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Dual Time: Dialogues with Western Literature
- Interviews
- Categories:Artists & Authors World
- Language:Simplified Ch.
- Publication date:April,2021
- Pages:372
- Retail Price:68.00 CNY
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- Publication Place:Chinese Mainland
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Feature
★How to Read the Contemporary World: Engaging with real issues of our time through conversational discourse.
★Literature's "Dual Time": This interview collection defines contemporary world literature through two temporal frameworks — "post-WWII" and "post-Cold War." These are the defining eras for today's writers; understanding this context is key to grasping their works and themes.
★Bai Lin's Debut Collection: A fresh voice among young writers.
This book crystallizes Bai Lin's years of interviews and writing. From staff reporter at "The Beijing News" to independent journalist, her identity evolved, but her voracious reading and critical thinking remained constant.
★A Vibrant Portrait Gallery of Literary Luminaries: Showcasing the landscape of global literature.
★Literature's "Dual Time": This interview collection defines contemporary world literature through two temporal frameworks — "post-WWII" and "post-Cold War." These are the defining eras for today's writers; understanding this context is key to grasping their works and themes.
★Bai Lin's Debut Collection: A fresh voice among young writers.
This book crystallizes Bai Lin's years of interviews and writing. From staff reporter at "The Beijing News" to independent journalist, her identity evolved, but her voracious reading and critical thinking remained constant.
★A Vibrant Portrait Gallery of Literary Luminaries: Showcasing the landscape of global literature.
Description
Sip coffee with Amos Oz, step into Svetlana Alexievich’s "Secondhand Time," unmask Peter Handke’s performative authorship, and explore the mythic "small self" in Olga Tokarczuk’s works.
Twenty-two incisive dialogues — sharpened by Bai Lin’s pen — span five continents, weaving geography and figures into a thematic unity: Europe’s evolving spirit, faith in the modern age, new travel writing, globalization debates, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. Each subject stands alone yet interconnects, offering a lens to examine our world’s "why."
Twenty-two incisive dialogues — sharpened by Bai Lin’s pen — span five continents, weaving geography and figures into a thematic unity: Europe’s evolving spirit, faith in the modern age, new travel writing, globalization debates, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. Each subject stands alone yet interconnects, offering a lens to examine our world’s "why."
Author
Bai Lin, independent journalist, is a research fellow at Beijing Foreign Studies University’s Balkan Studies Center and host of the audio course The Broken Dream of Yugoslavia (Ideal Media). Named "2024 Travel Writer of the Year" by One-Way Street Bookstore Award, she specializes in Balkan history/culture and in-depth cultural interviews.
Works include:
Dual Time: Dialogues with Western Literature (2021)
Nonfiction The Lure of Borders: In Search of Yugoslavia (2024)
Works include:
Dual Time: Dialogues with Western Literature (2021)
Nonfiction The Lure of Borders: In Search of Yugoslavia (2024)
Contents
Preface
Martin Walser
Navid Kermani
Saša Stanišić
Maria Stepanova
Svetlana Alexievich
Orhan Pamuk
Amos Oz
David Szalay
Geoff Dyer
Colin Barrett
Azar Nafisi
Peter Handke
Mariás Bella
Olga Tokarczuk
Mikhail Popov
David Grossmann
Etgar Keret
Boualem Sansal
Vincent Message
Marilynne Robinson
Michael Chabon
Martín Caparrós
Appendix
Martin Walser
Navid Kermani
Saša Stanišić
Maria Stepanova
Svetlana Alexievich
Orhan Pamuk
Amos Oz
David Szalay
Geoff Dyer
Colin Barrett
Azar Nafisi
Peter Handke
Mariás Bella
Olga Tokarczuk
Mikhail Popov
David Grossmann
Etgar Keret
Boualem Sansal
Vincent Message
Marilynne Robinson
Michael Chabon
Martín Caparrós
Appendix
Foreword
Amos Oz: The Secrets of Love and Darkness
Why read Amos Oz, the Israeli Jewish writer? Because in this terrifying era — one that leaves little room for emotion, tolerance, or compassion — people still need love to survive.
A towering figure in Hebrew literature and perennial Nobel Prize contender, Oz first captivated Chinese readers nine years ago with his autobiographical novel “A Tale of Love and Darkness”. Now, on his second visit to China, he brings “Scenes from Village Life”, a short story collection probing family dynamics and microcosmic societies. This time, he comes not just as a writer but as an honoree—named "2016 International Literary Figure" at the 21st Century University Students International Literary Festival.
Oz’s work, rich in metaphor and poetic imagination, confronts Jewish and universal realities. Raised in a traditional Jewish household, he absorbed his father’s right-wing nationalism as a child, simplistically viewing Jews as right and the world as wrong. At twelve, his mother’s suicide shattered this worldview. He rebelled against his father’s politics and began examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an ethical lens, seeking a path to compromise.
Though politically engaged, Oz’s fiction never feels didactic. Instead, it trembles with delicate portrayals of love (and its shadows) — like dappled sunlight shifting through leaves.
His novels all orbit love — that rarest currency in our chaotic world — and our desperate hunger for it. A decoder of family mysteries, he chronicles Israeli daily life with Chekhovian grace, smiling at sorrow. He imagines relentlessly: eavesdropping on bedroom whispers and kitchen quarrels, whether sipping coffee or wandering deserts. A literary spy, he maps the human psyche.
His characters stand lost at life’s bus stops — strangers in strange cities, disembarking too soon, stranded between light and darkness. Within them, love sometimes drowns in night. Yet, as Oz writes: "All love casts shadows. Love is self, love is selfish — thus darkness stains it."
So our stories are millions of secrets: born from darkness, lingering briefly, returning to dark — yet dyed indelible with love.
Why read Amos Oz, the Israeli Jewish writer? Because in this terrifying era — one that leaves little room for emotion, tolerance, or compassion — people still need love to survive.
A towering figure in Hebrew literature and perennial Nobel Prize contender, Oz first captivated Chinese readers nine years ago with his autobiographical novel “A Tale of Love and Darkness”. Now, on his second visit to China, he brings “Scenes from Village Life”, a short story collection probing family dynamics and microcosmic societies. This time, he comes not just as a writer but as an honoree—named "2016 International Literary Figure" at the 21st Century University Students International Literary Festival.
Oz’s work, rich in metaphor and poetic imagination, confronts Jewish and universal realities. Raised in a traditional Jewish household, he absorbed his father’s right-wing nationalism as a child, simplistically viewing Jews as right and the world as wrong. At twelve, his mother’s suicide shattered this worldview. He rebelled against his father’s politics and began examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an ethical lens, seeking a path to compromise.
Though politically engaged, Oz’s fiction never feels didactic. Instead, it trembles with delicate portrayals of love (and its shadows) — like dappled sunlight shifting through leaves.
His novels all orbit love — that rarest currency in our chaotic world — and our desperate hunger for it. A decoder of family mysteries, he chronicles Israeli daily life with Chekhovian grace, smiling at sorrow. He imagines relentlessly: eavesdropping on bedroom whispers and kitchen quarrels, whether sipping coffee or wandering deserts. A literary spy, he maps the human psyche.
His characters stand lost at life’s bus stops — strangers in strange cities, disembarking too soon, stranded between light and darkness. Within them, love sometimes drowns in night. Yet, as Oz writes: "All love casts shadows. Love is self, love is selfish — thus darkness stains it."
So our stories are millions of secrets: born from darkness, lingering briefly, returning to dark — yet dyed indelible with love.
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