Whether Taiwanese readers were just putting on airs or actually enjoyed the book, if the Gao frenzy reinvigorates Taiwanese interest in pure literature, it will have done a world of good.
附庸風雅也罷，真心喜愛也罷，台灣的讀者若能因高行健而重拾對純文學的興趣和信心，總是好事一樁。