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Discovering Fiction

Discovering Fiction

Yan, Lianke
Rojas, Carlos

Paperback

Series: Sinotheory

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1478018305
ISBN13: 9781478018308
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jun 30 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 García Márquez's magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms mythorealism--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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