The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories - Brossura

Yu, Hua

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ISBN 10: 0824818172 ISBN 13: 9780824818173

Casa editrice: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1996

Riassunto

To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify.

It is no wonder that Yu Hua’s stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well.

This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.

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• Editore: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0824818172
• ISBN 13: 9780824818173
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Goldblatt Howard