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Ouyang Yu came to Australia in mid-April 1991 and has since published 139 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in English and Chinese languages, including his award-winning novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) and The English Class (2010), his collection of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997), and his poetry book, Terminally Poetic (2020), that won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, his book website: www.huangzhouren.com

The Angry Wu Zili, a novel [Paragraph 001]

This is a novel in Chinese whose writing began on the night of June 4th, 1989, in Shanghai, and was published underground in Beijing in late 1999 after numerous rejections in the Chinese-speaking world, now self-translated into English. Will put it out paragraph by paragraph in instalments from today onwards, 12/10/2022：

I’m only twenty-one years old. The world has lost all its meaning to me. I’m not only disappointed and angry with it but also hate it. I have only one wish now: to kill myself. I cannot destroy the whole world, and the world can easily strangle me to death: each person can drown me with just one spit. Instead of being choked to death by the stinky farts of the masses and drenched in their dirty urine, it is better to end my own life as soon as possible, thereby declaring the end of the world with the end of myself.