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I Only Know What Humans Are Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Yilin Publishing House Series: Yu Hua's Works
I Only Know What Humans Are Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Yilin Publishing House Series: Yu Hua's Works
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Introduction · · · · · ·
【Editor's recommendation】
★ A new work after a long absence, with content selected by Yu Hua himself
★ Yu Hua's review and reflections on his thirty-plus years of writing experience
How to deal with the naming problem in the creation of "Brothers"? Where does the inspiration of "The Seventh Day" come from? How does literature understand life and present reality? How do writers face criticism? ...
★ The "wandering" experience of works such as "Brothers", "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" around the world
The different fates of representative works after being published in Japan and South Korea; What are the differences between holding new book exchange meetings in China and abroad? Which meeting with readers left the deepest impression? ...
★ The condensation of life experience, the sharing of the creative process, and the insight beyond culture. Explore human nature and illuminate the heart
★ Plain and vivid, the sense of presence that is told in a leisurely manner, reaching a profound level through storytelling
★ The self-growth of a literary work: Since Yu Hua's famous work "A Long Journey at the Age of Eighteen" was included in the middle school Chinese textbook, students' creative reading of this work over the years has been surprising, and he is also deeply touched by the intertwined interests of the same text between teaching reading and literary reading. Combining Chinese teaching plans, comments from famous writers, the original creative conception and the feelings of looking back now, Yu Hua explains from the perspective of a writer how language and literature are connected and how to open the secret channel between the two.
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"Literature encompasses everything, but what is the most important thing? People."
Good literary works allow us to feel the person behind the work, and their unique sense of life transcends culture and language. "I Only Know What People Are" is the latest collection of essays by the famous writer Yu Hua. As a representative figure of contemporary Chinese literature going global, Yu Hua has been invited to lecture and participate in activities in countries around the world for many years. Starting from his personal and Chinese experience, he opens up the intersection with the world literary world. This book is a collection of essays he has published in recent years. Yu Hua is full of wisdom and sincerity to share his observations and thoughts. The content is all-encompassing, from the past to the present, from the self to the times, talking about life experiences and creative experiences. He vividly recalls his encounters with characters such as Fugui and Xu Sanguan, and also tells about his encounters with brave Polish farmers and patients in Italian mental hospitals when he visited the world... Sometimes they are thousands of them, and sometimes they are like the same person. These explorations into the breadth and richness of human nature demonstrate an excellent writer's profound insight into life and his detachment from his understanding of everything. The stories condensed from the fickleness of fate not only connect our past and future, but also ultimately point to the source of power that reaches people's hearts in all literary and artistic creations.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yu Hua was born in April 1960 and started writing in 1983. His major works include Brothers, To Live, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood, Shouting in the Rain, The Seventh Day, etc. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and published in more than 40 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Albania, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and India. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize (1998), the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2004), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Prize (2008), the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi International Literature Prize (2014), the Serbian Ivo Andrić Literature Prize (2018), etc.
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