A: The original work itself is a highly ambitious novel, and a very successful one too. There is a sort of "sympathetic resonance" in this book between the uncertain social status of homosexuals and the uncertain international status of Taiwan itself. This resonance carries the significance of the novel to a higher level. Notes of a Desolate Man goes beyond mere description of the love lives of homosexuals.
答：《荒人手記》是一部成就很高，且極具野心的小說，尤其書中同性戀妾身未明和台灣地位未定論遙遙呼應，把作品提昇到一個更高的層面，小說本身就不再只是同志的情愛之事而已。