Faith in the Novel [Chinese]

By Lian Ke Yan

The concept of truth is fluid and is not limited to what is commonly understood as empirical truth. Human life experience and perception have boundaries, while truth is fluid without boundaries, and can be built on the basis of life experience, or on the basis of non-experience but only on the basis of imaginative perception, flowing and changing with the flow of the form of life. Literature exists not only for the sake of experience, but also for the sake of a reality that transcends the boundaries of experience and can only be imagined and perceived. In addition to the 'empirical truth' understood by the general reader, following the line of history, Yan Lianke explores the 'unverifiable truth', 'untruthful truth', 'super-truthful truth' and 'anti-truth' that emerged in the course of the development of literature, as well as in-depth discussions on the truthfulness of the form of the novel, etc., and goes back to the present day to ask how the truth of literature will be broken through in the new century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 9570877227
• ISBN13: 9789570877229
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Lian Jing