Tian Jiawei

Going Out for a Walk Tonight

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Author: Tian Jiawei
Publication Date: November 2024
Publisher: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press
ISBN: 978-7-5520-4545-1
This is a collection of essays that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction by young writer Tian Jiawei, featuring 26 articles that leisurely depict the days and nights between Xiushan and Paris. The collection is like an onion: its surface layer is a multitude of literary and cultural events, with figures such as Rousseau, Eliot, Giacometti, Proust, Walser, Conrad, Bataille, Babel, Valéry, and Artaud making their appearances, sometimes passionate, sometimes lonely. Peeling back these events, one finds layer upon layer of "I"s—these "I"s wander time and again through the nights of life experience, converging multi-dimensional love into a constellation of tears and laughter, leading eternal insomniacs toward rooms of wonder.