"Dive" is a novel by Shanghainese writer Yu Feng, based on an exotic diving trip, telling the story of a frustrated person in the jungle of a land city, the inspiration and courage he received in the sea world, and as an oriental in Bali, he perceives the collision between different civilizations. The change and deformation of people run through the story.
"Dive" is a thrilling "Metamorphosis" of seventy meters under the sea, a book about the end and restart: Xin Qing and his girlfriend Pu Tianxiu have been in love for many years, but the relationship between the two has always had cracks and uneasiness. Vigilance, calculation, measurement... Years of secretarial work have made Xin Qing more and more cautious and content with the status quo, while her girlfriend is looking forward to a better life and a stronger sense of security. When she ran away again, Xin Qing arranged for her to go abroad to dive, hoping to reorganize her life. Seventy meters underwater is the way of liberation that Xin Qing set for herself - nitrogen drunkenness can make people leave this world in infinite pleasure. In Bali, he meets strangers from different countries and slowly develops new relationships that make him hesitate. Xin Qing, who is entangled in the old and new life, seems to dive into the depths of doubt, but his vision is suddenly open.
It is an ocean novel, written by real divers; at the same time, it is also a land novel, reflecting on the human beings in the city by the frustrated people of the urban jungle. In the field of contemporary Chinese literature, there are few "amphibious writers" like Yu Feng. Yu Feng's own identity almost represents one "metamorphosis" after another: former newspaper reporter, MBA of HEC Paris, executives of european and American multinational companies, writers, PADI advanced divers, etc. His works depict the urban life of Paris, Shanghai and Beijing, such as the novels "Jing'an 1976", "Hollyhock 1987", "Paris Flying Fish", "Night Watch" and so on. Yu Feng, a journalist by training, is almost harsh on the accuracy of the novel: "I have tried to make the diving details of this novel scientific and true. Some places, such as steps or other details, can't be remembered when writing, and I have specifically gone to Indonesia to dive once and come back to write. ”
The uniqueness of "Dive" is that the protagonist looks back at the land life from the bottom of the sea, and in this new situation like a "Zhuang Sheng Dream Butterfly", he examines his past experience over and over again, fights with his fears, sharks, and self-restraints, and finally becomes a new person. Han Songluo commented on "Diving": "In the sea water at a depth of seventy meters, in the drunken state brought by external forces, listen to the whispers in a person's heart, in the story of the exodus in progress, in the sun-drenched island, listen to a past that is still in progress. There is the sincerity of private novels, but there is no decadence, there is the truth of the times, but it is not old, and what is particularly moving is that in a fragmented era, it is still clinging to the issue of 'eternal lovers', this kind of selfless sincerity, this kind of deep faith, it is rare. ”
Only by following the author Yu Feng to experience this underwater adventure, experiencing the drunken ecstasy and near-death fear, and experiencing the awakening path of the rope that binds the self, will you understand that there is an ocean beyond the land, and the ocean is a vast and free way out. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
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Source: Purple Cow News