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 Garcìa Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."- Nobel Committee for Literature
| ISBN: | 9780857421609 |
| Publication date: | 23rd October 2012 |
| Author: | Mo Yan |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 117 pages |
| Series: | What Was Communism? |
| Genres: |
Fiction in translation |
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 Garcìa Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."- Nobel Committee for Literature
Change features in the following genres: Fiction in translation
Change is available in Paperback
Change was written by Mo Yan and published by Seagull Books
Change has 117 pages
Yes it is part of What Was Communism? series
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