Sunshine News (reporter Zhao Xiaokang correspondent Wei Feng) "The life of an animal is just a microcosm of our own destiny. A few days ago, the long non-fiction "Animal Sorrow" book created by Chen Cang, the winner of the Bingxin Prose Award and the Sanmao Prose Award, was launched by Chongqing Publishing House, and Jia Pingwa, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, was jointly recommended by Chen Yan, and the full text of the work was published as a novel in the 4th issue of China Writers in 2021, and was included in the 2020 key works support project of the China Writers Association. The illustrations in this book are woodcuts by Breeze Book Club creative and printmaker Guo Weili. It is reported that this is also the second work of Chen Cang for the Breeze Reading Club, and the first full book illustration is the novel "Painkiller", which was published by Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House in March 2021.
Animal Sorrows chooses a theme that illustrates the relationship between human beings and animals. With the development of society and technological steps, man's dominance over animals has become increasingly powerful, and the situation of animals in rural and urban areas has raised topics that need to be deeply considered by the whole society.
The protagonists of "Animal Sorrow" are pigs, cats, rats, sheep, cows, dogs, chickens, snakes, on the one hand, "I" remember each animal from the hometown, they implicate parents and aunts, childhood partners, acquaintance society, the hometown of the deep affection is contained in the hometown landscape and trees; on the other hand, the destination of each animal is also in the city, they implicate the new family and social relations and life in the metropolis.
Chen Cang, the author of "Animal Sorrow", as an essayist and poet, has a humorous and vivid language, a sense of rhythm and rhythm. He is good at light life and writing rich meanings, and the concise words reflect the mature wisdom. For example, the author's rats are companions who accompany the lonely teenagers at home on a dark night: they dance for him, he gives them popcorn, and a small mouse accidentally steps on the shovel on the fire and "holds the head of the rat". The author's cat, wild and free, is full of ridicule when writing about the difference between cats and dogs, while wild cats, as another kind of existence, do not accept human breeding, have their own territory, live independently and freely in nature...
Some illustrations of Animal Sorrow are displayed. (Breeze Book Club Creative, Printmaker Guo Weili Woodcut.) "Animal Sorrow" writes about the tragic and joyful lives of eight common animals, as the cover says, the life of animals may be just a microcosm of our own fate, the intertwining of animal and human fate, making people feel sad in the absurd, and touching the warmth and charm of people's hearts from tragedy.
Famous writer Chen Cang. (Breeze Book Club Creative, Printmaker Guo Weili Woodcut.) Chen Cang, a native of Danfeng County, Shaanxi. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman of the Shaanxi Youth Literature Association, vice chairman of the Shanghai Putuo District Writers Association, and a student of the 27th Senior Seminar of Lu Xun Literature Institute. He has published poetry collections "Wandering Innocence", "Poetry Shanghai", "Ai's Gate", 4,000 long poems "Awakening God", 1,000 long poems "Ode to the Swan", the eight-volume "Chen Cang Into the City" series of novels, the long novel "Houtu Temple" and "Painkiller", the long non-fiction "The Prophet", and the novella collection "Three Feet Underground". He has won the 3rd China Stars New Poetry Award, the first prize of the National World Expo Poetry Competition, the 3rd China Red Sorghum Poetry Award, the 2nd Urban Novel Biennial Award, the Biennial Award of Novel Selection (2014-2015), the 4th Beautiful China Travel Essay Award of People's Literature, the 1st Shaanxi Youth Literature Award, the 8th Bingxin Prose Award, the Outstanding Writer Contribution Award of China Writers Publishing Group and other literary awards.
Editor: Li Yu