Mo Yan
Autor(a) de Red Sorghum
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Mo Yan - Photo: © J. Kolfhaus
Obras por Mo Yan
Flores tardías (Spanish Edition) 2 exemplares
莫言訪問 1 exemplar
Yaşam ve Ölüm Yorgunu 1 exemplar
(208) 檀香刑 1 exemplar
Cambioa 1 exemplar
Lost Dreams No. 3 1 exemplar
Good World, Bad People: No Kidding! 1 exemplar
BRETKOSA 1 exemplar
L'hotel de tous les plaisirs 1 exemplar
La bourrasque 1 exemplar
Lèvres rouges, Langue verte 1 exemplar
Mo Yan volume (contemporary Chinese novelist Collector s Edition) / to Nobel (Paperback) (1991) 1 exemplar
රතු සෝගම් 1 exemplar
Mo Yan (Guan Moye) 1 exemplar
Esplosioni (in L'uomo che allevava i gatti) 1 exemplar
Il tornado (in L'uomo che allevava i gatti) 1 exemplar
La colpa (in L'uomo che allevava i gatti) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Trésors de la turquie. notes et commentaires de robert mantran. photographies de yan. (1959) — Fotógrafo — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Mo-Yan
- Nome legal
- Moye, Guan
Guan Moye - Outros nomes
- Yan, Mo
Mo, Yan - Data de nascimento
- 1955-02-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Xina
- País (no mapa)
- China
- Local de nascimento
- Gaomi, Shandong Province, China
- Locais de residência
- Shandong Provincie, China
- Educação
- Beijing Normal University
People's Liberation Army Art School - Ocupações
- auteur
- Organizações
- Bayrische Akademie der schönen Künste, Abteilung Literatur, korrespondierendes Mitglied
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Premi Nobel de Literatura (2012)
Membros
Discussions
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Abril 2013)
Is Mo Yan one of the Nobel laureates who shouldn't be? em Nobel Laureates in Literature (Fevereiro 2013)
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Fevereiro 2013)
The Garlic Ballads - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Fevereiro 2013)
Red Sorghum - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Dezembro 2012)
Sandalwood Death - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Novembro 2012)
Pow! - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Novembro 2012)
Big Breasts & Wide Hips - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Novembro 2012)
The Republic of Wine - discussion em Read Mo Yan (Novembro 2012)
Críticas
Listas
1980s (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 100
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 4,182
- Popularidade
- #6,021
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 131
- ISBN
- 434
- Línguas
- 24
- Marcado como favorito
- 6
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… (mais)