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月色撩人
Titi, petite poupée au mince visage de porcelaine, vive et effrontée, passe des mains d'un homme à un autre, en un chassé-croisé amoureux où chacun se désire, se fuit, se blesse, se retrouve dans les nuits de Shanghai. Ateliers d'artistes au bord de l'eau, galerie d'avant-garde, fêtes et lieux à la mode. Loin d'être un décor, Shanghai est le coeur flamboyant de l'intrigue, imprévisible, excessive, mystérieuse.Ces personnages ont parfois un appétit de vivre si insatiable que le réel ne peut suffire à le satisfaire, seuls l'art, l'imaginaire, peuvent le faire car ils sont sans limites. Puis, les lumières de la nuit éteintes, on découvre que la main du magicien est passée par là, puis repartie.« Une prose de dentellière, qui découd les coeurs avec une subtilité étonnante. » (André Clavel, Lire)
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Wang Anyi
87 books56 followersWang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
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July 16, 2019
Wang Anyi is a contemporary female Chinese writer and I picked a random book of hers to get to know her work since I currently live in China. « Le plus clair de la lune » (Yue Se Liao Ren in Chinese) is about lonely people living in Shanghai who are all looking for meaning and fulfilling relationships, to no avail.
Wang’s prose goes from long descriptions of the characters and of the city of Shanghai with philosophical and psychological considerations, all in the same chapter. Her style is definitely interesting and even though I thought the work was too much of a catch-all at times, it also made it compelling.
Wang’s prose goes from long descriptions of the characters and of the city of Shanghai with philosophical and psychological considerations, all in the same chapter. Her style is definitely interesting and even though I thought the work was too much of a catch-all at times, it also made it compelling.
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