Chapter 103 Chapter 10 When the Fog Gradually Dissipates

At the end of the 20th century, the tearing up of the calendar and the replacement of the annual calendar have touched a more acute sense of the past and the present. This long, suffering, and wandering century will soon become history.My parents' generation is over, and my own generation is also in the sunset. In 1998, when the review collection "When the Fog Gradually Dissipated" (Nine Songs) was about to be published, I was on a four-time trip to Germany and stayed in a hotel on the Rhine outside Bonn.I sat day and night on the verandah extending to the river, writing the preface to the sound of the water.This book is another level of thinking after reading Taiwanese literature after "Tears of a Thousand Years".The predecessors shed tears for thousands of years because of reading Du Fu's "No Home", now that the twentieth century is coming to an end, the tears of being displaced before 1949 have gradually stopped, replaced by the melancholy and anxiety of the present.Over the past fifty years, I have watched the development of Taiwanese literature, as if walking in the fog of international literary and domestic changes, seeking a position.When sorting out the manuscripts of the book, I seemed to see some land illuminated by the sun. In my field of vision, although the fog had not completely dissipated, it would gradually dissipate.This book contains a few prefaces to the anthologies that I took the time to edit, as well as my most concerned military military literature and the once-drifting literature", "Literature and Sentiment"), and articles on translation.In the last few years of the real century, the cold hand of politics has reached into the field of literature, and pure love and trust have almost been exiled and drifted a second time.