Mo Yan: Change, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Change
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- Übersetzung:
- Howard Goldblatt
- Verlag:
- Seagull Books, 02/2013
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857421609
- Artikelnummer:
- 1449488
- Umfang:
- 117 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Gewicht:
- 116 g
- Maße:
- 177 x 106 mm
- Stärke:
- 12 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 15.2.2013
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
In Change (Bian) China's foremost novelist Mo Yan (b. 1955) personalizes the political and societal changes in his country over the past few decades in a 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, the author / narrator breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger than life events on the average citizen.
Klappentext
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 García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."-- Nobel Committee for Literature
Biografie (Mo Yan)
Mo Yan (b. February 17, 1955) is a modern Chinese author, described as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers". His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including English, German and French. "Mo Yan" meaning "don't speak" in Chinese, is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in the Shandong province to a family of farmers, he left school during the Cultural Revolution to work in a factory that produced oil. He joined the People's Liberation Army at age twenty, and began writing while he was still a soldier, in 1981. Three years later, he was given a teaching position at the Department of Literature in the Army's Cultural Academy. Mo Yan's works are predominantly social commentaries, and he is strongly influenced by the political critique of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Using dazzling, complex, and often graphically violent images, Mo Yan draws readers into the disturbing yet beautiful, kaleidoscopic universes of his stories. Awards he has received include: Kiriyama Prize Notable Books (for Big Breasts and Wide Hips, 2005), Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize XVII (2006), Man Asian Literary Prize nominee (for Big Breasts and Wide Hips, 2007), Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (for Soaring, 2009). Mo Yan was winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.Biografie (Howard Goldblatt)
Howard Goldblatt is widely recognized as one of the best translators from Chinese to English and has received the National Translation Award as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work. He lives in Colorado.
