No Relatives, No Friendship, by Saul Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group

Introduction
【Content Introduction】
"Three years after writing the novel "Logging Night", I completed a collection of short and medium-length novels. It is a retrospective and spiritual reflection on our cultural genes, historical origins, and current predicaments. This collection has a strong sense of form. There are no paragraphs throughout, and it is almost a continuous collection. It is a resistance to the "standard language". I hope to construct an independent and special language space, so that readers can fill in themselves consciously or unconsciously."
"No Relatives, No Friends" is Saul's first collection of short stories. Eight novels, from the early 20th century to the millennium, freely shuttle between the real Lingnan and the heterogeneous space, spanning the secret history of human beings in the south. The great-grandmother's family involved in the Jinshan piglet coolie trade, the "Uranium Doctor" who is advancing rapidly, the cousins ​​struggling to survive in the clan society, the Ultraman suit actor who has been unemployed for ten years, the strange distant relative who returned from Norway, the uncle who played Anita Mui in the provincial capital... With the perspective of literary anthropology, dismantle and reconstruct western Guangdong; keenly capture the dragonfly released at the dusk of the times and make it into a specimen.
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【Editor's recommendation】
◆ The person who left the southernmost tip of the mainland / A powerful novelist who penetrates constraints
The first collection of short stories by the winner of the "Zhongshan Star" Literature Award/Mr. Po Award, Sol
◆ Eight novels, freely traveling between the real Lingnan and the heterogeneous space
Dismantling and Reconstructing Western Guangdong from the Perspective of Literary Anthropology
Sharply capture the dragonfly released at the twilight of the times and make it into a specimen
◆ Using extreme text forms to target the young generation’s inner world/ exploring the continuity and excitement of Chinese, and fighting against the fashionable discourse of this era
◆ A highly recognizable novelist, he continuously analyzes and outlines the influence of family, tradition, history, etc. on individuals in various forms of creation.
The text form is almost contrary to the trend of the times, but it accurately targets the spiritual themes of the younger generation - the scarcity, dislocation, aphasia, anxiety, hidden pain and grotesqueness that they bear due to various historical reasons.
——He Ping (Professor of the School of Literature, Nanjing Normal University)
An experimental form that goes from beginning to end, a simple yet complex psychological narrative in multiple dimensions, the heterodox form of life and its sharp individual power, the imaginative storm of the intertwined game between history and the individual, the latent creativity and sadness of a certain ideal personality being squeezed out... These characteristics are significantly different from the realism or realism currently popular in the field of youth writing.
——He Tongbin (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Yangtze River Literary Review)
I hope that my novels have a formless state and wander outside the recognized values. I have been looking for the right path to intervene in reality. I don’t want to be labeled as an “ism”. Once there is an “ism” and a label, the inner will be weakened. Constructing my own style is equivalent to creating a star and its gravity, which is enough to put all kinds of content into the planetary orbit. Watching them run lazily and firmly is the most enjoyable moment for me.
——Saul
◆ This is my home, but I have no plans to go home. I consider myself a traveler.
◆ Well-known designers are in charge of the overall binding, and AI assists in cover design
The main visual is drawn with the help of Midjourney, supplemented by geometric lines and silver printing technology, echoing the complex relationship between the old world and the new human beings.