"Infinite Reading" Author: Luo Yijun Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

How attractive are the novels of Marquez, Bolano, Huang Jinshu and Qiu Miaojin?

Let the storyteller Luo Yijun tell you

Forty important literary reviews take us on a leisurely journey through the colorful palace of modern literature and give us a glimpse into its mysteries

🔷Editor's Recommendation

⭐Marquez, who dealt with death in a gorgeous way; Bolaño, who pieced together the despair and sorrow of Latin America with mosaic fragments; Huang Jinshu, who recreated lost time through the absent travelers; Qiu Miaojin, who made existence flash with strong light in exchange for its annihilation... Forty in-depth literary reviews, using a unique perspective to enter the incredible literary world constructed by the writers, lead us to rediscover the richness and beauty of modern and contemporary novels.

⭐ Luo Yijun, a first-line novelist in Taiwan's literary world, not only shares his own collection of books, but also turns into a storyteller to make these works fascinating, showing a literary writer's love for novels, liberating readers' perceptual understanding of literary works, and enabling people to better enjoy the novelty and fulfillment that reading novels brings.

⭐ "Infinite Reading" provides literature and art lovers with an understanding of excellent contemporary literary works from the perspective of a creator. With the writer's "Luo-style" interpretation ("ruins" imagery, microscopic "universe"), it vividly makes wonderful comments and introductions to modern and contemporary Chinese literature and world literature. His train metaphor in modern novels is also very inspiring.

🔷Introduction

"Infinite Reading" is a collection of Luo Yijun's literary theories over the past decade, including his 40 literary reviews on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and foreign classics. Zhang Ailing, Mu Xin, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Yu Hua, Zhu Tianxin, Qiu Miaojin, Huang Jinshu, Tong Weige, heavyweight writers and their shining works are interpreted by Luo Yijun in a gorgeous and dazzling style, which makes people feel happy and scratch their heads. For literary lovers who care about contemporary literature, opening this book will be a unique reading feast.

🔷Media Recommendation

Book Review: "Hu Ren Shuo Shu" (Taiwan version of "Infinite Reading") is also a wonderful work, it is the writer's third eye, another powerful narrative engine, and a perfectly matched supercar. He jumps, turns and accelerates, and the text under his pen is like a snake shedding its skin or a fish shedding its scales, transforming into another cosmic ocean current.

His polished poetic skills and complex viewing methods set the trend and attracted many followers, and many of his disciples stole his magic weapons for processing. But I think he was the only one who was naturally gifted, while the others were just fakes like the antique world in his novels. "Pursuing originality at all costs", so "all disasters turned to dust". He examined Ukiyo-e and the physical situation one by one, and recalled them repeatedly. As a person who had experienced life, he turned vicissitudes into a joke. Behind his cruelty, he revealed all kindness. Just as he often vilified himself, he was actually observing with a humble posture like an ant (secret).

——Ode to the Fifth United Daily News Literary Awards

🔷Award record

The author has won the United Daily News Literature Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Novel Award and other honorary awards in the Chinese literary world

Luo Yijun is a full-time writer. He was born in Taipei in 1967 and graduated from the Institute of Drama at the Taipei University of the Arts (now Taipei University of the Arts). He has won many important literary awards, including the 2nd Peking University Wang Moren-Zhou Anyi World Chinese Literature Award, the 3rd Dream of the Red Chamber Award for World Chinese Novel, the 5th United Daily News Literary Award, the Taiwan Literature Award for Novel, the Times Literary Award for Short Stories, the United Literature Novel Newcomer Award, and the Taipei Literary Award.

He has written "White Horse and Black Camel" (co-authored with Song Mingwei), "The Great Epidemic", "Story Convenience Store", "Ming Dynasty", "Maybe You Are Not a Special Child", "Pure Worry", "Taxi Driver", "Kuang Chaoren", "Storytelling by the Hu People", "Fat and Thin Writing" (co-authored with Dong Qichang), "Let Us Stay Happy Forever: The Youngest Son 2", "Daughter", "Youngest Son", "Abandoned Story", "Book of Faces", "Sleepwalking Street during the Great Depression", "Xixia Hotel", "Gaara", "My Future Second Son's Memories of Me", "The Twelve Constellations of Birth", "We", "Far Away", "Sending Away Sadness", "The Last Name of the Moon", "The Third Dancer", "Wife Dreams of Dog", "We Leave the Tavern in the Dark at Night", "The Scarlet Letter Group" and other works.