Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.
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关于这本书的探讨深度,我只能用“宏大”二字来形容,它触及了存在主义的核心议题,但处理得极其巧妙,完全没有陷入空洞的说教。作者似乎在用一种非常个人化、近乎日记体的笔触,探讨着关于记忆、身份认同以及时间不可逆转性等宏大命题。叙事中的留白处理得极为高明,那些没有被明确解释的部分,恰恰是留给读者思考和填充想象力的最佳空间。我特别喜欢作者对“无常”这一主题的把握,那种对生命短暂和事物易逝的深刻体悟,贯穿始终,却又从未流于伤感,反而生出一种接受现实的平静力量。这本书更像是一次对内心世界的深度探险,它没有明确的地图和指南针,你需要依靠自己的直觉和过往的经验去摸索。读完之后,我的世界观并没有被彻底颠覆,但看待日常事物的角度无疑变得更加多维和深邃了,仿佛在心灵深处打开了一扇通往更高维度的窗户。
评分这部作品带给我的震撼,更多地来自于它那种近乎残酷的真实感。它没有美化生活中的困境和人性的弱点,反而以一种冷峻的目光直视那些我们通常选择回避的角落。角色的塑造极其立体,他们不是非黑即别的符号,而是充满了矛盾与挣扎的个体。我看到了他们在巨大压力下如何扭曲,又如何在绝境中爆发出微弱却坚韧的光芒。作者对社会背景的描绘也相当到位,那种压抑的氛围几乎要从纸页中渗透出来,让人感到窒息。这种对现实的深刻洞察,使得这本书远远超越了一般的娱乐范畴,它更像是一面镜子,映照出我们所处的时代背景下,个体的无力和抗争。阅读过程中,我几次被角色的遭遇深深触动,甚至有些感同身受的痛苦,但正是这种不适感,才证明了作者叙事力量的强大。这本书不是用来让人感到轻松愉快的,而是用来让人思考和反省的利器。
评分我必须承认,这本书的语言风格极其独特,初看之下甚至有些晦涩难懂,但一旦适应了作者构建的独特语境和句法结构,你就会发现其中蕴含着惊人的韵律美。它不像主流小说那样流畅易读,反而更像是一首散文诗,充满了隐喻和象征。作者似乎对每一个单词的选择都经过了千锤百炼,使得文本的密度非常高,每一句话都承载着比表面意义更丰富的信息量。这要求读者必须慢下来,去品味那些被精心挑选的词汇组合在一起时产生的化学反应。我发现自己常常需要停下来,回溯前文,重新咀嚼那些句子,才能真正领会到作者的深意。这种“慢读”的体验,在这个信息爆炸的时代显得尤为珍贵。它强迫你放下外界的喧嚣,专注于文本本身精妙的构造,这是一种对阅读专注力的极致训练。如果你追求的是快速的故事情节推进,这本书可能会让你感到挫败,但如果你珍视文字本身的力量和美感,那么它绝对是一场不容错过的盛宴。
评分坦白说,这本书的结构设计简直是天才之作,它完全颠覆了我对线性叙事的固有认知。作者巧妙地运用了多重视角和非时间顺序的片段交织,初读时可能会感到一丝迷惘,但正是这种“迷惘”构筑了一种独特的阅读张力。当你逐渐理清那些碎片化的信息,将它们拼凑成一幅完整的图景时,那种豁然开朗的满足感是无与伦比的。它要求读者投入极大的专注力,去捕捉那些细微的线索和重复出现的意象,这使得阅读过程本身成为一种主动的、充满挑战的智力游戏。我特别欣赏作者在处理复杂主题时所展现出的那种克制与精确,不滥用华丽的辞藻,而是用最精准的词汇去触碰问题的核心。尤其是一些哲学思辨的部分,作者没有直接给出答案,而是将问题抛给你,让你在合上书页后,依然在脑海中与那些深刻的疑问缠斗不休。这种开放式的处理方式,无疑提升了作品的艺术高度,也让它拥有了长久的生命力。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像一场精心编排的交响乐,每一个音符都恰到好处地在高潮和低谷间游走。作者对人物心理的刻画达到了令人惊叹的深度,你仿佛能钻进他们的脑海里,感受他们每一次犹豫、每一次抉择带来的撕裂感。我尤其欣赏作者在构建世界观时所展现出的那种不动声色的老练,没有冗长乏味的背景介绍,一切都是在情节推进中自然而然地铺展开来,如同剥开洋葱,层层递进,让你欲罢不能。那些看似不经意的对话,回味起来才发现处处暗藏玄机,是推动整个故事走向的关键节点。我常常在读到某个转折点时,忍不住放下书,揉揉眼睛,消化一下刚刚涌上心头的震撼。这种阅读体验,不是简单的信息接收,而更像是一场深度的情感共振,让我对人性中那些幽暗而复杂的部分有了全新的体悟。书中的场景描写细腻到仿佛能闻到空气中的气味,感受到阳光的温度,这种沉浸感,是许多追求宏大叙事的作品所缺乏的。作者的笔力,毋庸置疑,是属于那种能够经受时间考验的类型,值得反复品读,每次重读都会有新的发现和感悟。
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