尋找背海的人

故事簡介

18歲開始專事寫作，34歲寫出《家變》，以25年完成《背海的人》，無間斷的寫作真空狀態，王文興被困於他的房間，以線條、符號、聲音雕刻出一部部反撲人生的小說。電影以年輕小說家尋覓的線索串起王文興的文學歷程，呈現出一份獨特的個性: 傳真機是他最好的朋友，掛在廁所的湯勺是美的體現，很少出門而一出門便發現這世界美得他無法承受，相信神的存在只因人奇妙到無法自我創造......他不只寫，他聲演出來，他以西洋樂器為小說伴奏; 一位文學家如此享受自己的創作，使電影尤如一場文本、戲劇、動畫及書法的盛宴，浸透出濃烈的「戲味」，教人著迷。

王文興（1939-）
文學獨白者，為影響深遠的雜誌《現代文學》的創辦人之一。他的作品皆以語言前衛、結構新穎著稱，至今仍少有人超越其成就。作品《家變》為中國近代小說少數的傑作之一，2004年入選誠品書店台灣讀者票選「最愛一百。小說大選」，在華人文學界成就非凡。

導演 : 林靖傑
演員 : ---
片長 : 103 分鐘
語言 : 普通話 (中英文字幕)

The Man behind the Book

Opening on 20-11-2011

Synopsis

Every night the novelist is fighting with himself in a confined space, taking out soil from his heart like he is excavating a ditch. By keeping track of a young novelist, The Man behind the Book is connecting the various pieces of Wang Wen-xin’s literary career. From the dense rows of book shelves in the library to the unevenly lined-up trees and forked roads, his sharp sensitiveness to art and personal opinions, just like sculpting the core of spirituality, translates thoughts into signals precisely, and eventually turns them into words. Wang Wen-xin is a figure in the literary circle who worships words like religion, treats writing valuably, and exchanges deepness with slowness.

Wang Wen-xin ( 1939-)
He found the literary magazine Modern Literature with his classmates including Bai Xien-yung, Ouyang Zhu and Chen Ruo-xi. His iconic piece Family Catastrophe was published in 1973, and was considered a “revolutionary and subversive” work. The book is claimed as “one of the few masterpieces in modern Chinese novels for its innovation of language, strength of experiential style, reality of interpersonal description, meticulousness of selection of details, and delicacy and euphemism of the tone”. Backed against the Sea, that took him 25 years to complete, is widely agreed that this work pushes the beauty of modernism to its limit.

Director : ---
Cast : ---
Duration : 103 mins
Language : Putonghua (Chinese & English Subtitles)