我们的荆轲

by Mo Yan, 莫言

《我们的荆轲》收录莫言创作的三部话剧剧本，《我们的荆轲》《霸王别姬》和《锅炉工的妻子》。
This book collects three stage plays created by Mo Yan, including Our Jing Ke, Farewell to My Concubine, and Wife of the Boiler Man.

Genres: China

257 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2013

About the author

Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).

He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.

Chinese version: 莫言

Reviews

[Jing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mo constructed a sublime aim for the ‘tool-man’ in the classic assassination show.

Method: satirise(借古讽今)- what the difference between us and the ancients when we remove the grid?