How the Wild Changed Me ——A Philosophical Journey. Readings and Discussion with Lung Yingtai

Snail sex, demanding deities, a cold case - everyday life in Taiwan holds the most unbelievable stories in store. Lung Ying-Tai compiled them in her first novel. Where does the journey to “Under Mount Kavulungan” take us? Taiwan's most famous author explores the complex answers to this question. Philosophical young adult novel, nature writing, nativist literature, an escapist zeitgeist portrait, thriller or love story - \"Under Mount Kavulungan\" offers many ways of reading – on which themes did Lung Ying-Tai's focus during the writing? Why did she choose southern Taiwan as the protagonist of her novel? Found in translation – do we read the work differently in German and Chinese?

Introduction of „Under Mount Kavulungan“

On the run from herself and others, an unsuccessful writer is sent to southern Taiwan by her buddhist master, where she devotes herself to observing nature, people and animals \"Under Mount Kavulungan\". After meeting a mysterious girl, she begins to trace the past of her peculiar new friend.

In 84 episodic snapshots of this magical realistic crime and romance novel, Lung Ying-Tai sends her readers on a philosophical journey to flora and fauna as well as a soul-searching process”under Mount Kavulungan\". She kaleidoscopically links East and West, this world and the afterlife with a search for answers to questions of the zeitgeist, in which a hidden depth unfolds in the casual lightness of the narrative.