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Mo Yan's Strange Stories Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
Mo Yan's Strange Stories Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Perhaps only a person with such a broad imagination as Mo Yan can take you to explore the depths of human nature!
Mo Yan personally participated in the compilation of this collection of short stories, which includes 18 of the strangest stories written by Mo Yan! This book is full of magnificent imaginations, and it feels like listening to grandparents telling folk stories about spirits and strange people and events. For example, the ghost of our neighbor Uncle Zhao San came to pay off the debt he owed to our family; the turtle spirit transformed into a human form to pass the imperial examination and wrote letters home; the woman did not want to marry the person designated by her parents, and on the day of the wedding, she opened her arms and flew to the treetops... Strange and bizarre, showing the complexity of human nature.
Open this book and Mo Yan will take you to explore the depths of human nature.
I am different from you. You read with your eyes in childhood, but I read with my ears. There are many people in our village who are eloquent and witty, and have a lot of stories about gods and ghosts. My grandfather, grandmother, and father are all good storytellers... It would be a waste if such wonderful stories were not written down.
——Mo Yan
Exclusive collection: Mo Yan's manuscripts, calligraphy inscriptions on Mo Yan's new book
Special collection: Mo Yan's cartoon portrait, Mo Yan's speech "Fear and Hope" and "Starting from Learning from Pu Songling"
Special bonus: Full-color illustrations, recreating the wonderful and weird scenes in the book
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 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. He has written novels such as Red Sorghum, 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 hometown Gaomi, Shandong Province is only a few dozen kilometers away from Pu Songling's hometown. His childhood bedtime stories were the strange stories of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio told by the village elders. These stories rooted in folk legends have had a profound influence on Mo Yan's literary creation. He once said: "Pu Songling is a fundamental influence (on me)... I have inherited his cultural context."
These influences are fully reflected in Mo Yan's short and medium-length novels. As he said, "In long-length works, I pursue power and impact; in short and medium-length works, I pursue the beauty of language and the symbolic meaning of the story."
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Cat Stories
A wolf hanging upside down in an apricot tree
Treasure Map
Professional Cat Breeder
Guilt
Strange People "Soaring"
Battle in the Poplar Grove
Iron Child
Night Fishing
Autumn Water
"Woman Holding Flowers"
Weird things "Straw sandals"
Thumb Cuffs
"Adventure"
Five Pastries
The Smell Tribe
Moonlight Slash
Postscript: "Starting from Learning from Pu Songling"
