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Red Sorghum Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Red Sorghum Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Use spirituality to activate history, promote the power of life, and carry forward the national spirit, giving Chinese contemporary war novels a new look;
Through this novel, Mo Yan placed his "Gaomi Northeast Township" on the map of world literature;
Selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly;
Selected by WORLD LITERATURE TODAY as one of the "40 Outstanding Works in the World in the Past 75 Years";
The original novel of the movie and TV series "Red Sorghum".
The 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, the classic bestseller "The Complete Novels of Mo Yan" series, newly revised and upgraded
Red Sorghum is a novel written by Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in 1986. It is one of the volumes in the "Complete Works of Mo Yan's Novels" (revised edition) series. It is a masterpiece with great influence that Mo Yan has contributed to Chinese literature and even world literature. It was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the Century" in the 20th Century by Asia Weekly and one of the 40 outstanding works in the world in the past 75 years selected by WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, a heavyweight journal in the British and American academic circles.
The novel, through the narration of "I", describes the magnificent, heroic and tragic stories of "my" ancestors in Northeast Gaomi during the Anti-Japanese War. On the one hand, "my" ancestors rose up to fight against the brutal Japanese invaders, and on the other hand, they burst into a legendary love story that is worthy of praise and tears. At the same time, it also shows the conflicts that human beings fall into when their emotions are oppressed by secular rules.
"The process of historical figures and events being passed down orally among the people is actually a process of becoming legendary. History is written by people, and heroes are created by people. When people are dissatisfied with reality, they miss the past; when people are dissatisfied with themselves, they worship their ancestors. My novel Red Sorghum is probably something of this kind." - Mo Yan
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mo Yan
Born in Gaomi, Shandong in 1955, he left his hometown to join the army in 1976 and began writing literature in the early 1980s. In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his works "combining psychedelic realism with folk tales, history and contemporary social reality", becoming the first Chinese writer to win this award.
His major works include 11 novels such as Red Sorghum Family, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Sandalwood Death, Forty-one Guns, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frog, more than 100 short and medium-length novels such as Transparent Carrot, Thumbcuffs, Joy, and Explosion, and many plays, operas, and TV dramas such as Farewell My Concubine and Our Jing Ke; as well as many collections of essays, speeches, and dialogues. His works have been translated into more than 50 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, and Arabic.
Mo Yan and his works have won important domestic awards such as the Feng Mu Literature Award, the United Literature Award, the Red River Literature Award, the Chinese Literature Media Award•Outstanding Achievement Award, the World Chinese Novel Award•Dream of the Red Chamber Award, the Mao Dun Literature Award, the National Drama Culture Award Golden Lion Screenwriter Award, the Chinese Arts and Literature Award, and the Award for Chinese Influence Around the World, as well as important international awards such as France's Laure Bataillon Foreign Literature Prize, the Knight of the Order of Arts and Culture of France, Italy's Nonino International Literature Prize, Japan's Fukuoka Asian Culture Grand Prix, the United States' Newman Chinese Literature Award, South Korea's Wanhae Literature Prize, and Algeria's "National Excellence Award."
In addition, Mo Yan has been awarded honorary doctorates by more than ten universities at home and abroad, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Fo Guang University in Taiwan, Sofia University in Bulgaria, Aix-Marseille University in France, City University of New York in the United States, Catholic University of Peru, and Diego Portales University in Chile. He also holds the title of the first "Outstanding Professor of Beijing Normal University", a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Germany, and an honorary member of Regent's Park College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
