Este laureado con el Premio Nobel es celebrado por su realismo alucinatorio, que fusiona magistralmente cuentos populares, historia y lo contemporáneo. Su obra a menudo atrae comparaciones con Kafka o Heller, marcada por una habilidad distintiva para entrelazar temas épicos con experiencias humanas íntimas. La prosa del autor es rica y estratificada, ofreciendo a los lectores una profunda inmersión en la cultura e historia chinas a través de narrativas cautivadoras.
Esta novela de Mo Yan sorprende por fragmentarse en ocho relatos breves. El protagonista es el viejo Ding, un hombre que ha dedicado 43 años de su vida a una fábrica municipal ganadera y se ha ganado el título honorífico de "shifu" o maestro. A pesar de recibir tal reconocimiento y una semana antes de jubilarse le despiden de manera inesperada. A partir de ese momento decide convertirse en un empresario. A estas alturas de su vida se adentra en el mundo capitalista, símbolo de la población china tratando de dar la cara a la China moderna.
Cambios es la novela más personal del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2012, cuarenta años de historia de China vistos por un niño que se hace mayor en un mundo demasiado estrecho. Esta es en definitiva la vida de su autor, un hijo de campesinos que sueña con ser camionero, un obrero y un militar, un escritor que desde lo más alto recuerda su infancia. Con el tono abierto de una confesión entre amigos, Mo Yan teje la historia popular de un país en permanente transformación, el retrato de la gente común y los gestos cotidianos; como la rebeldía de su compañero de clase, He Zhiwu, quien no reconoce principio de autoridad alguno, o la tozudez de Lu Wenli, una chica acostumbrada a tomar siempre la decisión correcta pero que la lleva por el camino equivocado. Una rara joya literaria, una feliz confidencia y una ventana privilegiada que nos descubre quién es realmente el nuevo Premio Nobel de Literatura. Considerado por muchos el Kafka, Faulkner o García Márquez chino, Mo Yan es ante todo un autor de “sorprendente autenticidad” (Time), “uno de los grandes novelistas de hoy en día” (Le Monde).
Mo Yan, a Nobel Laureate, is celebrated for his unique storytelling that blends folk tales, historical elements, and contemporary issues through a lens of hallucinatory realism. His notable works, translated into English by Professor Howard Goldblatt, include titles like The Garlic Ballads and Red Sorghum. His writing often reflects deep cultural insights and explores complex themes, making him a significant figure in modern literature.
Poetry. Translated by Stephen Nashef. The poetry of Ma Yan, born in 1979 in Sichuan province, has garnered increasing attention in China since her untimely death in 2010. She stands out as a poet who is simultaneously playful and fearless in her explorations of subjectivity and inter-subjectivity, writing intimate yet arresting poetry of great emotional breadth. Her work delves into questions of gender, mental health, death, desire, physicality and our personal interactions to show how they all shape the raw experience of existence. I NAME HIM ME is the first collection of her poetry to appear in English.
Surrounded by a remorseless mother and seven sisters, each named in anticipation of his birth, a boy-child becomes the narrator of this story, presenting a generation of life in a rural Chinese community in twentieth century, populated by strong women and weak husbands, bandits and government bureaucrats, hen-murdering mid-wives and missionaries.
In Frog, Mo Yan turns his attention to the subject of China's one-child policy. A celebrated midwife, skilled at delivering babies in difficult rural circumstances, finds herself at the blunt end of enforcement of the country's controversial one-child policy. Through a complex family story told through letters and narrative forms, Mo explores the emotional and moral toll of state-controlled family planning on a traditional community that places a high value on a large family.
In the fictional Chinese city of Yong'an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness--save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self.
Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.
