WULOLIFE
"Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House Series: Reader of Mo Yan's Works
"Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House Series: Reader of Mo Yan's Works
Couldn't load pickup availability
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
◆ You won’t know until you read it, Mo Yan is really humorous! Laughing out loud in the midst of extreme pain will bring you relief from deep within.
◆ Mo Yan: "The Nobel Prize judges gave me the prize mainly because they had read Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out."
◆ No matter how depressing your life is, you will laugh out loud when you open this book.
◆ Includes a new preface to the reprint, a cartoon portrait of Mo Yan, and Mo Yan’s inscriptions, to learn the story behind the creation of this book!
◆ Specially sorted out the character relationship diagram to clearly present the relationship between the main characters!
◆ 5 original illustrations, recreating the essence of the book’s scenes!
【Content Introduction】
You won’t know until you see it. You will want to cry but also want to laugh. Life is not easy, and humor is priceless. - Mo Yan
In the past fifty years, Ximen Nao has experienced six reincarnations.
In the first life, he was a donkey, in the second life, he was a cow, in the third life, he was a pig, in the fourth life, he was a dog, in the fifth life, he was a monkey, and finally he was reborn as a human.
In these six lives, he witnessed three generations of Lan Lian's family going through the life and death fatigue of life.
They love to the end, hate to the end, are stubborn to the end, and do what they want to do.
There is extreme pain and also complete indulgence.
Their story begins on January 1, 1950...
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Award Speech
Mo Yan is the writer of his generation whose writing is more witty and startling than that of Rabelais, Swift and, in our own time, Gabriel García Márquez.
【Media Comments】
◆In the 16 years that I have been a member of the Academy of Literature, no one's work has moved me as much as Mo Yan's. Among the writers still alive, Mo Yan is not only the best writer in China, but also the best writer in the world.
——Per Westerberg (Chairman of the Nobel Prize in Literature Committee)
◆After reading Mo Yan's works, I was deeply moved. His literary expression techniques and descriptions of life gave me a lot of new things.
—— Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel Prize winner in Literature)
◆ Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out has the voice of a storyteller, and this voice itself is a worldview—a holistic approach that is different from the Western tradition: In Chinese classical novels, everything is like a cycle of reincarnation, and what is long separated must be reunited, and what is long reunited must be separated. Man is not fighting against his world or running away from his world. Fundamentally, man is bearing, sharing, and embodying the fate of the world. The characters act and live and die with their entire world.
——Li Jingze, Vice Chairman of the China Writers Association
◆I really like all of Mo Yan's novels and have enjoyed translating them. I like them for various reasons. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a brilliant long fable.
——David Goldblatt
◆If China has a Kafka, he is Mo Yan.
——Publishers Weekly
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mo Yan
The first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in 1955, he began writing literature in the early 1980s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. He has written novels such as "Red Sorghum Family", "Big Breasts and Wide Hips", "Sandalwood Death", "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out", and "Frog", as well as a large number of short and medium-length novels, plays, and essays.
Mo Yan's works have won 16 global literary awards, including the Italian Nonino International Literature Prize, the Japanese Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and the Korean Manhae Literature Prize, and have been translated into 55 languages. Mo Yan has received 13 international honors, including Honorary Fellow of Oxford University, Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, National Medal of Honor of Algeria, and Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is one of Mo Yan's most important masterpieces. He uses the perspective of animals, witty language and ingenious narrative techniques to make this book full of surprises, telling a heavy story; he uses humor and playfulness to resolve the pain of reality, allowing people to laugh out loud in pain and giving them strength.
Mo Yan said: "If I can have two books that are passed down, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out would definitely be one of them." Mo Yan also said: "The Nobel Prize judges gave me the prize because they read Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out."
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Part 2: Bull Stubbornness 097
Part 3: Pigs are happy 201
Part 4: Dog Spirit 389
Part 5: Ending and Beginning 541
