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City Gates

城市门
Author(s):
WANG Hai 王海, ZHANG Tongrang 张同让,
Publisher:
China Intercontinental Press
Publication:
1/2015
Languages:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9787508529318
Pages:
598
Sizes:
228 x 148mm
Weight:
0.7600
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This is an excellent work that advances people's spirit levels in the experience of nirvana. The scene and ending of City Gates, that the nature demonstrated ifs power, is a breakthrough that represents both, phenomenally, the profundity of traditional influences on contemporary novel characterization and essentially, a very good solution to endow literature works with vigor and vitality through the appeal of artistic figures, it is also a useful exploration of resume the difficulties in inheriting the cultural power.
Wang Hai is the vice president of ' Shaanxi Writer's Association and Xianyang Federation of Literary and Art Circies, resident writer of Ocean Universifit of China, honor ary dean of Xianyang Literature Research Institute, Major works of Wang Hai include: The Ghost Mountain, which is a collection of short stories; novels The OLd Tomb, Prisoner, Paradise, Clty Gates. In 2006, one of Wang Hai's novels, Paradise was adapted into Long Gone the Bell Tone, a stage play, by Shaanxi People's Art Theater, The play was awarded the 'outstanding play' by the Ministry of Culture of People's Republic of China and was selected to cast on the China Drama Centennial Memorial and National Outstand- ing Drama Performance lunched by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Culture of People's Republic of China. The novel was recommended as one of the 'must read books in Chinese' on the Frankfurf Internationai Book Fair in 2009, City Gates won the national prize of 'Five-One Project' of Shaanxi province in 2012, and was adapted into a movie by the same name by Changchun Film Studio.
陕西作家始终保持着一份可贵的不合时宜的清醒,这种清醒在《城市门》表现为对社会弊端的高度警惕和深刻反思。王海以其平静的近乎冷酷的叙述,无情地撕下了城市化进程中虚伪的外衣,让我们看到了农民失地进城后生活的真实图景,一群在城市的外衣下遮蔽着的失去了自己的迷惘的灵魂。王海小说的确有阎纲先生所言的那种“愣”劲,有种“愣”味道。这种“愣”,在《城市门》中,即表现为一种严酷的现实主义精神,一种不虚掩不夸饰不作伪的勇气。
王海,咸阳市文联副主席、咸阳市文化广电新闻出版局文学艺术研究室创作员、中国作家协会会员、中国海洋大学驻校作家、咸阳文学院名誉院长。主要作品有:小说集《鬼山》,长篇小说《老坟》《人犯》《天堂》。 2005年小说《老坟》获得美国“国际文化与科学交流奖”;2006年小说《天堂》被陕西人民艺术剧院改编成话剧《钟声远去》,2007年进京参加中宣部、国家文化部主办的“中国话剧百年诞辰纪念暨全国优秀话剧展演”;2009年在德国法兰克福国际书展会上,小说《天堂》被推荐为“中文必读书”;2009年小说《人犯》入选“建国60年十大法制文学献礼作品”。