Lianke Yan Lianke

Discovering Fiction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka's modernism and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms "e;mythorealism"e;-a way of capturing the world's underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022916
• Artikelnr.: 66283125

Autorenporträt

Yan Lianke

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction. Creating Reality and Surpassing Realism / Carlos
Rojas  ix
1. Realism's Four Levels of Truth  1
2. Zero Causality  35
3. Full Causality  51
4. Partial Causality  59
5. Inner Causality  83
6. Mythorealism  99
Appendix: Chinese Authors and Works  125
Notes  129
Bibliography  133
Index  137