Paper details:
Please follow the following prompt and make sure you read the book “Notes of a Desolate Man” by Chu Tien-Wen. The prompt is: In Notes of a Desolate Man, the narrator states that he feels indifferent toward China, as if it were the “remains of a love, cast into a heap”. Yet he also admits that because he used the Chinese Language, China and its culture are hardly irrelevant to both his life and his writing. Discuss how this coolness toward China on the other hand, and a fascination with Japan, India, France, and other foreign countries and cultures, on the other, are mirrored in Shao’s ambivalent feelings toward his lovers and other male friends such as Yongjie or Ah Mao. And does this show that both true love and perfect places are equally unattainable, even perhaps mere illusions? Please note quotes should take up to no more than 10% of the whole essay. Also the only source required is the book itself.
