□ Peninsula all-media reporter Meng Xiuli
Remember the blind Ah Bing, who couldn't see anything, but could eavesdrop on the heavenly machine through his ears? Remember huang Yiyi, the goddess of wisdom who is an angel on one side and a devil on the other? Remember the mysterious place "701" hidden in the mountains, forever with countless undefined stories?
There are ticking airwaves, dense codes, intense espionage battles; the "they" there are a combination of genius and madman, a group of people on the brink of life and death, experiencing a strange and legendary emotional fate...
"Dark Calculation", this exciting and fascinating work has gone through its wonderful twenty years, and the spy war series opened by "Dark Calculation" has added an important territory to the development of contemporary literature. "Dark Calculation" has achieved a literary genre and created a series of literary classics. After the baptism of time, the unique artistic charm of "Dark Calculation" has become more and more dazzling. In order to commemorate the twenty years of the publication of "Dark Calculation", the People's Literature Publishing House has specially launched the hardcover collection edition of "Dark Calculation", which is exclusively created by famous designers, carefully designed, and presented to readers with the most innovative and dynamic appearance. Let us open the dark floodgates of human nature again, revisit the classics, and explore the value of existence and the secrets of life in the world of "dark calculation".
Crack the enemy's code and unlock the secret code of the human heart
Since its publication, "Dark Calculation" has not only won the seventh Mao Dun Literature Award, but also been selected into the British "Penguin Classics" library together with "Decryption", which are the only two contemporary novels in China to be included in the library. It has opened up a new field of "espionage" literature with "code breaking", and has become a classic of this type of literature. The TV series "Dark Calculation" and the movie "The Sound of the Wind", adapted from the novel of the same name, set off a frenzy of contemporary Chinese spy war film and television, which was deeply loved by the audience. "Dark Calculation" has refreshed the new heights of espionage literature, and the code-breaking world built by the Mai family has not yet been surpassed.
Reading "Dark Calculations" is to experience a reading adventure. Mai Jia's "701" breaks our habitual imagination of the real world, the most authentic narrative is constantly stirring up the veil of mystery, facing the world that we never understand, the gifted blind, the sexy and charming female scientist, the decrypted genius who cannot return to normal life have become another perspective for us to understand the world, where human nature also shows different dimensions.
Secretly calculating the enemy, but being secretly calculated by life; cracking the enemy's code, but it is difficult to understand the secret code of people's hearts. Through the story, what the Mai family wants to pursue is the decipherment of human nature. Every ultimate life must imply great tragedy. Ah Bing's story is the story of fate, geniuses have to face loneliness and defects; the story of Huang Yiyi and Chen Erhu is the story of life, one gives up wisdom for love, one gives up self for deciphering codes... Everyone in "Dark Calculation" has an irresistible fate, and their stories have an irreproducible luster.
The battlefield without the smoke of gunfire is the achievement of faith and value in another life
Spy war is also a national war, although "Dark Calculation" is about the strange people behind the war, but in the end can not cover up these special people, in that special era, carrying a special mission, wealth, glory, fame have nothing to do with them, they silently cracked the code, like a rock to stick to the secret, sacrificed themselves and their families, to preserve the defense line of national victory. They are unsung heroes, they have a sense of home and country, they have achieved great things in their home and country with faith and perseverance, and they have tempered themselves into a different look.
These can be said to be fate, but also can be said to be choices and pursuits. Mai Jia is happy to show a rock-solid belief in "Dark Calculation", which is the value and pursuit of his writing. He once said of his writing: "Times are changing, changing with each passing day, some virtues becoming pedantic, some sublime becoming ridiculous, and some secrets becoming household names." But some things, some values, some eyes, are constant and unchanging. Ideally, the meaning of my writing is to find, or build, these things, these values, these eyes. In his story, we can feel this feeling of the heart, those warm things that support us, soothe us, guide us.
Many of the things in the story written in "Dark Calculation" seem incomprehensible at the moment, but the passionate, warm or hard things in the novel still touch us, and those hot emotions, tenacious will, selfless and selfless dedication give us a great tremor in our hearts.
Twenty years later, it is newly designed and hardcover
Since the release of "Dark Calculation", there have been many editions, in order to highlight the special significance of the hardcover commemorative edition, in the cover design, we strive to surpass all previous designs, and can make people shine when the book is displayed.
Beautiful books often bring readers the desire to read and the enjoyment of beauty, and the new edition of "Dark Calculations" is designed by Mr. Tao Lei, a famous designer and winner of "China's Most Beautiful Book". Adhering to the concept that design is to make the text better inhabit, the design of the new version of "Dark Calculation" closely interacts with the content of the novel and grows with each other: the most core elements and content of the novel are presented on the cover, and at the same time, the "high value" attracts the attention of readers for the first time.
The main colors on the cover of the new edition of Dark Calculations are orange and silver. These two colors are the boldest, most impactful, and most challenging, and if the design lacks ingenuity, it is easy to make the cover appear obtrusive and dazzling. Teacher Torley added Braille hollow design to the basis of the contrast, and the twelve black circles on the back cover of the cover are the Braille of the word "dark calculation", which has become another interpretation of "dark calculation" and a symbol of the secret electricity of the code. Among them, the three black circle cutouts on the cover are also designed with gilded transmitters, pistols, and cameras, which are the main elements of the three stories in the novel, echoing the silhouettes of the three characters on the cover, pointing out the main characters and plots.
Designing a book is like designing a building, with both an exterior temperament that meets the architectural requirements and an interior space planning and binding setup that matches the exterior. The inner text layout of the new version of "Dark Calculation" is also carefully designed. The three mysterious portrait silhouettes in the catalog are not only the embodiments of Ah Bing, Huang Yiyi, and Wei Fu, but also the three groups they represent, in a special era, it is these invisible and nameless people who have cracked one seemingly insoluble secret and completed the mission that cannot be completed. In addition, the text also designed three special symbols, outlined with lines, representing the three kinds of secret work that have no orientation, never stay, and only the future, which represent "listening to the wind", "watching the wind" and "catching the wind".
These exquisite designs are the surprises of the designers, and more surprises are still in this book. I believe that when you get this book, every reader can appreciate the intention of the new edition of "Dark Calculation".