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"Literature or Music" Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Yilin Press
"Literature or Music" Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Yilin Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Yu Hua calls this book "Literature or Music" his personal reading book, the book of harmony. The 28 articles collected record Yu Hua's personal reading and listening history for 30 years. His repeated immersion in classic masterpieces, repeated rereading and echoing are all condensed between the lines of 330 pages. Here, with the keenness and empathy of a "novelist", he repeatedly asks questions and leads us to approach masters such as Borges, Faulkner, Kafka, Chekhov, Marquez, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, etc., analyzes their narrative techniques in detail, and reaches the secrets in their creations. These classic works are also glowing with everlasting vitality in the unremitting reading and interpretation. Whether it is resonance or refutation, the arrival of these colorful moments has aroused the tension between reading and the original. Open the book, and an enlightenment journey of literary and musical classics begins.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yu Hua was born in April 1960 and started writing in 1983. His major works include Brothers, To Live, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood, Shouting in the Rain, The Seventh Day, Literature or Music, etc. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and published in more than 40 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Brazil, Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, India and Indonesia. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize (1998), the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2004), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Prize (2008), and the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi International Literature Prize (2014).
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Preface Harmony and Lovebirds Can I Trust Myself William Faulkner Juan Rolf Zweig is a smaller version of Dostoyevsky A journey of warmth and mixed feelings Borges's reality Chekhov's Waiting for Scheherazade's Story The Death of the Heart Kafka and K
Bulgakov and The Master and Margarita
German Lessons by S. Lenz
My life as an Arvid Falk The power of a writer Who is our common mother Ian McEwan Sequelae Amnesia, the individual and social aspects Literature and literary history Memory and reminiscence Portraits of two scholars Music has influenced my writing Narrative climax of music Negative inspiration Color Words and sounds Accent Tchaikovsky
