That Deep Breath – Shirley's "Touch the Color"
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The soft and delicate cutting, cut to the alarming place, makes people realize that they are the same as the victims in the novel, pressing the heart and mouth, so that a certain repression from the depths of life and spirit is released. Shirley is a good driver of the words galloping on the high-speed train of life. It is a pity that she only lived to be 49 years old, and her excellent talent was not properly magnified when she lived. After his death, Neil. Gaiman, Stephen. Kim, Carol. Figures like Oates, who have erected their own monuments in the contemporary era, call her an important influencer of her literary career. Shirley's words are not lacking in its acquaintances. Her feature-length "The Evil House" gave herself a narrow niche (I hadn't read the book), and in 2007, a fiction award for psychological suspense, horror, and black fantasy, Shirley. The Jackson Awards are for her. But Shirley's most famous collection of short stories, "Touching The Color", after reading it, gave me the feeling of not horror, but shock, there was no uncomfortable shiver of the nerves stimulated by the senses, but the abyss of human nature suddenly cracked through the interface of life - why do you want to take me to this cliff edge, so that there is no help but have a deep breath, Shirley? That's a kind of diving, diving to the depths of life?
In "Touching The Color", the main body of feeling in each novel is basically a woman, and occasionally there are children. It's a spontaneous feeling habit of a female writer, a scalpel she knows. Shirley cannot be reduced to a narrow female perspective, Shirley uses her own strength to break through the hard shell of daily life, and she lifts the veil of flesh and blood humanity. Buried in the abdominal cavity of ordinary life, the appendix will one day crack, Shirley shows in the novel how this little tail that everyone has bursts, but she will not tell the reader that this is the cave where life is always difficult to live in, and through the art of the novel, she opens this cave in the reader's heart.
Life seems to be boiling water, and no one pays attention to the ice slag, hair mass, and hurtful weapons that are too small to be seen. These things are hidden in words, in the wind of the eyes, and gradually deposited somewhere in the spiritual organs. A wound that has been forgotten for a long time seems to be held by a large net in the heart, hidden as an invisible preparatory illness, as the beginning of life, society, and time.
At some point, the pain of the drill heart comes violently, the nerves are knotted, the cold sweat is bursting, and it is difficult to breathe - this is how the uneasy knots in "Touch" reveal the answer.
"Touch" consists of 26 short stories of length or short, each of which is independently divided into chapters, and there is no connection between the plots. These short stories are restrained and unobtrusive. Shirley must like to let herself disappear into the expressive individual, so that the hidden desires of the writer, such as bizarre and enlightened, often disappear. Take the reader to the edge of that cliff and the story will be over. At the climax, there is a door that opens, and when you walk in, you begin to synchronize with the life of this novel.
He has compared Shirley's "Touch" with O'Connor's "Good Guys Are Hard to Find." Shirley's use of the power of language is more pure, unlike O'Connor, because of the religious background to inspire thinking, myths and fables will produce a powerful echo of life in the characters, and when the characters of the work are displayed, the dark and vicious side of human nature corresponds to a bright and grand divinity. Shirley is good, the character of the novel, in addition to being alive in front of the reader's eyes, there is also a shadow, this shadow is the restraint of language, the shadow is deep, there is a distorted black hole like a whirlpool from another starry sky, showing the unusual part of life and life, the reader is sucked by this force, in order to break free of repression, in order to take the head out of the deep water of consciousness, after taking a deep breath, he has a new consciousness of the world.
