Bountiful Breasts and Fat Hips: Eulogizing the Meaning of Life and Great Motherhood
Publisher: China Workers' Publishing House
Solicitation No.: I247.59/3576
Synopsis: Bountiful Breasts and Fat Hips is one of Mo Yan's longest novels, which is about a mother who has eight daughters. The mother's "fat buttocks" gave birth to these daughters, and the mother's "rich breasts" nurtured these daughters. When these daughters grow up, together with their husbands, they bring their mothers only endless disasters and pain. Bountiful Breasts and Fat Asses is a work Mo Yan wrote for his deceased mother. The first draft of this 500,000-word novel took 83 days to complete. In this book, the author uses material related to his mother's personal experiences with impunity, but the emotional aspects of his mother's experiences in the book are fictionalized or taken from the experiences of many mothers in the northeast township of Gaomi. On the colophon of the book, the author has written the words "Dedicated to my mother's spirit in heaven". But this book, in fact, is dedicated to the world's mothers, just as he hopes to write the small "Gaomi Northeast Township" as a microcosm of China and even the world. Throughout the novel, this is a work of considerable strength and thickness, which contains the writer's deep thoughts on life, motherhood and history, as well as unique and novel thinking and exploration of social history and problems of the times. It has a strong ideology and originality.
The Frogs: A Rural Fertility History of New China's Nearly 60 Years
Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Solicitation number: I247.59/3579.1
Synopsis: The Frogs is the eleventh full-length novel by Mo Yan that was conceived more than ten years ago, penned for four years, and written three times, and published by the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in December, 2009. Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. Against the backdrop of New China's rural fertility history, which has been fluctuating for nearly 60 years, the novel tells the life experience of Auntie, a rural female doctor who has been engaged in obstetrics and gynecology for more than 50 years. While graphically describing the arduous and complicated historical process that the country has gone through in order to control the drastic population growth and implement the national policy of family planning, the novel also successfully portrays the image of a vivid, distinctive, and touching rural gynecologist, and analyzes the complex phenomena in the process of family planning. The novel also analyzes the humble, embarrassing, entangled and contradictory spiritual world of intellectuals represented by the narrator, Tadpole, in light of the complex phenomenon of the family planning process. The novel's structure is novel and meticulous, consisting of five letters written by the playwright Tadpole to the Japanese writer Yoshito Sugitani. The first four letters are accompanied by a long narrative about his aunt, who has been a gynecologist for more than 50 years, to which Tadpole's own life story is added; the fifth letter is accompanied by a play about his aunt and Tadpole himself. Therefore, this is a work that skillfully blends and mixes letters, metafictional narratives, and drama into a single work, broadening the space for artistic expression in fiction; it is another pioneering artistic attempt in Mo Yan's creative work.
The Song of Garlic Shoots in Heaven: Reflecting the Survival of Disadvantaged Groups
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Subscription number: I247.59/3572
Synopsis: The Song of Garlic Shoots in Heaven is a full-length novel by Mo Yan, written in 1988, reflecting the conscience of Chinese writers and reflecting the survival of disadvantaged groups. The novel tells the story of a series of complicated characters and the entanglement between the government and the peasants in the "Garlic Shoots Incident" initiated by the peasants. This is one of Mo Yan's masterpieces of long novels, a masterpiece for the people. Taking "Garlic Shoots Incident" as the warp, and the life experiences of Gao Yang, Gao Ma, Jin Ju, Uncle Fang and Aunt Fang as the weft, the novel profoundly depicts the survival of the peasants at that time from multiple angles and multiple sides, as well as the tragedy triggered by this story. It also analyzes the backwardness of rural culture, the poverty of thought, the dilemma of survival, and the reasons that led to the tragedies of "Uncle Fang's tragic death under the wheel" and "Jin Ju's suicide by hanging".
Fatigue of Life and Death: An Ode and Lament to the Peasant's Obsession with Life
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Subscription: I247.57/1972
Synopsis: Fatigue of Life and Death is one of Mo Yan's masterpieces. The novel recounts the historical development of China's rural areas in these 50 years from 1950 to 2000. It centers on the heavy topic of land, explains all kinds of relationships between farmers and the land, and through the artistic images of the cycle of life and death, shows the life of Chinese farmers and their tenacity, optimism and resilience since the founding of New China.
The narrator of the novel, a landowner who was shot during the land reform, believes that he is not guilty despite his wealth, so he cries out for justice for himself in the underworld. In the novel he is constantly going through the six paths of reincarnation, one life as a donkey, one life as a cow, one life as a pig, one life as a dog, one life as a monkey ...... each time he is reincarnated as a different animal, he has not left his family, he has not left this piece of land. It is through his eyes, or to be precise, the eyes of various animals, that the novel observes and savors the transformation of the countryside. The landlord is finally reborn as a big-headed baby with an incurable congenital disease; this big-headed baby recounts all the peculiar feelings he had when he was an animal, as well as the stories of the landlord Simon Trouble's family and the peasant Blue Liberation's family's fatigue of life and death for more than half a century. Through the eyes of various animals, the novel looks at and savors the history of the transformation of China's rural society, which has been noisy and full of suffering for more than fifty years. This novel is Mo Yan's artistic tribute to the great traditions of classical Chinese novels and folk narratives; the imagery of the six paths of life props up this magnificent literary architecture, and writes the peasants' unquestionable dedication to life, both in song and in lament. The novel "Life and Death Fatigue" won the second Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the first American Newman Award for Chinese Literature.
The Red Sorghum Family:A Heroic and Tragic Dance Drama of the Northeast Countryside of Gaomi Against the Japanese Invaders
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Solicitation No.: I247.59/3571
Synopsis: The Red Sorghum Family is a work of the renowned contemporary Chinese writer Mo Yan. The Red Sorghum Family consists of five parts: Red Sorghum, Sorghum Wine, Sorghum Funeral, Dog Road, and Strange Death.
Red Sorghum is set against the backdrop of the Anti-Japanese War and the folk life in the northeastern township of Gaomi in the 1930s and 1940s, and tells the hymn of life that took place in Shandong through the story of my grandmother, Dai Fenglian, and my grandfather, Yu Zhanyao. The main story of "Red Sorghum" is the armed forces led by "Grandpa" Yu Zhanao to suppress the Japanese army, and the secondary story is the love story between "Grandpa" Yu Zhanao and "my grandmother" Dai Fenglian. The main location of the story is the northeast township of Gaomi, which recreates the anti-Japanese war era from a folk perspective, showing a violent desire to fight back for survival.
In shaping the context of the era, Mo Yan shows readers the mood of the times at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War through the form of carnivalesque language, which is both depressing, desolate, bleak, and dull, as well as joyful, rebellious, and furious, and plays the melody of the times in this complex mood, expressing a melancholic sense of tragedy between the conflict and entanglement, the scourge caused to the people by the troubled society, and the devastating harm brought to the people because of the invasion of the Great Powers. The devastating injuries brought to the people by the invasion of the great powers. Mo Yan did his best to carefully sculpt almost all the war scenes, no matter how big or small the war scenes are, and even the battle between people and wild dogs in devouring the corpses also used a lot of strokes, showing a bloody picture of corpses strewn across the ground and blood and flesh flying. In the midst of all this blood and flesh, Mo Yan depicts a red sorghum as red as blood, and the whole world is blood red.
Tanxiang Penalty: Recreating the Anti-Colonial Struggle on the Shandong Peninsula at the End of the Qing Dynasty
Publisher: Beijing October Literary Publishing House
Solicitation number: I247.59/3578
Synopsis: Tanxiang Penalty is a new novel by Mo Yan, which has been completed in five years. In this novel, Mo Yan takes the German construction of the Jiaoji Railway in Shandong in 1900, Yuan Shikai's suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong, the fall of Beijing by the Allied Forces of the Eight Powers, and Cixi's hasty flight as the historical background, and tells a vivid story of a tragic incident which took place in the Northeast Township of Gao Mi, with swaying and colorful strokes, passionate feelings of great sorrows and great joys, and insightful thoughts. It is a vivid and vivid story of a saddening peasant movement, an appalling torture, and a thrilling love affair that took place in "Gaomi Northeast Township".
The novel portrays a large number of vivid characters, including Sun B, the romantic theater troupe master; Qian Ding, the county magistrate of Gaomi with a sense of justice; Zhao Jia, the executioner who returns home from the hall of the Ministry of Justice in the capital, and their daughters, goddaughters, and daughters-in-law, Sun Meiniang; and Yuan Shikai, the brutal and cunning politician, etc. The novel is also about the "Sandalwood Torture", which is a horrifying torture and a shocking love affair. The "sandalwood torture" is a kind of torture similar to the Western "staking", and the peasant leaders were unfortunately subjected to it. The plot of the novel is based on the feud between the heroine Meiniang and her own father, godfather, father-in-law, and the life and death unfolding ......
The novel is a reaction to magical realism and Western modernist novels, but also the popular historical novels on the streets of the fast and furious call to arms, and the book has the kind of folklore that elegance and popularity **** appreciation, the human phase of the vividness of the recitation. The whole book has the kind of folklore that is enjoyable and popular, and the vividness that is recited by people. The author uses the "phoenix head - pork belly - leopard tail" structural mode, which is a blatant show-off, to tell a story with thousands of clues that sometimes gives people the creeps, and sometimes gives them tender feelings.
The White Dog Swing: A Collection of Mo Yan's Short Stories
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Subscription number: I247.7/3582
Synopsis: The White Dog Swing is a short story published in April 1985 by Mo Yan, a famous contemporary Chinese writer, which is written in flashbacks about Jinghe, a reader who has been away from his hometown for ten years. The story is about a scholar, Jing He, who has been away from his hometown for ten years and is reunited with his former lover, Nuan, in a flashback.
The novel begins with a description of the reunion of Jinghe and Nuan after ten years; Jinghe, a university teacher, returns to his hometown, and Nuan becomes a poor, unkempt, ordinary village woman. Nuan, a beautiful girl who can sing and dance well, is disabled after falling from a swing due to an accident, and ends up marrying a mute man, whose hard work has turned her into a vulgar peasant woman. Jinghe later went to college, and Nuan, who was blind, married a mute from a neighboring village and gave birth to three little mutes. At the end, Nuan deceives her husband to go to the town to buy cloth, and the white dog leads Jinghe to the sorghum field, where Nuan makes a request that Jinghe can't refuse, that is, she wants a child who can talk. At this point, the novel ends abruptly. It shows the ups and downs of Nuan's life journey in an almost brutal tone. Nuan, who used to be a good singer, faces four mutes who can't speak, and the coarse-speaking village woman, "Nuan", used to be a charming and attractive young woman. The power of the novel comes from the ending, where all the previous suppression is for the bursting and rising of this moment. The novel adopts the usual writing style of describing a scholar's return to his hometown and his feelings, and uses the writing style of intertwining narrative and memory to intertwine the past events and the present, and the characters and stories gradually emerge.
The movie "Warm", adapted from "White Dog Swing Stand", won the Golden Kirin Award at the 16th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Forty-one Cannons: Confession of Self-Sins Toward the Sacred
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Solutions: I247.53/1092.1
Synopsis: Mo Yan said that in Gaomi County, if a child was a liar and was especially good at making up stories, he would be called a "cannon" child. " child. When a group of children become young people, in his memory people can see that there are a lot of things he imagined out of thin air, a lot of unreal components. So Mo Yan recalled the story of his childhood, he was a small time is a "gun" child, although the young man is now more than 20 years old, but he experienced the legend can not withstand scrutiny, is still casually "gun" out. So in 2003, he wrote the novel "Forty-one Guns". With the folk culture of his hometown Gaomi in Shandong Province and the rural reform in the early 1990s as the background, "Forty-One Cannons" tells the story of Luo Xiaotong, the protagonist who has grown up physically and psychologically, but still stays in his teenage years, and reconstructs the teenage years of his life, and writes about the fierce conflict between two forces and two concepts at the early stage of the rural reform, and at the same time, it reveals the fissures in human nature, and writes about people's differences between right and wrong.
The novel was awarded the second "Chinese Literature Media Award - Outstanding Achievement Award" in 2004, and it was also awarded the "Chinese Literature Media Award - Outstanding Achievement Award".
Joy: A Collection of Mo Yan's Middle Grade Novels
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Subscription number: I247.59/3580
Synopsis: Joy contains eight of Mo Yan's middle grade novels written in the 1980s, including Flowing Water, which was completed in 1983, The Transparent Carrot, which made him famous in 1985, and The Red Carrot, which was written in 1977, and The Transparent Carrot, which was published by the Chinese Academy of Arts and Letters. The Transparent Carrot, which catapulted Mo Yan to literary fame in 1985, as well as Ball Lightning, Baby Blonde, Explosion, Joy, Wild Seed, and Your Behavior Scares Us. These novels not only have a distinctive artistic style, but are also distinctive and explosive in their own way. Among them, the novel "Transparent Carrot" successfully portrays the image of a black child who is humiliated and neglected; the novel "Joy", narrated in the second person, describes the bitter experience and inner world of a rural middle school student who still has hatred for the land and extreme desire for women, as well as his difficult life with his "ugly" mother.
The State of Wine: A Novel of Anti-corruption in the Culture of Official Wine
Publisher: Writers' Publishing House
Subscription number: I247.59/3575
Summary: The State of Wine is a novel that Mo Yan wrote from 1989 to 1992, pushing the edge of reality criticism to the extreme and making bold attempts and innovations in narrative experimentation. Long masterpiece. In the novel, Ding Hou'er, a special investigator of the Provincial People's Procuratorate, goes to the city of Jiu Guo to investigate a special case; but no one who goes to the city of Jiu Guo can withstand the temptation, and in the process of maneuvering between power, wine, and women, Ding Hou'er, although he keeps reminding himself that he doesn't drink wine, ends up getting drunk and drowning in a thatched toilet. Through the story of Ding Hu'er, the novel sharply reveals the terrible mysteries of this society. Parallel to the story of Dinghou'er, the novel contains the author's correspondence with Li Yidou, a young man of literature in the city of Jiuquan, about his literary creation, as well as Li Yidou's works of fiction, which are stylistically diverse and can be called a "full banquet" of fiction genres. The French version of this book won the 2001 Laure Bataillin Prize for Foreign Literature.