Yan Discovering Fiction

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2291-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 156 Seiten

Reihe: Sinotheory

Eminent Chinese novelist Yan Lianke offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yan, Lianke

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rojas, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Yan Lianke is the author of Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, The Explosion Chronicles, The Four Books, and many other novels and story collections. Winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and a two-time finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, Yan teaches at Renmin University in Beijing and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He has translated several of Yan’s novels, including Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, and The Explosion Chronicles.