The Flag of Desire

by Ge Fei

《欲望的旗帜》（1996）是格非创作转型期的一部长篇力作，是他经历了先锋实验阶段之后，试图介入现实的一次有力尝试。 在上海市某高校哲学系，一场重要学术会议召开前夕，大会的发起人兼执行主席贾教授毫无预兆地跳楼自杀身亡，会议不得不中断。贾教授生前的信息通过其他人的回忆一点点拼贴起来，故事也随之展开。 随着会议的筹备和开展，其他人物也纷纷登场：贾教授的弟子曾山是一名坚定的理性主义者，却总是陷入对自我的怀疑之中；宋子衿是曾山的师兄，终日于谎言和游戏感情中浑浑噩噩，最终陷入了疯狂。身处事件核心的还有曾山的妻子张末、佛学大师、经济诈骗犯、资料员等等，他们都在各自欲望的深渊中沉沦。 当欲望的旗帜张开，有的人倒下，有的尚在挣扎，有的已经奔赴另一场狂欢……

334 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964) is the pen name of novelist Liu Yong (刘勇), considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the most significant of the Chinese avant-garde writers that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He studied Chinese literature at East China Normal University and, after graduating in 1985, began to teach there and publish short stories and novellas. He read widely during his studies, but has since noted that he was particularly influenced by Borges, Faulkner and Robbe-Grillet. Some of his early, more experimental works were translated into English in the 1990s, such as "The Lost Boat", "Remembering Mr. Wu You" and "Green Yellow".

One of Ge Fei's most celebrated works is the "Jiangnan Trilogy", which explores the concept of utopia and contains many allusions to Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.

In 2016, The Invisibility Cloak (which had won both the Lu Xun Literary Prize and the Lao She Literary Award in 2014) was the first of his longer works to be translated into English.

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