Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological
portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of
identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout
from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White
Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters
through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and
an allegory of the trauma in which they live.
In "Running Mother," a man is torn between his fear of
abandonment and his guilt over leaving his family, and therefore
his symbolic home, behind. "Moon Seal" follows a woman caught
between traditional and modern worlds. In "Wailing Moon," a wife
learns a shocking secret after her husband's death, realizing he
was never the man she thought him to be. Set in the United States
and Taiwan, "Snow Blind" is a multigenerational triptych that
portrays the consequences of spiritual malaise, and in "Brightly
Shines the Stars Tonight," a general wrestles with issues of memory
and self-perception in the final moments before his execution.
Guo Songfen's stories play with the hazards of miscommunication,
the malevolence of human will, the arbitrary nature of fate, and
the burden of historical circumstance. As the general discovers,
life is a game of chess, the outcome of which is never certain
though it might be logically designed. Showcasing the best of
Taiwan's modernist style, these stories are not only an indictment
of the human condition but also a powerful comment on the
experience of postretrocession Taiwan.
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