The Past and the Punishments
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The Past and the Punishments by Yu Hua
To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Hua’s stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780824818173 |
| ISBN 10 | 0824818172 |
| Title | The Past and the Punishments |
| Author | Yu Hua |
| Series | Fiction From Modern China |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Year published | 1996-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |