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There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night

Cao, Naiqian
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780231148108
Publisert
2009-05-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Cao, Naiqian
Oversetter
Balcom John

Om bidragsyterne

Cao Naiqian was born in Shanxi in 1949. Since 1972, he has worked as a police detective in the Public Security Bureau of Datong City, Shanxi. Cao Naiqian began writing in 1986 at the age of thirty-seven, and his works have been translated into several languages. They include The Loneliness of Buddha, The Last Village, and There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night.John Balcom is associate professor and head of the Chinese program at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has translated twelve books, including Guo Songfen's Running Mother and Other Stories and Li Qiao's Wintry Night.

There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night

Cao, Naiqian
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Cao, Naiqian
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
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Cao examines the often barbaric side of human nature in the face of stark poverty and extreme necessity. Publishers Weekly

Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying expose of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlocking vignettes, several narrators speak of adultery, bestiality, incest, and vice, revealing the consequences of desire in a world of necessity. The Wen Clan Caves are based on an isolated village where the author, Cao Naiqian, lived during the Cultural Revolution. The land is hard and unforgiving and the people suffer in poverty and ignorance. Through the individual perspectives of the Wen Clan denizens, a complete portrait of village life takes shape. Dark yet lyrical, Cao's snapshots range from pastoral stories of childhood innocence to shocking accounts of brutality and terror. His work echoes William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, yet the author's depictions of elemental passions and regional mores make the book entirely his own. Celebrated for its economy of expression, flashes of humor, and an emphasis on understatement rarely found in Chinese fiction, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is an excellent introduction to the power and craft of Cao Naiqian. His vivid personalities and unflinching realism herald the haunting work of an original literary force.
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Introduction: The Austere Lyricism of Cao Naiqian, by John Balcom The In-law Women Leng Er's Madness In a Nest of Oat Straw Uncle Pothook Men Thieves Widow San Dog Party Leng Er, Leng Er Lucky Ox Eating Cakes Old Guiju Danwa Heinu and Her Andi Sun-Drenched Nest The Woman of the Zhu Household Lucky Ox, Lucky Ox Heavenly Sun The Graveyard Shift Dog, Dog Chou Bang Herds Sheep The Taste of Oat Flour Wen Shan's Woman Old Yinyin Watching the Fields Old Guiju and His White Neck Flushing out Ground Squirrels Corncob
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These stories are dark, they are rural, they are moving, even arresting in places, and they are well translated. Cao Naiqian is a master of this subgenre--an intriguing, honest, and courageous chronicler of life in the 'other China.' -- Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame and coeditor of Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts Swedish Nobel academician Goran Malmqvist wrote that Cao Naiqian was one of three Chinese authors who deserved the Nobel Prize. The best thing about these stories, aside from the realistic depiction of a world none of us wants to visit and few of us can imagine, is their almost lyrical presentation of human poverty, depravity, and occasional comradeship and mutual warmth. An excellent novel; the image of these disposable lives stays with one after reading. -- Michael Duke, University of British Columbia A superb translation of one of the most important and impressive works in contemporary Chinese literature. John Balcom successfully conveys the mood of this gruesome yet lyrical tale about poor peasants living in a Chinese village several light-years away from the urban centers of mainland China. -- Goran Malmqvist, member of the Swedish Academy
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Cao examines the often barbaric side of human nature in the face of stark poverty and extreme necessity. Publishers Weekly

Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying expose of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlocking vignettes, several narrators speak of adultery, bestiality, incest, and vice, revealing the consequences of desire in a world of necessity. The Wen Clan Caves are based on an isolated village where the author, Cao Naiqian, lived during the Cultural Revolution. The land is hard and unforgiving and the people suffer in poverty and ignorance. Through the individual perspectives of the Wen Clan denizens, a complete portrait of village life takes shape. Dark yet lyrical, Cao's snapshots range from pastoral stories of childhood innocence to shocking accounts of brutality and terror. His work echoes William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, yet the author's depictions of elemental passions and regional mores make the book entirely his own. Celebrated for its economy of expression, flashes of humor, and an emphasis on understatement rarely found in Chinese fiction, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is an excellent introduction to the power and craft of Cao Naiqian. His vivid personalities and unflinching realism herald the haunting work of an original literary force.
Les mer
Introduction: The Austere Lyricism of Cao Naiqian, by John Balcom The In-law Women Leng Er's Madness In a Nest of Oat Straw Uncle Pothook Men Thieves Widow San Dog Party Leng Er, Leng Er Lucky Ox Eating Cakes Old Guiju Danwa Heinu and Her Andi Sun-Drenched Nest The Woman of the Zhu Household Lucky Ox, Lucky Ox Heavenly Sun The Graveyard Shift Dog, Dog Chou Bang Herds Sheep The Taste of Oat Flour Wen Shan's Woman Old Yinyin Watching the Fields Old Guiju and His White Neck Flushing out Ground Squirrels Corncob
Les mer
These stories are dark, they are rural, they are moving, even arresting in places, and they are well translated. Cao Naiqian is a master of this subgenre--an intriguing, honest, and courageous chronicler of life in the 'other China.' -- Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame and coeditor of Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts Swedish Nobel academician Goran Malmqvist wrote that Cao Naiqian was one of three Chinese authors who deserved the Nobel Prize. The best thing about these stories, aside from the realistic depiction of a world none of us wants to visit and few of us can imagine, is their almost lyrical presentation of human poverty, depravity, and occasional comradeship and mutual warmth. An excellent novel; the image of these disposable lives stays with one after reading. -- Michael Duke, University of British Columbia A superb translation of one of the most important and impressive works in contemporary Chinese literature. John Balcom successfully conveys the mood of this gruesome yet lyrical tale about poor peasants living in a Chinese village several light-years away from the urban centers of mainland China. -- Goran Malmqvist, member of the Swedish Academy
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780231148108
Publisert
2009-05-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Cao, Naiqian
Oversetter
Balcom John

Om bidragsyterne

Cao Naiqian was born in Shanxi in 1949. Since 1972, he has worked as a police detective in the Public Security Bureau of Datong City, Shanxi. Cao Naiqian began writing in 1986 at the age of thirty-seven, and his works have been translated into several languages. They include The Loneliness of Buddha, The Last Village, and There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night.John Balcom is associate professor and head of the Chinese program at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has translated twelve books, including Guo Songfen's Running Mother and Other Stories and Li Qiao's Wintry Night.

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