[腳本/video script] 主持稿 Host Script ｜華語文學 Sinophone Literature｜洛夫 Luo Fu｜他們在島嶼寫作 The Inspired Island: A Series of Eminent Writers from Taiwan｜TaiwanPlus

Luo Fu 洛夫 

Hello, everyone, welcome back to the literature world. I’m your host, Arnaud Campagne.

 

This week, we present you Luo Fu, a poet who witnessed death and war. 

 

Luo, born in Hunan (湖南), China in 1928, moved to Taiwan with the military troupe at 21, and later joined Vietnam War. For two years in Vietnam, he lived on a knife edge. He captured the deep horror and published a collection of poems on the war. 

 

Luo also made fun of himself because of his travel history. He said that “I was moving from one room to another writing.” But Luo’s wandering life gave birth to his iconic poem, The Death of the Stone Cell (石室之死亡).

 

The long narration radiates rich context with images, unconsciousness, and the looming death. It asks a crucial question: How do humans survive the lurching darkness and find inner peace? 

 

People appreciate Lou’s artistic value. He was well-received in China, Japan, and other countries. What makes him stand out too is that he was one of the Asian writers nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize. 

 

Luo was a 100% poetry lover because he wrote poems, translated poems, taught poems, and edited poems. He strongly believed that writing was an artistic way of “getting even with our cruel fate.” The motto motivated him to start with Surrealism, write in different styles, and continue writing into his 80s and 90s.

 

Literature is where Lou Fu is. Let’s see how he conquered the cruel fate of wartime and his wandering life with his imaginative and symbolic writing.