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一把刀，千个字
我從哪裡來，要到哪裡去？一段始於揚州菜漂流海外的故事，情節一旦展開，赫然盤根錯節……當代中文小說界最重要的作家之一，王安憶思索革命與生命形上問題的全新長篇力作王德威——專文導讀／／由革命寫到請客吃飯，王安憶運筆如刀，做她的文章。起落之間，炮製多少人間故事，辯證名與實、人與物的始末，為之沉思，為之歎息。這是王安憶的「千个字」，她的「小說革命」。小說以揚州菜漂流海外的故事開場。紐約華人的大宴小酌牽引出東北哈爾濱一場家庭悲劇，上海弄堂深處的兒女恩怨，還有揚州城裡城外的市井人生。舊金山唐人街、大西洋城賭場、天津宅邸、甚至大興安嶺鄂溫克族獵場是故事發生的場景；越南女子、德州青年、新疆流民穿梭主要人物之間。但小說的核心是文化大革命中一起轟動全國的政治迫害事件。《一把刀，千个字》上半部鋪陳了陳誠的故事，也提出了「謎題」：他從哪裡來，要到哪裡去？下半部敘事陡然轉變，「母親」這一人物出場。母親被污名化為現行歷史反革命，又被聖名化為國家烈士……王安憶寫了個後革命時代的離散故事，她要再次叩問革命的前世與今生。這讓她的小說充滿辯證意義，而這辯證藉著紐約的揚州廚子和哈爾
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242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 27, 2020
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About the author
Wang Anyi
87 books56 followersWang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
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March 3, 2025
王安憶的語言很美。作爲女性知青親歷文革，隱晦寫作母親從因不服從文革，挺身發聲而被失蹤，到後來被封國家烈士而全家「受益」的歷史經驗，影響隨時間延展。
作爲上海文人熟知20世紀後期不同階層、世代的移民文化和經驗，從海外揚州菜名厨的個人史寫出新舊華人移民的離散記憶，影響沿地域擴散。
用食物的色香味開篇，寫到以母子關係為核心的家庭及遠近人情網絡中的故事，在廣闊、散漫的時空感官維度中，感受到歷史荒誕滄桑。
作爲上海文人熟知20世紀後期不同階層、世代的移民文化和經驗，從海外揚州菜名厨的個人史寫出新舊華人移民的離散記憶，影響沿地域擴散。
用食物的色香味開篇，寫到以母子關係為核心的家庭及遠近人情網絡中的故事，在廣闊、散漫的時空感官維度中，感受到歷史荒誕滄桑。
April 18, 2021
Life goes with thousands of knives, and it can be summerised as one word.
September 13, 2021
大鳴大放, 文革 - 一段從一個不懂人事的孩子眼中看到的世界
November 29, 2025
看似平淡地说话生活，实际是有些东西碰不得，或是像黑洞会被吸进去，于是换一种方法来。造化弄人和事在人为共存于全篇。我没想到与法拉盛与上海这么远这么近，感谢王安忆作家。
December 18, 2021
Each new book from Wang An Yi is getting me enjoy more her ways of Chinese literature. Comparing her earlier works with the recent ones, I can find more artistic and rigorous expression between the lines that I can escape a little while from the Internet and wireless era communication.
November 19, 2021
上海跟苏北的部分还是写得好的，其余琐屑且止于隔靴搔痒。
October 2, 2022
人生尽是离别。
January 2, 2024
写这种东西王安忆得心应手
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