Change - Couverture souple

Yan, Mo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857421603 ISBN 13 : 9780857421609

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, has published dozens of short stories and novels in Chinese. His other English-language works include The Garlic Ballads, The Republic of Wine, Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh, Big Breasts & Wide Hips, and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out.

In awarding him the Nobel Prize the Swedish Academy said: 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857421603
• ISBN 13: 9780857421609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 118
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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