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《姚来江》

Yao Laijiang

最高 / 封面与内文排版设计 / 2023 / 长篇小说 / 中文

书名:姚来江 · 作者:司屠 · 类型:长篇小说

出品方:果皮书店 · 出品人:刘按、舟星霞 · 出品编辑:康良 · 特约编辑:见苇

封面设计:最高 · 内文排版:最高 · 出版年:2023-06

关于本书

“司屠的小说,结构是它最大的暗示。每一处都准确直白,整体又模糊,准确加强了模糊,模糊也加强了准确。思维诗性,结构却极小说,结构笼罩思维,让思维处于暗示状态——这是司屠最厉害的地方。”(花黄夏天香故)

“他对小说形式的焦虑比别人更明显,不断颠覆上一个手法。希望在小说中发现与创造时仍听取传统体裁的意见,却让作品以全新面貌出现而不陌生。司屠的方式更抽象,他的小说容纳更多可能性,力量部分依赖形式,不必过分理解内容,其本质虚无,属于他对小说形式的不懈探索。”(魏虻)

Highest / Cover & typesetting / 2023 / Novel / Chinese

Title: Yao Laijiang · Author: Situ · Format: Novel

Publisher: kpee books · Executive producers: Liu An, Zhou Xingxia · Production editor: Kang Liang · Contributing editor: Jian Wei

Cover: Highest · Typesetting: Highest · Publication: Jun 2023

About the Book

“In Situ’s fiction the structure is the grand clue. Each part is direct and precise, yet the whole stays hazy—precision heightens the blur, and the blur sharpens the precision. A poetic mind wrapped in rigorously novelistic structure, keeping thought in a state of suggestion.” (Hua Huang Xia Tian Xiang Gu)

“His anxiety about form shows as constant overturning of his last method. He wants new discoveries while hearing the genre’s tradition, so the work looks new without feeling alien. His way is abstract: pack in more possibilities, let form carry the power, content almost optional—an ongoing exploration of the novel’s shape.” (Wei Meng)

设计师自述:

司屠改了名字,以前叫姚來江,現在叫漢堡王。因為他每天去漢堡王寫作,他說他是漢堡王裡的王,我給他簡稱:漢堡王。

Designer’s Notes

Situ changed his name—once Yao Laijiang, now “Burger King” because he writes in Burger King daily. He calls himself the king of Burger King; I just call him Burger King.