Change

ISBN-13: 9780857421609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 117 str.

Mo Yan

Opis

In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of people s history, a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen. 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
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O autorze

Howard Goldblatt is Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. The foremost translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the West, he has published English translations of more than 30 novels and story collections by writers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. His translation (with Sylvia Li-chun Lin) of Notes of a Desolate Man by the Taiwanese novelist Chu T'ien-wen won the 1999 ¿Translation of the Year¿ award given by the American Translators Association. He has also authored and edited half a dozen books on Chinese literature. Founding editor of Modern Chinese Literature, he serves on the editorial and advisory boards of many scholarly and literary magazines, and has contributed essays and articles to The Washington Post, The Times of London, TIME Magazine, World Literature Today, and The Los Angeles Times, as well as scholarly books and journals.