Reputation: My Simple Thoughts on Reputation, Wealth and Power Author: Tang Nuo Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

If Benjamin had received some of the praise and admiration that came to him many years after his death, he would not have lived such a miserable life, nor would he have committed suicide in despair in the Pyrenees Mountains on the border between France and Spain in his forties. Of course, it was not his reputation that saved him, but the things that could be exchanged for it: some money or a passport. There are many other stories like this, such as Van Gogh and Edgar Allan Poe.

Reputation is just a rope, which may be worthless and a bit pretentious, but it ties many valuable people and things. Tang Nuo's new work "Reputation" is a simple reflection on reputation, wealth and power. What he really cares about is the current appearance and situation of reputation - in a world ruled by wealth or a world ruled by power, which one is the more difficult situation for reputation?

I decided that this was a pamphlet, so I limited myself to the level of common sense and worked with common sense materials. The books I quoted this time were books that the general readers should have as much impression as possible, such as Walden, The Count of Monte Cristo, Old Goriot, Around the World in Eighty Days, etc. Dono used his own unique way to try to gather and connect the scattered common sense, fill in the gaps, and try to make them as solid as possible, hoping that they would "return" to their more appropriate positions.

【Editor's recommendation】

★ Tang Nuo, a rare professional reader in our era, wrote a new work - My simple thoughts on reputation, wealth and power. Extreme reading, a free talk at the end of thinking. Reputation, wealth and power, three rain clouds in real life, which one is closest to happiness? How do the three shining points on the horoscope (science, wealth and power) work? How do the historical, economic and political dimensions corresponding to the three rise and fall in contemporary society? The 170,000-word "pamphlet" of the reader Tang Nuo talks about freedom, common sense, currency, democracy and lost skills...

★ Erudite and clear intellectual writing, wandering in the dense forest of reading with intersecting paths, gathers and connects the scattered common sense one by one. Yan Yuan, Adam Smith, Balzac, Thoreau, Hemingway, Borges, Hannah Arendt, Levi-Strauss... In a world where reputation, wealth and power intersect, how can individuals identify, understand and choose? Chekhov's novel at the age of 25 recognizes the true appearance of reputation when it is alive; "Walden" and "Old Goriot" are two extreme experiments on wealth in the 19th century; Marquez launched a head-on duel between reputation and power with his infinite writing... In the world ruled by wealth and the world ruled by power, which one is the more difficult situation for reputation?

★Recommended by Zhu Tianwen and Yang Zhao, this is a book of insightful and persuasive maxims in the post-reputation era.

Tang Nuo, whose real name is Xie Caijun, was born in Yilan, Taiwan in 1958 and graduated from the Department of History at National Taiwan University.

He founded the famous literary magazine "San San Collection" with Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin, and later worked in a publishing company for several years. In recent years, he has devoted himself to writing and has won many literary awards. Zhu Tianwen praised him as "a humble scholar, listener and thinker". He was a guest in the third season of "13 Invitations", and Xu Zhiyuan called him "the world's number one reader."

He has written "The Story of Words", "The Story of Reading", "The Age of Readers", "The Names of the World", "The End", "Rereading: Meeting 14 Writers in a Cafe", "In Front of Me: Wandering in the World of Zuo Zhuan", etc.