在这部他们在岛屿写作：寻找背海的人纪录片片中,每一夜，小说家和他自己搏斗，在斗室内，像挖掘壕沟那样地起运着胸膛内的土…… 《寻找背海的人》以年轻小说家寻觅的踪迹，串起王文兴的文学生涯。图书馆内密排的书架，校园参差的花树与歧路，对艺术的敏锐感受和一己之见，犹如雕凿精神的枣核那样，精工地将情思翻译为记号，再翻译为文字。王文兴展现了一个信守文字信仰、珍重对待写作、以缓慢换取深刻的文学身影。
Every night the novelist is fighting with himself in a confined space, taking out soil from his heart like he is excavating a ditch. By keeping track of a young novelist, The Man behind the Book is connecting the various pieces of Wang Wen-xin's literary career. From the dense rows of book shelves in the library to the unevenly lined-up trees and forked roads, his sharp sensitiveness to art and personal opinions, just like sculpting the core of spirituality, translates thoughts into signals precisely, and eventually turns them into words. Wang Wen-xin is a figure in the literary circle who worships words like religion, treats writing valuably, and exchanges deepness with slowness. Wang Wen-xin founded the literary magazine Modern Literature with his classmates from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, including Bai Xien-yung, Ouyang Zhu, and Chen Ruo-xi. His iconic piece Family Catastrophe was published in 1973, and was considered a "...
一直写而已。。背向大海的作家。与文字搏斗和作为文字的信徒。黄昏里的一盏明灯。流逝的时间有没有让你心安。关于灵性与神性、绝地求生的向内通透的人。文学迷航，电影扬帆。關於王文興──每日僅寫35個字的作家。那是绝地求生，是一种困兽之斗。。全身心的碎片。
