But his literary work has become his thorny road to redemption. Lee has published more than 7 million words over the course of his half-century of writing. What started as a trickle over the years turned into a torrent that washed his soul clean and carved out a new course for Taiwanese letters, one that merges history and literature as it makes its long way down to the sea.
半世紀超過七百萬字的著作，涓滴成滔滔奔騰的河流，不僅滌淨他的心靈，也為台灣文壇沖刷出一條河道，一條匯集歷史與文學，奔騰向海的寬敞河道。