Sound and Silence
My Experience with China and Literature
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2024
184 pages
978-1-4780-5938-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Duke University Press
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Yan Lianke is the author of Discovering Fiction, also published by Duke University Press, as well as Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, The Explosion Chronicles, and many other books. Winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and a two-time finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, Yan teaches at Renmin University in Beijing and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Modern Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University and translator of several of Yan's novels.
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Modern Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University and translator of several of Yan's novels.
Content
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
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
