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獲獎無數、被視為新世代小說作家中的佼佼者的吳明益，本書是他榮獲《聯合報》文學獎的首獎小說作品＜虎爺＞，以類人類學手法看「迷信」，保留了鄉土在文壇的一線生機。故事不落俗套，有新世代的疲懶、毫不在乎的況味，抵銷了鄉土、後設文學的俗濫概念、訴求，也將「後設」這樣高蹈的概念拉到和原來鄉野俗譚巧妙結合，產生新的感覺。採用非全知觀點詮釋了民俗本身的不可解，切入點十分有趣……它不強調七○年代鄉土的意識形態，使對設計本身反而產生更大的興趣。
《聯合報》文學獎首獎作品
知名作家 李昂、彭小妍、范銘茹專文推薦。
《聯合報》文學獎首獎作品
知名作家 李昂、彭小妍、范銘茹專文推薦。
243 pages
Published January 1, 2003
About the author
Wu Ming-Yi
19 books282 followers Writer, painter, designer, photographer, literary professor, butterfly scholar, environmental activist, traveler and blogger rolled into one, Wu Ming-Yi is very much a modern Renaissance Man. Over the last decade, he has produced an impressive body of work, especially with his fiction and nature writing.
Wu Ming-Yi (b.1971) studied advertising at Fu-Jen Catholic University and has a PhD in Chinese Literature from National Central University. He has been teaching literature and creative writing at Dong Hwa University since 2000 and is now Professor of the Department of Chinese.
Wu’s literary reputation was first established by his nature writing. In THE BOOK OF LOST BUTTERFLIES (2000) and THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES (2003), he chronicles his lifelong fascination with this beautiful creature and contemplates the invisible bond between man and nature. He wrote, designed, and provided drawings and photographs for the books, as if crafting works of art. Both books made the “Best of the Year” lists, with THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES winning China Times’ Open Book Award and being chosen as one of the ten most influential books by Kingstore Bookstore.
In 2006, juggling academic life and the need for a period of uninterrupted time for his writing and traveling, Wu decided to resign from his teaching post. This is unheard of in a country where almost no one can make a living writing full-time and many would fight for a stable teaching job. In the end, Dong Hwa University gave Wu a year of sabbatical leave – they didn't want to lose him.
A year later, Wu published two books: his third collection of nature writing, SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME, and his debut novel, ROUTES IN THE DREAM. DREAM re-imagines Taiwan’s complicated history as a Japanese colony and examines the relationship between fathers and sons, memory and dreams. Hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary historical fiction, it was nominated for every major award and was chosen as one of the ten best Chinese-language novels of the year by Asian Weekly magazine (along with Ai Mi’s Hawthorn Tree Forever, Liu Zhenyun’s My Name Is Liu Yuejin, and Dai Sijie’s Once on a Moonless Night) . Wu was the only Taiwanese author on the list.
It is his eco-fantasy novel THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES (2011), however, that has gained Wu international recognition, with major English and French translations appearing in 2013 and 2014. A “Taiwanese Life of Pi”, it is an ambitious exploration of Taiwan's island identity, the cost of environmental degradation, and how humans make sense of the world around them, at once poetic, philosophical and far-reaching. It has already caught the attention of major writers in the genre such as Ursula K. Le Guin.
Wu Ming-Yi (b.1971) studied advertising at Fu-Jen Catholic University and has a PhD in Chinese Literature from National Central University. He has been teaching literature and creative writing at Dong Hwa University since 2000 and is now Professor of the Department of Chinese.
Wu’s literary reputation was first established by his nature writing. In THE BOOK OF LOST BUTTERFLIES (2000) and THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES (2003), he chronicles his lifelong fascination with this beautiful creature and contemplates the invisible bond between man and nature. He wrote, designed, and provided drawings and photographs for the books, as if crafting works of art. Both books made the “Best of the Year” lists, with THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES winning China Times’ Open Book Award and being chosen as one of the ten most influential books by Kingstore Bookstore.
In 2006, juggling academic life and the need for a period of uninterrupted time for his writing and traveling, Wu decided to resign from his teaching post. This is unheard of in a country where almost no one can make a living writing full-time and many would fight for a stable teaching job. In the end, Dong Hwa University gave Wu a year of sabbatical leave – they didn't want to lose him.
A year later, Wu published two books: his third collection of nature writing, SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME, and his debut novel, ROUTES IN THE DREAM. DREAM re-imagines Taiwan’s complicated history as a Japanese colony and examines the relationship between fathers and sons, memory and dreams. Hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary historical fiction, it was nominated for every major award and was chosen as one of the ten best Chinese-language novels of the year by Asian Weekly magazine (along with Ai Mi’s Hawthorn Tree Forever, Liu Zhenyun’s My Name Is Liu Yuejin, and Dai Sijie’s Once on a Moonless Night) . Wu was the only Taiwanese author on the list.
It is his eco-fantasy novel THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES (2011), however, that has gained Wu international recognition, with major English and French translations appearing in 2013 and 2014. A “Taiwanese Life of Pi”, it is an ambitious exploration of Taiwan's island identity, the cost of environmental degradation, and how humans make sense of the world around them, at once poetic, philosophical and far-reaching. It has already caught the attention of major writers in the genre such as Ursula K. Le Guin.
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March 3, 2019
Everything where it starts.
March 8, 2023
This story worthy of attention. The text introduces the Taiwanese tradition of lion dancing in a very interesting way, in a dialogue between the narrator “I” and the interviewer “you”.
When a bunch of friends in the military on the New Year’s Eve decide to raise some money for their division (not enough funds to fix equipment and build a Karaoke Room), they decide to go to the countryside as a dance troupe. And during that event something mysterious happens: the Tiger God takes possession of a medium...
When a bunch of friends in the military on the New Year’s Eve decide to raise some money for their division (not enough funds to fix equipment and build a Karaoke Room), they decide to go to the countryside as a dance troupe. And during that event something mysterious happens: the Tiger God takes possession of a medium...
April 23, 2026
好想畀四星，但實在係有啲散章，要將顯其後嘅厲害唯有呢個畀三星，但絕對係好睇、受教的。
「因為要飛，鳥的骨頭就慢慢演化變成中空的，所以他們的體重很輕很輕喔。羽毛呀有很多層，有的鳥飛得很高，在野外晚上氣溫也會降低很多，所以說為了禦寒，他們有保暖的絨羽，熱空氣就會被保留在羽毛的空隙中間。而且為了飛行，心臟一分鐘要跳一千多下，被小學時全想跳繩冠軍的速度還快上兩倍。」
虎爺
學寫小說必讀
輯一 寫當兵
第一章 同一件事兩個人嘅寫法
第二章 寫模糊而清晰的神化事件（後設）
第三章 寫三段唔同時間點嘅記憶,三段互相關聯，互相聯繫（現在與妻、當年兵役認識的女子in hidden layer）
輯二 寫中華商場
頭一至三都比較普通直接
但夏日將逝嗰種寫法寫法實在係好
同記憶互動，連讀者都牽引其中
一開始係引出一位他者去remind自己嘅記憶，但係最後呢個他者其實可能根本唔存在只不過係自己回憶上嘅calling。呢種冇辦法自證嘅後設，相當好玩，加上「飛鳥」呢個意象。喺文字上一步步走向飛鳥、失蹤與沉默嘅連結。
可以喺遊走唔同嘅氛圍範疇保持一個完整嘅故事。厲害
好鍾意佢寫嗰啲喺文字遊走私人歷史場面而過去嘅人物會回望自己嘅呢啲句子
輯三 自然書寫
複眼人 好似見到苦雨之地嘅成個prototype
可以master過去嘅回憶亦對未來有想像、書寫自然生態又引人入勝，最緊要係真誠唔浮誇，唔明益真係神級嘅作者。
讀到啲寫得咁精神嘅文章，係會有衝動令人好想寫字。
「因為要飛，鳥的骨頭就慢慢演化變成中空的，所以他們的體重很輕很輕喔。羽毛呀有很多層，有的鳥飛得很高，在野外晚上氣溫也會降低很多，所以說為了禦寒，他們有保暖的絨羽，熱空氣就會被保留在羽毛的空隙中間。而且為了飛行，心臟一分鐘要跳一千多下，被小學時全想跳繩冠軍的速度還快上兩倍。」
虎爺
學寫小說必讀
輯一 寫當兵
第一章 同一件事兩個人嘅寫法
第二章 寫模糊而清晰的神化事件（後設）
第三章 寫三段唔同時間點嘅記憶,三段互相關聯，互相聯繫（現在與妻、當年兵役認識的女子in hidden layer）
輯二 寫中華商場
頭一至三都比較普通直接
但夏日將逝嗰種寫法寫法實在係好
同記憶互動，連讀者都牽引其中
一開始係引出一位他者去remind自己嘅記憶，但係最後呢個他者其實可能根本唔存在只不過係自己回憶上嘅calling。呢種冇辦法自證嘅後設，相當好玩，加上「飛鳥」呢個意象。喺文字上一步步走向飛鳥、失蹤與沉默嘅連結。
可以喺遊走唔同嘅氛圍範疇保持一個完整嘅故事。厲害
好鍾意佢寫嗰啲喺文字遊走私人歷史場面而過去嘅人物會回望自己嘅呢啲句子
輯三 自然書寫
複眼人 好似見到苦雨之地嘅成個prototype
可以master過去嘅回憶亦對未來有想像、書寫自然生態又引人入勝，最緊要係真誠唔浮誇，唔明益真係神級嘅作者。
讀到啲寫得咁精神嘅文章，係會有衝動令人好想寫字。
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