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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. En Cambios, Mo Yan, personaliza los cambios políticos y sociales de China en las últimas décadas, en una novela disfrazada de autobiografía, o viceversa. A diferencia de la mayoría de las narrativas históricas de China, que están vinculadas a los acontecimientos políticos, Cambios nos cuenta la "historia popular", una visión desde abajo de un país en permanente cambio. Mo Yan's cordial relationship with the Chinese government made his Nobel win a controversial one but it's not clear to me why books should be judged by their author's politics. I took the book on its own terms, without trying to discern the nature of the author's views, and found the book to be full of humility and humor and sadness, well worth reading. Mo Yan (1955-) is an accomplished and prolific novelist, who was described as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers" in a recent TIME Magazine article. "Change" was written as part of the series "What Was Communism?", edited by Tariq Ali and published by Seagull Books, which explores the practice, successes and failures of 20th century communism. "Change" is a memoir that reads like a novella, which describes Mo Yan's experiences as a child in Shangdong province and young adult during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Although he liked school he was an indifferent student, and was soon kicked out of school, wrongly accused of being a troublemaker. He eventually joined the People's Liberation Army, a difficult accomplishment that brought pride and elevated status to his family. There he realized that he most wanted to become a writer, and used his time off duty to hone his writing skills, which he continued after his return to civilian life. "Change" is most effective when it describes life in a small village during the Cultural Revolution, and the stultifying effects that communism had on the lives of civilians. I found it to be a slight and mildly interesting book, but there are far better books about communist China during this period, so I'll only guardedly recommend it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)895.1352Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Chinese Chinese fiction Modern period 1912–2010 1949–2010Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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