《欲望的旗帜》围绕20世纪90年代初期上海即将召开的一次学术会议展开。会议执行主席贾兰坡教授突然神秘自杀，紧接着发生了一系列离奇的事件：宋子衿疯狂、会议赞助商被捕……而曾山与张末的爱情更是让人费解：他们一方面深陷于欲望编织的囚笼之中，另一方面则试图冲破它的束缚，复活古老的爱情诗意，寻找自身生命残剩的一点点真实感。正是这一点“真实感”，使他们的心灵靠得如此之近；同时也因为这种“真实感”的脆弱，他们又一次次地远离。
The story unfolds from an upcoming academic conference in Shanghai in the early 1990s. Professor Jia Lanpo, the chairman of the conference, suddenly committed suicide and then a series of bizarre events followed: Song Zijin went mad and the conference sponsor was arrested. The love of Zeng Shan and Zhang Mo was more puzzling: on the one hand, they were deeply trapped in the cage of desire; on the other hand, they wanted to break the bondage, revive the ancient love poetry and find the only limited sense of reality in life. It was the "sense of reality" that made their hearts so close; and because of vulnerability of the "sense of reality", they separated again and again.
欲望的旗帜
