Böcker av Li Lin

He is a demon and she is an angel. They shouldn't love each other, but she is falling in love with him. The "Unable to Embrace Sweetheart Curse" forbids them to embrace each other. She can see the hatred in his eyes. He wants to kill her. Even though he hates her, she still cannot make herself not care for him; she must guard and protect him. Is falling in love their destiny? When he finds the truth, can they be happy together forever? The miracle of the most brightest and one of the most beautiful legends is not that you become the emperor of the universe, it is the miracle of life and legends of love.

In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-89) began writing plays, first Eleutheria and then Waiting for Godot. When they came together in 1961 to collaborate on a re-staging of Godot, both had turned their attention to different types of figures: Giacometti to lanky, attenuated figures that seem to erode into their environment, and Beckett to increasingly disembodied characters, such as Henry and Ada in Embers.What can we make of this turn in depicting figures that seem to make and unmake themselves in our processes of perceiving them? Through a close examination of Beckett's dramatic works and Giacometti's art, Lin Li traces the development of this peculiar type of figuration and uncovers its implications on personhood, rhetoric and inter-medial reading.Lin Li is research associate at the University of Antwerp.