looking for lifeboats
On the evening of the 26th, the “Overall Plan for the Implementation of “Class B and B Controls” for Novel Coronavirus Infection” made the circle of friends rejoice. After three years of international travel lying on the wish list, I finally had the opportunity to realize it!
In a live broadcast event, Xu Zhiyuan once mentioned that if he could travel abroad, he would especially like to go to Dublin. “Ireland, as a place on the edge of Europe, has been oppressed by the United Kingdom all the year round. Because of this oppression and constant quarrels, They have a strong mutual solidarity. The Irish have a special culture and a special color, which attracts me very much. They are the Chaozhou gang in Europe.”
During the long days of waiting to go back to the world, the editorial department of “Single Reading” came to Ireland with literature before the boss, and launched “Single Reading 32·Looking for the Lifeboat: Special Collection of Irish Literature” after the Australian, British, and French literature specials. Although we strive to break through the trapped state mentally, the reality does pose many challenges. This year, Shanghai and Beijing have been closed down one after another, logistics channels have been blocked, factory workers and transport drivers have been sick one after another, etc. It was expected that it came to the readers after a long time, and I would like to express the deep apology of the editorial department.
Ireland is a land with a rich literary tradition, which gave birth to Joyce, Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Shaw and other shining writers who have not faded in the passage of time, and the contemporary Irish literary world is also brilliant . A 2015 Guardian article was titled “A New Irish Literary Boom: The Post-crash Stars of Fiction”, meaning “A New Irish Literary Boom: Post-Crash Fiction Stars”.
This “Irish Literature Special” invites two senior readers of Irish literature— Yan Ge, a writer who once lived in Ireland and now lives in the UK, and Peng Lun, an archipelago book publisher, to be the guest editors. Twelve Irish writers and their works that are admired but still unfamiliar to the Chinese world:
Cathy Sweeney, “Three Love Stories”
Lucy Caldwell, All People Are Mean and Evil
Wendy Erskine “Gloria and Max”
Nicole Flattery “Welcome”
Eon McNamee “Horse”
Colin Barrett, The Rathcreedan Shooting
Lisa McInerney, “Bury My Father Will You Die?” “
Kevin Barry, “Kirary Fjords”
Louis Kennedy “Silhouette”
Danielle McLaughlin “Partially Rescued List”
Jane Carson, Stirring the Pool
Melatu Uche Okori “The Days of the Inn”
The movie “The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves”
These novels focus on the fate of individuals drifting under the shadow of the great era , and enter history from the perspective of literature: In the stories set against the “Northern Ireland Issue” , we see the disintegration of small families under bloody conflicts and social turmoil. Enmity between people and personal irreparable loss; immigrants who are protagonists in novels, supporting characters, or fleetingly in dialogues, who come to Ireland from Africa and Eastern Europe, but are still trapped and suffering for survival They also write about superstitious old people, nurses with monotonous lives, drunkards full of nonsense, grassroots policemen, desperate thieves… depicting the pain experienced by the working people at the bottom and every little person in the torrent of history, and their desire for dignity and redemption .
At the same time, they are also penetrating in depicting the spiritual plight of contemporary people——
“People don’t know each other anymore, they don’t really love each other anymore, it doesn’t matter whether the marriage fails or might have survived; and how could it not matter?” (“Everybody’s Mean and Evil”)
“I didn’t take it seriously, and replied that I had come out here to discover myself. I had concealed the fact that there was really nothing to discover. It was just the surface of the ordinary, with a more desperate surface beneath it.” (“Welcome to “)
“Humanity is always pandering to hope, whether or not there is reason to hope.” (“Partial List of the Rescued”)
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Film “The Banshee of Inisherin”
We all face a similar spiritual crisis: the depression of not being able to find the meaning of our existence in an empty life, the helplessness of wanting to embrace others but finding an insurmountable gap between people. We were all struggling to find a lifeboat . And these novels, which are full of harsh reality trauma, but always full of love for people, may be the lifeboat we want to board.
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