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Back and Forth
《归去来》是一部中短篇小说集，由韩少功的《西望茅草地》《归去来》、阿城的《棋王》《孩子王》、张曼菱的《有一个美丽的地方》、池莉的《怀念声名狼藉的日子》、邓一光的《孽犬阿格龙》，以及肖建国的《乡下一年》共8篇小说组成。其中，《西望茅草地》主要讲述了在特定年代里，城市青年响应党和国家号召，支农支边，经受锻炼的岁月及青春时代的心路感情历程。《归去来》是一篇魔幻现实主义小说，讲述的是一个叫黄治先的“我”，来到一个让他既熟悉又陌生的地方，故事情节在此氛围中一层一层展开。《棋王》被视作是新时期“寻根文学”的发韧之作。故事讲述了在特殊时代，知青“棋呆子”王一生四处寻找对手下棋、拼棋的故事。《孩子王》讲述了一个插队7年的知青当教师期间发生的感人故事。《有一个美丽的地方》以作者插队的傣寨为背景，反映了祖国西南边疆的风貌和作者的插队生活。《怀念声名狼藉的日子》讲述了知青岁月里少男少女的奇异浪漫经历。《孽犬阿格龙》以极其简洁的笔触写了以老邓和关鸿为代表的一群知识青年在农村生活的点点滴滴。《乡下一年》讲了知青大保在烟溪村的探索与奋进，以及和当地农民的真挚情感。
375 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2019
About the author
Han Shaogong
29 books17 followersHan Shaogong (Traditional:韓少功; Simplified: 韩少功; Pinyin: Hán Shàogōng; born January 1, 1953) is a Chinese novelist and fictionist.
Han was born in Hunan, China. While relying on traditional Chinese culture, in particular Chinese mythology, folklore, Taoism and Buddhism as source of inspiration, he also borrows freely from Western literary techniques. As a teenager during the Cultural revolution he was labeled an ‘educated youth’ and sent to the countryside for re-education through labour. Employed at a local cultural center after 1977, he soon won recognition as an outspoken new literary talent. His early stories attacked the ultra-leftist degradation of China during the Mao era; they tended toward a slightly modernist style. However, he reemerged in the mid-1980s as the leader of an avant-garde school, the "Search for Roots" or the Xungen Movement.
Han's major work to date is A Dictionary of Maqiao, a novel published in 1996 and translated into English in 2003. His writing is influenced by Kafka and by the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez. In 1987, he published a Chinese translation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and edited Hainan Jishi Wenxue ("Hainan Documentary Literature"), a successful literary magazine. He has been given the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and with other Chinese writers visited France in 1988 at the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture. Han was invited back in 1989 but was denied permission to leave China until 1991.
Han's other works include Moon Orchid (1985), Bababa (1985), Womanwomanwoman (1985), Deserted City (1989), and Intimations (2002).
(from Wikipedia)
Han was born in Hunan, China. While relying on traditional Chinese culture, in particular Chinese mythology, folklore, Taoism and Buddhism as source of inspiration, he also borrows freely from Western literary techniques. As a teenager during the Cultural revolution he was labeled an ‘educated youth’ and sent to the countryside for re-education through labour. Employed at a local cultural center after 1977, he soon won recognition as an outspoken new literary talent. His early stories attacked the ultra-leftist degradation of China during the Mao era; they tended toward a slightly modernist style. However, he reemerged in the mid-1980s as the leader of an avant-garde school, the "Search for Roots" or the Xungen Movement.
Han's major work to date is A Dictionary of Maqiao, a novel published in 1996 and translated into English in 2003. His writing is influenced by Kafka and by the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez. In 1987, he published a Chinese translation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and edited Hainan Jishi Wenxue ("Hainan Documentary Literature"), a successful literary magazine. He has been given the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and with other Chinese writers visited France in 1988 at the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture. Han was invited back in 1989 but was denied permission to leave China until 1991.
Han's other works include Moon Orchid (1985), Bababa (1985), Womanwomanwoman (1985), Deserted City (1989), and Intimations (2002).
(from Wikipedia)
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