Flowers in the mirror
Flowers in the mirror
14.99 €
Gods behave like people: they quarrel, slander, write denunciations, neglect their duties, and for this they are banished to the mortal world.
People behave like gods: they do good, improve their good qualities - and thanks to this they become immortal.
Handsome men with noble appearances turn out to be empty talkers. Ugly people are full of real talent and knowledge. The seller lowers the price of goods, the buyer raises it. Fish put out a fire. Flowers bloom in winter.
Everything is the other way around, everything has changed places, all the usual ideas have shifted.
Li Zhu-zhen's novel "Flowers in the Mirror" is written in such an unusual manner, where historically accurate material is intertwined with fiction, and a wild flight of fantasy is replaced by scholarly reasoning. It is no coincidence that in the works of Chinese literary scholars this work did not find a place for itself among the established categories of the Chinese novel.
Continuing the best traditions of his predecessors, Li Ru-zhen went further than them, creating a work that synthetically absorbed the features of different types of novels (fantastic, historical, satirical and travel novels). Some places in the novel "Flowers in the Mirror" have a clearly expressed journalistic character, especially those chapters that defend a certain set of ideas related to the issue of women's equality.
People behave like gods: they do good, improve their good qualities - and thanks to this they become immortal.
Handsome men with noble appearances turn out to be empty talkers. Ugly people are full of real talent and knowledge. The seller lowers the price of goods, the buyer raises it. Fish put out a fire. Flowers bloom in winter.
Everything is the other way around, everything has changed places, all the usual ideas have shifted.
Li Zhu-zhen's novel "Flowers in the Mirror" is written in such an unusual manner, where historically accurate material is intertwined with fiction, and a wild flight of fantasy is replaced by scholarly reasoning. It is no coincidence that in the works of Chinese literary scholars this work did not find a place for itself among the established categories of the Chinese novel.
Continuing the best traditions of his predecessors, Li Ru-zhen went further than them, creating a work that synthetically absorbed the features of different types of novels (fantastic, historical, satirical and travel novels). Some places in the novel "Flowers in the Mirror" have a clearly expressed journalistic character, especially those chapters that defend a certain set of ideas related to the issue of women's equality.
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