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"Forty-one Guns" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
"Forty-one Guns" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Forty-one Guns" is a long and artistically adventurous masterpiece created by Mo Yan. It was first published in 2003. The novel is set against the backdrop of the rural reform in the early 1990s. Through the carnival-like narration of the protagonist Luo Xiaotong, who has grown up physically but is still in his youth mentally, the novel reconstructs the youth of life, expresses the fierce conflict between two forces and two concepts in the early days of rural reform, reveals the fission of human nature, and writes about the chaos and confusion of people in the standards of right and wrong and ethics. The novel also has a subplot, telling the legendary life of an old monk - the legend of a Kuomintang officer who once had an extraordinary status and lived a luxurious and carnal life. The two clues are intertwined, and the real and imaginary scenes are constantly changing. The narrative of the novel is tortuous and hearty, and reconstructs the history of the early days of rural reform in the author's unique way.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mo Yan was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province in 1955. He has written 11 novels, including Red Sorghum, Wine Country, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Sandalwood Death, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frog, and more than 100 short stories, including Transparent Carrot and The Commander's Woman. He has also written many plays and essays. Many of his works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Arabic, Vietnamese and other languages, and have a wide influence in the domestic and international literary circles. Mo Yan and his works have won the "United Literature Award" (Taiwan, China), the "Chinese Literature Media Award·Annual Outstanding Achievement Award", the French "Laure Bataillin Foreign Literature Award", the "Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Culture of France", the Italian "NONINO International Literature Award", the Japanese "Fukuoka Asian Culture Award", the Hong Kong Baptist University "World Chinese Novel Award·Dream of the Red Chamber Award", the American "Newman Chinese Literature Award" and China's highest literary award "Mao Dun Literature Award".
