The past and the punishments / Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Andrew F. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yu, Hua, 1960-

Contributor:

Jones, Andrew F.

Series:

Fiction from modern China.

Fiction from modern China

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages).

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

On the Road at Eighteen

Classical Love

World Like Mist

The Past and the Punishments

1986

Blood and Plum Blossoms

The Death of a Landlord

Predestination,

Translator's Postscript

Editor's Note

About the Translator

Also available in the series

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824863890

0824863895

9780585286068

058528606X

OCLC:

179094659