On Wang Zengqi and His World of Letters/闲话汪曾祺

We all love Wang Zengqi for he is the Su Dongpo of our time.我们都爱汪曾祺，他是我们这个时代的苏东坡。An Informal Portrait of Wang Zengqi is a study of the renowned writer by Sun Yu. While presented in a biographical form it distinguishes itself from a conventional biography.The book uses Wang Zengqi's life journey as its warp and the tapestry of his personal relationships as its weft. Through chapters such as A Confucian Scholar A Literature of Love and The Poet-Professor it chronicles the pivotal events across different periods of his life. Simultaneously it places Wang Zengqi in dialogue with other literary figures-including Fei Ming Shen Congwen Huang Yongyu Lin Jinlan as well as A Cheng and Jia Pingwa-offering comparative insights. In the author Sun Yu's own words the aim was to use Wang Zengqi as a lens through which to portray an entire generation of intellectuals.《闲话汪曾祺》为孙郁研究著名作家汪曾祺的著作，以传记形式呈现，又区别于普通意义上的传记。《闲话汪曾祺》以汪曾祺的人生轨迹为经， 以他的人际交往为纬，展开笔墨。通过《一个儒者》《爱的文学》《诗人教授》等章节来写汪曾祺各个时期的重要事件，同时将汪曾祺同废名、沈从文、黄永玉、林斤澜，以及阿城、贾平凹等结合起来评述。用作者孙郁自己的话说是想通过汪曾祺，来写这么一群人。