Yan Mo Livres

Mêlant souvenirs et imagination débordante, ces deux nouvelles que relient l’attachement de Mo Yan à l’enfance, à sa province natale et au monde animal, décrivent une Chine rurale où la débrouillardise permet d’affronter la dure réalité. Mo Yan lui-même s’y dévoile comme jamais, en adolescent turbulent et bavard aux prises avec la souffrance du veau, la misère, et la ruse infinie des hommes, ou en observateur de dix ans, candide et curieux, de la course de fond organisée par l’école. À chaque tour de piste, c’est la surprise, le suspense grandit tandis que l’enfant dresse un tableau truculent de la vie de son canton dans les années soixante. Mo Yan laisse exploser avec délices la malice et l’énergie de l’enfance, la bonhommie, le courage et l’humour vache du monde paysan soumis aux lois absurdes de l’époque maoïste.

Dans un village chinois, Têtard écrit une pièce de théâtre. Il s’inspire de la vie de sa tante, une gynécologue à la fois terrifiante et fascinante, qui œuvre pour la mise en place du planning familial sous Mao. Très vite, elle s’engage dans le parti communiste, organise des campagnes d’avortements forcés. La tante de Têtard est prête à tout pour aller au bout de ses convictions politiques, malgré les terribles conséquences sur la vie des villageois.

L'usine a fait faillite, maître Ding est licencié. À seulement un mois de la retraite, c'est tout un monde qui s'effondre. Mais il retrouve soudain sa joie de vivre grâce à une idée géniale. Oui, mais cette idée... ne serait-elle pas un peu criminelle ? Dans ce court roman empreint de tendresse et d'humour, Mo Yan exerce une fois de plus son regard décapant sur la société chinoise contemporaine.

Jintong, né après huit sœurs, est l'Enfant d'Or de sa mère. Autour de lui, la Chine rurale est confrontée à l'invasion japonaise, puis au maoïsme et enfin au néo-capitalisme sauvage. Fort heureusement Jintong, affligé d'un amour obsessionnel du sein maternel et des fesses des jolies filles, vit ces tragédies avec un certain recul... Une fresque délirante et sensuelle, truculente et poétique, longtemps interdite en Chine.

Né dans une famille de paysans, Mo Yan a dit un jour qu’une enfance malheureuse est une source d’inspiration infinie. C’est à travers les yeux d’un enfant qu’il décrit le monde dans les seize nouvelles de ce recueil. Tour à tour cruels, tendres, fantastiques ou érotiques, ces récits relatent la vie rude et douloureuse, parfois gouailleuse, mais toujours intense du petit peuple de Gaomi dans la Chine maoïste des années 1950 et 1960.

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.

A contemplative semiautobiographical picture book by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan and illustrated by Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee Zhu Chengliang.

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.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed. Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history.

"This English-language debut from the award-winning Chinese author contains nine short stories in her trademark wit and style based around everyday people facing the challenges of loneliness, emotional and physical displacement and longing."--

The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot of apocalyptic proportions follows with savage and unforgettable consequences. The Garlic Ballads is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government. It is also a delicate story of love between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend—and the struggle to maintain that love despite overwhelming obstacles.

[In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature], "a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls ... As his dual narratives merge and feather into one another, each informing and illuminating the other, Mo Yan probes the character and lifestyle of modern China"--Dust jacket flap.

Special Investigator Ding Gou'er is dispatched to the Republic of Wine to investigate rumours of cannibalism. Beginning his mission at the mining company, he soon encounters Diamond Jin whose legendary capacity to hold liqour seems to hide a fondness for darker appetites. Then, at a banquet served in his honour, Ding Gou'er partakes of a dish - the memory of which is confused by an alcoholic fog - he will come to regret eating...In this hypnotic narrative, Mo Yan spins tales of terrible creatures - a dwarf, a scaly demon, a troupe of small boys raised for eating and a cookery teacher who primes her students with monstrous recipes.

Pierwsza w Polsce chrestomatia współczesnych opowiadań chińskich, tłumaczonych przez sinologów, wprowadza w niezwykłą krainę od rozległych ziem Tybetu przez Shanxi po północno-wschodnie kresy ludu Oroczonów. Literacka opowieść o tym świecie to często poetycki zapis obrazów przywoływanych z pamięci lub magiczna wędrówka w głąb historii i wyobraźni, w której mit miesza się z rzeczywistością. Jest w niej także miejsce na groteskę i szyderczy śmiech. Pobrzmiewa on w opowiadaniach o tradycji „żółtej ziemi”, odsłaniających świat zwierzęcych zmysłów i ludowej moralności chłopów. Słychać go także tam, gdzie kpi się z norm i ideologii „rewolucyjnych” Chin. Autorzy opowiadań to w większości współcześni mistrzowie chińskiego słowa. Wśród nich Mo Yan i Su Tong zyskali sławę na całym świecie dzięki ekranizacji swoich utworów (Czerwone sorgo, Zawieście czerwone latarnie). W wypisach znalazły się wyłącznie utwory z lat osiemdziesiątych i dziewięćdziesiątych XX wieku. Wszystkie są ilustracją świadomego poszukiwania i odkrywania nowej poetyki, stylów i konwencji.

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).

Verhalen uit de Chinese Volksrepubliek in de periode 1985-1993.