I live in the slums : stories / Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canxue, 1953- author.

Contributor:

Gernant, Karen, translator.

Zeping, Chen, translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book.

Margellos World Republic of Letters Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canxue, 1953---Translations into English.

Canxue.

Short stories, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materiality—the love of physical things—and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue invites her readers into an immersive landscape that blends empirical fact and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and oblivion. She brings us to a place that is both readily familiar yet unmappable and can make us hyperaware of the inherent unreliability in our relationship to the world around us. Delightful, enchanting, and filled with secrets, Can Xue’s newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Story of the slums

Our human neighbors

The old cicada

The swamp

Sin

The other side of the partition

Shadow people

Crow mountain

Catfish pit

Euphoria

Lu-er’s worries

Her old home

I am a willow tree

The outsiders

The queen

Venus

Translators’ acknowledgments

Credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25248-X

OCLC:

1158157041