Loud Sparrows - Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts

Informationen zum Autor Howard Goldblatt, a Guggenheim Fellow, is an internationally renowned translator of Chinese fiction, including the novels of Mo Yan, the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Klappentext "If sparrows are but a metaphor! every writer faces the challenge of reality! which is to say! how one catches this sparrow." So writes Bei Dao in his preface to "Loud Sparrows!" a spirited collection of ninety-one short-shorts! an exciting new form of extreme short-storytelling that has swept the creative consciousness of mainland China! Hong Kong! and Taiwan. The artistic and aesthetic freedoms of short-shorts enable writers to capture the tone! texture! and chaos of their rapidly changing societies in infinitely inventive ways. Written by Chinese authors over the past three decades! the stories in this anthology are culled from newspapers! magazines! literary journals! and personal collections! and their subjects range from humanist ideals and traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society. Zusammenfassung A collection of ninety-one short-shorts! a form of short-storytelling. Presenting diverse voices and perspectives by writers! the stories are culled from newspapers! magazines! literary journals! and personal collections.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Chiu, Et Al, Aili Mu
• Assisted by: Julie Chiu (Editor), Julie (Lingnan University) Chiu (Editor), Chiu Julie (Editor), Howard Goldblatt (Editor), Aili Mu (Editor), Mu Aili (Editor), Bei Bei Dao (Foreword), Howard Goldblatt (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2006
• EAN: 9780231138482
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13848-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia; Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Education; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature & literary studies, Anthologies: general, Biography, Literature and Literary studies