"The Flag of Desire" Author: Ge Fei Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House

▲Ge Fei, winner of both the Mao Dun Literature Prize and the Lu Xun Literature Prize, professor at Tsinghua University, and a talented writer

▲The mental distress and entanglement of desires, a "book of failure" by contemporary intellectuals

▲If life is an endless sentence, can philosophy and love bring salvation?

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Contents:

"Flag of Desire" (1996) is a long masterpiece created by Ge Fei during his transitional period. It is a powerful attempt by him to intervene in reality after his avant-garde experimental stage.

On the eve of an important academic conference in the philosophy department of a university in Shanghai, Professor Jia, the initiator and executive chairman of the conference, committed suicide by jumping off a building without warning, and the conference had to be interrupted. Information about Professor Jia's life was pieced together bit by bit through the memories of others, and the story unfolded.

As the meeting was being prepared and carried out, other characters also appeared one after another: Zeng Shan, a student of Professor Jia, was a staunch rationalist, but he always fell into self-doubt; Song Zijin was Zeng Shan's senior brother, who was muddle-headed in lies and emotional games all day long, and finally fell into madness. Also at the core of the incident were Zeng Shan's wife Zhang Mo, a Buddhist master, an economic fraudster, a data clerk, etc., all of whom were sinking in the abyss of their own desires.

When the flag of desire is unfurled, some people fall down, some are still struggling, and some have already rushed to another carnival...

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Editor's Recommendations

▲This is a transformational work by Ge Fei, a double winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize and the Lu Xun Literature Prize, and a professor at Tsinghua University. A powerful attempt to intervene in reality.

▲ Ge Fei is a scholar-writer who is good at thinking deeply about literature, society, history and other issues. His works are tenacious, elegant, accurate and wise, and are unique in the contemporary Chinese literary world.

▲The novel revolves around the preparation and conduct of an academic conference, presenting the spiritual distress and desire entanglements of contemporary intellectuals.

Why does Zeng Shan, the protagonist of the novel, a staunch idealist, always fall into self-doubt? Zeng Shan's senior brother Song Zijin, who was muddle-headed in lies and emotional games all day long, eventually fell into madness... Zeng Shan and Zhang Mo, overcame all kinds of difficulties to be together because of love, but eventually drifted apart due to their respective spiritual difficulties. At the core of the incident are also Buddhist masters, economic fraudsters, data clerks, etc., all of whom are sinking in the abyss of their own desires.

▲Spirit and material, academic and secular, love and marriage, desire and self-reflection, including everything, but directly pointing to the spiritual core of contemporary people. This is a book about the failure of contemporary intellectuals, and also a book of self-reflection for contemporary people in spiritual distress.

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Celebrity recommendation:

"Ge Fei's writing is tenacious, elegant and pure. His novels have been deeply involved in the literary revolution since the 1980s, and his narrative research has enriched the aesthetic texture of Chinese novels. His writing has a distinct modern spirit and continues the splendor and splendor of the classical novel tradition. His narrative is complex and exquisite, his language is gorgeous and elegant, and exudes a strong bookish atmosphere. The unique accuracy and splendor of this discourse style fully demonstrates the great charm of the Chinese language and promptly awakens modern people's complex feelings towards their mother tongue."

——Award speech for the 2004 Chinese Literature Media Awards Outstanding Achievement Award

"There are two great scholars among our novelists, one of whom is Ge Fei. These two novelists are the most proud of us."

——Writer Mo Yan

"Ge Fei's writing is tenacious, elegant and pure. His novels have been deeply involved in the literary revolution since the 1980s. They have the complexity and sophistication of modern narrative art, and inherit the splendor and splendor of the classical novel tradition. In particular, the myths and coded language of human nature in his works have become an important linguistic wonder of contemporary literature."

——Writer Xie Youshun

"He not only brings in the tremendous energy and possibilities of Western avant-garde literary narratives, but also brings out the narrative of Dream of the Red Chamber. Ge Fei is such a collection of Chinese, Western, readers, writers, scholars, and professors. All of these are gathered in Ge Fei, forming a true multiplicity."

——Poet Ouyang Jianghe

"It can be said that after 30 years of creative experience, Ge Fei's creations still have unlimited potential for growth."

——Poet Zhai Yongming

"I can feel Ge Fei's intelligence level, not just the intelligence level as a professor or as a novelist, but a combination of several things. The situation created by the combination of these things is actually a contemporary culture."

——Poet Xichuan

"This person, who was born with the 'figure of a novelist', dances by instinct, and his dancing is already graceful and charming. Such a novelist seems to be able to capture young and sensitive hearts the most, because his 'beauty' is obvious at a glance."

——Writer Yi Zhou

“The process of studying Ge Fei is also a process of self-discovery, and there is always an impulse from the heart.”

——Zhang Qinghua, professor of the School of Literature, Beijing Normal University

"In contemporary China, it is difficult to write about reality, which is the dilemma of almost every writer. The significance of Ge Fei lies in that, while expressing the spiritual situation in a close way, he found a way to talk about reality and spiritual difficulties between possibilities."

——Zhang Li, professor at Beijing Normal University

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