Já a popelářské auto, které se snažím dohonit – Zi-Fan Shieh (2024)

Me and the garbage truck that I am trying to catch up with is the title of one of the essays and the entire collection. At the same time, it is a certain image and allusion. Under the hands of Shieh Zi-Fan, the garbage truck and its pursuit take on many meanings. It can refer to an office newbie who has to walk the dog, take out the trash, and face the fundamental twists that life brings. Besides being a symbol of helplessness and confusion for a young employee confronting life head-on, it can also symbolize salvation and redemption. With the garbage, everything that is redundant and dysfunctional in a person's life can disappear. ***** Shieh Zi-Fan touches the deepest places in the heart of modern man with a clean, agile, and expressive style. She writes about loneliness, about life and death, traversing the emotional desert of abandonment. She reflects on the tyranny of the workplace, where one must remain silent and swallow insults. She encounters various traps that cannot be avoided in life. However, her essays are not just serious reading filled with profound reflections – the author can write with a perspective that often amuses the reader and allows them to view ordinary things and interpersonal relationships from a slightly different angle. In a sense, these are essays about maturation – the maturation of a person's personality, who...