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Mo Yan

Autor/a de Red Sorghum

101+ obres 4,222 Membres 132 Ressenyes 6 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Mo Yan is the pseudonym of Guan Moye, who was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province, China on March 5, 1955. He became a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, leaving school to work first on a farm and then in a cottonseed oil factory. He started writing while he was serving in the People's mostra'n més Liberation Army. His first short story was published in 1981. His works include Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, The Republic of Wine, and Sandalwood Death. He received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Mo Yan - Photo: © J. Kolfhaus

Obres de Mo Yan

Red Sorghum (1987) 1,097 exemplars
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) 608 exemplars
The Garlic Ballads (1988) 468 exemplars
Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996) 431 exemplars
The Republic of Wine (2000) 324 exemplars
Frog (2009) 320 exemplars
Sandalwood Death (2001) 155 exemplars
Canvis (2010) 139 exemplars
POW! (2008) 120 exemplars
Radish (Penguin Specials) (2015) 23 exemplars
Les Treize Pas (1998) 18 exemplars
Le chantier (1983) 12 exemplars
La Carte au trésor (2004) 10 exemplars
Le radis de cristal (2000) 9 exemplars
Değişim (2016) 9 exemplars
Enfant de fer: nouvelles (2004) 6 exemplars
L'uomo che allevava i gatti (1998) 6 exemplars
Iri Memeler ve Genis Kalcalar (2014) 5 exemplars
Trece pasos (2015) 5 exemplars
Saydam Turp (2000) 4 exemplars
Le grand chambard (2013) 4 exemplars
Granatkastaren (2016) 3 exemplars
El manglar = (Hong shulin) (2016) 3 exemplars
Žabe (2016) 3 exemplars
La Joie (2007) 3 exemplars
Den genomskinliga rättikan (2014) 2 exemplars
Bum! (2013) 2 exemplars
莫言精选 (2010) 2 exemplars
Içki Cumhuriyeti (2020) 2 exemplars
Zaby (2014) 2 exemplars
(208) 檀香刑 1 exemplars
Meeting the Masters (2012) 1 exemplars
Ears to read (speech) (2012) 1 exemplars
Broken philology (Interview) (2012) 1 exemplars
Cambioa 1 exemplars
The Woman with Flowers (1993) 1 exemplars
Flores tardías (2022) 1 exemplars
莫言訪問 1 exemplars
Lost Dreams No. 3 1 exemplars
BRETKOSA 1 exemplars
Sorok odna khlopushka (2021) 1 exemplars
L'hotel de tous les plaisirs (2023) 1 exemplars
Zmiany (2013) 1 exemplars
La bourrasque 1 exemplars
Obfite piersi, pełne biodra (2007) 1 exemplars
Lèvres rouges, Langue verte (2024) 1 exemplars
Thumb-Cuff (Chinese Edition) (2003) 1 exemplars
El rábano transparente (2017) 1 exemplars
Velika nedra i siroka bedra (2008) 1 exemplars
Mo Yan San Wen (Chinesisch) (2012) 1 exemplars
Si ling de nü ren (2012) 1 exemplars
Mo Yan (Guan Moye) 1 exemplars
Explosion (French Edition) (2004) 1 exemplars
Hong gao liang (1986) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

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Is Mo Yan one of the Nobel laureates who shouldn't be? a Nobel Laureates in Literature (febrer 2013)
The Garlic Ballads - discussion a Read Mo Yan (febrer 2013)
Red Sorghum - discussion a Read Mo Yan (desembre 2012)
Sandalwood Death - discussion a Read Mo Yan (novembre 2012)
Pow! - discussion a Read Mo Yan (novembre 2012)
Big Breasts & Wide Hips - discussion a Read Mo Yan (novembre 2012)
The Republic of Wine - discussion a Read Mo Yan (novembre 2012)

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what an extraordinary story teller Yan is. this is the second novel of his I have read, and though I think I preferred 'life and death are wearing me out' this was also just amazing. magic melds with time as the story meanders through peasant life 100 odd years ago. timelines criss-cross generations, war and peace, love and betrayal, beauty and ugliness, but it doesn't really matter as you float along with them all.
 
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diveteamzissou | Hi ha 40 ressenyes més | Apr 3, 2024 |
This book, which I believe is Mo Yan's first novel was originally published in serial form in five parts. It is the story of three generations of the rural Shandong family, largely narrated by the grandson of the family, but primarily featuring the father and grandfather of the family. Most of the story focuses on the exploits of the father (then a young teen) and the grandfather (Grandfather Yu), a former bandit, during the Sino-Japanese war of the late 1930's. The father and grandfather were resistance fighters against the Japanese, but there was often frequent and intense on-going conflict among various rival Chinese groups warring at the same time.

The book is gory, violent and brutal, yet at the same time it is often lyrically beautiful. There are vivid descriptions of the landscape, particularly of the sorghum fields and rivers surrounding the village. Red sorghum from the fields are used by the Shandong family to make the wine that provides the family with their livelihood. But the sorghum fields are also blood-soaked, forming "a glittering sea of blood," and littered with the bones of the violently killed.

The story is told non-chronologically, which I sometimes found confusing. Someone who died chapters ago, suddenly reappears in a pivotal role, for example, and this took some getting used to. The book is also permeated with elements of folk tale and myth, mostly unfamiliar to me, which again affected my reading experience.

In awarding Mo the Nobel Prize, the Nobel Committee stated, "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspective, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and oral tradition."

This is another book I found difficult to read, and it also took me much longer than usual to read. In particularly the ongoing graphic violence and constant bloodshed sometimes began to grate at me. However, I do think it is an important book to read, and it was a complex, kaleidoscopic and unique book. So it is one I do recommend.

4 stars
… (més)
 
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arubabookwoman | Hi ha 40 ressenyes més | Dec 28, 2023 |
Il racconto migliore: Esplosioni.

La mano di mio padre si solleva lentamente, per tre secondi rimane sospesa all’altezza delle spalle, poi colpisce con violenza la mia guancia sinistra. La mano e’ segnata da solchi profondi, impregnata dell’acre profumo della paglia e di quello bruciante del grano maturo. Sessant’anni di lavoro hanno conferito a quella mano una dura forza e un’immensa dignita’.
(59)


Presto i suoi vagiti si fanno continui, e inondano la sala parto trasformandola in uno stagno...
(103)
...come le rane


E nonostante tutto, nel campo di girasoli, mi pervase la speranza. Numerosissimi calici penzolanti mi fissavano con attenzione e benevolenza come tantissime faccine di neonati.
(152)
… (més)
 
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NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |
Molti hanno parlato di Mo Yan comparandolo a Marquez, ma non mi pare di condividere questa idea.
Marquez, nel suo mondo (Macondo), oltre a racchiudere la vita di un popolo ci trasmette quell’aspetto fantastico che non troviamo in Mo Yan. Per aspetto fantastico intendo il lato magico che travalica l’ordinario.

In Mo Yan ho trovato piuttosto un legame con l’idea del rapporto tra la terra e l’uomo presente nella letteratura russa (pocva).
La terra come luogo dove si nasce e si muore: terra di rinascita, terra dove si ritorna, terra dove si cammina, terra da cui cresce cio’ che ci sostiene…
La terra di Mo Yan non e’ quella che inginocchiandoci raccogliamo con le mani per poi sbriciolarla e lasciarla cadere, ma quella terra che inginocchiandoci baciamo (come navigatori che sbarcano in terre sconosciute).

Alcuni brani:
Quando fu tirato su, la testa gli ricadde a sinistra e poi a destra; la crosta di sangue somigliava alla strato di fango lucente sedimentatosi sulla riva del fiume, poi seccato al sole, crepato e spaccato. (46)

Arrivato all’argine si sedette. Guardo’ a oriente, poi a occidente, guardo’ l’acqua che scorreva e le anatre selvatiche. La vista del fiume era splendida, ogni filo d’erba acquatica era vivo, e in ogni spruzzo d’acqua si celava un segreto. (79)

A sud del monte Baima, a nord del fiume Moshui cresce ancora un fusto di sorgo rosso puro, devi cercarlo a ogni costo. Tienilo alto quando correrai verso il tuo mondo invaso dai rovi e percorso da tigri e lupi, perche’ sara’ il tuo talismano e anche il totem glorioso del nostro clan, il simbolo della tradizione di Gaomi! (471)
… (més)
 
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NewLibrary78 | Hi ha 40 ressenyes més | Jul 22, 2023 |

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Obres
101
També de
6
Membres
4,222
Popularitat
#5,951
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
132
ISBN
435
Llengües
24
Preferit
6

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