Lianke Yan

Sound and Silence

My Experience with China and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

World-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays Yan Lianke describes his literary project, reflects on censorship in China, and his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history.

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Produktdetails

• Sinotheory
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030393
• ISBN-10: 1478030399
• Artikelnr.: 68449987

Autorenporträt

Yan Lianke

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Translator’s Introduction / Carlos Rojas  ix
1. He Who Has Been Selected by Heaven and Life to Appreciate Darkness  1
2. National Amnesia and Literary Memory  9
3. The Abjection of Alt-China and Its Literature  20
4. The Wild Child That Is American Literature  34
5. My Thoughts on Literary Censorship and Controversy  48
6. My Literary Review Book  64
7. The Distinctiveness of Writing in China  76
8. Fear and Betrayal Have Accompanied Me throughout My Life  90
9. Writing under a Sky of Concentrated Power and Relative Laxity  107
10. Living without Dignity but Writing with Honor  121
11. My Ideal Is Simply to Write a Novel That I Think Is Good  133
12. A Village’s China and Literature  148
Afterword. Ripping Open the Dreamscape  165
Biographies  169
Index  171