Discovering Fiction Yan Lianke Carlos Rojas Translation by Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (translation) 9781478015673, 1478015675 instant download after payment.

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 & realism, the major works that inspired him, & his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy & Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism & Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, & 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, & dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind & art of a literary giant.

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He was awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature & the Franz Kafka Prize, among many accolades. He was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, & he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, & the Prix Femina Étranger. He has also received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize & the Lao She Award.

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He has translated seven of Yan’s novels, including Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, & The Explosion Chronicles.