Reading a novel is like taking a walk by the river, you will see a white safflower floating sadly, carefully salvaged ashore, and breathe, and then put into the water, and in the sadness of the fish quickly swim away. If you have not read the introduction of the author Li Tang, you may think that you are watching the feeling of the eighties literary works created by Su Tong, Ge Fei and other writers, the text returns to the cultural context of pure literature, the text is delicate and cold and has psychedelic absurdity, sit on Li Tang's "Tiger in the Vegetable Market" to a fantasy drift, don't think about getting off the ship.
The whole book is full of fables, seven boy growth stories, each story involves different animals, tigers, ants, ephemera, blue beasts, etc., the protagonist is almost surrounded by dreams, as if Jia Baoyu's "too illusory realm", heavy rain and tuotuo to seek a way out of life, "I" a lot of muttering and psychological activities, but also the catalyst for the development of the novel, the whole book set the story is deliberately ignored the background, time and appearance, only young people and adults, but not suspended, Reality and surreality are combined by the author in these seven stories, seven different aspects of a person's growth.
In literature, there are many excellent works that represent the relationship between humans and animals, such as Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and O'Neill's "Hairy Ape". Unlike the tragic ending of "The Woolly Ape", the caretaker of the animal warehouse in the first part of the novel, "Animal Hearts", from the initial depressed fear to the final take off all clothes to interact with the animals, and even finally remove all the human beings and curl up in the horse pen.
In the middle of it was a section of him, almost like a savage, his clothes were scattered in the street, and in order to avoid pedestrians, he found a well with only half a lid, and he lifted the manhole cover and jumped in. If you read this paragraph and see Michael Keaton in a Hollywood movie "Birdman" crossing the street in full view of everyone wearing only his underwear, this mood of suddenly going from quiet to hilarious and then quickly falling from light to darkness is rendered infinitely magnified. If he climbs out of the well at night, and sees this infinite prosperity and high-rise buildings in front of him, is this really the world I have lived in?
In "Ephemera", various animals and insects gather, ants that always appear on the father, soft branches - snakes, and silver tigers, the love between the teenager and the lady of the clothes, so that the tone of the whole novel is sad, the villagers throw out the stones in order to watch the show, no one can go to the "far place", the village seems to become the end of the world where ants are flooded and dead.
Among them, "voyeurism" also appears in several other articles, the teenager peeps at Mrs. Yi, and the boy in "Tiger in the Wet Market" peeps into the girl in the vegetable market and then breaks the secret, all of which becomes a tense element of the novel, which is also a peeping of sex in growth.
Most of the male protagonists portrayed by the author are ignorant teenagers, who have been surrounded by a desperate emotion, or looking for their inner hometown, or their father in their memories, but most of them love and cannot, as if they are forever entangled in a snake in a dream, and they cannot break free from the heaviness of the flesh.
"The Unknown Thing" has a kind of male and female wrong version of the movie "The Skin of My Habitat", and the last "Lost Deer" seems to be the sequel to Yu Hua's "Eighteen-year-old Going Out and Traveling", what kind of choices will be made after the teenager who travels alone will experience the confusion of life.
Throughout the novel, animals seem to be the carriers and witnesses of life, the author uses delicate words to construct a film-like language psychological environment, and the breakthrough of the teenagers in the middle is to break the barrier, and the story is flipped and becomes an absurd and bizarre Rubik's Cube. The external absurdity cannot hide the background of sadness, and those mutterings and environmental descriptions will bring readers a greater sense of oppression.
So when every little story suddenly stops, the words that penetrate the time and space can break through the boundaries, and expose the thrilling details behind it, it is not a dream, but everything that is experienced in childhood, the forgotten past is suddenly extracted from the memory, the beautiful filter is removed, once growing up in a small and claustrophobic space wandering left and right, the pain of the flesh has long become the bird and beast in the memory, frozen into a state of flight and running.
Wading through the river of youth, fortunately we are all safe, but there are still tigers hidden in our hearts.