Writer Chou Fen-ling and Li Hsin-lun in dialogue: From 'Salty Vegetable Street' to confronting inner demons
Writer Chou Fen-ling, winner of the Taiwan Literature Golden Award, recently published her latest full-length novel "Salty Vegetable Street." Today, she engaged in a dialogue with writer Li Hsin-lun on the theme of "Dialogue between inner demons and goddesses," discussing her creative journey.
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(Central News Agency, Reporter Chiu Tsu-tsu, Taipei, April 18) Writer Chou Fen-ling, winner of the Taiwan Literature Golden Award, recently published her latest full-length novel "Salty Vegetable Street"; today, she engaged in a dialogue with writer Li Hsin-lun on the theme of "Dialogue between inner demons and goddesses," discussing her creative journey.
The event was held at Taipei Spring and Autumn Bookstore. Chou Fen-ling stated that she remembered an important figure, like "Susu" in the novel, who was a person her family wanted to silence, as if they never existed. She chose to use streets as a structure, attempting to outline related spiritual and life images, connecting memories to form a dream-like writing state.
Chou Fen-ling said that this writing style has a certain "transgressive" experimental nature, which might make it difficult for readers to define whether the work is a novel or an essay. It even continues her past experience of blending different genres, with uncertainty and adventure during the creative process. She uses this attempt to respond to the diverse perspectives of contemporary reading and interpretation, allowing the work to maintain openness and ambiguity.
Chou Fen-ling stated that she lives in a 70-year-old house, where the environment is quite primitive. Maintaining the house often requires immense effort. In such a living situation, her creation gradually takes on the form of a notebook novel, with surreal and dreamlike colors.
Chou Fen-ling believes that this kind of writing is not simply isolated, but a solitude full of sounds, dialogues, and imagination, even generating dream-like plots, reflecting inner spiritual activities and transformations.
Chou Fen-ling stated that contemporary female writers generally face confusion and challenges. Her creation attempts to explore new writing paths in the depths of memory and consciousness, opening up possibilities for deeper writing through fragmented memories and spiritual images.
Li Hsin-lun stated that Chou Fen-ling uses streets as clues in her book, unfolding like a wanderer reflecting memory landscapes from real scenes. The book repeatedly features a "dialogue between two people" format, where each text seems to have two voices intertwined, possibly a dialogue between past and present selves, or a dialogue with important others in memory, or even a dialogue with inner demons.
Li Hsin-lun stated that in the contemporary reading environment, works are often over-interpreted or examined within established frameworks, but Chou Fen-ling's writing style, on the contrary, offers a possibility to resist single interpretations. (Editor: Chen Jen-hua) 1150418
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(Central News Agency, Reporter Chiu Tsu-tsu, Taipei, April 18) Writer Chou Fen-ling, winner of the Taiwan Literature Golden Award, recently published her latest full-length novel "Salty Vegetable Street"; today, she engaged in a dialogue with writer Li Hsin-lun on the theme of "Dialogue between inner demons and goddesses," discussing her creative journey.
The event was held at Taipei Spring and Autumn Bookstore. Chou Fen-ling stated that she remembered an important figure, like "Susu" in the novel, who was a person her family wanted to silence, as if they never existed. She chose to use streets as a structure, attempting to outline related spiritual and life images, connecting memories to form a dream-like writing state.
Chou Fen-ling said that this writing style has a certain "transgressive" experimental nature, which might make it difficult for readers to define whether the work is a novel or an essay. It even continues her past experience of blending different genres, with uncertainty and adventure during the creative process. She uses this attempt to respond to the diverse perspectives of contemporary reading and interpretation, allowing the work to maintain openness and ambiguity.
Chou Fen-ling stated that she lives in a 70-year-old house, where the environment is quite primitive. Maintaining the house often requires immense effort. In such a living situation, her creation gradually takes on the form of a notebook novel, with surreal and dreamlike colors.
Chou Fen-ling believes that this kind of writing is not simply isolated, but a solitude full of sounds, dialogues, and imagination, even generating dream-like plots, reflecting inner spiritual activities and transformations.
Chou Fen-ling stated that contemporary female writers generally face confusion and challenges. Her creation attempts to explore new writing paths in the depths of memory and consciousness, opening up possibilities for deeper writing through fragmented memories and spiritual images.
Li Hsin-lun stated that Chou Fen-ling uses streets as clues in her book, unfolding like a wanderer reflecting memory landscapes from real scenes. The book repeatedly features a "dialogue between two people" format, where each text seems to have two voices intertwined, possibly a dialogue between past and present selves, or a dialogue with important others in memory, or even a dialogue with inner demons.
Li Hsin-lun stated that in the contemporary reading environment, works are often over-interpreted or examined within established frameworks, but Chou Fen-ling's writing style, on the contrary, offers a possibility to resist single interpretations. (Editor: Chen Jen-hua) 1150418
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