Lianke Yan – författare

En fruktansvärd torka tvingar befolkningen i en liten by att fly från svälten. Kvar blir bara en gammal man och hans blinda hund, som tillsammans försöker ta hand om den enda återstående majsplantan. I den fruktansvärda hettan där mat och vatten långsamt tar slut blir varje dag en kamp för livet. En poetisk berättelse om ihärdighet och självuppoffring, och om vänskapen mellan en man och hans trofasta hund.

Over the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism and Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms “mythorealism”-a way of capturing the world’s underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.

Over the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism and Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms “mythorealism”-a way of capturing the world’s underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.

Over the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms “mythorealism”—a way of capturing the world’s underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.

Yan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday life in contemporary China. In Sound and Silence, Yan compares his literary project to a blind man carrying a flashlight whose role is to help others perceive the darkness that surrounds them. Often described as China’s most censored author, Yan reflects candidly on literary censorship in contemporary China. He outlines the Chinese state’s project of national amnesia that suppresses memories of past crises and social traumas. Although being banned in China is often a selling point in foreign markets, Yan argues that there is no requisite correlation between censorship and literary quality. Among other topics, Yan also examines the impact of American literature on Chinese literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Encapsulating his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history, Sound and Silence includes an introduction by translator Carlos Rojas and an afterword by Yan.

Yan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday life in contemporary China. In Sound and Silence, Yan compares his literary project to a blind man carrying a flashlight whose role is to help others perceive the darkness that surrounds them. Often described as China’s most censored author, Yan reflects candidly on literary censorship in contemporary China. He outlines the Chinese state’s project of national amnesia that suppresses memories of past crises and social traumas. Although being banned in China is often a selling point in foreign markets, Yan argues that there is no requisite correlation between censorship and literary quality. Among other topics, Yan also examines the impact of American literature on Chinese literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Encapsulating his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history, Sound and Silence includes an introduction by translator Carlos Rojas and an afterword by Yan.

Yan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday life in contemporary China. In Sound and Silence, Yan compares his literary project to a blind man carrying a flashlight whose role is to help others perceive the darkness that surrounds them. Often described as China’s most censored author, Yan reflects candidly on literary censorship in contemporary China. He outlines the Chinese state’s project of national amnesia that suppresses memories of past crises and social traumas. Although being banned in China is often a selling point in foreign markets, Yan argues that there is no requisite correlation between censorship and literary quality. Among other topics, Yan also examines the impact of American literature on Chinese literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Encapsulating his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history, Sound and Silence includes an introduction by translator Carlos Rojas and an afterword by Yan.

Después de ser desmovilizado del Ejército, el joven Gao Aijun decide volver a su aldea en la sierra de Balou con una sola misión: hacer la revolución. En el camino de regreso, se encuentra con una joven sentada en las vías del tren, bajo el cálido sol del final de la tarde. En un instante, Aijun cae rendido ante Hongmei, que, como él, posee el mismo fervor revolucionario.Sin reparar en sus respectivas familias y con la ambición de hacer historia, Aijun y Hongmei se lanzan juntos a enarbolar la bandera roja de la China de Mao y se vuelven inseparables. Temen que en su aldea aún pervivan los antiguos principios feudales y contrarrevolucionarios, y pasan día y noche redactando panfletos, creando eslóganes y organizando las nuevas brigadas de producción del pueblo, mientras dan rienda suelta a su ardiente pasión. Convencidos de su conducta intachable, esperan que llegue el día en que el Partido reconozca sus grandes esfuerzos y se les conceda un cargo de autoridad. Pero las contradicciones de la realidad se impondrán y todo comenzará a desmoronarse.Yan Lianke vuelve a sorprendernos con su lenguaje rico en imágenes y sensaciones en esta indagación sobre el absurdo de la ideología y, también, sobre el lado oscuro del ser humano.«Yan Lianke nos habla de la falsa conciencia, de la forma en que -llegamos a participar conscientemente en un mundo ajenos a la realidad... Duro como el agua es una obra compleja y fascinante, una novela que obliga al lector a reflexionar sobre las discrepancias entre lo que se dice y lo que está realmente sucediendo... Yan Lianke nos desafía a mirarnos en el cristal turbio de la ambición y el autoengaño para que hallemos nuestro verdadero rostro». The Times