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Material Type: | Fiction |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Yan Mo; Howard Goldblatt |
ISBN: | 9780857421609 0857421603 |
OCLC Number: | 840093664 |
Description: | 117 str. ; 18 cm. |
Series Title: | What was communism? : a series edited by Tariq Ali, 5 |
Responsibility: | Mo Yan ; translated by Howard Goldblatt. |
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"In his novels and short stories, Mr. Mo paints sprawling, intricate portraits of Chinese rural life, often using flights of fancy-animal narrators, elements of fairy tales-that evoke the lyrical techniques of South American magical realists." -New York Times "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."-Nobel Committee for Literature "If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Yan has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments."-Publishers Weekly" Read more...


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