英文摘要
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”Incompleteness” has been a central and unique feature in Chi-teng Sheng's writings. In 1973, Chi-teng Sheng wrote in ”Leaving the City”, ”Incompleteness is my innate character,” which conclusively summarizes his self-portrait. In 1985, he wrote again in ”Letters of Tan Lang”, ”The only meaningful thing in my life is to complete myself.” Therefore, this study aims to discuss how it is possible for him to construct his subjectivity out of an incomplete intrinsic quality.This study reverses the gender power, and views ”Letters of Tan Lang” as a work in which the author constructs, shapes, and performs himself through his ”incomplete innate character”-as if he, Tan Lang, carves his self-image as an artistic work. Tan Lang regards life as an artistic practice, who consistently writes ”transgressively” through revealing ”self-discrepancy” and ”self-representation,” molding a self that he never becomes-an artist who transgress, writes, and experiences life. He takes shelter in his idiosyncratic writings and develops a unique sense of existential aesthetics.
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