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Family catastrophe / Wang Wen-hsing ; translated from the Chinese by Susan Wan Dolling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Wenxing, 1939-
- Series:
- Fiction from modern China.
- Fiction from modern China
- Standardized Title:
- Jia bian. English
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwans Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Part One
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
- E.
- F.
- G.
- H.
- Part Two
- I.
- J.
- Part Three
- K.
- L.
- M.
- N.
- O.
- Author's Afterword
- Translator's Note
- Translator's Postscript
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780824862480
- 0824862481
- 9780585309552
- 0585309558
- OCLC:
- 923486283
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