental disorder and burden in mind. In the short time, I was struck in the “fire” several times. I knew, it was only “fire” that has taken the story far from the world. And I knew, it was only “fire” that dispersed the haze haunted in my writing career.
An accidental event related to books and Shenzhen change the fate of this novel. In 1996, the national book fair was held in Shenzhen where two honored guests who were invited to attend the fair appeared in my room. One of them was a reader and supporter of Abandoned, Zhou Guoping, the researcher in philosophy research institution of Chinese academy of Social Sciences. The other was professor in philosophy department in Peking University I had heard of with great reputation but no chance to pay a visit. When the topic was turned to the embarrassing writings of mine, the professor with shyness showed a keen interest. He expected that I could find one for him, which made me exited. I expressed clearly, Abandoned was reminiscence I was unwilling to talk about or let more people to read.
Up to now I still remember the reaction to my hard attitude the shy professor showed. He gave me a moderate lesson, and generally he meant that once manuscript was changed into book, it was not the private property of the writer at all. No writer had right to stop readers reading a published story. The lesson full of moral principles drove the bottom line in my heart. I hesitated to take Abandoned with luxe-edition and took it to him.
The next news about Abandoned was heard one year later after that meeting in the last weekend in 1997. A friend from Guangzhou gave me a call and urged me to buy a piece of Southern Weekly, the last edition in 1997 on which there was a exclusive interview of professor He Huaihong who introduced three books in the column of “Expert Recommendation”, including two modern works like great The World of Yesterday of Zweig and my unknown work Abandoned which the professor said, was a book on the point of missing. That was the second saving for Abandoned with great waves. People would be curious for who the writer is and what a book looks like so that it left real impression for a scholar. Just the curiosity and passion achieve my first headline on Southern Weekly.
This is a short story for forgiveness and forgetting. However, for I made self-mockery on Abandoned that only 17 readers have read in eight years after publication (Later more readers not exceeding 4 bits even calculated by binary system). The result was just opposite to what I wish. Without fire, Abandoned became popular in the end of a century.
The “fire” of vain glory left me in fear and trembling from the beginning. Ten years later, with the improvement of my Chinese and literature, the anxiety grew up, which was the reason why I resisted to reprint Abandoned. The magnificent commitment listed Abandoned as one of 49 ideal readings of modern and contemporary literature was not enough to rescind a prohibition. I was waiting for finding the conjunction point with intelligence, physical strength and mental efforts, which I need use to rewrite his “good book”
Now 5 editions of Abandoned are present to you. It is my bear fruit after my self-torture in practice. Thanks for Shanghai Joint Publishing, Shanghai WenYi Publishing, East China Normal University Press. There were no these three presses, there would not be my bear fruit and unique style, let alone turning into reading market on such a scale. The different editions of Abandoned symbolize a new saving of Abandoned, also a saving of my isolated and clinging discovery on literature more than a quarter century.
Professor He Huaihong gave me a powerful lesson on that night in Shenzhen in 1996. Books are not private property, which belong to readers, long-standing for reading. It is more than a topic of “existence”, also the “futility” question. Books are fragile material state, easy to be destroyed in various “fire”: fire of the ignorant, of the unknown, of the misunderstanding, of the jealousy, of the stubborn, of the hatred…, even of the vain glory. It is really reading that made books sublimation to enduring memory in the enduring literature charm.
Right now, let us start reading.
Book Reviewer: Xue Yiwei(The writer)
Nowdays, “Fire” has been played an important role in the works in history. Book burning is not only for tyrants to rule their countries, but an entertaining way some people love to see and hear. Then, many novels began on “books” and finished with “fire”. For example, Die Blendung of Canetti, the Name of Rose from Eco…… like the God is as the one as many great scientists sincerely believe in The First Cause, “Fire” is as the one as the great litterateur worship the Power of Juggernaut which would be sufficient to end the wildest imagination and stop the toughest fiction. Even more amazing, “fire” could not only be the end of literature, also could conceal or wipe out the “identity” of the writer. When Kafka made a will, having hoped that his friends could destroy all his literary achievements, there must have been entanglement with ruthless absurd and roaring flame. The worship to fire of Henry James could be identified by his writings which are a part of his “identity”. Many destructive endings in his stories are accompanied with fire. Before the leaving, he, with his own hands prepared for the funeral, having destroyed all the files. He could not allow any thing to leave a good name forever or become a bad thing which would never die except for the images showed us in his works.
Where ever the leading role have been in Abandoned? I have no idea so far. The only thing I know is the so-called “Spare Time Philosopher”, the young man disappeared from the living environment that worried him. Before the disappearing, he entrusted his “witness” of urban living in the middle of 1980’s in China to his only friend. He explained the final trace of fantasy to the world where he has been abandoned. However, “Two years later”, he woke up thoroughly. The last letter he sent to his friend presented his final request for the “witness”: he requested to destroy the letter. He was expecting to wipe off all the traces concealed in the world that are out of harmony with him. Where is the Abandoned starts. “Destruction” is a kind of violence of word. I believe, it must be the “fire” that stuck in his mind when he asked for destruction in Abandoned. A hint is hidden behind his story named The Dead. Before the friend of the leading character in the novel who got through the manuscript, has realized what it is waiting for him was not a simple “witness”, while it is more like a fable or a prophecy. It is not a simple “chaotic” present, but a “chaotic” past and a far more “chaotic” future. He refused to compromise at the point of violence. Just as Kafka’s friend, he betrayed his best friend. Therefore, in March, 1989, the story known as “Chinese the Outsider” was presented in the vague situation of China.
It was the first saving of Abandoned that his friend betrayed him with passion and what he has done protected the “witness” from the “Fire” cleaning.
However, the first saving seemed to lack of great waves. In the following eight years, the story with strong idea of “social being” in that sensitive period was isolated from “social consciousness”. There was no attention or curiosity to have been paid and it changed into my own mental disorder and burden in mind. In the short time, I was struck in the “fire” several times. I knew, it was only “fire” that has taken the story far from the world. And I knew, it was only “fire” that dispersed the haze haunted in my writing career.
An accidental event related to books and Shenzhen change the fate of this novel. In 1996, the national book fair was held in Shenzhen where two honored guests who were invited to attend the fair appeared in my room. One of them was a reader and supporter of Abandoned, Zhou Guoping, the researcher in philosophy research institution of Chinese academy of Social Sciences. The other was professor in philosophy department in Peking University I had heard of with great reputation but no chance to pay a visit. When the topic was turned to the embarrassing writings of mine, the professor with shyness showed a keen interest. He expected that I could find one for him, which made me exited. I expressed clearly, Abandoned was reminiscence I was unwilling to talk about or let more people to read.
Up to now I still remember the reaction to my hard attitude the shy professor showed. He gave me a moderate lesson, and generally he meant that once manuscript was changed into book, it was not the private property of the writer at all. No writer had right to stop readers reading a published story. The lesson full of moral principles drove the bottom line in my heart. I hesitated to take Abandoned with luxe-edition and took it to him.
The next news about Abandoned was heard one year later after that meeting in the last weekend in 1997. A friend from Guangzhou gave me a call and urged me to buy a piece of Southern Weekly, the last edition in 1997 on which there was a exclusive interview of professor He Huaihong who introduced three books in the column of “Expert Recommendation”, including two modern works like great The World of Yesterday of Zweig and my unknown work Abandoned which the professor said, was a book on the point of missing. That was the second saving for Abandoned with great waves. People would be curious for who the writer is and what a book looks like so that it left real impression for a scholar. Just the curiosity and passion achieve my first headline on Southern Weekly.
This is a short story for forgiveness and forgetting. However, for I made self-mockery on Abandoned that only 17 readers have read in eight years after publication (Later more readers not exceeding 4 bits even calculated by binary system). The result was just opposite to what I wish. Without fire, Abandoned became popular in the end of a century.
The “fire” of vain glory left me in fear and trembling from the beginning. Ten years later, with the improvement of my Chinese and literature, the anxiety grew up, which was the reason why I resisted to reprint Abandoned. The magnificent commitment listed Abandoned as one of 49 ideal readings of modern and contemporary literature was not enough to rescind a prohibition. I was waiting for finding the conjunction point with intelligence, physical strength and mental efforts, which I need use to rewrite his “good book”
Now 5 editions of Abandoned are present to you. It is my bear fruit after my self-torture in practice. Thanks for Shanghai Joint Publishing, Shanghai WenYi Publishing, East China Normal University Press. There were no these three presses, there would not be my bear fruit and unique style, let alone turning into reading market on such a scale. The different editions of Abandoned symbolize a new saving of Abandoned, also a saving of my isolated and clinging discovery on literature more than a quarter century.
Professor He Huaihong gave me a powerful lesson on that night in Shenzhen in 1996. Books are not private property, which belong to readers, long-standing for reading. It is more than a topic of “existence”, also the “futility” question. Books are fragile material state, easy to be destroyed in various “fire”: fire of the ignorant, of the unknown, of the misunderstanding, of the jealousy, of the stubborn, of the hatred…, even of the vain glory. It is really reading that made books sublimation to enduring memory in the enduring literature charm.
Right now, let us start reading.